============================================================= CALL FOR PAPERS 2008 IEEE Int'l Workshop on CVPR for Human Communicative Behavior Analysis June 28, 2008 -- Anchorage, Alaska, held in conjunction with CVPR-2008 http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~maja/cvpr4hb.html ============================================================= THE WEBSITE IS NOW OPEN FOR SUBMISSIONS A widely accepted prediction is that computing will move to the background, weaving itself into the fabric of our everyday living spaces and projecting the human user into the foreground. Due to this vision of the future, automated analysis of human behavior, including facial expression, hand and body gesture, and linguistic and nonlinguistic vocalization, have attracted increasing attention from Computer Vision and Artificial Intelligence research communities. The CVPR4HB workshop is aimed towards bringing together scientists from a wide range of theoretical and application areas whose work impacts machine analysis of human communicative behavior. Its goal is to provide a state-of-the-art overview of paradigms and challenges in the research on machine analysis of human spontaneous behavior, including affective and social signaling. The CVPR4HB workshop will be held in Anchorage, Alaska, held in conjunction with CVPR-2008. We seek to attract contributions representing the state-of-the-art efforts to develop algorithms that can process naturally occurring human affective and social communication and decode communicative intent. Relevant topics for the workshop include but are by no means limited to: • Affective computing • Socially-aware computing • Facial expression analysis • Human gesture and action recognition • Multimodal human behavior analysis • Learning and Multimodal data fusion • Perceptual and multimodal user interfaces • Sign language analysis and recognition • Deception detection • Ambient intelligence • Databases for training and testing The program will be single track with posters. IMPORTANT DATES March 25, 2008: Deadline for paper submission April 14, 2008: Acceptance notification May 1, 2008: Final camera-ready papers due in electronic form For more information about the CVPR4HB workshop, see: http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~maja/cvpr4hb.html ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Conference Chairs: Maja Pantic, Imperial College London, UK / University of Twente, Netherlands Jeffrey Cohn, University of Pittsburgh, USA Roddy Cowie, Queen's University, Belfast, UK Thomas S. Huang, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Program Committee: Aaron Bobick, Georgia Tech, USA Richard Bowden, University of Surrey, UK Rama Chellappa, University of Maryland, USA Ira Cohen, HP Labs, USA Tim Cootes, University of Manchester, UK James Davis, Ohio State University, USA Rana el Kaliouby, MIT, USA Daniel Gatica-Perez, IDIAP, Switzerland Shaogang Gong, Queen Mary University, UK Ralph Gross, CMU, USA David Hogg, University of Leeds, UK Qiang Ji, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA Seong-Whan Lee, Korea University, Korea Aleix Martinez, Ohio State University, USA Dimitris Metaxas, Rutgers University, USA Anton Nijholt, University of Twente, Netherlands Mark Nixon, Univ. of Southampton, UK Ioannis Patras, Queen Mary University, UK Vladimir Pavlovic, Rutgers University, USA Matti Pietikainen, University of Oulu, Finland Ioannis Pitas, University of Thessaloniki, Greece Bjoern Schuller, Technical University of Munich, Germany Nicu Sebe, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands Matthew Turk, University of California, San Diego, USA Yaser Yacoob, University of Maryland, USA Ming-Hsuan Yang, Honda research, USA Lijun Yin, Binghamton University, USA