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ICMI 2020: 2nd Call for Long and Short Papers
http://icmi.acm.org/2020/index.php?id=cfp
25-29 Oct 2020, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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Call for Long and Short Papers
The 22nd International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2020)
will be held in Utrecht, the Netherlands. ICMI is the premier
international forum for multidisciplinary research on multimodal
human-human and human-computer interaction, interfaces, and system
development. The conference focuses on theoretical and empirical
foundations, component technologies, and combined multimodal processing
techniques that define the field of multimodal interaction analysis,
interface design, and system development.
We are keen to showcase novel input and output modalities and interactions
to the ICMI community. ICMI 2020 will feature a single-track main
conference which includes: keynote speakers, technical full and short
papers (including oral and poster presentations), demonstrations, exhibits
and doctoral spotlight papers. The conference will also feature workshops
and grand challenges. The proceedings of ICMI 2020 will be published by ACM
as part of their series of International Conference Proceedings and Digital
Library.
We also want to welcome conference papers from behavioral and social
sciences. These papers allow us to understand how technology can be used to
increase our scientific knowledge and may focus less on presenting
technical or algorithmic novelty. For this reason, the "novelty" criteria
used during ICMI 2020 review will be based on two sub-criteria (i.e.,
scientific novelty and technical novelty as described below). Accepted
papers at ICMI 2020 only need to be novel on one of these sub-criteria. In
other words, a paper which is strong on scientific knowledge contribution
but low on algorithmic novelty should be ranked similarly to a paper that
is high on algorithmic novelty but low on knowledge discovery.
- Scientific Novelty: Papers should bring some new knowledge to the
scientific community. For example, discovering new behavioral markers that
are predictive of mental health or how new behavioral patterns relate to
children’s interactions during learning. It is the responsibility of the
authors to perform a proper literature review and clearly discuss the
novelty in the scientific discoveries made in their paper.
- Technical Novelty: Papers reviewed with this sub-criterion should include
novelty in their computational approach for recognizing, generating or
modeling data. Examples include: novelty in the learning and prediction
algorithms, in the neural architecture, or in the data representation.
Novelty can also be associated to a new usage of an existing approach.
Please see the Submission Guidelines for Authors
https://icmi.acm.org/2020/index.php?id=authors for detailed submission
instructions.
This year’s conference theme: In this information age, technological
innovation is at the core of our lives and rapidly transforming and
impacting the state of the world in art, culture, and society, and science
as well - the borders between classical disciplines such as humanities and
computer science are fading. In particular, we wonder how multimodal
processing of human behavioural data can create meaningful impact in art,
culture, and society practices. And vice versa, how does art, culture, and
society influence our approaches and techniques in multimodal processing?
As such, this year, ICMI welcomes contributions on our theme for Multimodal
processing and representation of Human Behaviour in Art, Culture, and
Society.
Additional topics of interest include but are not limited to:
- Affective computing and interaction
- Cognitive modeling and multimodal interaction
- Gesture, touch and haptics
- Healthcare, assistive technologies
- Human communication dynamics
- Human-robot/agent multimodal interaction
- Interaction with smart environment
- Machine learning for multimodal interaction
- Mobile multimodal systems
- Multimodal behavior generation
- Multimodal datasets and validation
- Multimodal dialogue modeling
- Multimodal fusion and representation
- Multimodal interactive applications
- Speech behaviors in social interaction
- System components and multimodal platforms
- Visual behaviours in social interaction
- Virtual/augmented reality and multimodal interaction
Important Dates
*Paper Submission: May 4, 2020 (11:59pm GMT-7)*
Reviews to authors: July 3, 2020
Rebuttal due: July 10, 2020 (11:59pm GMT-7)
Paper notification: July 20, 2020
Camera ready paper: August 17, 2020
Presenting at main conference: October 25-29, 2020
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ICMI 2020: Call for Workshops
https://icmi.acm.org/2020/index.php?id=CfW
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The International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2020) will be
held in Utrecht, the Netherlands, October 25-29, 2020. ICMI is the premier
international conference for multidisciplinary research on multimodal
human-human and human-computer interaction analysis, interface design, and
system development. The theme of the ICMI 2020 conference is Art, Culture,
and Society. ICMI has developed a tradition of hosting workshops in
conjunction with the main conference to foster discourse on new research,
technologies, social science models and applications. Examples of recent
workshops include:
- Media Analytics for Societal Trends
- Neuromanagement and Intelligent Computing
- Multi-sensorial Approaches to Human-Food Interaction
- Group Interaction Frontiers in Technology
- Modeling Cognitive Processes from Multimodal Data
- Human-Habitat for Health
- Multimodal Analyses enabling Artificial Agents in Human-Machine
Interaction
- Investigating Social Interactions with Artificial Agents
- Child Computer Interaction
- Multimodal Interaction for Education
We are seeking workshop proposals on emerging research areas related to the
main conference topics, and those that focus on multi-disciplinary
research. We would also strongly encourage workshops that will include a
diverse set of keynote speakers (factors to consider include: gender,
ethnic background, institutions, years of experience, geography, etc.).
