SSPW 2010 - Second International Workshop on Social Signal Processing

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Category SSPW 2010

Deadline: June 10, 2010 | Date: October 29, 2010

Venue/Country: Florence, Italy

Updated: 2010-06-09 19:45:03 (GMT+9)

Call For Papers - CFP

October 29, 2010

Mission

The ability to understand and manage social signals of a person we are communicating with is the core of social intelligence. Social Intelligence is a facet of human intelligence that has been argued to be indispensable and perhaps the most important for success in life. A widely accepted prediction is that next-generation computing needs to include the essence of social intelligence ? the ability to recognize and generate social signals and social behaviours ? in order to become more effective and more efficient. Due to this vision of the future, automated analysis and synthesis of social signals and social behaviours, including social interactions (like turn taking and backchanelling), social attitude (like alliance), and social relations/ roles, have attracted increasing attention.

Machine analysis of human social interactions and social signals is progressing rapidly with new or pending applications in HCI, psychology, biomedicine, politics, and entertainment technology, among other fields. With these advances come new conceptual and methodological challenges. The workshop aims at presenting cutting-edge research and new challenges in automatic analysis and synthesis of human social interactions and signalling in an interdisciplinary forum of computer and behavioral scientists.

We seek to attract contributions representing the state-of-the-art efforts to develop algorithms that can process naturally occurring human social communication, decode communicative intent, and generate the appropriate socially-adept responses. The workshop will also bring together a number of Keynote Speakers and Penalists who are the leading experts on machine analysis of human behavior in naturalistic contexts including Jeffrey Cohn (University of Pittsburg/ Carnegie Mellon University), Sandy Pentland (MIT Media Lab, USA), Justine Cassell (Northwestern University), Toyoaki Nishida (Kyoto University), and Yiannis Aloimonos (University of Maryland).

Relevant topics for the workshop include but are by no means limited to:

Social psychology and social signals processing

Facial behaviour analysis and synthesis in social interactions

Expressive speech analysis and synthesis in social interactions

Human gesture and action recognition and synthesis in social interactions

Multimodal human behavior analysis and synthesis in social interactions

Perceptual, multimodal, and socially-aware user interfaces

Socially-adept Embodied Conversational Agents

Databases for training and testing

Socially-aware computing and applications

Papers should describe high-quality original research that has direct implications and contributions to social signal processing and machine analysis and synthesis of naturally occurring human social behavior. All areas of human-human, human-environment, and human-computer interaction will be considered subject to the constraint that the submission makes an important contribution to the field of social signal processing. In general, papers that solely describe a signal processing, multimedia analysis or pattern recognition approach with potential applications to social signal processing should be submitted to the ACM Multimedia general conference. Note that although applications of known multimedia analysis, signal processing and pattern recognition techniques are welcome, we will give priority to those works that also make theoretical contributions to these fields and the field of social signal processing.

Survey papers are welcome and encouraged. Authors interested in submitting a survey article may want to contact the Workshop co-organizer (vinciadcs.gla.ac.uk) prior to submission.

Important Dates (tentative)

Paper submission: June 10, 2010

Notification to authors: July 10, 2010

Camera ready papers: July 20, 2010

Workshop: October 29, 2010

Paper Submission

Workshop papers must be formatted following the style guidelines of ACMMM’10 regular papers.

They are allowed to be 6 pages long.

Submission through the EDAS system

Workshop organizers

Maja Pantic

Imperial College London, Computing Dept. / University of Twente, EEMCS

Email: m.panticimperial.ac.uk

Alessandro Vinciarelli

University of Glasgow / Idiap Research Institute

Email: vinciadcs.gla.ac.uk

Alex Pentland

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Email: pentlandmit.edu

Program Committee (tentative)

Oya Aran, Idiap Research Institute, Switzerland

Lada Adamic, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA

Yiannis Aloimonos, University of Maryland, USA

Nick Campbell, Trinity College Dublin, UK

Justine Cassell, Northwestern University, USA

Jeff Cohn, CMU, USA

Roddy Cowie, Queens University Belfast, UK

Trevor Darrell, ICSI-Berkeley, USA

Beat Fasel, University of Basel, CH

Dilek Hakkani Tur, ICSI-Berkeley, USA

Alan Hanjalic, Technical University Delft, NL

Emile Hendriks, Technical University Delft, NL

Ramesh Jain, University of California Irvine, USA

Qiang Ji, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA

David Lazer, Harvard University, USA

Aleix Martinez, Ohio State University, USA

Marc Mehu, University of Geneva, CH

Louis Philippe Morency, USC, USA

Vittorio Murino, IIT/University of Verona, Italy

Anton Nijholt, University of Twente, Netherlands

Toyoaki Nishida, Kyoto University, Japan

Catherine Pelachaud, CNRS, France

Fabio Pianesi, University of Trento, Italy

Ioannis Pitas, University of Thessaloniki, Greece

Bjoern Schuller, Technical University of Munich, Germany

Fabio Valente, Idiap Research Insitute, CH

Ming-Hsuan Yang, University of California, Mercedes, USA

Lijun Yin, Binghamton University, USA