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PhD opportunities in face processing at Bournemouth University, UK
by Sarah Bate 04 Apr '12

04 Apr '12

Dear all, I would very much appreciate it if you could circulate the following PhD opportunities to any interested students/lab members: A fully-funded PhD studentship at Bournemouth University (UK) is available, for a project entitled "Face facts: Why face processing skills should be improved in forensic and national security settings." The scholarship covers tuition fees for three years, and provides a £14,000 per year stipend. A number of Vice-Chancellor Doctoral (fee waive only) scholarships are also available, and I would be very happy to hear from potential candidates interested in carrying out investigations into face processing, particularly examining face recognition impairments in adults and children with prosopagnosia, autisitc spectrum disorder, or Moebius syndrome. Further information can be obtained by contacting me directly (sbate(a)bournemouth.ac.uk<mailto:sbate@bournemouth.ac.uk>). Many thanks for your help, Sarah This email is intended only for the person to whom it is addressed and may contain confidential information. If you have received this email in error, please notify the sender and delete this email, which must not be copied, distributed or disclosed to any other person. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Bournemouth University or its subsidiary companies. Nor can any contract be formed on behalf of the University or its subsidiary companies via email.

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Google Scholar pages
by Andy Young 30 Mar '12

30 Mar '12

Hi everyone, Some of you may not know that a few months ago Google Scholar introduced a facility that lets you create a personal page where you can list your publications and track citations. Like ResearcherID.com, but it covers a wider range of sources (e.g. books and chapters as well as journals) and offers citation alerts and so on. See the explanatory URL: http://scholar.google.co.uk/intl/en/scholar/citations.html I've already found this useful for a range of reasons. For example, it's a simpler way of finding out what someone has done than a literature search, it allows you to follow what former students and colleagues are up to, you can create alerts for when someone whose work interests you publishes a paper, or for when a key paper you're interested in gets cited. I also used it to create pages for Hadyn Ellis and Freda Newcombe, which may be helpful to anyone who is interested in where current cognitive and neuropsychological approaches came from. The downside seems to be that searching the content isn't very effective at the moment. For example, the keywords 'face perception', 'face recognition' and 'face processing' will find different sets of people. But since Google is behind this, I'm guessing this will be improved. Cheers, Andy Young.

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FW: Hands
by Charlie Frowd 27 Mar '12

27 Mar '12

Dear All. I have had an email (below) from a senior police officer from Cumbria who is interested in 3D modelling of hands. Does anyone have any experience of this, or know of anyone who has? Feel free to contact Richard directly. I think this application is for a court case. Regards, Charlie. ________________________________ From: San Jose, Richard [Richard.SanJose(a)cumbria.police.uk] Sent: 27 March 2012 13:50 To: Charlie Frowd Subject: Hands Charlie Are you aware or do any of your colleagues have knowledge of any research and or applications that we can use within policing to demonstrate position of a persons ‘hands’ on say a persons neck or bottle etc and also the ability to manipulate the fingers to show different positions etc? Richard San José 8808 Scientific Support Manager CID T: 01768 217350 M: 07970 122834 E: Richard.SanJose(a)cumbria.police.uk<mailto:Richard.SanJose@cumbria.police.uk> Find us on… W: www.cumbria.police.uk<http://www.cumbria.police.uk/> Facebook: www.facebook.com/cumbriapolice<http://www.facebook.com/cumbriapolice> Twitter: www.twitter.com/cumbriapolice<http://www.twitter.com/cumbriapolice> Police Headquarters, Carleton Hall, Penrith, Cumbria. CA10 2AU. ______________________________________________________ Cumbria Constabulary - Safer Stronger Cumbria _______________________________________________________ IMPORTANT NOTICE: This email, its content and any file transmitted with it, may be confidential/legally privileged, and are for the intended recipient only. It may contain information protected by law. Any unauthorised copying, disclosure or other processing of this information may be unlawful and may be a criminal offence. If you have received this email in error please advise Cumbria Constabulary on 101 or via email return, and delete this email and any attachments immediately. Any opinions expressed in this document are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of Cumbria Constabulary. This footnote also confirms that this email message has been swept by MIMEsweeper for the presence of computer viruses. _______________________________________________________ P Please, consider your environmental responsibility. Before printing this e-mail ask yourself: "Do I need a hard copy?"

