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ICMI 2020: Call for Multimodal Grand Challenges
by Leimin Tian 28 Dec '19

28 Dec '19

Call for Multimodal Grand Challenges *************************************** ICMI 2020: Call for Multimodal Grand Challenges https://icmi.acm.org/2020/index.php?id=CfC 25-29 Oct 2020, Utrecht, The Netherlands *************************************** 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.

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Call for Papers - IVA 2020, Glasgow, Scotland
by Rachael Jack 12 Dec '19

12 Dec '19

Dear colleagues, Calling all Psychologists, Neuroscientists & Philosophers for the 20th ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, 9th-12th September 2020 in Glasgow, UK. Any questions, get in touch! Rachael E. Jack IVA 2020 General Co-Chair Reader (Associate Professor) Institute of Neuroscience & Psychology School of Psychology University of Glasgow Scotland, G12 8QB +44 (0) 141 330 5087 View this email in your browser<https://mailchi.mp/02ea15a092ee/call-for-papers-iva-5697375?e=c6d54cce24> [https://gallery.mailchimp.com/bd7d786e2e8ae63c14d942ee0/images/a12ef9a3-dc6…] Call for Submissions ACM 20th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents September 9-12th 2020 University of Glasgow, Scotland https://iva2020.gla.ac.uk/ SUBMISSION DATES Papers: Sunday 5th April 2020 (23:59 UTC-12) Extended Abstracts: Sunday 24th May 2020 (23:59 UTC-12) --------------------------------------------- 2020 Intelligent Virtual Agents --------------------------------------------- Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA) Annual Convention is the premier international event for interdisciplinary research on the design, application, and evaluation of Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVAs) with a specific focus on the ability to socially interact. *** IVA 2020 will be the 20th Annual Convention, held in Glasgow, Scotland, 9- 12th September 2020. *** IVAs are interactive characters that exhibit human-like qualities including communicating using natural human modalities such as facial expressions, speech and gesture. IVAs are also capable of real-time perception, cognition, emotion and action that allows them to participate in dynamic social situations. IVA 2020 aims to showcase cutting-edge research on the design, application, and evaluation of IVAs, as well as the basic research underlying the technology that supports human-agent interaction such as social perception, dialog modeling, and social behavior planning. We also welcome submissions on central theoretical issues, uses of virtual agents in psychological research and showcases of working applications. IVA 2020 offers two submission tracks: Papers (8 pages, including references) and Extended Abstracts (3 pages, including references). All submissions will be double-blind peer-reviewed by external expert reviewers. All accepted submissions will be published in the proceedings. Accepted papers will be presented at a talk. Accepted extended abstracts will be presented as a talk or a poster, depending on the outcome of the review process. [https://gallery.mailchimp.com/bd7d786e2e8ae63c14d942ee0/images/18ce1289-cd5…] SCOPE AND LIST OF TOPICS IVA invites submissions on a broad range of topics, including but not limited to: Agent Design and modeling of: * Cognition * Emotion (including personality and cultural differences) * Socially communicative behavior (e.g., of emotions, personality traits) * Conversational behavior * Social perception * Machine learning approaches to agent modeling * Approaches to realizing adaptive behavior * Models informed by theoretical and empirical research from psychology Multimodal interaction: * Verbal and nonverbal behavior coordination * Face-to-face communication skills * Engagement * Managing co-presence and interpersonal relation * Multi-party interaction * Data driven multimodal modeling Social agent architectures: * Design criteria and design methodologies * Engineering of real-time human-agent interaction * Standards / measures to support interoperability * Portability and reuse * Specialized tools, toolkits and tool chains Evaluation methods and studies: * Evaluation methodologies and user studies * Ethical considerations and societal impact * Applicable lessons across fields (e.g. between robotics and virtual agents) * Social agents as a means to study and model human behavior Applications: * Applications in education, skills training, health, counseling, games, art, etc. * Virtual agents in