SBA 2011 - IEEE International Workshop on Social Behavior Analysis (SBA 2011)

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Deadline: December 14, 2010 | Date: March 25, 2011

Venue/Country: California, U.S.A

Updated: 2010-12-01 10:01:36 (GMT+9)

Call For Papers - CFP

Analysis (SBA 2011)

Santa Barbara, CA, 21 or 25 March 2011 (This is a one day workshop,

exact date will be announced soon), in conjunction with FG 2011

Important Dates

* Paper submission: 14 December 2010

* Notification to the authors: 13 January 2011

* Receipt of camera ready copy: 19 January 2011

Webpage: http://www.idiap.ch/~oaran/sba/index.html

There is a strong interest in fields like computer vision, audio

processing, multimedia, HCI, and pervasive computing, in designing

computational models of human interaction in realistic social

settings. Such interest is boosted by the increasing capacity to

acquire behavioral data with cameras, microphones and other fixed and

mobile sensors. Unlike the traditional HCI view, which emphasizes

communication between a person and a computer, the emphasis of an

emerging body of research has been shifting towards communicative

social behavior in natural situations, with examples such as informal

conversational settings, general workplace environments, interviews,

and meeting scenarios.

The workshop will gather, discuss, and disseminate unpublished work on

computational models and systems for the analysis of social behavior.

Given the scope of Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition conference,

we would like to focus on automatic techniques for visual analysis of

human communication and on the applications that are built on top of

it. We welcome contributions that present robust techniques for the

analysis of gestures and facial expressions in natural conversational

environments to model social behavior in everyday life and reason

about them. We also strongly encourage the participation of colleagues

from behavioral sciences: studies of nonverbal behavior and social

interaction provide highly valuable information, concepts, and

frameworks to guide automatic analysis, while efforts in automatic

analysis of social behavior provide new tools, data, and insights to

behavioral scientists interested in nonverbal behavior and social

interaction.

We invite contributions that address the following (non-exhaustive)

list of topics:

Social behavior analysis

* Analysis and recognition of visual social cues and others:

o Visual nonverbal cues (body postures, hand gestures, head

gestures, actions ...)

o Multimodal affect recognition

o Nonverbal cues from other sensors

* Multimodal computational models for the analysis, estimation,

and prediction of social behavior aspects and dimensions (interest

level, dominance, rapport, deception...) and of individual properties

affecting it (e.g., personality traits, preferences...)

* Analysis of conversational dynamics

* Multimodal data corpora for social behavior analysis

Systems and devices for capturing social behavior

* Smart camera/microphone systems

* Novel sensor technologies

* Wearable devices

* Cell phones

Socially aware systems and applications

* Computers and robots in the human interaction loop

* Individual and group self-awareness

* Educational applications

* Workplace applications

* Healthcare applications

* Game applications

* Art & creative applications

Organizers:

Oya Aran, Idiap Research Institute

Daniel Gatica-Perez, Idiap Research Institute

Louis-Philippe Morency, University of Southern California

Fabio Pianesi, University of Trento

More information can be found on the workshop web site:

http://www.idiap.ch/~oaran/sba/index.html