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Call For Papers: Workshop on Context Based Affect Recognition CBAR12
by zakia hammal 19 Mar '12

19 Mar '12

***************************************************************************** CBAR 2012: CALL FOR PAPERS SocialCom12 1st International Workshop on CONTEXT BASED AFFECT RECOGNITION http://contextbasedaffectrecog.blogspot.com/ Submission Deadline: May 11th, 2012 ***************************************************************************** The first workshop on "Context Based Affect Recognition" CBAR12 (http://contextbasedaffectrecog.blogspot.com/) wil be held in conjunction with the 2012 ASE/IEEE International Conference on Social Computing SocialCom2012 (http://www.asesite.org/conferences/socialcom/2012/) ----------------------------- Workshop Description ----------------------------- The past 20 years has witnessed an increasing number of efforts for automatic recognition of human affect using facial, vocal, body as well as physiological signals. Several research areas could benefit from such systems: interactive teaching systems, which allow teachers to be aware of student stress and inattention; accident prevention, such as driver fatigue detection; medical tools for automatic diagnosis and monitoring such as the diagnosis of cognitive disorder (e.g. depression, anxiety and autism) and pain assessment. However, despite the significant amount of research on automatic affect recognition, the current state of the art has not yet achieved the long-term objective of robust affect recognition, particularly context based affect analysis and interpretation. Indeed, it is well known that affect production is accordingly displayed in a particular context, such as the undergoing task, the other people involved, the identity and natural expressiveness of the individual. The context tells us which expressions are more likely to occur and thus can bias the classifier toward the most likely/relevant classes. Without context, even humans may misunderstand the observed facial expression. By tackling the issues of context based affect recognition, i.e. careful study of contextual information and its relevance in domain-specific applications, its representation, and its effect on the performance of existing affect recognition methods, we make a step towards real-world, real-time affect recognition. ----------------------------- Workshop Objectives ----------------------------- Context related affect analysis is still an unexplored area for automatic affect recognition given the difficulty of modeling this variable and of its introduction in the classification process. Unconsciously, humans evaluate situations based on environment and social parameters when recognizing emotions in social interactions. Contextual information helps us interpret and respond to social interactions. The purpose of the workshop is to explore the benefits and drawbacks of integrating context on affect production, interpretation and recognition. We wish to investigate what methodologies can be applied to include contextual information in emotion corpora, how it ought to be represented, what contextual information are relevant (i.e. is it domain specific or not?), and how it will improve the performance of existing frameworks for affect recognition. The workshop is relevant in the study of naturalistic social interactions since contextual information cannot be discounted in doing automatic analysis of human behavior. Embedding contextual information, such as culture, provides a different flavor to each interaction, and makes for an interesting scientific study. Such kinds of analysis lead us to consider real-world parameters and complexities in affect recognition, especially in developing human-centric systems. For the workshop weinvite scientists working in related areas of affective computing, ambient computing, machine learning, psychology and cognitive behavior to share their expertise and achievements in the emerging field of automatic and context based affect analysis and recognition. ----------------------------- Workshop Topics ----------------------------- New and unpublished papers on, but not limited to, the following topics: · Context source detection. · Context interpretation and analysis. · Context based affect production · Context based facial affect recognition · Context based vocal affect recognition · Context based gesture affect recognition · Context based multimodal fusion. · Applications (Context related affect applications). For details concerning the workshop program, paper submission guidelines, etc. please visit our workshop website at: http://contextbasedaffectrecog.blogspot.com/ Best regards, Zakia Hammal Zakia Hammal, PhD The Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University http://www.ri.cmu.edu/ Human-Machine Interaction Facial Expression Recognition Visual Perception http://www.pitt.edu/~emotion/ZakiaHammal.html

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FW: Post-Doc Position in the Visual Perception of Gaze at University of Sydney
by Peter Hancock 19 Mar '12

19 Mar '12

A position is now available for a Postdoctoral Research Associate to investigate gaze perception and adaptation as part of a scientific team based within the School of Psychology at the University of Sydney. The position is funded by a Discovery Project from the Australian Research Council (ARC) awarded to Professor Colin Clifford in collaboration with Dr Andy Calder from the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge, UK. Full details can be found by copying and pasting the following into your web browser: http://usyd.nga.net.au/cp/index.cfm?event=jobs.checkJobDetailsNewApplicatio… -- COLIN W G CLIFFORD | Professorial Research Fellow School of Psychology | Faculty of Science THE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY T +61 2 9351 6810 | F +61 2 9351 2603 -- The Sunday Times Scottish University of the Year 2009/2010 The University of Stirling is a charity registered in Scotland, number SC 011159.