games and simulations * Social agents as tools in psychology * Migration between platforms SPECIAL IVA 2020 TOPIC: Exploring Connections between Computer Science, Robotics and Psychology. Across computer science, robotics, psychology and the commercial world, there has been a rapid growth in the research, development and application of artificial social agents. Computer scientists and roboticists are researching graphics-based and physical social agents. Psychologists and neuroscientists are using these artifacts in laboratory experiments in order to study our interaction with them as well as to use them as confederates in the study of human behavior. Companies are actively developing similar technologies. However, these communities too rarely interact even though there are close synergies between psychology, the study of human behavior, and artificial social agents, the engineering of human behavior. The design of an artificial social agent involves the formalization of theories and data about human behavior, integration of resulting models into an agent and evaluation of its behavior, leveraging techniques derived from psychology. Each of these steps can in return be of fundamental value to psychological research. For example, formalization and integration forces one to concretely specify theoretical constructs and thereby expose hidden assumptions and gaps in theories. IVA 2020’s Special Topic provides an invitation to researchers and developers across disciplines to share their work on the challenges and uses of social agent research, in the hope to further trans-disciplinary collaboration. INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS Paper submissions should be anonymous and prepared in the "ACM Standard" format, more specifically the "SigConf" format. * The LaTeX template for the "ACM Standard"/"SigConf" format can be found inside the official 2017 ACM Master article template package. Please use the most recent version (1.65) available at:https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template<https://gla.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=bd7d786e2e8ae63c14d942ee0&id=…> * The "ACM Standard" Microsoft Word template is currently not part of the downloadable package as the ACM is currently revising it to improve accessibility of resulting PDF-documents. Please use the "Interim Word Template" instead: https://www.acm.org/binaries/content/assets/publications/word_style/interim…<https://gla.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=bd7d786e2e8ae63c14d942ee0&id=…> * IVA 2020 accepts two types of submissions: * Full papers: 8 pages (including references) * Extended abstracts: 3 pages (including references) * All papers must be submitted in PDF-format. Important Dates: Papers ---> Submission Deadline: Sunday 5th April 2020 (23:59 UTC-12) ---> Notification of acceptance: 15th May, 2020 Extended Abstracts ---> Submission Deadline: Sunday 24th May 2020 (23:59 UTC-12) ---> Notification of acceptance: 21st June, 2020 CONFERENCE ORGANIZERS Conference Chairs: * Stacy Marsella, University of Glasgow * Rachael Jack, University of Glasgow Program Chairs: * Hannes Vilhjalmsson, Reykjavik University * Pedro Sequeira, SRI International * Emily Cross, University of Glasgow Workshop/Demonstration Organization Chairs: * Lucile Callebert, University of Glasgow * Florian Pecune, University of Glasgow * Contact: workshopsdemos.iva2020(a)gmail.com<mailto:workshopsdemos.iva2020@gmail.com> Web Site * Amol Deshmukh, University of Glasgow Doctoral Consortium * Jonathan Gratch, ICT/USC Treasurer * Catherine Pelachaud, CNRS Publicity Chair * Mary Ellen Foster, University of Glasgow Volunteer Coordinator: * Carolyn Saund, University of Glasgow [IVA 2020 Website]<https://gla.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=bd7d786e2e8ae63c14d942ee0&id=…> IVA 2020 This email was sent to 2039067h(a)student.gla.ac.uk<mailto:2039067h@student.gla.ac.uk> why did I get this?<https://gla.us4.list-manage.com/about?u=bd7d786e2e8ae63c14d942ee0&id=f8c7d9…> unsubscribe from this list<https://gla.us4.list-manage.com/unsubscribe?u=bd7d786e2e8ae63c14d942ee0&id=…> update subscription preferences<https://gla.us4.list-manage.com/profile?u=bd7d786e2e8ae63c14d942ee0&id=f8c7…> IVA · University Avenue · Glasgow, Glg G12 8QQ · United Kingdom [Email Marketing Powered by Mailchimp]<http://www.mailchimp.com/monkey-rewards/?utm_source=freemium_newsletter&utm…>

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CERE 2020 Granada Conference for distribution
by Manuel J. Ruiz 10 Dec '19

