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Fully-funded PhD studentship
by Changhong Liu 25 Jan '23

25 Jan '23

Dear face researchers, We are recruiting a PhD student for a project on embodied social cognition and social anxiety using VR and EEG. The studentship is fully funded along with stipend support by Bournemouth University. The application deadline is *5 Feb*; and the project will start in late April 2023. Here is the link: https://www.bournemouth.ac.uk/study/courses/phd-studentship-embodied-face-p…<https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bourn…> Please feel free to forward this information to anyone who might be interested. Thanks! Kind regards, Chang -- Prof Chang Hong Liu Department of Psychology Bournemouth University Fern Barrow, Poole BH12 5BB ________________________________ BU is a Disability Confident Employer and has signed up to the Mindful Employer charter. Information about the accessibility of University buildings can be found on the BU AccessAble webpages. 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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[JOBS] Two permanent faculty posts @UGlasgow (Social Interaction Research)
by Rachael Jack 11 Jan '23

11 Jan '23

Dear colleagues *Apologies for any cross-posting* Please share widely in your communities. REMINDER We are delighted to offer TWO permanent faculty posts in Social Interaction Research in the School of Psychology and Neuroscience at the University of Glasgow, Scotland. All grades available. Deadline 6 February. World-wide famous research-rich environment, big tech, interdisciplinary teams, new opportunities, exciting times. https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/CVN960/professor-senior-lecturer-lecturer-resear… https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/CUR440/senior-lecturer-research-and-teaching Questions? Please contact rachael.jack(a)glasgow.ac.uk<mailto:rachael.jack@glasgow.ac.uk> directly. Best, Prof. Rachael E. Jack, Ph.D. Professor of Computational Social Cognition School of Psychology & Neuroscience University of Glasgow Scotland, G12 8QB +44 (0) 141 330 5087 [cid:11880D74-6D34-4656-B001-CB0A0540DFA1]

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Funded PhD position - Prosopagnosia and other neurodevelopmental conditions
by Ed Burns 15 Dec '22

15 Dec '22

Hi colleagues, I have a funded PhD position available examining visual perception (including faces) in developmental prosopagnosia and other neurodevelopmental conditions (e.g., developmental coordination disorder, dyslexia, aphantasia). Please circulate with any of your graduates who may be interested in such a PhD, telling them to get touch with me at burnse(a)edgehill.ac.uk The tax free salary is £17,668 per annum and the closing date for applications is the 9th of January. This opportunity is open to applicants worldwide. Best wishes, Edwin.

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Society for Affective Science 2023 Conference
by ATKINSON, ANTHONY P. 02 Nov '22

