2011 Outstanding Young Researcher in Automatic Human Behaviour Analysis AWARD Information

=============================================================================== CALL FOR NOMINATIONS 2011 Outstanding Young Researcher in Automatic Human Behaviour Analysis AWARD =============================================================================== (Please, note that this e-mail is sent from an unattended address) This award is made annually for distinguished early-career research contributions in machine analysis of human behavior. To be eligible, nominees must be within TWO YEARS of earning their PhD. The Award is sponsored by the European Research Council Starting Grant agreement no. ERC-2007-StG-203143 (MAHNOB) and is administered by the Awards Committee of the CVPR4HB Workshop Organization. The Award Winner will be invited to give a KEYNOTE lecture on their work during the CVPR4HB workshop. In 2011, the workshop will take place on June 25, 2011, in Colorado Springs, USA, in conjunction with the annual IEEE Int’l Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition). http://ibug.doc.ic.ac.uk/~maja/static/cvpr4hb-11.html The recipient will also be invited to contribute an article for publication in the IMAGE AND VISION COMPUTING JOURNAL. ABOUT THE AWARD This award is made annually for early-career (within 2 years of PhD) distinguished research contributions in machine analysis of human behavior. “A distinguished research contribution in machine analysis of human behaviour” is high-quality original research that has direct implications and contributions to machine analysis of naturally occurring human behavior. All areas of vision-based, audio-based, and multimodal human-human, human-environment, and human-computer interaction will be considered including human affect analysis, social signals and social behaviour analysis, facial expression analysis, body gesture and action analysis, and sign language analysis. HOW TO NOMINATE A nomination for the award consists of: 1. The full name and contact details of the nominator. 2. The full name and contact details of the nominee. 3. A description provided by the nominator of the nominee’s distinguished research contribution in machine analysis of human behavior and its theoretical or applied importance. Descriptions are limited to 300 words and should be written in a form that is accessible to a general computing science audience. 4. A CV of 1 to 2 pages of the nominee. 5. A list of all peer-reviewed conference and journal publications of the nominee. If including in-press publications, please include documentation from the journal. 6. The name and email address of a referee who would be able to provide an independent assessment of the nominee’s research contribution. Referees must be based in an institution other than the nominator and the nominee. SUBMISSIONS Submit nominations in the form of a single electronic file in PDF format to Maja Pantic and Stefanos Zafeiriou . The name of the nominator and the nominee must be in the title of the file. IMPORTANT DATES June 5, 2011: Deadline for nomination submission June 20, 2011: Winner announcement June 25, 2011: Keynote by the winner at CVPR4HB 2011 Summer 2011: Submission of the paper to Image and Vision Computing Journal AWARD COMMITTEE Maja Pantic, Imperial College London, UK / University of Twente, Netherlands Jeffrey Cohn, University of Pittsburgh, USA Thomas S. Huang, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Bjoern Schuller, Technical University of Munich, Germany Matthew Turk, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA Stefanos Zafeiriou, Imperial College London, UK