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CBAR@ACII 2017 CFP: 5th International Workshop on Context Based Affect Recognition @ ACII 2017
by zakia hammal 16 Jul '17

16 Jul '17

Apologies for cross-posting *********************************************************************************** CBAR 2017: CALL FOR PAPERS 5th International Workshop on CONTEXT BASED AFFECT RECOGNITION https://cbar2017.blogspot.ca/2017/04/the-5th-international-workshop-on.html Submission Deadline: July 17th, 2017 *********************************************************************************** The 5th International Workshop on Context Based Affect Recognition (CBAR 2017) will be held in conjunction with ACII 2017 in October 2017 in San Antonio, Texas – http://acii2017.org/ For details concerning the workshop program, paper submission, and guidelines please visit our workshop website at: https://cbar2017.blogspot.ca/2017/04/the-5th-international-workshop-on.html Best regards, Zakia Hammal Zakia Hammal, PhD The Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University http://www.ri.cmu.edu/ http://www.pitt.edu/~emotion/ZakiaHammal.html

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Postdoctoral Position, University of Hong Kong: Understanding eye movements in cognitive tasks
by Janet Hsiao 07 Jul '17

07 Jul '17

*Postdoctoral Position, University of Hong Kong: Understanding eye movements in cognitive tasks* Applicants are invited for appointment as a *Post-doctoral Fellow *in the Attention Brain and Cognition Lab at the Department of Psychology, to commence as soon as possible for a period of 1 year, with the possibility of renewal up to 3 years. Applicants must have a Ph.D. degree in Cognitive Psychology, Cognitive Science, or related fields. Preference will be given to those with experience in running eye movement experiments and eye movement data analysis, or with experience in using machine learning methods to understand human cognition. The appointee will work with Dr. Janet Hsiao (Department of Psychology, University of Hong Kong), in collaboration with Dr. Antoni Chan (Department of Computer Science, City University of Hong Kong) and Dr. Sherry Chan (Department of Psychiatry, University of Hong Kong), on projects related to using a hidden Markov model (HMM) based approach (EMHMM, the Matlab toolbox is available here: http://visal.cs.cityu.edu.hk/research/emhmm/) to analyze eye movement data in cognitive tasks. Information about the research in the lab can be obtained at http://abc.psy.hku.hk/. For more information about the position, please contact Dr. Janet Hsiao at jhsiao(a)hku.hk. Dr. Hsiao will be available for a short meeting during July 13-17 at APCV in Taiwan and during July 26-29 at Cog Sci in London. A highly competitive salary commensurate with qualifications and experience will be offered, in addition to annual leave and medical benefits. Applicants should send a completed application form together with a letter of application, an up-to-date C.V. including academic qualifications, research experience, publications, and at least three letters of reference to Dr. Janet Hsiao at jhsiao(a)hku.hk, with the subject line “Post-doctoral position”. Application forms (341/1111) can be downloaded at http://www.hku.hk/apptunit/form-ext.doc. Further particulars can be obtained at http://jobs.hku.hk/. *Review of applications will start on Aug. 1 and continue until* *the position is filled*. The University thanks applicants for their interest, but advises that only candidates shortlisted for interviews will be notified of the application result.

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Position available for PhD student at the FSU Jena, Germany
by Gyula Kovacs 06 Jul '17

06 Jul '17

The TMS Laboratory of the Dept. Biol. Psychol. and Cognitive Neurosci. at the Inst. Psychology, FSU, Jena, Germany is searching for a PhD student on a project on the identity-specific information acquisition about faces and on the functions of the ventral visual pathway. What we expect from applicants: MSc or equivalent in psychology, biology, cognitive neurosciences or any related discipline. Interest in pursuing a scientific career. Experience in brain stimulation techniques (TMS or tDCS, tACS) as well as in functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and with Matlab are preferred. The PhD position is a three years appointment and the salary is according to the German TV-L salary system on the level of 65 % Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiter. Starting date is flexible, the position is available from 01.09.2017. Interested candidates should provide a 1 page statement of research interest, copy of CV, publication list and names and contact details of 2 referees. Application deadline: 31.07.2017 Further information: http://www.cogsci.uni-jena.de/crbst_6.html <http://www.cogsci.uni-jena.de/crbst_6.html> ---- Gyula Kovács Institute of Psychology Friedrich-Schiller-University of Jena Leutragraben 1, 07743 Jena, Germany Tel: 03641945936 http://www.cogsci.uni-jena.de/ <http://www.cogsci.uni-jena.de/>

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photo comparison
by Peter Hancock 05 Jul '17

