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Call for papers: Symposium on face processing and person recognition, International Congress of Applied Psychology, Montreal, QC, June 26-30 2018
by Adam Sandford 31 Oct '17

31 Oct '17

Dear Colleagues, The Brain and Cognitive Science Section of the Canadian Psychological Association is inviting abstract submissions for a symposium on underlying mechanisms, issues, and potential solutions in the field of face processing and person recognition, as part of the International Congress of Applied Psychology in Montreal, Quebec, June 26-30, 2018. This congress is a collaboration between the International Association of Applied Psychology and the Canadian Psychological Association. Information about the congress can be found here: http://www.icap2018.com/ Each abstract is limited to 250 words, in addition to short descriptions (limited to 50 words) for each of the following sections: Background (Rationale for study/studies), Methods (the general method of the study/studies), Results, Action/Impact (i.e., recommendations from results), and Conclusions. Abstracts should be emailed directly to Adam Sandford (adam.sandford(a)guelphhumber.ca) We hope to receive abstracts before Monday November 27th. Speakers in the symposium will be provided $500 (Canadian) to offset costs associated with participating in the symposium. Feel free to contact Adam Sandford if you have any questions. With sincere thanks, -Adam Sandford, Ph.D -- Adam Sandford, Ph.D, OCT. Assistant Program Head, Psychology University of Guelph-Humber Adjunct Professor, Psychology University of Guelph 207 Humber College Blvd; GH 408F Toronto, ON. M9W 5L7 P: 416-798-1331, ext. 6088<tel:416-798-1331%2C%20ext.%206088> E: adam.sandford(a)guelphhumber.ca<mailto:adam.sandford@guelphhumber.ca> Chair-Elect, Brain and Cognitive Sciences (BCS) Section of the Canadian Psychological Association (CPA) (http://www.cpa.ca/aboutcpa/cpasections/brainandcognitivescience/) BCS Section Liaison between CPA and International Association of Applied Psychology (IAAP) - IAAP meeting in Montreal June 26-30 with CPA (http://www.icap2018.com/content/official-icap-2018-website) Find more information about IAAP here (http://iaapsy.org/) Member, Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour, and Cognitive Science (CSBBCS) - joint CSBBCS and Experimental Psychology Society (EPS) meeting in St. John's, NL July 4-8 (https://csbbcs.org/ocs/index.php/2018/csbbcs2018) Find more information about EPS here (http://eps.ac.uk/)

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CFP: HBU 2018 at IEEE Face & Gesture
by Albert Ali Salah 31 Oct '17