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Iraqi faces
by Rachel Robbins 05 Mar '12

05 Mar '12

Hi everyone, does anyone know of a collection of Iraqi faces? Thanks, Rachel -- You make a living by what you get; you make a life by what you give. -Winston Churchill.

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Seminar event
by Debbie Riby 02 Mar '12

02 Mar '12

For anyone interested in face perception within / between developmental disorders: You, or someone you know, might be interested in the following seminar information, therefore please distribute this information as widely as possible Thanks Debbie Seminar Title: Developmental Disorders: co-morbidity, subgroups and variability On Friday 29th June 2012 there is a one day workshop which discusses co-morbidity, variability and sub-groups within neurodevelopmental disorders being hosted at Kingston University. This workshop is part of a seminar series entitled 'Neuro-developmental disorders: Exploring sensitive methods of assessment across development' which explores recent findings in neurodevelopmental disorders, with a particular focus on 1) the new research tools and methods used, 2) discussion of the wider applicability of these new tools and methods across different neurodevelopmental disorders, 3) identifying future challenges or controversies when studying neurodevelopmental disorders using a developmental approach. The seminar series hopes to bring together specialists and established researchers as well as post-graduates, post-doctoral researchers and early career researchers in neurodevelopmental disorders. The series is sponsored by the British Psychological Society and the Williams syndrome Foundation UK and is being organised by Dr Jo van Herwegen, Dr Emily Farran and Dr Debbie Riby. In total three seminars will be held around the UK between June 2012 and April 2013. More information about the seminar series can be obtained from: http://www.neurodevelopmentaldisorders-seminarseries.co.uk/ Dr Debbie Riby School of Psychology Newcastle University Ridley Building 1 Framlington Place Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 7RU deborah.riby(a)ncl.ac.uk http://www.ncl.ac.uk/psychology/staff/profile/deborah.riby#tab_profile

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time course of adaptation
by Peter Hancock 26 Feb '12

26 Feb '12

Dear all, over the years I have tried various face adaptation experiments, with mostly incoherent results, and watched puzzled as everyone else publishes neat little findings. I began to suspect strong temporal effects and we have finally managed to publish some results demonstrating this with adaptation to antifaces: almost all the effect derives from the first few trials; it is as if whatever is adapting gets 'tired' after that. It may be that others have picked up on this already but I figured it might be useful to draw attention to the finding in case there are those who, like me, are baffled by otherwise strange results. http://www.frontiersin.org/perception_science/10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00019/abst… Peter Peter Hancock Professor, Deputy Head of Psychology, School of Natural Sciences University of Stirling FK9 4LA, UK phone 01786 467675 fax 01786 467641 http://www.psychology.stir.ac.uk/staff/phancock -- The Sunday Times Scottish University of the Year 2009/2010 The University of Stirling is a charity registered in Scotland, number SC 011159.

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morphed MONKEY faces?
by Gyula Kovacs 24 Feb '12

24 Feb '12

Dear all, does anyone of you know a stimulus database where i could get a larger number (in the range of dozens) morphed MONKEY (Macaca mullata is the best) face-pairs? thanks a lot Gyula Kovacs --- Gyula Kovacs Dept.Cognitive Sciences, Prof. Budapest Univ. Technology and Economics Hungary H-1111 Stoczek u 3 III.318 T:0036-1463-1176 F:00361463-1072 --------------- Inst. Psychology Univ. Regensburg Gebäude PT, Zi. 4.0.35 Universitätsstraße 31, 93053 Regensburg, D T:0049-941-943-3852; Mobile:0049178 1725506 Fax:0049 941 943 3233

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Full front and 3/4 profile pictures of cars
by Benoît MONTALAN 21 Feb '12

21 Feb '12

Hi everyone, I am conducting a study on gaze direction and I need full front and 3/4 profile pictures of cars (control stimuli). Does anybody know where I can find such stimuli ? Thanks for your help Benoît Montalan ___ Post-doctorant Laboratoire de Neurosciences Cognitives Social Group Ecole Normale Supérieure Département d'Études Cognitives 29, rue d'Ulm 75005 Paris, France http://www.grezes.ens.fr/people.php http://sites.google.com/site/benoitmontalanperso/home Une messagerie gratuite, garantie à vie et des services en plus, ça vous tente ? Je crée ma boîte mail www.laposte.net

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