The content of accepted workshops are under the control of the workshop
organizers. Workshops may be of a half-day or one day in duration. Workshop
organizers will be expected to manage the workshop content, solicit
submissions, be present to moderate the discussion and panels, invite
experts in the domain, conduct the reviewing process, and maintain a
website for the workshop. Workshop papers will be indexed by ACM Digital
Library in an adjunct proceedings, and a short workshop summary by the
organizers will be published in the main conference proceedings.
Submission
Prospective workshop organizers are invited to submit proposals in PDF
format (Max. 3 pages). Please email proposals to the workshop chairs:
Yukiko Nakano (y.nakano(a)st.seikei.ac.jp) and Albert Ali Salah (
a.a.salah(a)uu.nl) The proposal should include the following:
- Workshop title
- List of organizers including affiliation, email address, and short
biographies
- Workshop motivation, expected outcomes and impact
- Tentative list of keynote speakers
- Workshop format (by invitation only, call for papers, etc.), anticipated
number of talks/posters, workshop duration (half-day or full-day) including
tentative program
- Planned advertisement means, website hosting, and estimated participation
- Paper review procedure (single/double-blind, internal/external,
solicited/invited-only, pool of reviewers, etc.)
- Paper submission and acceptance deadlines
- Special space and equipment requests, if any
Important Dates:
*Workshop proposal submission: Monday, February 10, 2020*
Notification of acceptance: Monday, February 24, 2020
Workshop papers due: End of July, 2020 (suggested)
Workshop dates: October 25 or 29, 2020
Apologies for cross-posting
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Dear Colleagues,
Please find below the invitation to contribute to the:
Affect Recognition in-the-wild: Uni/Multi-Modal Analysis Workshop,
which will be held in conjunction with the IEEE Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG) Conference 2020 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, 18-22 May 2020.
Website: https://ibug.doc.ic.ac.uk/resources/affect-recognition-wild-unimulti-modal-…
SCOPE:
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The workshop aims at advancing the state-of-the-art in the problem of analysis of human affective behavior in-the-wild. It solicits any original paper on databases, benchmarks and technical contributions related to affect recognition, using audio, visual or other modalities (e.g., EEG), in unconstrained conditions. Either uni-modal, or multi-modal approaches will be considered. It would be of particular interest to see methodologies that study detection of action units based on audio data (with the recent development of the largest in-the-wild audiovisual database, Aff-Wild2, annotated in terms of three behavior tasks: valence-arousal, basic expressions and action units).
The scope of the workshop includes but is not limited to contributions in the following topics:
(a) databases for spontaneous and naturalistic:
i) facial expression or micro-expression analysis, or
ii) facial action unit detection, or
iii) valence-arousal estimation, ”in the-wild”.
(b) methodologies for:
i) facial expression or micro-expression analysis, or
ii) facial action unit detection, or
iii) valence-arousal estimation, ”in the wild”;
The methodologies can use uni-modal or multi-modal information (e.g., visual, audio data, hand and body gestures, EEG, EDA)
(c) methodologies for action unit prediction from audio (e.g., using Aff-Wild2, which is an audiovisual database)
(d) domain-adaptation techniques for the above described behavior tasks (either using Aff-Wild2, or any other database, or combination of databases).