02 Nov '22

Dear Colleagues, I am writing to you regarding the Society for Affective Science (SAS) and its annual meeting, which will be held in-person from Thursday, March 30 - Saturday, April 1, 2023 in Long Beach, California, USA. On behalf of the SAS membership and outreach committee, I encourage you and your trainees to attend. SAS is an excellent venue for learning about what’s new in affective science and presenting research. The interdisciplinary nature of the program is also uniquely beneficial. In the call for abstracts below, you will find highlights of the upcoming meeting and opportunities for you and your trainees to submit abstracts for presentation. Please let me know if you have any questions. I hope you will join us in Long Beach, CA at the 2023 SAS meeting! All the best, Anthony Atkinson ------------ Prof Anthony Atkinson Department of Psychology Durham University Durham, UK https://www.durham.ac.uk/staff/a-p-atkinson/ https://atkinsonap.github.io/ ---------- SAS 2023 Call for Abstracts - Submissions Open The Society for Affective Science (SAS) is delighted to open its call for abstracts to be considered for the 2023 Annual Conference. The conference will be held in an in-person format between Thursday, March 30 – Saturday, April 1, 2023 in Long Beach, California, USA. The conference will once again feature Preconference sessions and these will take place on Thursday, March 30th, 2023 prior to the opening of the Conference. We encourage submissions from authors at all career stages. There is no fee to submit an abstract. The conference registration fees will be announced soon. Abstract Submissions – Main Conference Four submission types: Note: Each presenting author may submit a maximum of TWO abstracts, which have to be submitted to two different tracks (Poster: New Idea, Poster: New Results, Flash Talk, and Symposium). Abstracts submitted by the same presenter must reflect two different research projects. There is no abstract limit for non-presenting authors. · Poster: New Idea - Showcasing a new research idea, complete with planned experimental design(s) and analysis approach(es). Data are not required, but pilot data for proof of concept are welcome. Work already pre-registered in another platform is admissible. New theoretical contributions are also welcome in this category. · Poster: New Results - Showcasing the latest findings in affective science based on quantitative and/or qualitative data collected and analyzed. We welcome and encourage preliminary work! · Flash Talk - Showcasing the latest findings based on quantitative and/or qualitative data already collected and analyzed or new theoretical contributions in affective science. Both junior and senior researchers are eligible to deliver a flash talk. · Symposium - Set of talks providing an in-depth perspective on individual research areas/topics within affective science. Sessions can be comprised of 3 talks with a discussant or 4 talks. All symposia must be chaired. Advancing Interdisciplinary Science In line with our goal to facilitate interdisciplinarity, we welcome submissions from across all domains of affective science, including anthropology, business, computer science, cultural studies, economics, education, geography, history, integrative medicine, law, linguistics, literature, neuroscience, philosophy, political science, psychiatry, psychology, public health, sociology, theater, and more. CLICK HERE TO VISIT SAS WEBSITE FOR FULL DETAILS<https://t.e2ma.net/click/j377cj/b9ej8eib/zv4kc3b> Abstract Submissions - Preconference This year, SAS is hosting 3 preconferences: Positive Emotions, Intergroup Emotions, and Emotion Regulation on Thursday, March 30, 2023. · Positive Emotions Preconference will feature the latest interdisciplinary research on positive affect. The day will explore a wide range of research related to positive emotions in educational, clinical, social, organizational, consumer, and cross-cultural contexts. Additionally, the preconference will include an interactive poster session and conclude with a final session on the future of positive emotion research. Flash talk and poster submission will be accepted. · Intergroup Emotions Preconference will focus on the role of emotions in political processes, including political polarization, voting, collective action, political violence, and upholding democracy. With the political turmoil that has risen in the last decade across the world, understanding the impact that emotions have on political processes is paramount. Flash talk and poster submission will be accepted. · Emotion Regulation Preconference will feature emotion regulation research from various disciplines and topics, consider emotion regulation from different perspectives, and share exciting new findings and methods. It will feature a range of formats from short talks to panel discussions to breakout groups. Our goal is to have fun, build connections among those interested in emotion regulation (faculty, post-docs, students), and share ideas about new directions in emotion regulation research. Invited talks only. CLICK HERE TO VISIT SAS WEBSITE FOR FULL DETAILS<https://society-for-affective-science.org/conferences/2023-sas-annual-confe…> Submission Deadlines Conference: Abstracts must be submitted by Monday, November 22, 2022 at 11:59 p.m. Baker Island Time (BIT; UTC-12 — last time zone on earth) to be considered for inclusion in the program. Preconference: Abstracts must be submitted by Monday, January 16, 2023 at 11:59 p.m. Baker Island Time (BIT; UTC-12 — last time zone on earth) to be considered for inclusion in the program. Submission Review Process Abstracts will be evaluated based on scholarly merit by a double-blind peer review process with our Abstract Review Board. · For the main conference: Notification of acceptance or rejection of abstracts will be e-mailed to the corresponding author by mid-January 2023. · For the preconference: Notification of acceptance or rejection of abstracts will be e-mailed to the corresponding author by mid-February 2023. · Presenters must be the first author on the submitted abstract. All presenters must register and pay to attend the meeting.