10 Dec '19

*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. Call for abstracts open until 15th January 2020. http://www.cere-emotionconferences.org/ <http://www.cere-emotionconferences.org/>* Manuel J. Ruiz and Inmaculada Valor -- <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/>

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Deadline extended to 10th January: Special session on Computer Vision for Automatic Human Health Monitoring in conjunction with IEEE FG 2020.
by ABHIJIT DAS 08 Dec '19

08 Dec '19

Dear colleagues, We are organizing a special session on “Computer Vision for Automatic Human Health Monitoring” in conjunction with 15th IEEE Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition to be held between 18th-22th May 2020 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Kindly find the related call for papers below. *Important dates* Papers submission deadline: 10th January 2019 – midnight PST (firm deadline no further extension) Paper notification deadline: 10th February 2020 Final camera-ready papers: 28 February 2020 *Submission instructions* can be found at https://fg2020.org/instructions-of-paper-submission-for-review/. *For submission* log into https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/FG2020/Submission/Index, proceed to “create new submission”. Select “special session track and subject area” as “Special session: Computer Vision for Automatic Human Health Monitoring”. Accepted papers will be included in FG2020 proceedings and will appear in the IEEE Xplore digital library, Please feel free to contact us for any further details. Kindly disseminate this email to others who might be interested. We look forward to your contributions. Antitza Dantcheva (INRIA, France) Abhijit Das (USC, USA) François Brémond (INRIA, France) Xilin Chen (CAS, China) Hu Han (CAS, China) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *Call for paper for FG 2020 special session * *on * *COMPUTER VISION FOR AUTOMATIC HUMAN HEALTH MONITORING* ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Automatic Human Health Monitoring Based on Computer Vision has gained rapid scientific attention in the decade, fueled by a large number of research articles and commercial systems based on set of features, extracted from face and gesture. Consequently, researchers from computer vision, as well as from medical science community have granted significant attention, with goals ranging from patient analysis and monitoring to diagnostics. The goal of this special session is to bring together researchers and practitioners working in this area of computer vision and medical science, and to address a wide range of theoretical and practical issues related to real-life healthcare systems. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:  Health monitoring based on face analysis,  Health monitoring based on gesture analysis,  Health monitoring based corporeal-based visual features,  Depression analysis based on visual features,  Face analytics for human behavior understanding,  Anxiety diagnosis based on face and gesture,  Physiological measurement employing face analytics,  Databases on health monitoring, e.g., depression analysis,  Augmentative and alternative communication,  Human-robot interaction,  Home healthcare,  Technology for cognition,  Automatic emotional hearing and understanding,  Visual attention and visual saliency,  Assistive living,  Privacy preserving systems,  Quality of life technologies,  Mobile and wearable systems,  Applications for the visually impaired,  Sign language recognition and applications for hearing impaired,  Applications for the ageing society,  Personalized monitoring,  Egocentric and first-person vision,  Applications to improve health and wellbeing of children and elderly.

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ICMI: Call for Long and Short Papers
by Leimin Tian 29 Nov '19

29 Nov '19

*************************************** ICMI 2020: Call for Long and Short Papers http://icmi.acm.org/2020/index.php?id=cfp 25-29 Oct 2020, Utrecht, The Netherlands *************************************** 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 -- Regards, Leimin

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UK researchers - voter registration proposals
by Peter Hancock 22 Oct '19

22 Oct '19

This message is probably only of relevance to UK-based researchers, though people from other countries may have relevant comments, depending on how you vote. The UK Government is proposing to introduce a requirement to take photo-id to polling stations in order to vote. Apart from the issue of potentially excluding people who don't currently have such an id (the most disadvantaged in society, mainly) there is the problem that we know that photo id doesn't really work. Can I invite UK-based researchers to contact their MPs to explain the evidence that it is not reliable? If enough of us do, they might have a rethink. Peter 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. Peter Hancock Professor of Psychology, Faculty of Natural Sciences University of Stirling FK9 4LA, UK phone 01786 467675 https://www.stir.ac.uk/people/11587 http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6025-7068 http://www.researcherid.com/rid/A-4633-2009 Psychology at Stirling: 100% 4* Impact, REF2014 Latest paper: Eye see through you! Eye tracking unmasks concealed face recognition despite countermeasures https://rdcu.be/bNlKn<%20https:/rdcu.be/bNlKn>