31 Oct '17

CALL FOR PAPERS: 8th Int. Workshop on Human Behavior Understanding (HBU) in conjunction with 2nd Int. Workshop on Automatic Face Analytics for Human Behavior Understanding (FaceHUB) at IEEE Face & Gesture 2018 - Xi'An, 15-19 May 2018 https://www.cmpe.boun.edu.tr/hbu/2018/ Workshop Description With development of computer vision and sensor technology, it becomes possible to analyze human behavior via various ways at different time-scales and at different levels of interaction and interpretation. Understanding human behavior automatically opens up enormous possibilities for human-computer interaction, with a potential of endowing the computers with a capacity to attribute meaning to users' attitudes, preferences, personality, social relationships, etc., as well as to understand what people are doing, the activities they have been engaged in, and their routines. This workshop aims to inspect developments in selected areas where smarter computers that can sense human behavior have great potential to revolutionize the application domain. We ultimately seek to re-define the relationship between the computer and the interacting human, moving the computer from a passive observer role to a socially active participant role and enabling it to drive different kinds of interaction. The 8th Int. Workshop on Human Behavior Understanding (HBU) and 2nd Int. Workshop on Automatic Face Analytics for Human Behavior Understanding (FaceHUB) are jointly organized at IEEE FG as a single-track, one day event, to gather researchers on behavior analysis and analytics. It will have two specific focus sessions dealing with "face analytics" and "behavior analysis for smart cars". Session 1 "Face analytics": There is strong evidence that face analytic for human behavior understanding could also be highly beneficial in human computer interaction. Application scenarios include analyzing emotions while the person is watching emotional movies or advertisements, playing video games, driving a car, is under health monitoring or crime investigation, or is participating in interactive tutoring. Furthermore, long-term continuous monitoring and analysis of expressions provides important information for assessing personality but also provide cues of psychological disorders. Session 2 "Behavior analysis for smart cars": The computational capabilities of cars are rapidly increasing. While a lot of attention is directed towards what goes on outside the car, and to autonomous driving systems, the inside of the car is very interesting too. In the transition period from human-driven cars to fully autonomous cars, there is great interest in improved driver assistance, safety, and comfort systems. When the fully autonomous car is realized, there will still be a need for looking inside the car, for better car-customer interaction. This workshop will solicit human behavior analysis solutions that clearly advance the field, and also to propose novel application scenarios. The covered topics may span items from the following topics, including the focus theme challenges: Session 1: Face analytics ************************* -Automatic deception detection -Deep learning models for facial analysis -Face alignment and fiducial point detection -Continuous and dynamic facial behavior analysis -Emotion recognition in the wild -Temporal models for face analysis -Facial action unit detection and recognition -Group emotion analysis -Long-term behaviors and interaction -Micro-expression detection, recognition and understanding -Spontaneous affect databases: collection and annotation -Cross-domain facial expression recognition -Spontaneous facial expression analysis -Multimodal emotion recognition Session 2: Behavior analysis for smart cars ******************************************* -Advanced driver assistance systems, assisting elderly drivers -Behavior analysis for car safety -Car driving simulation analysis -Driver identification and biometrics -Driver's face monitoring, drowsiness and fatigue detection -Head pose and attention tracking -Human factors and driver personalization -Human-car interaction -In-car social signals: aggression, frustration, boredom -Multimodal interactive systems in cars -Posture assessment and comfort analysis Human Behavior Analysis Systems ******************************* -Action and activity recognition -Single and multimodal affect analysis -Gaze, attention and saliency -Gestures and haptic interaction -Learning and adaptation -Social signal processing -Voice and speech analysis Theory and Methodology of Human Interactive Behaviors ***************************************************** -Data collection, annotation, and benchmarking -Interaction design -Theoretical frameworks of behavior analysis -User studies and human factors Submission Submission site is open, and accessible at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hbu2018 Each paper will be reviewed by at least two members of the scientific Program Committee, in double-blind fashion. The submitted papers should present original work, not currently under review elsewhere and should have no substantial overlap with already published work. Submissions should be submitted in PDF and should be no more than 8 pages in IEEE FG 2018 paper format. Accepted papers will be included in the Proceedings of IEEE FG 2018 and Workshops and will be sent for inclusion into the IEEE Xplore digital library. Dates 28 January, Submission deadline 20 February, Notification of acceptance 1 March, Camera ready submission 15 May, Tentative workshop date Special Issues Two journal special issues are planned from the two focus tracks of the HBU Workshop. One issue on `behavior analysis for smart cars` will be edited as a thematic issue of Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments. A second issue on `face analytics` is planned. Authors will be invited to submit suitably extended versions of their papers to these special issues. People Program Committee Tadas Baltrušaitis, Microsoft Corporation, UK Wei Chen, China University of Mining and Technology, CN Adrian Davison, University of Manchester, UK Hamdi Dibeklioğlu, Bilkent University, TR Jordi Gonzàlez, CVC Barcelona, ES Jürgen Gall, Univ. of Bonn, DE Heikki Huttunen, Tampere University of Technology, FI Peng Liu, Aware, US Marwa Mahmoud, Univ. of Cambridge, UK Matei Mancas, Univ. of Mons, BE Javier J. Sanchez Medina, CVC-UAB, ES Teruhisa Misu, Honda Research Institute, US Wenxuan Mou, Queen Mary University of London, UK Eshed Ohn-Bar, Carnegie Mellon University, US Shogo Okada, JAIST, JP Yannis Panagakis, Imperial College London, UK Senya Polikovsky, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, JP Nicu Sebe, University of Trento, IT Caifeng Shan, Philips Research, NL Karan Sikka, Stanford Research Institute, US Xiaoyang Tan, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, CN Yan Tong, University of South Carolina, US Fernando De la Torre, Facebook, US Mohan M. Trivedi, University of California San Diego, US Ruiping Wang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, CN Sujing Wang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, CN Jacob Whitehill, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, US Lijun Yin, University of Binghamton, US Zeynep Yücel, Okayama University, JP Organizers Carlos Busso, Univ. of Texas at Dallas Xiaohua Huang, Univ. of Oulu (contact for session 1) Takatsugu Hirayama, Nagoya Univ. Guoying Zhao, Univ. of Oulu & Northwest Univ. of China Albert Ali Salah, Boğaziçi Univ. & Nagoya Univ. (contact for session 2) Matti Pietikäinen, Univ. of Oulu Roberto Vezzani, Univ. of Modena and Reggio Emilia Wenming Zheng, Southeast Univ. Abhinav Dhall, Indian Institute of Technology, Ropar -- Dr. Albert Ali Salah http://www.cmpe.boun.edu.tr/~salah/ Nagoya University, Future Value Creation Research Center (FV-CRC), Graduate School Informatics Bogazici University, Computer Engineering Dept. & Cognitive Science MA Program http://www.cogsci.boun.edu.tr