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Lecturer position in Psychology - University of Aberdeen (UK)
by Manassi, Mauro 27 Oct '22

27 Oct '22

Dear all, A lecturer position is available at the School of Psychology, University of Aberdeen (UK). The detailed application procedure can be found here (deadline: November 13th): https://www.abdnjobs.co.uk/vacancy/lectureship-in-psychology-503167.html (see details below) Best wishes, Mauro ---------------------------------------------- Mauro Manassi Lecturer School of Psychology William Guild Building, Room F11 University of Aberdeen, UK https://www.mauromanassi.com/ Lectureship in Psychology As part of the continued development of the School of Psychology at the University of Aberdeen, applications are invited from candidates who have a track record of outstanding independent research, as evidenced by high quality publications in leading academic journals and have interests which extend the School’s existing research strengths. Research in the School of Psychology falls broadly into three themes: (1) Perception & Attention, (2) Cognition, and (3) Social Cognition. Although each staff member is assigned to a single theme, there is extensive collaboration and overlap of interests within the School. The School houses state-of-the-art facilities to support world-leading research across these three themes, including extensive eye tracking facilities (both lab-based and mobile), EEG systems, TMS systems, psychophysics laboratories and motion tracking facilities. We have a particular research expertise on the perceptual, cognitive and social dimensions of human behaviour, drawing on research across the three themes. We are looking to build upon our existing strengths in this domain, with a goal to model mechanisms of human interaction through the application of behavioural science, artificial intelligence and neuroscience techniques. We welcome applicants with expertise that can extend and enhance our research portfolio, including, but not limited to, the use of data science techniques such as machine learning, deep learning and computational modelling to advance psychological research. Salaries will be at the appropriate point on the Grade 7 scale (£43,414 - £51,805 per annum), with placement according to qualifications and experience. Should you wish to make an informal enquiry, please contact Professor Amelia Hunt (a.hunt(a)abdn.ac.uk) Chair of Search Committee. Please do not email applications to Professor Hunt and apply online for this position www.abdn.ac.uk/jobs. Should you require a visa to undertake employment in the UK you will be required to fulfil the minimum points criteria to be granted a Certificate of Sponsorship under the requirements of the Skilled Worker visa. At the time an offer of appointment is made, you will be asked to demonstrate that you fulfil the criteria in respect of qualification and competency in English. For research and academic posts, we will consider eligibility under the Global Talent visa. Please do not hesitate to contact Lauren Storey, HR Adviser (e-mail: lauren.storey(a)abdn.ac.uk) for further information. Job Reference Number: PSY052A The closing date for the receipt of applications is 13 November 2022. During the week of 5 December 2022, successful candidates will be invited to give a presentation to the School and attend a formal interview. The University of Aberdeen is a charity registered in Scotland, No SC013683. Tha Oilthigh Obar Dheathain na charthannas clàraichte ann an Alba, Àir. SC013683.

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TWO Faculty posts in computational social interaction @ University of Glasgow
by Rachael Jack 13 Oct '22

13 Oct '22

Dear colleagues *excuse any cross-posting* We are delighted to announce TWO FACULTY POSTS (FT permanent, Full Professor/Associate Prof/Asst Prof) available in the Centre for Social, Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience (cSCAN) in the School of Neuroscience & Psychology at the University of Glasgow, Scotland. Deadline: 3 Jan 2023 We are particularly interested in internationally competitive interdisciplinary researchers using innovative approaches to the computational modelling of social perception, cognition, interaction, and/or communication, with a focus on dynamic signalling, dyadic interactions, and/or dialogue in human-human and/or human-agent interactions. cSCAN members benefit from a wide variety of state-of-the-art techniques, technologies, and expertise within a lively and ambitious research-rich environment. For more details, see our Twitter post<https://twitter.com/UofG_cSCAN/status/1580286382399836160?s=20&t=BCvNEo48dZ…> and job advert<https://t.co/SuoA6H22MU> or contact Prof Rachael Jack on rachael.jack(a)glasgow.ac.uk<mailto:rachael.jack@glasgow.ac.uk>. Forwarding to any interested parties would be greatly appreciated. Many thanks Prof. Rachael E. Jack, Ph.D. Professor of Computational Social Cognition School of Psychology & Neuroscience University of Glasgow Scotland, G12 8QB +44 (0) 141 330 5087 [cid:11880D74-6D34-4656-B001-CB0A0540DFA1]