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Dark Triad faces
by Ferenc Kocsor 17 Oct '19

17 Oct '19

Dear Colleagues, We started a cross-cultural research on perception of faces of individuals high or low on the Dark Triad scales. We would be grateful if you shared the link on social media or mailing lists. The English version is available here: http://bit.ly/DTenglish We also have a version in Hebrew. It is extremely difficult for us to collect a sample of appropriate size, so help from colleagues in Israel are especially appreciated. You can share this link: http://bit.ly/DThebrew Thanks in advance *Ferenc Kocsor, PhD* research associate Institute of Psychology <Pszichológia Intézet> | Faculty of Humanites <Bölcsészettudományi Kar> | University of Pécs <https://outlook.office.com/mail/inbox/id/AAQkADkzOGM4ZjhhLTkyZmEtNGUyNC1iYj…> | evolutionpsychology.com <evoluciospszichologia.hu>

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Society for Affective Science 2020 Conference!
by Jolie Wormwood 16 Oct '19

16 Oct '19

Greetings, I hope this message finds you well! I am writing to you regarding the Society for Affective Science and its annual meeting, which will take place at the Parc 55 Hotel in San Francisco, CA on April 23-25, 2020. As a regular attendee and a member of the membership and outreach committee, I encourage you and your trainees and students to attend! Personally, I and my students have found SAS to be an excellent venue for presenting research, and we find the interdisciplinary nature of the program to be uniquely beneficial. Below, I outline exciting highlights from the upcoming meeting and opportunities for you and your students to submit abstracts for symposia, flash talks or posters. Please let me know if you have any questions. I hope to see you at the 2020 SAS meeting! All the best, Jolie Jolie Baumann Wormwood, PhD Assistant Professor of Psychology 422 McConnell Hall 15 Academic Way Durham, NH 03824 —— *SAS 2020 Registration and Call for Abstracts* *San Francisco, CaliforniaParc 55 HotelApril 23-25, 2020* The Society for Affective Science (SAS) is pleased to announce its call for submissions of abstracts to be considered for its 2020 Annual Conference. The 2020 SAS conference will take place at the Parc 55 Hotel in San Francisco, CA on April 23-25, 2020. *Program Highlights* We’re excited to announce that this year's program includes a Presidential Symposium on affect in politics featuring Morteza Dehghani, Nathan Kalmoe and Robb Willer, TED style talks by Lasana Harris, Dacher Keltner, Kristin Lagattuta, Mathew Nock, and Jamil Zaki, and Invited Flash Talks by James Cavanaugh, Aaron Heller, Lori Hoggard, Jessica Lougheed, Emily Mower Provost, Nilam Ram, Gal Sheppes, and Yukiko Uchida. Presentations will be featured in an interesting array of sessions of varying formats. *Abstract Submission Formats* We welcome abstract submissions that describe new research within the domain of affective science. In line with our goal to facilitate interdisciplinary advances, we welcome submissions from affective scientists in any discipline (e.g., anthropology, business, computer science, cultural studies, economics, education, geography, history, integrative medicine, law, linguistics, literature, neuroscience, philosophy, political science, psychiatry, psychology, public health, sociology, theatre), working on a broad range of topics using a variety of measures. *Authors at all career stages – trainees, junior faculty, and senior faculty – are encouraged to submit an abstract according to three presentation formats as follows:* 1. A *poster* on any topic within the domain of affective science 2. A *flash talk* showcasing affective science research (open to all career stages and disciplines). 3. A *Symposia* providing an in-depth perspective on individual research areas/topics within affective science. *This is a NEW submission format that we are excited to offer for SAS 2020!* *Deadline for Receipt of Abstracts* Abstracts must be submitted by Friday, November 8, 2019 at 11:59 p.m. Baker Island Time (BIT; UTC-12 --- the last timezone before the date line) to be considered for inclusion in the program. Please review the *abstract submission instructions <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__society-2Dfor-2Daffect…>* carefully. *Selection Process* Abstracts will be evaluated on the basis of scholarly merit by blind peer review. Poster and Flash Talk abstracts with trainees (i.e., postdoctoral fellow, graduate student, post-baccalaureate, undergraduate student) as first author will be considered for an award based on further in-person evaluation at the conference. Awards will be announced at the conference during the closing ceremony. All presenters must register and pay to attend the meeting. Notification of acceptance or rejection of abstracts will be e-mailed to the corresponding author by mid-January 2020. Presenters must be the first author on the submitted abstract. *We hope to see you at SAS 2020 in San Francisco!*