05 Jul '17

Dear all, apologies if you regard this as noise, but I decided to send on this post from a fellow academic, though I cropped out the relevant faces to save bandwidth. There may be some facial comparison experts on the list who would like to have a look. My approach would be wisdom of the crowds, since there can never be certainty. Peter. Dear face-research group, Please forgive this unsolicited note. An academic colleague at UCL thought you might be able to advise with regard to the two women in the attached pictures? Whether the woman standing to the left of the seated man in uniform (looking at the picture) is the same person as the married woman in the other image? I hope you don't mind my writing but it would be reassuring to know. The married woman in the twosome is Edith Thompson. My book on her was published by Hamish Hamilton and Penguin in 1988 / 1990, and again in 2001. I am currently working on a digital database about the case and the 1920s. The photograph of the threesome derives from her younger brother's estate but does not identify any of the people in it. If it turned out that the young woman in the threesome is indeed Edith Thompson, assuming that it is possible to have any kind of near-certainty in face recognition, that would throw a valuable light on her tragically short life; and possibly open up a new area of research. Thank you for bearing with me and apologies again for thus trespassing on your time. I will of course fully understand if you are too busy to deal with this query. Best wishes, René Weis <r.weis(a)ucl.ac.uk> Peter Hancock Professor, Deputy Head of Psychology, Faculty of Natural Sciences University of Stirling FK9 4LA, UK phone 01786 467675 fax 01786 467641 http://stir.ac.uk/190 http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6025-7068 http://www.researcherid.com/rid/A-4633-2009 Psychology at Stirling: 100% 4* Impact, REF2014 Come and study Face Perception at the University of Stirling! Our unique MSc in the Psychology of Faces is open for applications. For more information see http://www.stir.ac.uk/postgraduate/programme-information/prospectus/psychol… [highly cited 2016]

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grants from ESRC/BBSRC
by Jodie Davies-Thompson 04 Jul '17

04 Jul '17

Dear fellow face researchers, Due to mixed messages from the grant bodies, I am trying to get an idea of how successful grants on face recognition have been with ESRC versus BBSRC - particularly applications based on face recognition abilities / prosopagnosia which did NOT include any neuroimaging (note: MRC is not possible to apply for in my case). If you have had some experience with either of these, I would be *hugely* grateful if you could email me privately (j.davies-thompson(a)nottingham.ac.uk) with which grant body you were successful with (or perhaps got turned down from because it was not ’social’ or ‘biological’ enough), and the general topic that your grant was on. Many thanks! Jodie This message and any attachment are intended solely for the addressee and may contain confidential information. If you have received this message in error, please send it back to me, and immediately delete it. Please do not use, copy or disclose the information contained in this message or in any attachment. Any views or opinions expressed by the author of this email do not necessarily reflect the views of the University of Nottingham. This message has been checked for viruses but the contents of an attachment may still contain software viruses which could damage your computer system, you are advised to perform your own checks. Email communications with the University of Nottingham may be monitored as permitted by UK legislation.

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Models of Human Face Perception PhD at Stirling
by Peter Hancock 04 Jul '17

04 Jul '17

PhD Studentship: Models of Human Face Perception We have a studentship available for UK/EU citizens to work in the Face Research Lab with Professor Peter Hancock. The aim is to work on a computer model of human face perception and recognition. Such a model should show characteristics of human perception, for example being very good at recognising familiar faces but rather poor with unfamiliar ones, yet still able to derive things like age, sex, race and expression. The student will join a much larger project, FACER2VM, where the aim is to improve the state of the art in computer face recognition 'in the wild'. Working with two postdocs who are studying human face recognition, the aim of this studentship is to further our understanding of how we may do it; it is explicitly not a hard-core, squeeze the best you can out of a deep neural network project. The successful candidate will need good programming skills, for example in Matlab or Python. Ideally they will already also be familiar with the psychology of human face perception. The studentship is available for three-years, and includes a tax-free stipend of approximately £14,553 p.a. Tuition fees will be met by the University at the home/EU rate. Subject to satisfactory progress review at the end of the first year, the studentship will be renewed for a second year and thereafter for a third year. The studentship will have an anticipated registration date of 1 October 2017. Informal enquiries to Peter Hancock, pjbh1(a)stir.ac.uk<mailto:pjbh1@stir.ac.uk> or Linda Cullen (linda.cullen(a)stir.ac.uk<mailto:linda.cullen@stir.ac.uk> Tel: +44 (0) 1786 466854. Please submit a CV and research proposal via the online application, selecting 'Research Degree in Psychology': http://www.stir.ac.uk/postgraduate/how-to-apply/ Once you have started the application process, please email research.admissions(a)stir.ac.uk<mailto:research.admissions@stir.ac.uk> to ask to be exempted from the 'find-a-supervisor' process. Closing date: 28th July Peter Hancock Professor, Deputy Head of Psychology, Faculty of Natural Sciences University of Stirling FK9 4LA, UK phone 01786 467675 fax 01786 467641 http://stir.ac.uk/190 http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6025-7068 http://www.researcherid.com/rid/A-4633-2009 Psychology at Stirling: 100% 4* Impact, REF2014 Come and study Face Perception at the University of Stirling! Our unique MSc in the Psychology of Faces is open for applications. For more information see http://www.stir.ac.uk/postgraduate/programme-information/prospectus/psychol… [highly cited 2016]

