Subject: Last CfP EmoSPACE 2011 - Submission deadline extended to 30 Dec 2010 From: Bjoern Schuller <schuller@xxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2010 02:17:57 +0000 List-Archive:<http://lists.mcgill.ca/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=AUDITORY>Dear List, For those of you interested: Due to repeated request the submission deadline of EmoSPACE 2011 has been extended to 30 Dec 2010. This will be a strict deadline. ___________________________________________ EmoSPACE 2011 ___________________________________________ 1st International Workshop on Emotion Synthesis, rePresentation, and Analysis in Continuous spacE In conjunction with the IEEE FG 2011 Santa Barbara, 21./25. March, 2011 (t.b.a.) http://emotion-research.net/sigs/speech-sig/emospace http://emotion-research.net/sigs/speech-sig/EmoSPACE-IEEE-FG2011-CFP.pdf ___________________________________________ Call for Papers ___________________________________________ Human affective behaviour is multimodal, continuous and complex. Despite major advances within the affective computing research field, modelling, analysing, interpreting and responding to human affective behaviour still remains as a challenge for automated systems as emotions are complex constructs, with fuzzy boundaries and with substantial individual variations in expression and experience. Therefore, affective and behavioural computing researchers have recently invested increased effort in exploring how to best model, analyse and interpret the subtlety, complexity and continuity of affective behaviour in terms of latent dimensions and appraisals, rather than in terms of a small number of discrete emotion categories. The key aim of this workshop is to present cutting-edge research and new challenges in automatic, dimensional and continuous analysis and synthesis of human emotional behaviour in an interdisciplinary forum of affective and behavioural scientists. More specifically, the workshop aims (i) to bring forth existing efforts and major accomplishments in modelling, analysis and synthesis of emotional expressions in dimensional and continuous spaces, (ii) while encouraging the design of novel applications in context as diverse as human-computer and human-robot interaction, clinical and biomedical studies, learning and driving environments, and entertainment technology, and (iii) to focus on open issues and new challenges in the field. The workshop will also bring together two Keynote Speakers who are leading experts in modelling and analysis of naturalistic emotions in dimensional and continuous spaces. Suggested workshop topics include, but are by no means limited to: Modalities and cues for dimensional emotion recognition facial expressions head movements and gestures body postures and gestures audio (e.g., speech, non-linguistic vocalisations, etc.) bio signals (e.g., heart, brain, thermal signals, etc.) Automatic analysis and prediction approaches for discretised and continuous prediction of emotions identifying appropriate classification and prediction methods introducing or identifying optimal strategies for fusion techniques for modelling high inter-subject variation approaches to determining duration of emotions for automatic analysis Data acquisition and annotation elicitation of emotions individual variations (interpersonal and cognitive issues) (multimodal) naturalistic data sets annotated in dimensional spaces (multimodal) annotation tools for dimensional emotions modelling annotations from multiple raters and their reliability Applications interaction with robots, virtual agents, and games (including tutoring) single and multi-user smart environments (e.g., in a car) implicit (multimedia) tagging clinical and biomedical studies (e.g., autism, depression, pain etc.) Workshop Organisers: ___________________________________________ Hatice Gunes, Imperial College London, UK, h.gunes@xxxxxxxx Björn Schuller, Technische Universität München, Germany, schuller@xxxxxxxx Maja Pantic, Imperial College London, UK, m.pantic@xxxxxxxx Roddy Cowie, Queen's University Belfast, UK, R.Cowie@xxxxxxxx Program Committee: ___________________________________________ Elisabeth André, University of Augsburg, Germany Anton Batliner, FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany Nadia Bianchi-Berthouze, University College London, UK Felix Burkhardt, Deutsche Telekom, Germany Antonio Camurri, University of Genova, Italy Jeffrey Cohn, University of Pittsburgh, USA Ginevra Castellano, Queen Mary University of London, UK Sidney D'Mello, University of Memphis, USA Eva Hudlicka, Psychometrix Associates, USA Kostas Karpouzis, National Technical University of Athens, Greece Dana Kulic, University of Waterloo, Canada Louis-Philippe Morency, University of Southern California, USA Shrikanth Narayanan, University of Southern California, USA Anton Nijholt, University of Twente, Netherlands Catherine Pelachaud, CNRS, France Thierry Pun, University of Geneva, Switzerland Peter Robinson, University of Cambridge, UK YingLi Tian, City University of New York, USA Michel Valstar, Imperial College London, UK Important Dates: ___________________________________________ Paper Submission: 30 December 2010 Notification of Acceptance: 12 January 2011 Camera Ready Paper: 19 January 2011 Workshop: 21 or 25 March 2011 (t.b.a.) Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message, Thank you and best, Hatice Gunes, Maja Pantic, Roddy Cowie, and Björn Schuller ___________________________________________ Dr. Bjoern Schuller Senior Researcher and Lecturer Technische Universitaet Muenchen Institute for Human-Machine Communication D-80333 München Germany +49-(0)89-289-28548 schuller@xxxxxxxx ___________________________________________