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Call For Chapters and dataset release! | Neural and Machine Learning for Emotion and Empathy Recognition: Experiences from the OMG-Challenges by Springer
by Pablo Barros 09 Oct '19

09 Oct '19

Dear Colleagues, We would like to invite you to contribute a chapter for the upcoming volume entitled “Neural and Machine Learning for Emotion and Empathy Recognition: Experiences from the OMG-Challenges” to be published by the Springer Series on Competitions in Machine Learning. Our book will be available by mid-2020. Website: https://easychair.org/cfp/OMGBook2019 Follows a short description of our volume: Emotional expression perception and categorization are extremely popular in the affective computing community. However, the inclusion of emotions in the decision-making process of an agent is not considered in most of the research in this field. To treat emotion expressions as the final goal, although necessary, reduces the usability of such solutions in more complex scenarios. To create a general affective model to be used as a modulator for learning different cognitive tasks, such as modeling intrinsic motivation, creativity, dialog processing, grounded learning, and human-level communication, instantaneous emotion perception cannot be the pivotal focus. This book aims to present recent contributions for multimodal emotion recognition and empathy prediction which take into consideration the long-term development of affective concepts. In this regard, we provide access to two datasets: OMG-Emotion Behavior Recognition and OMG-Empathy Prediction datasets. These datasets were designed, collected and formalized to be used on the OMG-Emotion Recognition Challenge and the OMG-Empathy Prediction challenge, respectively. All the participants of our challenges are invited to submit their contribution to our book. We also invite interested authors to use our datasets on the development of inspiring and innovative research on affective computing. By formatting these solutions and editing this book, we hope to inspire further research in affective and cognitive computing over longer timescales. TOPICS OF INTEREST The topics of interest for this call for chapters include, but are not limited to: - New theories and findings on continuous emotion recognition - Multi- and Cross-modal emotion perception and interpretation - Novel neural network models for affective processing - Lifelong affect analysis, perception, and interpretation - New neuroscientific and psychological findings on continuous emotion representation - Embodied artificial agents for empathy and emotion appraisal - Machine learning for affect-driven interventions - Socially intelligent human-robot interaction - Personalized systems for human affect recognition - New theories and findings on empathy modeling - Multimodal processing of empathetic and social signals - Novel neural network models for empathy understanding - Lifelong models for empathetic interactions - Empathetic Human-Robot-Interaction Scenarios - New neuroscientific and psychological findings on empathy representation - Multi-agent communication for empathetic interactions - Empathy as a decision-making modulator - Personalized systems for empathy prediction Each contributed chapter is expected to present a novel research study, a comparative study, or a survey of the literature. SUBMISSIONS All submissions should be done via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/cfp/OMGBook2019 Original artwork and a signed copyright release form will be required for all accepted chapters. For author instructions, please visit: https://www.springer.com/us/authors-editors/book -authors-editors/resources-guidelines/book-manuscript-guidelines We would also like to announce that our two datasets, related to emotion expressions and empathy prediction, are now fully available. You can have access to them and obtain more information by visiting their website: - OMG-EMOTION - https://www2.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/wtm/omgchallenges/omg_emotion.html - OMG-EMPATHY - https://www2.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/wtm/omgchallenges/omg_empathy.html If you want more information, please do not hesitate to contact me: barros(a)informatik.uni-hamburg.de IMPORTANT DATES: - Submissions of full-length chapters: 31st of October 2019 (message us if you need more time!) -- -- Best regards, *Pablo Barros* *http://www.pablobarros.net <http://www.pablobarros.net>*