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Unique PhD opportunity in Face Recognition at UNSW Sydney
by David White 30 Jun '17

30 Jun '17

Unique PhD opportunity in Face Recognition at UNSW Sydney **Deadline for Expressions of Interest 20 July!** ===================================================================================== We are seeking a talented and enthusiastic PhD student to join our face recognition team at UNSW Sydney. The position is open to both Australian and International applicants, and we are inviting applications from graduates in all areas of cognitive science. The PhD will be funded by UNSW's Scientia Scholarship scheme, which is seeking scholars with a strong commitment to making a difference in the world. Successful applicants will be funded for 4 years with a stipend of $40k per annum (plus an additional $10k p/a travel and support package). In addition, international students will be awarded a tuition fee scholarship for 4 years. UNSW Scientia Scholars will also benefit from enhanced professional and career development opportunities, for more information visit: http://www.2025.unsw.edu.au/apply/ The successful applicant will be supervised by cognitive psychologists David White, Richard Kemp and Alice Towler from the UNSW Forensic Psychology Group (http://forensic.psy.unsw.edu.au/) They will conduct original research that complements our ongoing interest in people with superior abilities in face identification. Our group has many active research partnerships with leading academics as well as government and industry experts in this field, and we expect the research project to benefit from these linkages. We invite applications from graduates in psychology and those with complementary backgrounds in other areas of cognitive science. A computer science background is not essential. We are also very interested to hear from applicants with experience in government and private research sectors. For more information on the project, and to submit your Expression of Interest please visit the following webpage (before 20 July only): http://www.2025.unsw.edu.au/apply/scientia-phd-scholarships/fusing-human-ex… For informal queries please contact: david.white(a)unsw.edu.au

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2nd CFP: IHCI 2017 - Intelligent Human Computer Interaction (DL: 30/6)
by Catherine Achard 15 Jun '17

15 Jun '17

2nd Call For Papers Apologies for unintended cross-posting ================================================================================= IHCI 2017: 9th International Conference on Intelligent Human-Computer Interaction Evry, France, December 11-13, 2017, http://ihci2017.sciencesconf.org ================================================================================= The 9th international conference on Intelligent Human Computer Interaction (IHCI 2017) will be held in Evry, near Paris, France, from 11 to 13 of December 2017. IHCI allows researchers and practitioners to exchange on recent results in the area of human-computer interaction, related technologies (including signal processing, multimodal analysis, artificial intelligence, machine learning and cognitive modelling) and their applications. The conference will bring together researchers from academia, industry and research organizations from various disciplines, around theoretical, practical and application-oriented contributions. This year, along with usual topics, IHCI 2017 will focus on human cognition modelling for interaction, including human cognitive process modelling (for task analysis...), human-robot interaction (for companion robots...), cognition for interaction in virtual worlds (for autonomous conversational agents...). Keynotes will be given by : - Pr. Alain Berthoz, Honorary Professor at Collège de France, member of the French Academy of Science and Academy of Technology, on "Simplexity and vicariance. On human cognition principles for man-machine interaction" - Pr. Mohamed Chetouani, Professor at Pierre and Marie Curie University, France, on "Interpersonal Human-Human and Human-Robot Interactions", - Pr. Antti Oulasvirta, Associate Professor at Aalto University, Finland, on "Can Machines Design? Optimizing User Interfaces for Human Performance". The IHCI topics include but are not limited to: Human Cognition Modelling: - Cognitive models of intelligence - Modelling perceptual processes - Modelling of learning and thinking - Modelling of memory - Cognitive task analysis User adaptation and Personalization: - Adaptive learning - Affective computing for adaptive interaction - Reinforcement learning Brain Computer Interfaces: - Brain computer integration - Brain activity understanding for interaction Machine Perception of Humans: - Speech detection and recognition - Natural language processing - Face and emotion detection - Body sensors and communication - Gesture recognition - Human motion tracking Tactile interfaces: - Haptics fundaments - Haptic feedback for interaction - Haptic feedback for robot collaboration Human-Robot Interaction and collaboration: - Collaborative learning - Collaborative systems - Temporal coordination modelling Applications: - Natural User Interfaces - Human-robot interaction - Virtual and augmented reality - Remote and face-to-face collaboration - Embodied conversational agents - Mobile interfaces - Interface design for accessibility and rehabilitation - Interaction and cognition for education - Health - Serious games --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **NEW:* The conference proceedings will be published as an open access volume in the Springer series Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) and indexed in the ISI Conference Proceedings Citation Index, Scopus, EI Engineering Index, Google Scholar, DBLP, etc. Papers can be either long papers (10 to 12 pages) or short papers (4 to 6 pages), and must conform to the LNCS templates (see the guidelines for authors). * --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Papers must be written in English and describe original work that has not been published and is not under review elsewhere. In order to enforce blind reviewing, papers must be made anonymous before submitting (by removing the author’s names and institution from the header). Important dates: - Submission deadline: *June 30, 2017 (EXTENDED) * - Decision notification: September 10, 2017 (tentative) - Final version due: October 1st, 2017 Patrick Horain (Telecom SudParis), Chair Catherine Achard (Université Pierre et Marie Curie), Co-Chair Malik Mallem (Université Evry Val d'Essonne), Co-Chair

