VisHCI 2006 HCSNet Workshop on the Use of Vision in HCI ------------------------------------------- Australian National University, Canberra, 1-3 November 2006 In cooperation with RSISE and NICTA Canberra Research Laboratory http://users.rsise.anu.edu.au/~vishci The Human Communication Sciences Network (HCSNet) is supporting a workshop on the use of computer vision in human-computer interaction (HCI). Visual communication - such as hand and body gestures, facial expressions, auditory-visual speech, sign language etc. - is a major communication channel for humans. The availability of low-cost camera technology has led to an increased use of visual evidence in HCI. This workshop aims to bring together researchers, practitioners and students from a number of disciplines related to using vision and visual evidence in HCI. Visual HCI research is multi-disciplinary and both computer vision and HCI research have a strong tradition in Australia. Relevant disciplines include computer science, engineering, IT, psychology and spoken language research to name a few. Our goal is to provide an informal, Australian-based, yet international forum for the presentation and discussion of current trends and recent ideas and results from leading national and international scientists to foster scholarly exchange across disciplines and future collaborations in computer vision and the human communication sciences. Program ------- The workshop will take place over two and a half days and provide ample time to discuss recent ideas and results as well as time for networking. The program will include keynote addresses by Iain Matthews (Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh), Gerasimos Potamianos (IBM TJ Watson Research Center, Yorktown), and David Powers (Flinders University, Adelaide). The workshop will be divided into several sessions that will run in a single-track fashion. Original contributions are invited in all related areas, including but not limited to: - Hand and body gestures - Human motion and pose recognition - Visual object tracking (e.g. face, body, hands) - Facial expression analysis and recognition - Face recognition - Affective computing - Non-rigid object structure recovery (e.g. structure from motion for hand and face shapes, active shape models, active appearance models) - Auditory-visual speech processing - Vision processing in human factors analysis - Event detection and recognition - Visual interface design - Multimodal interfaces and integration - Perceptual user interfaces - Sign language analysis and recognition - Behaviour analysis - User and context modelling - Applications (e.g. person authentication, user monitoring, driver assistance technology, AV automatic speech recognition) - Data corpora of visual HCI events Please check the VisHCI website for paper submission details and deadlines. The paper submission is open to both Australian-based and international participants. Participation ------------- Workshop participation is open internationally to anyone interested in the areas covered by the workshop. Thanks to the generous support from HCSNet, registration for VisHCI 2006 will be free. A number of travel awards will be made available to help covering the cost of travelling to Canberra. Details will be made available on the workshop website shortly. One of the aims of VisHCI 2006 is in particular to support student participation in the workshop which we see as an important opportunity for students to present their work and to network with both national and international researchers. Such networking forms an important part of their studies and is a core goal of the ARC research networks such as HCSNet. A number of specifically allocated student travel awards will be available for Australian-based, interstate students. Organisers ---------- Roland Goecke (NICTA / ANU, Canberra) Antonio Robles-Kelly (NICTA / ANU, Canberra) If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us at vishci@rsise.anu.edu.au