IMPORTANT DATES:
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• 14 February 2020 - Paper submission deadline
• 21 February 2020 - Review decisions sent to authors; Notification of acceptance
• 28 February 2020 - Camera ready version deadline
Accepted workshop papers will appear at IEEE FG 2020 proceedings.
SUBMISSION INFORMATION:
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The paper format should adhere to the paper submission guidelines for FG2020.
The submission process will be handled through the CMT<https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/ABAW2020>.
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
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Aleix M. Martinez, Ohio State University, United States
Pablo Barros, Italian Institute of Technology,Italy
CHAIRS:
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Stefanos Zafeiriou, Imperial College London, UK
Dimitrios Kollias, Imperial College London, UK
Attila Schulc, Realeyes - Emotional Intelligence
In case of any queries, please contact dimitrios.kollias15(a)imperial.ac.uk<mailto:dimitrios.kollias15@imperial.ac.uk> .
Kind Regards,
Dimitrios Kollias,
on behalf of the organising committee
iBUG Group
Department of Computing
Imperial College London
The BPS Cognitive Section annual meeting will be held in Stirling from 26th-28th August. One theme will be faces. If you think you would like to present, please let me know. The formal call for submissions will be later in Spring.
There will be two additional reasons to make the trip:
Either as part of the meeting, or alongside it, we are planning to mark the retirement of Vicki Bruce with talks by her ex-students and colleagues
The Edinburgh Festival will be in full swing at the time, so you could go along there either before or after the meeting.
Peter
Peter Hancock
Professor
Psychology, School of Natural Sciences
University of Stirling
FK9 4LA, UK
phone 01786 467675
http://rms.stir.ac.uk/converis-stirling/person/11587
@pjbhancock
Psychology at Stirling 100% 4* Impact, REF 2014
[Sports University of the Year 2020]
My messages may arrive outside of the working day but this does not imply any expectation that you should reply outside of your normal working hours. If you wish to respond, please do so when convenient.
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The University achieved an overall 5 stars in the QS World University Rankings 2018
The University of Stirling is a charity registered in Scotland, number SC 011159.
Applications are invited from highly motivated researchers for a postdoctoral position immediately available in the Computational & Cognitive Neuroscience Lab, led by Prof. Angela Yu, at University of California, San Diego. Initial appointment is for one year, renewable for up to 2-3 years.
Dr. Yu’s lab applies modern machine learning and statistical tools to extract computational principles that underlie cognitive processes that enable intelligent behavior, in particular how humans and other intelligent agents perform inference, learning, decision-making, and social interactions under conditions of uncertainty and non-stationarity. Current interests include perception, face processing, active sensing, judgement and decision making, and social cognition.
Applicants should be committed to applying rigorous mathematical tools to model cognitive functions and/or their neural underpinnings. Experience or interest in carrying out human behavioral experiments (either in person or on Amazon M-Turk) and/or collaborating with other neuroimaging/neurophysiology laboratories is desirable.
Dr. Yu's lab is situated within the Cognitive Science department, and also affiliated with the Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute, the Computer Science Department, the Neurosciences Graduate Program, and the Institute of Neural Computation. There are ample opportunities for collaborations with related groups across the UCSD main campus, the medical school, and the Salk Institute.
Interested candidates should send a research statement, along with a CV including publications, to Dr. Angela Yu (ajyu(a)ucsd.edu) with the subject “Postdoc Application”. Two or more letters of references should be sent directly by the recommenders to ajyu(a)ucsd.edu. More information about Dr. Yu’s group can be found at http://www.cogsci.ucsd.edu/~ajyu .
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Angela Yu
Associate Professor
Cognitive Science, UCSD
858-822-3317
http://www.cogsci.ucsd.edu/~ajyuhttps://ucsd.zoom.us/my/angelajyu
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Applications are invited from highly motivated researchers for a postdoctoral position immediately available in the Computational & Cognitive Neuroscience Lab, led by Prof. Angela Yu, at University of California, San Diego. Initial appointment is for one year, renewable for up to 2-3 years.