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Call For Chapters and dataset release! | Neural and Machine Learning for Emotion and Empathy Recognition: Experiences from the OMG-Challenges by Springer
by Pablo Barros 04 Sep '19

04 Sep '19

Dear Colleagues, We would like to invite you to contribute a chapter for the upcoming volume entitled “Neural and Machine Learning for Emotion and Empathy Recognition: Experiences from the OMG-Challenges” to be published by the Springer Series on Competitions in Machine Learning. Our book will be available by mid-2020. Website: https://easychair.org/cfp/OMGBook2019 Follows a short description of our volume: Emotional expression perception and categorization are extremely popular in the affective computing community. However, the inclusion of emotions in the decision-making process of an agent is not considered in most of the research in this field. To treat emotion expressions as the final goal, although necessary, reduces the usability of such solutions in more complex scenarios. To create a general affective model to be used as a modulator for learning different cognitive tasks, such as modeling intrinsic motivation, creativity, dialog processing, grounded learning, and human-level communication, instantaneous emotion perception cannot be the pivotal focus. This book aims to present recent contributions for multimodal emotion recognition and empathy prediction which take into consideration the long-term development of affective concepts. On this regard, we provide access to two datasets: the OMG-Emotion Behavior Recognition and OMG-Empathy Prediction datasets. These datasets were designed, collected and formalized to be used on the OMG-Emotion Recognition Challenge and the OMG-Empathy Prediction challenge, respectively. All the participants of our challenges are invited to submit their contribution to our book. We also invite interested authors to use our datasets on the development of inspiring and innovative research on affective computing. By formatting these solutions and editing this book, we hope to inspire further research in affective and cognitive computing over longer timescales. TOPICS OF INTEREST The topics of interest for this call for chapters include, but are not limited to: - New theories and findings on continuous emotion recognition - Multi- and Cross-modal emotion perception and interpretation - Novel neural network models for affective processing - Lifelong affect analysis, perception, and interpretation - New neuroscientific and psychological findings on continuous emotion representation - Embodied artificial agents for empathy and emotion appraisal - Machine learning for affect-driven interventions - Socially intelligent human-robot interaction - Personalized systems for human affect recognition - New theories and findings on empathy modeling - Multimodal processing of empathetic and social signals - Novel neural network models for empathy understanding - Lifelong models for empathetic interactions - Empathetic Human-Robot-Interaction Scenarios - New neuroscientific and psychological findings on empathy representation - Multi-agent communication for empathetic interactions - Empathy as a decision-making modulator - Personalized systems for empathy prediction Each contributed chapter is expected to present a novel research study, a comparative study, or a survey of the literature. SUBMISSIONS All submissions should be done via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/cfp/OMGBook2019 Original artwork and a signed copyright release form will be required for all accepted chapters. For author instructions, please visit: https://www.springer.com/us/authors-editors/book -authors-editors/resources-guidelines/book-manuscript-guidelines We would also like to announce that our two datasets, related to emotion expressions and empathy prediction, are now fully available. You can have access to them and obtain more information by visiting their website: - OMG-EMOTION - https://www2.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/wtm/omgchallenges/omg_emotion.html - OMG-EMPATHY - https://www2.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/wtm/omgchallenges/omg_empathy.html If you want more information, please do not hesitate to contact me: barros(a)informatik.uni-hamburg.de IMPORTANT DATES: - Submissions of full-length chapters: 31st of October 2019 -- Dr. Pablo Barros Postdoctoral Research Associate - Crossmodal Learning Project (CML) Knowledge Technology Department of Informatics University of Hamburg Vogt-Koelln-Str. 30 22527 Hamburg, Germany Phone: +49 40 42883 2535 Fax: +49 40 42883 2515 barros at informatik.uni-hamburg.dehttp://www.pablobarros.nethttps://www.inf.uni-hamburg.de/en/inst/ab/wtm/people/barros.htmlhttps://www.inf.uni-hamburg.de/en/inst/ab/wtm/

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