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CFP: Workshop on Large scale Emotion Recognition (LERA) at IEEE FG18
by abhinav dhall 27 Oct '17

27 Oct '17

[apologies if you received multiple copies] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------- Call for papers First Workshop on Large scale Emotion Recognition (LERA), IEEE Automatic Faces & Gesture Recognition 2018, Xi’an, China. https://sites.google.com/view/lera2018 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------- With the advancement in social computing, multimedia, and sensing technology, the amount of emotionally relevant data has grown enormously. It becomes crucial for the affective computing community to develop new methods for understanding emotion conveyed by the media and the emotion felt by the user at a large scale. This workshop invites researchers to submit their original work proposing methods to create data and new methodologies for large-scale analysis. Much development has been observed in the computer vision community after large-scale databases such as the ImageNet and MS COCO have been released. The first LERA workshop at FG'18 aims to transfer current research focus on small-scale, lab based environment to real-world, large-scale corpus. Topics for the workshop include but are not limited to: 1. Large scale data collection and annotation 2. Large scale emotion recognition in the wild 3. Big data approaches for emotion recognition 4. Face tracking and affect analysis in videos 5. Group-level emotion recognition 6. Fusion techniques for audio-visual/physiological signals 7. Localization & identification of salient affect signals 8. Applications in education, entertainment & healthcare Timeline: Paper submission deadline: 9th January 2018 Paper acceptance notification: 7th February 2018 Camera ready deadline: 15th February 2018 Organizers: Abhinav Dhall, Indian Institute of Technology, Ropar Yelin Kim, State University of New York, Albany Qiang Ji, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute -- Abhinav Dhall, PhD Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Technology, Ropar Webpage: https://goo.gl/5LrRB7 Google Scholar: https://goo.gl/iDwNTx

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PhD position in face perception and motion perception in Singapore
by Charles Or 20 Oct '17

