VisHCI 2006

                 HCSNet Workshop on the Use of Vision in HCI
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          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
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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
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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
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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