5th Joint Workshop on Machine Learning
and Multimodal Interaction (MLMI 2008)
8-10 September 2008
Utrecht, The Netherlands
http://www.mlmi.info
The fifth MLMI workshop will be held in Utrecht, The Netherlands, following
successful workshops in Martigny (2004), Edinburgh (2005), Washington (2006)
and Brno (2007). MLMI brings together researchers from the different
communities working on the common theme of advanced machine learning
algorithms applied to multimodal human-human and human-computer interaction.
The motivation for creating this joint multi-disciplinary workshop arose
from the actual needs of several large collaborative projects, in Europe and
the United States.
* Important dates
Submission of papers/posters: Monday, 31 March 2008
Acceptance notifications: Monday, 12 May 2008
Camera-ready versions of papers: Monday, 16 June 2008
Workshop: 8-10 September 2008
* Workshop topics
MLMI 2008 will feature talks (including a number of invited speakers),
posters and demonstrations. Prospective authors are invited to submit
proposals in the following areas of interest, related to machine learning
and multimodal interaction:
- human-human communication modeling
- audio-visual perception of humans
- human-computer interaction modeling
- speech processing
- image and video processing
- multimodal processing, fusion and fission
- multimodal discourse and dialogue modeling
- multimodal indexing, structuring and summarization
- annotation and browsing of multimodal data
- machine learning algorithms and their applications to the topics above
The special session on user requirements and evaluation of meeting
assistants/browsers has a separate call for papers with additional topics
and a later deadline (check
http://www.mlmi.info/index.php?id=special_session).
* Satellite events
MLMI 2008 will feature the AMI Career Day
(http://www.mlmi.info/index.php?id=ami_career_day). To propose other
special sessions or satellite events, please contact the special session
chair.
MLMI 2008 is broadly collocated with a number of events in related domains:
Mobile HCI 2008, 2-5 September, in Amsterdam; FG 2008, 17-19 September, in
Amsterdam; ECML 2008, 15-19 September, in Antwerp; and Measuring Behavior
2008, 26-29 August, in Maastricht.
* Guidelines for submission
The workshop proceedings will be published in Springer's Lecture Notes in
Computer Science series (pending approval). The first four editions of MLMI
were published as LNCS 3361, 3869, 4299, and 4892. However, unlike previous
MLMIs, the proceedings of MLMI 2008 will be printed before the workshop and
will be already available onsite to MLMI 2008 participants.
Submissions are invited either as long papers (12 pages) or as short papers
(6 pages), and may include a demonstration proposal. Upon acceptance of a
paper, the Program Committee will also assign to it a presentation format,
oral or poster, taking into account: (a) the most suitable format given the
content of the paper; (b) the length of the paper (long papers are more
likely to be presented orally); (c) the preferences expressed by the
authors.
Please submit PDF files using the submission website at
http://groups.inf.ed.ac.uk/mlmi08/, following the Springer LNCS format for
proceedings and other multiauthor volumes
(http://www.springer.com/east/home/computer/lncs?SGWID=5-164-7-72376-0).
Camera-ready versions of accepted papers, both long and short, are required
to follow these guidelines and to take into account the reviewers' comments.
Authors of accepted short papers are encouraged to turn them into long
papers for the proceedings.
* Venue
Utrecht is the fourth largest city in the Netherlands, with historic roots
back to the Roman Empire. Utrecht hosts one of the bigger universities in
the country, and with its historic centre and the many students it provides
and excellent atmosphere for social activities in- or outside the workshop
community. Utrecht is centrally located in the Netherlands, and has direct
train connections to the major cities and Schiphol International Airport.
TNO, organizer of MLMI 2008, is a not-for-profit research organization. TNO
speech technological research is carried out in Soesterberg, at TNO Human
Factors, and has research areas in ASR, speaker and language recognition,
and word and event spotting.
The workshop will be held in "Ottone", a beautiful old building near the
"Singel", the canal which encircles the city center. The conference hall
combines a spacious setting with a warm an friendly ambiance.
* Organizing Committee
David van Leeuwen, TNO (Organization Chair)
Anton Nijholt, University of Twente (Special Sessions Chair)
Andrei Popescu-Belis, IDIAP Research Institute (Programme Co-chair)
Rainer Stiefelhagen, University of Karlsruhe (Programme Co-chair)
* Programme Committee
* Jan Alexandersson, DFKI
* Tilman Becker, DFKI
* Samy Bengio, Google Inc.
* Herve Bourlard, IDIAP
* Lukas Burget, Brno University of Technology
* Nick Campbell, ATR
* Jean Carletta, University of Edinburgh
* Rolf Carlson, KTH
* Honza Cernocky, Brno University of Technology
http://www.mlmi.info/index.php?id=ami_career_day * Trevor Darrell, MIT
* John Dines, IDIAP
* Gerald Friedland, ICSI
* Sadaoki Furui, Tokyo Institute of Technology
* John Garofolo, NIST
* Daniel Gatica-Perez, IDIAP
* Thomas Hain, University of Sheffield
* Mary Harper, University of Maryland
* James Henderson, University of Geneva
* Hynek Hermansky, IDIAP
* Simon King, University of Edinburgh
* Denis Lalanne, University of Fribourg
* David van Leeuwen, TNO
* Yang Liu, University of Texas at Dallas (Area Chair)
* Stephane Marchand-Maillet, University of Geneva
* Jean-Claude Martin, LIMSI
* Helen Meng, Chinese University of Hong Kong
* Ludek Muller, University of West Bohemia
* Anton Nijholt, University of Twente (Area Chair)
* Fabio Pianesi, FBK-IRST (Area Chair)
* Andrei Popescu-Belis, IDIAP (Programme Co-chair)
* Gerasimos Potamianos, IBM T.J. Watson (Area Chair)
* Ganesh Ramaswamy, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
* Steve Renals, University of Edinburgh
* Gerhard Sagerer, University of Bielefeld (Area Chair)
* Tanja Schultz, University of Karlsruhe and CMU
* Nicu Sebe, University of Amsterdam
* Jan Sedivy, Google Inc.
* Elizabeth Shriberg, SRI and ICSI
* Rainer Stiefelhagen, University of Karlsruhe (Programme Co-chair)
* Jean-Philippe Thiran, EPFL
* Matthew Turk, UCSB
* Enrique Vidal, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia
* Jie Yang, CMU