20 Oct '17

PhD student openings are available in the lab of Dr. Charles Or (http://research.ntu.edu.sg/expertise/academicprofile/Pages/StaffProfile.asp…) at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore to perform original research in the areas of face perception, visual motion perception, and form perception. Our work focuses on understanding (1) the human brain’s rapid and holistic nature of face detection, categorization, and recognition, and (2) the neural interaction of visual motion and form information in pattern and object recognition. We use a combination of approaches including psychophysics, eye tracking, EEG, and computational modelling. The lab is housed in the Psychology Division of the School of Social Sciences, with a rapidly expanding group of researchers interested in experimental psychology and cognitive neuroscience. We are also part of the multidisciplinary Cognition and Neuroscience research cluster and Neuroscience, society, and governance research cluster. We have access to state-of-the-art facilities for psychophysics, eye tracking, EEG, MEG, fMRI, fNIRS, TMS, and tDCS. Applicants should have a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in cognitive science, experimental psychology, cognitive neuroscience, computer science, or related fields. The ideal candidate should be driven by scientific curiosity and self-motivated, with awareness of relevant literature, an excellent command in written and spoken English, and a strong background in statistical data analysis (e.g., SPSS, R). Aptitudes and interests in mathematics and computer programming (e.g. MATLAB, Python) are preferred. NTU is a young and research-intensive university ranking consistently amongst the top 10 in Asia and the 1st amongst young universities under 50. It has been ranked consistently and progressively under the top 100 universities in the world by the Times Higher Education since 2013, leaping its ranking into 52nd in 2017/2018. Singapore is a fascinating, dynamic multi-cultural city in Southeast Asia with a large expat community, and a great hub for exploring neighbouring travel destinations. PhD Scholarships are available through the university and outside sources for Singaporeans (including permanent residents), as well as overseas applicants (http://admissions.ntu.edu.sg/graduate/scholarships/Pages/default.aspx) Applicants should apply through the university admission website (http://admissions.ntu.edu.sg/graduate/R-Programs/R-WhenYouApply/Pages/R-How…) by 15th November (for CoHASS) for an expected start date in August 2018. Alternatively, the Interdisciplinary Graduate School also admits applications (http://igs.ntu.edu.sg/Programmes/Prospective%20Students/Pages/Programme-Hig…) Informal inquiries may be made to Charles Or at charlesor(a)ntu.edu.sg ======================= Charles C.-F. Or, PhD Assistant Professor Division of Psychology School of Social Sciences Nanyang Technological University 14 Nanyang Drive, Singapore 637332 ________________________________ CONFIDENTIALITY: This email is intended solely for the person(s) named and may be confidential and/or privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete it, notify us and do not copy, use, or disclose its contents. Towards a sustainable earth: Print only when necessary. Thank you.

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2018 Consortium of European Research on Emotion (CERE) conference GLASGOW 4-5th April
by Rachael Jack 06 Oct '17

06 Oct '17

Dear colleagues We are delighted to announce that we are hosting the 2018 biennial conference of the Consortium of European Research on Emotion (CERE). We welcome ALL disciplines and researchers studying emotion. If you could share the information below would be much appreciated. Location: University of Glasgow Dates: 4-5th April 2018 Submission deadline: 3rd December 2017 See here http://www.cere-emotionconferences.org/ for more information. Follow @CERE_Emotion on Twitter for updates. We look forward to receiving your submissions! Best wishes, Dr. Rachael E. Jack, Ph.D. Lecturer Institute of Neuroscience & Psychology School of Psychology +44 (0) 141 330 5087 [University of Glasgow: The Times Scottish University of the Year 2018]

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Postdoc and PhD positions available, TU Dresden, Germany
by Katharina von Kriegstein 06 Oct '17

