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                                          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
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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