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Call for paper: FG 2023 workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Automated Human Health-care and Monitoring
by ABHIJIT DAS 22 Sep '22

22 Sep '22

We are organizing a workshop on “Artificial Intelligence for Automated Human Health-care and Monitoring <https://sites.google.com/view/ai4healthcarefg/home>” in conjunction with the 17th IEEE Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition. Kindly find the related call for papers below. *Important dates* Papers submission deadline: 1 October 2022 – 11:59 PM PDT Decisions: 27 October 2022 Final camera-ready papers: 31 October 2022, 11:59 PM PDT *Submission instructions* can be found at <http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Ffg2023.ieee-biometrics.org%2Fparti…>FG 2023 author guidelines <http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Ffg2023.ieee-biometrics.org%2Fparti…> . *For submission* log into *CMT Link <https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fcmt3.research.microsoft.com%2FAI…>*, proceed to “create new submission”. Accepted papers will be included in FG2023 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. Best regards Abhijit

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CALL FOR PAPERS: SIVA'23 Workshop on Socially Interactive Human-like Virtual Agents
by Rachael Jack 13 Aug '22

13 Aug '22

CALL FOR PAPERS: SIVA'23 Workshop on Socially Interactive Human-like Virtual Agents From expressive and context-aware multimodal generation of digital humans to understanding the social cognition of real humans Submission (open July, 22 2022): https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/SIVA2023 SIVA'23 workshop: January, 4 or 5 2023, Waikoloa, Hawaii, https://www.stms-lab.fr/agenda/siva/detail/ FG 2023 conference: January 4-8 2023, Waikoloa, Hawaii, https://fg2023.ieee-biometrics.org/ OVERVIEW Due to the rapid growth of virtual, augmented, and hybrid reality together with spectacular advances in artificial intelligence, the ultra-realistic generation and animation of digital humans with human-like behaviors is becoming a massive topic of interest. This complex endeavor requires modeling several elements of human behavior including the natural coordination of multimodal behaviors including text, speech, face, and body, plus the contextualization of behavior in response to interlocutors of different cultures and motivations. Thus, challenges in this topic are two folds—the generation and animation of coherent multimodal behaviors, and modeling the expressivity and contextualization of the virtual agent with respect to human behavior, plus understanding and modeling virtual agent behavior adaptation to increase human’s engagement. The aim of this workshop is to connect traditionally distinct communities (e.g., speech, vision, cognitive neurosciences, social psychology) to elaborate and discuss the future of human interaction with human-like virtual agents. We expect contributions from the fields of signal processing, speech and vision, machine learning and artificial intelligence, perceptual studies, and cognitive and neuroscience. Topics will range from multimodal generative modeling of virtual agent behaviors, and speech-to-face and posture 2D and 3D animation, to original research topics including style, expressivity, and context-aware animation of virtual agents. Moreover, the availability of controllable real-time virtual agent models can be used as state-of-the-art experimental stimuli and confederates to design novel, groundbreaking experiments to advance understanding of social cognition in humans. Finally, these virtual humans can be used to create virtual environments for medical purposes including rehabilitation and training. SCOPE Topics of interest include but are not limited to: + Analysis of Multimodal Human-like Behavior - Analyzing and understanding of human multimodal behavior (speech, gesture, face) - Creating datasets for the study and modeling of human multimodal behavior - Coordination and synchronization of human multimodal behavior - Analysis of style and expressivity in human multimodal behavior - Cultural variability of social multimodal behavior + Modeling and Generation of Multimodal Human-like Behavior - Multimodal generation of human-like behavior (speech, gesture, face) - Face and gesture generation driven by text and speech - Context-aware generation of multimodal human-like behavior - Modeling of style and expressivity for the generation of multimodal behavior - Modeling paralinguistic cues for multimodal behavior generation - Few-shots or zero-shot transfer of style and expressivity - Slightly-supervised adaptation of multimodal behavior to context + Psychology and Cognition of of Multimodal Human-like Behavior - Cognition of deep fakes and ultra-realistic digital manipulation of human-like behavior - Social agents/robots as tools for capturing, measuring and understanding multimodal behavior (speech, gesture, face) - Neuroscience and social cognition of real humans using virtual agents and physical robots IMPORTANT DATES Submission Deadline September, 12 2022 Notification of Acceptance: October, 15 2022 Camera-ready deadline: October, 31 2022 Workshop: January, 4 or 5 2023 VENUE The SIVA workshop is organized as a satellite workshop of the IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition 2023. The workshop will be collocated with the FG 2023 and WACV 2023 conferences at the Waikoloa Beach Marriott Resort, Hawaii, USA. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION AND SUBMISSION DETAILS Submissions must be original and not published or submitted elsewhere. Short papers of 3 pages excluding references encourage submissions of early research in original emerging fields. Long paper of 6 to 8 pages excluding references promote the presentation of strongly original contributions, positional or survey papers. The manuscript should be formatted according to the Word or Latex template provided on the workshop website. All submissions will be reviewed by 3 reviewers. The reviewing process will be single-blinded. Authors will be asked to disclose possible conflict of interests, such as cooperation in the previous two years. Moreover, care will be taken to avoid reviewers from the same institution as the authors. Authors should submit their articles in a single pdf file in the submission website - no later than September, 12 2022. Notification of acceptance will be sent by October, 15 2022, and the camera-ready version of the papers revised according to the reviewers comments should be submitted by October, 31 2022. Accepted papers will be published in the proceedings of the FG'2023 conference. More information can be found on the SIVA website. DIVERSITY, EQUALITY, AND INCLUSION The format of this workshop will be hybrid online and onsite. This format proposes format of scientific exchanges in order to satisfy travel restrictions and COVID sanitary precautions, to promote inclusion in the research community (travel costs are high, online presentations will encourage research contributions from geographical regions which would normally be excluded), and to consider ecological issues (e.g., CO2 footprint). The organizing committee is committed to paying attention to equality, diversity, and inclusivity in consideration of invited speakers. This effort starts from the organizing committee and the invited speakers to the program committee. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE 🌸 Nicolas Obin, STMS Lab (Ircam, CNRS, Sorbonne Université, ministère de la Culture) 🌸 Ryo Ishii, NTT Human Informatics Laboratories 🌸 Rachael E. Jack, University of Glasgow 🌸 Louis-Philippe Morency, Carnegie Mellon University 🌸 Catherine Pelachaud, CNRS - ISIR, Sorbonne Université Prof. Rachael E. Jack, Ph.D. Professor of Computational Social Cognition School of Psychology & Neuroscience University of Glasgow Scotland, G12 8QB +44 (0) 141 330 5087 [cid:11880D74-6D34-4656-B001-CB0A0540DFA1]

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Call for Submissions - BPS Cognitive Psychology Section Conference 7-9 Sept, Brighton
by Butcher, Natalie 06 Jul '22

06 Jul '22

Hi, This year's BPS Cognitive Psychology Section conference is hosted by Sussex University (Brighton) on the 7th to 9th September. There's always a great turn out from face recognition researchers. So this will be a great opportunity for face researchers to share ideas and present their work. Registration is now open and the committee have decided to also reopen the submission portal as we have received a number of enquiries from interested section members who were not able to submit their abstracts by the original deadline, and we still have capacity to welcome additional speakers. The new deadline for submissions is 11:59pm on 19th July 2022. We welcome individual proposals, themed symposia as well as Work in Progress submissions. Full details are available at Submissions | BPS<https://www.bps.org.uk/events/cognitive-psychology-section-annual-conferenc…>. Some postgraduate bursaries (up to £400) are also available - for me information and to apply for a PG bursary see Cognitive Psychology Section: Awards & Funding | BPS<https://www.bps.org.uk/member-microsites/cognitive-psychology-section/award…> Best wishes Natalie Butcher (BPS Cognitive Section Committee Member) Cognition & Decision Making Theme Lead of the Centre for Applied Psychological Science (CAPS): https://research.tees.ac.uk/en/organisations/centre-for-applied-psychologic… Twitter: @TeesPsych @Dr_N_Butcher [cid:image001.png@01D89123.2E20E420]<http://www.tees.ac.uk/schools/ssshl/?utm_source=teesside-uni-staff&utm_medi…> Dr Natalie Butcher [Na-ta-lie Buh-chuh] Senior Lecturer in Psychology T: 01642 342385 School of Social Sciences, Humanities & Law [cid:image002.png@01D89123.2E20E420]<https://www.facebook.com/TeessideUni/> [image006]<https://twitter.com/TUSSSBL> [image007]<https://uk.linkedin.com/edu/teesside-university-12727> [image008]<https://www.instagram.com/teessideuni/> tees.ac.uk<http://www.tees.ac.uk/schools/ssshl/?utm_source=teesside-uni-staff&utm_medi…>