06 Oct '17

We are seeking a postdoc and two PhD students to work in the Neural Mechanisms of Human Communication Research Group led by Katharina von Kriegstein at the TU Dresden, Germany. Postdoc Position The main research goal of the position is to investigate behavioural and neuroscience principles of perceptual learning and their translation to evidence-based teaching and training programmes. For more information on the position and application instructions see: http://tinyurl.com/y9396qdd PhD positions The main research goal of the two positions is to investigate behavioural and neuroscience principles of voice and face perception (identity and speech) in neurotypical populations as well as in populations with developmental person recognition deficits (i.e. phonagnosia and prosopagnosia). For more information on the position and application instructions see: http://tinyurl.com/ybvodeqo The Human Communication Research Group is currently based at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig (MPI-CBS; www.cbs.mpg.de/independent-research-groups/human-communication) and will be newly established at the TU Dresden. The TU Dresden offers an excellent, interdisciplinary scientific environment. Research will be carried out at the Department of Psychology of the TU Dresden, which houses a Neuroimaging Centre (http://www.nic-tud.de) The centre is equipped with a research-only 3-Tesla MRI machine, MRI-compatible eye tracking, EEG systems, and a neurostimulation unit including neuronavigaton, TMS and tDCS devices. All experimental facilities are supported by experienced physics and IT staff. For analyses with high computational demands, there is access to the TU Dresden high-performance computing clusters. There are also strong existing collaborations with the MPI-CBS in Leipzig involving 7 Tesla-MRI, Connectome scanner, and MEG data acquisitions. --- Prof. Dr. Katharina von Kriegstein Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences Stephanstr. 1A, 04103 Leipzig, Germany Technische Universität Dresden Bamberger Str. 7, 01187 Dresden, Germany Phone +49 (0) 341-9940-2476 http://www.cbs.mpg.de/independent-research-groups/human-communication https://twitter.com/kvonkriegstein

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New makeup spoofing dataset
by Antitza Dantcheva 26 Sep '17

26 Sep '17

New makeup spoofing dataset --------------------------------------------------------------- Link: http://www.antitza.com/makeup-datasets.html The Makeup Induced Face Spoofing ( MIFS ) dataset consists of 107 makeup-transformations taken from random YouTube makeup video tutorials. Each subject is attempting to spoof a target identity. Hence we provide three sets of face images: images of a subject before makeup; images of the same subject after makeup with the intention of spoofing; and images of the target subject who is being spoofed. Best regards, Antitza Dantcheva -------------------------- Researcher STARS Team INRIA Sophia Antipolis - Méditerranée 2004, route des Lucioles - BP 93 06902 Sophia Antipolis Cedex Phone: +33 4 97 15 53 47 Website: antitza.com

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Research Assistant Position at MPI-CBS, Germany
by Katharina von Kriegstein 06 Sep '17

06 Sep '17

We are seeking a part-time research assistant/lab manager to work in the Human Communication group led by Katharina von Kriegstein at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences (MPI CBS) in Leipzig, Germany. Research in the group focuses on the investigation of neural mechanisms of human communication using a broad spectrum of neuroscientific methods (functional and structural MRI, MEG, tDCS, TMS). Research involves typically developed populations as well as populations with developmental communication deficits (developmental dyslexia, autism spectrum disorder, phonagnosia, proposagnosia). The position will involve recruiting participants, running behavioural tests, assistance with data-acquisition in MRI, TMS and tDCS studies, assistance with data analyses, assistance with grant applications and literature searches, attending lab meetings, supervising undergraduate students in the lab and overseeing day-to-day lab operations. The candidate should have a university degree in psychology, neuroscience, or a related topic or dedicated vocational training (e.g. medical/psychological technical assistant). Strong organisational and communication skills, and an excellent command of the English and German language are essential. Experience with clinical populations (particularly autism spectrum disorder, developmental dyslexia) and/or research experience in experimental psychology or related disciplines would be advantageous. The position is initially for one year, with the possibility of an extension, and it is on a part-time (20 hours/week) basis. The ideal starting date is 15.10.2017. A later start is also possible. Remuneration is based on the payscale of the Max Planck Society. The Max Planck society is committed to increasing the number of individuals with disabilities in its workforce and therefore encourages applications from such qualified individuals. Please submit your application via our online system at http://www.cbs.mpg.de/vacancies (using subject heading “LM 17/17”) and include the following documents: • Personal statement (up to one page) • Curriculum vitae • Contact details of two referees • Certificates of academic qualifications Closing date for applications is the 10th September 2017. Contact for informal enquiries regarding the post: Prof. Dr. Katharina von Kriegstein (kriegstein(a)cbs.mpg.de) For more information about the group see: http://www.cbs.mpg.de/independent-research-groups/human-communication --- Katharina von Kriegstein Max Planck Research Group Leader Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences Stephanstr. 1A, 04103 Leipzig, Germany Professor of Cognitive and Clinical Neuroscience Humboldt University of Berlin Rudower Chaussee 18, 12489 Berlin, Germany Phone +49 (0) 341-9940-2476 http://www.cbs.mpg.de/independent-research-groups/human-communication https://twitter.com/kvonkriegstein