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Fw: Professional query!
by Catriona.Havard 07 Jun '17

07 Jun '17

Dear all I hope you don't mind me forwarding this query from a friend of mine who is a Sleep Clinical Physiologist. If anyone can answers her query that would be great. Do you know if there is a standard system which can be used to measure an individual’s facial profile, either manually or using software? Our medical photography team take photos annually of patients using non-invasive ventilation, who may experience facial changes related to mask use, and we want to find a way to quantify any changes over time. There are patients where we can subjectively see a change, but we’re looking to find a way to assess this objectively. Looking in the literature, we can’t find anything for measuring points on the face - there are lots of papers measuring skull landmarks on cephalometric x-rays, but we’re looking for something we can do from photos to avoid irradiating patients if we can! It sounds like the sort of thing that must already exist, but we can’t seem to find it. I wondered if there might be anything that you use in the facial recognition field that we might be able to apply? Many thanks, Trina Dr Catriona Havard Senior Lecturer in Psychology The Open University Walton Hall Milton Keynes MK7 6AA Tel: 01908 654554 To see a selection of my papers click here To find out about about our new module Counselling and Forensic Psychology: Investigating crime and therapy click here<http://dd310.madorbad.org/>

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Vision Research Special Issue: Face perception: Experience, models and neural mechanisms
by Oruc, Ipek 05 Jun '17

05 Jun '17

Call for papers: Vision Research Special Issue Vision Research SI: Face perception: Experience, models and neural mechanisms Editors: Ipek Oruc, Benjamin Balas, Michael S. Landy Scope: Faces are ecologically significant stimuli central to social interaction and communication. Human observers possess a remarkable ability to recall great numbers of unique facial identities encountered in a lifetime. Observers can individuate faces seemingly effortlessly based on minor differences across exemplars, yet remain robust against tremendous variation across different images of the same identity. For these and other reasons face recognition is considered to be a form of specialized perceptual expertise. The last few decades have seen a flurry of research activity delineating the limits to this expertise. For example, face expertise fails to generalize to faces of unfamiliar races (“the other-race effect”) and to faces viewed in the inverted orientation (“the face inversion effect”). Despite this tremendous progress identifying the limits of specialized face perception, there is little consensus over the origins of this specialization and the forces that shape this extraordinary skill. Some researchers emphasize genetic and innate contributions. Others stress the key role played by experience during sensitive periods of early development. Yet others argue that face expertise is a dynamic ability continually reshaped by experience well into adulthood. The primary goal of this special issue is to bring together current research on this topic. Questions we would like to address include but are not limited to: What are the main contributors to face expertise: experiencing a large number of individual exemplars even if only during brief encounters (e.g., unfamiliar faces in a bus) or prolonged experience with a small number of faces (e.g., family interactions)? Can the other-race effect be eliminated (or even reversed)? If so, is this possible during adulthood or limited to early development? How does experience alter perceptual representations of faces and neural mechanisms underlying face recognition? We seek research papers that address the emergence and maintenance of face expertise that span the entire life cycle from development to adulthood as well as aging. Behavioural, neuroimaging, naturalistic observation and modelling approaches are all welcome. Deadline for submission is September 15, 2017. Prospective authors are encouraged to contact one of the editors (ipor(a)mail.ubc.ca<mailto:ipor@mail.ubc.ca>, bjbalas(a)gmail.com<mailto:bjbalas@gmail.com>, landy(a)nyu.edu<mailto:landy@nyu.edu>) with a tentative title prior to submission. For further information and author instructions: https://www.journals.elsevier.com/vision-research/call-for-papers/face-perc… _______________________________________________ Ipek Oruc Assistant Professor Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences University of British Columbia Rm 4440 - 818 West 10th Avenue Vancouver, BC V5Z 1M9 email: ipor(a)mail.ubc.ca<mailto:ipor@mail.ubc.ca> URL: http://www.visualcognition.ca/ipek/

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