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call for paper: Recent Advances in Detecting Manipulation Attacks on Biometric Systems (ADMA-2022) IJCB 2022 - Special Session
by ABHIJIT DAS 05 Jul '22

05 Jul '22

*Recent Advances in Detecting Manipulation Attacks on Biometric Systems (ADMA-2022) IJCB 2022 - Special Session* *Website:* https://sites.google.com/view/ijcb-ss-adma-2022/home Manipulated attacks in biometrics via modified images/videos and other material-based techniques such as presentation attacks and deep fakes have become a tremendous threat to the security world owing to increasingly realistic spoofing methods. Hence, such manipulations have triggered the need for research attention towards robust and reliable methods for detecting biometric manipulation attacks. The recent inclusion of manipulation/generation methods such as auto-encoder and generative adversarial network approaches combined with accurate localisation and perceptual learning objectives added an extra challenge to such manipulation detection tasks. Due to this, the performance of existing state-of-the-art manipulation detection methods significantly degrades in the unknown scenarios. Apart from this, real-time processing, manipulation on low-quality medium, limited availability of data, and inclusion of these manipulation detection techniques for forensic investigation are yet to be widely explored. Hence, this special session aims to profile recent developments and push the border of the digital manipulation detection technique on biometric systems. We invite practitioners, researchers and engineers from biometrics, signal processing, material science, mathematics, computer vision and machine learning to contribute their expertise to underpin the highlighted challenges. Further, this special session promote cross-disciplinary research by inviting the partitioner in the field of psychology where one can perform the human observer (or super-recogniser) analysis to detect attacks. Topics of interest include but not limited to:  Deepfake manipulation and detection technique  Novel generalised PAD to unknown attacks  Image manipulation techniques datasets  Database in image and video manipulation, and attacks  Privacy preserving techniques in digital manipulation attack detection  Image and video synthesis in PAD  Image and video manipulation generation and detection  Human observer analysis in detecting the manipulated biometric images  Novel sensors for detecting manipulated attacks  Bias analyses and mitigation in attack detection algorithms Submission Guidelines:  Submit your papers at: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/IJCB2022 in a special session track.  Paper presented at ADMA-2022 will be published as part of the IJCB2022 and should, therefore, follow the same guideline as the main conference.  Page limit: A paper can be up to 8 pages including figures and tables, plus additional pages for references only. If the 7th and 8th pages contain any content other than references, they will incur a cost of USD100 per page.  Papers will be double-blind peer reviewed by at least three reviewers. Please remove author names, affiliations, email addresses, etc. from the paper. Remove personal acknowledgments. Important Dates:  Full Paper Submission: July 27, 2022, 23:59:59 PDT  Acceptance Notice: August 17, 2022, 23:59:59 PDT  Camera-Ready Paper: August 24, 2022, 23:59:59 PDT Organizing Committee: Dr. Abhijit Das, BITS Pilani, India Prof. Raghavendra Ramachandra, NTNU, Norway Meiling Fang, Fraunhofer IGD, Germany Dr. Naser Damer, Fraunhofer IGD, Germany Prof. Hu Han, CAS, China

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