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Experiences with Noldus Facereader or iMotion
by Edwin Burns (Dr) 30 Aug '17

30 Aug '17

Dear all, Does anyone have any experience with Noldus Facereader or iMotion? Our lab is about to purchase one of these software packages, but we’d like to get some feedback from researchers that have had practical experience with either or both. We’ve got 3 questions: 1) What do you think of the software in general? 2) How is the technical support? Are they good at responding to any questions after purchase and readily help with any problems? 3) How well do they work in low light conditions? Any feedback on the above will be greatly appreciated. Thanks a lot in advance. ________________________________ CONFIDENTIALITY: This email is intended solely for the person(s) named and may be confidential and/or privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete it, notify us and do not copy, use, or disclose its contents. Towards a sustainable earth: Print only when necessary. Thank you.

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[Face and Gesture 2018]: Call for Workshop and Tutorial proposals
by Vitomir Štruc 22 Aug '17

22 Aug '17

** Apologies for cross-posting ** ************************************************************ FG 2018: CALL FOR WORKSHOPS AND TUTORIAL PROPOSALS IEEE Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition Xi’an China, May 15-19, 2018 http://www.fg2018.org/ Workshop proposals due: October 2, 2017 Tutorial proposals due: December 22, 2017 ************************************************************ ** ABOUT ** We invite workshop and tutorial proposals for the 2018 IEEE Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG 2018: http://www.fg2018.org/) in Xi’an China. Accepted workshops and tutorials will be held on either May 15 or May 19, 2018, in the same venue as the FG 2018 main conference. We solicit workshop and tutorial proposals on any topic of interests to the FG community. We especially encourage workshops relating to emerging new fields or new application domains of face and gesture analysis and synthesis. Workshop organizers with a strong track record in the field are strongly encouraged to submit a proposal. The tutorials should complement and enhance the scientific program of FG 2018 by providing authoritative and comprehensive overviews of growing themes that are of sufficient relevance with respect to the state-of-the-art and the conference topics. ** SUBMISSION ** Workshop and tutorial proposals should be send to FG 2018 Workshop and Tutorial Co-chairs, Vitomir Struc (vitomir.struc(a)fe.uni-lj.si) and Yingli Tian (ytian(a)ccny.cuny.edu) For details on the submission procedure, please visit: http://www.fg2018.org/ ** IMPORTANT DATES ** Workshop proposals due: October 2, 2017 Tutorial proposals due: December 22, 2017 Workshops and tutorials: May 15 and May 19, 2018 Vitomir Struc and Yingli Tian FG 2018 Workshop and Tutorial Co-chairs -- assoc.prof. Vitomir Štruc, PhD Laboratory of Artificial Perception, Systems and Cybernetics Faculty of Electrical Engineering University of Ljubljana Slovenia Tel: +386 1 4768 839 Fax: +386 1 4768 316 URL: luks.fe.uni-lj.si/nluks/people/vitomir-struc/ Program Co-chair: International Symposium on Image and Signal Processing and Analysis 2017 http://www.isispa.org/ Competition Co-chair: International Joint Conference on Biometrics 2017 http://www.ijcb2017.org/ Workshop and Tutorial Co-Chair: Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition 2018 http://www.fg2018.org/ Guest editor: Image and Vision Computing SI: Biometrics in the Wild https://www.journals.elsevier.com/image-and-vision-computing/call-for-paper…

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