Dr. Yu’s lab applies modern machine learning and statistical tools to extract computational principles that underlie cognitive processes that enable intelligent behavior, in particular how humans and other intelligent agents perform inference, learning, decision-making, and social interactions under conditions of uncertainty and non-stationarity. Current interests include perception, face processing, active sensing, judgement and decision making, and social cognition.
Applicants should be committed to applying rigorous mathematical tools to model cognitive functions and/or their neural underpinnings. Experience or interest in carrying out human behavioral experiments (either in person or on Amazon M-Turk) and/or collaborating with other neuroimaging/neurophysiology laboratories is desirable.
Dr. Yu's lab is situated within the Cognitive Science department, and also affiliated with the Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute, the Computer Science Department, the Neurosciences Graduate Program, and the Institute of Neural Computation. There are ample opportunities for collaborations with related groups across the UCSD main campus, the medical school, and the Salk Institute.
Interested candidates should send a research statement, along with a CV including publications, to Dr. Angela Yu (ajyu(a)ucsd.edu) with the subject “Postdoc Application”. Two or more letters of references should be sent directly by the recommenders to ajyu(a)ucsd.edu <mailto:ajyu@ucsd.edu>. More information about Dr. Yu’s group can be found at https://www.cogsci.ucsd.edu/~ajyu <https://www.cogsci.ucsd.edu/~ajyu> .
*** Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CfP ***
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AAP 2020: CALL FOR PAPERS
International Workshop on Automated Assessment of Pain
http://aap-2020.net/
Submission Deadline: January 15th, 2020
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The International Workshop on Automated Assessment of Pain (AAP
2020) will be held in conjunction with IEEE FG 2020 on May 18th - May 22nd, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
For details concerning the workshop program, paper submission, and
guidelines please visit our workshop website at:
http://aap-2020.net/
Best regards,
Zakia Hammal, Steffen Walter, Nadia Berthouze
Zakia Hammal, PhD
The Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University
http://www.ri.cmu.edu/http://ri.cmu.edu/personal-pages/ZakiaHammal/
To whom it may concern,
please find attached an advert for PhD and Postdoc positions at the
University of Fribourg, Switzerland for distribution.
Sincerely,
Meike Ramon
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Meike Ramon, PhD
*SNSF PRIMA Fellow and Group Leader*
*- Applied Face Cognition Lab -*
University of Fribourg
Department of Psychology
Faucigny 2
1700 Fribourg
Switzerland
Tel : +41 26 300 7533
Fax: +41 26 300 9712
Email : meike.ramon(a)gmail.com
*www.meikeramon.com <http://www.meikeramon.com>*
*https://www3.unifr.ch/psycho/de/forschungseinheiten/afcl.html
<https://www3.unifr.ch/psycho/de/forschungseinheiten/afcl.html>*
We would like to let the community members know about the Consortium of
European Research on Emotion (CERE) 2020 Conference in Granada, Spain, *Jun
5-6*. http://www.cere-emotionconferences.org/
The deadline for abstract submission has been extended from January 15th* to
January 31th (23:59 CET).*
Due to many requests for an extension of the deadline the CERE Granada 2020
Conference organizers have agreed to extend the deadline for submission.
You are welcome to submit your abstract by following the links available
from
http://www.cere-emotionconferences.org/abstract-submission-and-presentation…
Dr. Manuel J. Ruiz and Dr. Inmaculada Valor-Segura
CERE Conference chairs
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<http://www.unex.es/>
Manuel J. Ruiz, *P.hD*
*Departamento de Psicología y Antropología*
*Personalidad, Evaluación y Tratamiento Psicológico*
*Universidad de Extremadura*
Despacho 2.22 (Edif. Principal)
Facultad de Educación
Avda. de Elvas S/N
06006 Badajoz (Spain)
Tfno:
Email: mjrm <mjrm(a)unex.es>@unex.es <mjrm(a)unex.es>
ORCID: 0000-0002-1286-6624 <http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1286-6624>
<http://www.cere-emotionconferences.org/>
Call for Multimodal Grand Challenges
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ICMI 2020: Call for Multimodal Grand Challenges
https://icmi.acm.org/2020/index.php?id=CfC
25-29 Oct 2020, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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We are calling for teams to propose one or more ICMI Multimodal Grand
Challenges.
