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============================================================================ === SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS International Workshop on Human Behaviour Understanding 2010 (h...@icpr) August 22, 2010 - Istanbul, TURKEY, held in conjunction with ICPR'10 http://www.icpr2010.org/workshops/hbu/ Apologies for cross-posting ============================================================================ === DESCRIPTION: Domains where human behavior understanding is a crucial need (e.g., human-computer interaction, affective computing and social signal processing) rely on advanced pattern recognition techniques to automatically interpret complex behavioral patterns generated when humans interact with machines or with others. This is a challenging problem where many issues are still open, including the joint modeling of behavioral cues taking place at different time scales, the inherent uncertainty of machine detectable evidences of human behavior, the mutual influence of people involved in interactions, the presence of long term dependencies in observations extracted from human behavior, and the important role of dynamics in human behavior understanding. This workshop will gather researchers dealing with the problem of modeling human behavior under its multiple facets (expression of emotions, display of relational attitudes, performance of individual or joint actions, etc.), with particular attention to pattern recognition approaches that involve multiple modalities and those that model the actual dynamics of behavior. The contiguity with ICPR, one of the most important events in the Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning communities, is expected to foster cross-pollination with other areas, e.g. temporal pattern mining or time series analysis, which share their important methodological aspects with human behavior understanding. Furthermore, the presence of this workshop at ICPR is expected to attract researchers (in particular PhD students and postdoctoral researchers) to a domain like human behavior understanding that is likely to play a major role in future technology (ambient intelligence, human-robot interaction, artificial social intelligence, etc.), as witnessed by a number of research efforts aimed at collecting and annotating large sets of multi-sensor data, collected from observing people in natural (often technologically challenging) conditions. TOPICS: We particularly solicit contributions that make use of temporal and dynamic information, as well as contributions that take into account multi-modal correlations. The covered topics include, among others: - Social behaviour analysis & modeling, multimodal behaviour patterns - Temporal patterns - Facial, gestural and voice-based affect recognition - Sign-language recognition - Human motion analysis - Pattern recognition applied to novel sensors - Pattern discovery in personal sensor networks, reality mining - Smart environments - Human-computer interaction - Benchmarking studies on novel databases - New feature selection and extraction methods - Mathematical description and integration of contextual information - Behavioural biometrics IMPORTANT DATES: April 9, 2010: Submission of full paper (the system is OPEN for submissions) May 1, 2010: Notification of acceptance May 14, 2010: Early registration ends May 14, 2010: Camera-ready paper August 22, 2010: Workshop PROCEEDINGS: The proceedings are published by Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. Selected papers will be considered for a special journal issue. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Albert Ali Salah, University of Amsterdam Nicu Sebe, University of Trento Alessandro Vinciarelli, University of Glasgow Theo Gevers, University of Amsterdam PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Yiannis Aloimonos, Univ. Maryland Oya Aran, IDIAP Manuele Bicego, Univ. Verona Jeffrey Cohn, Univ. Pittsburgh Hazim Ekenel, Karlsruhe Univ. Jordi Gonzáles, CVC, Univ. Autònoma Barcelona Jonathan Gratch, USC Dirk Heylen, Univ. Twente Ashish Kapoor, Microsoft Research Redmond Seong-Whan Lee, Korea Univ. Vittorio Murino, Univ. Verona Fabio Pianesi, Univ. Trento Ioannis Pitas, Univ. Thessaloniki Eraldo Ribeiro, Florida Institute of Technology Michael S. Ryoo, Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute Marc Schroder, DFKI Language Technology Lab Bjorn Schuller, Technical Univ. Munich Metin Sezgin, Koç Univ. Jianhua Tao, NLPR - Institute of Automation Chinese Academy of Sciences Qi Tian, Univ. Texas at San Antonio Matthew Turk, Univ. California, Santa Barbara Hezy Yeshurun, Tel Aviv Univ. For more information contact: Dr. Albert Ali Salah Informatics Institute, Faculty of Science, University of Amsterdam Science Park 107, 1098XG The Netherlands phone: +31 (0) 20 525 7550 home: http://staff.science.uva.nl/~asalah/ e-mail: a.a.sa...@uva.nl _______________________________________________ uai mailing list uai@ENGR.ORST.EDU https://secure.engr.oregonstate.edu/mailman/listinfo/uai