The International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI) is the
premier international forum for multidisciplinary research on multimodal
human-human and human-computer interaction, interfaces, and system
development. Developing systems that can robustly understand human-human
communication or respond to human input requires identifying the best
algorithms and their failure modes. In fields such as computer vision,
speech recognition, computational (para-) linguistics and physiological
signal processing, for example, the availability of datasets and common
tasks have led to great progress. We invite the ICMI community to
collectively define and tackle the scientific Grand Challenges in our
domain for the next 5 years. ICMI Multimodal Grand Challenges aim to
inspire new ideas in the ICMI community and create momentum for future
collaborative work. Analysis, synthesis, and interactive tasks are all
possible.
Challenge papers will be indexed in the main proceedings of ICMI.
The grand challenge sessions are still to be confirmed. We invite
organizers from various fields related to multimodal interaction to propose
and run Grand Challenge events. We are looking for exciting and stimulating
challenges including but not limited to the following categories:
- Dataset-driven challenge: This challenge will provide a dataset that is
exemplary of the complexities of current and future multimodal problems,
and one or more multimodal tasks whose performance can be objectively
measured and compared in rigorous conditions. Participants in the Challenge
will evaluate their methods against the challenge data in order to identify
areas of strengths and weaknesses.
- Use-case challenge: This challenge will provide an interactive problem
system (e.g. dialog-based or non-verbal-based) and the associated
resources, which can allow people to participate through the integration of
specific modules or alternative full systems. Proposers should also
establish systematic evaluation procedures.
- Health challenge: This challenge will provide a dataset that is exemplary
of a health related task, whose analysis, diagnosis, treatment or
prevention can be aided by Multimodal Interactions. The challenge should
focus on exploring the benefits of multimodal (audio, visual,
physiological, etc) solutions for the stated task.
- Policy challenge: Legal, ethical, and privacy issues of Multimodal
Interaction systems in the age of AI. The challenge could revolve around
opinion papers, panels, discussions, etc.
Prospective organizers should submit a five-page maximum proposal
containing the following information:
1. Title
2. Abstract appropriate for possible Web promotion of the Challenge
3. Distinctive topics to be addressed and specific goals
4. Detailed description of the Challenge and its relevance to multimodal
interaction
5. Length (full day or half day)
6. Plan for soliciting participation
7. Description of how submissions (challenge’s submissions and papers) will
be evaluated, and a list of proposed reviewers
8. Proposed schedule for releasing datasets (if applicable) and/or systems
(if applicable) and receiving submissions
9. Short biography of the organizers (preferably from multiple institutions)
10. Funding source (if any) that supports or could support the challenge
organization
11. Draft call for papers; affiliations and email address of the
organisers; summary of the Grand Challenge; list of potential Technical
Program Committee members and their affiliations, important dates
Proposals will be evaluated based on originality, ambition, feasibility,
and implementation plan. A Challenge with dataset(s) or system(s) that has
had pilot results to ensure its representativity and suitability to the
proposed task will be given preference for acceptance; an additional 1 page
description must be attached in such case. Continuation of or variants on
the 2019 challenges are welcome, though we ask for submissions of this form
to highlight the number of participants that attended during the previous
year and describe what changes (if any) will be made from the previous year.
The ICMI organizers will offer support with basic logistics, which includes
rooms and equipment to run the Workshop, coffee breaks can be offered if
synchronised with the main conference.
Important Dates and Contact Details
*Proposals due: January 13, 2020*
Proposal notification: February 3, 2020
Paper camera-ready: August 17, 2020
Proposals should be emailed to both ICMI 2020 Multimodal Grand Challenge
Chairs, Dr. Hayley Hung and Dr. Laura Cabrera-Quiros via
grandchallenge.ICMI20(a)gmail.com. Prospective organizers are also encouraged
to contact the co-chairs if they have any questions. Proposals are due by
January 13, 2020. Notifications will be sent on February 3, 2020.