<p style="margin:0px">Dear colleagues,</p><p style="margin:0px">We have received many requests for deadline extension, particularly from colleagues at the CVPR. Please find the updated CFP for the Human Behavior Understanding Workshop below. The deadline is extended to 5th of July.</p>
<p style="margin:0px">Best,</p><p style="margin:0px">Albert</p><p style="margin:0px"><br></p><p style="margin:0px"> --------------------------------------------------------------------</p>
<p style="margin:0px">Call for Papers: 4th Int. Workshop on Human Behavior Understanding (HBU'2013)</p>
<p style="margin:0px">to be held in conjunction with ACM Multimedia'2013, </p><p style="margin:0px">22 October, Barcelona, Spain</p><p style="margin:0px"><br></p>
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<p style="margin:0px">"Focus Theme: Interactions in arts, creativity, entertainment and</p>
<p style="margin:0px">edutainment"</p>
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<p style="margin:0px"><a href="http://www.cmpe.boun.edu.tr/hbu/2013/">http://www.cmpe.boun.edu.tr/hbu/2013/</a></p>
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<p style="margin:0px"><br></p><p style="margin:0px">Short Description:</p><p style="margin:0px">The Fourth Workshop on Human Behavior Understanding, organized as a</p>
<p style="margin:0px">satellite to ACM MM'2013, will gather researchers dealing with the problem</p>
<p style="margin:0px">of modeling human behavior under its multiple facets (expression of</p>
<p style="margin:0px">emotions, display of complex social and relational behaviors, performance</p>
<p style="margin:0px">of individual or joint actions, etc.), with particular attention to</p>
<p style="margin:0px">interactions in arts, creativity, entertainment and edutainment. Concrete</p>
<p style="margin:0px">examples are interactive art installations that sense and respond to their</p>
<p style="margin:0px">viewers in novel ways, persuasive and serious games, affect-sensing systems</p>
<p style="margin:0px">with educational goals, gesture-sensing tutoring systems, healthcare</p>
<p style="margin:0px">systems that improve the patients’ physical or cognitive well-being,</p>
<p style="margin:0px">playful interaction settings that serve beneficial purposes, to name a few.</p>
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<p style="margin:0px"><br></p><p style="margin:0px">The HBU Workshops, previously organized as satellite to ICPR, AMI, and IROS</p>
<p style="margin:0px">Conferences, have a unique aspect of fostering cross-pollination of</p>
<p style="margin:0px">different disciplines, bringing together researchers of multimedia,</p>
<p style="margin:0px">robotics, HCI, artificial intelligence, pattern recognition, interaction</p>
<p style="margin:0px">design, ambient intelligence, and psychology. The diversity of human</p>
<p style="margin:0px">behavior, the richness of multi-modal data that arises from its analysis,</p>
<p style="margin:0px">and the multitude of applications that demand rapid progress in this area</p>
<p style="margin:0px">ensure that the HBU Workshops provide a timely and relevant discussion and</p>
<p style="margin:0px">dissemination platform.</p>
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<p style="margin:0px"><br></p><p style="margin:0px">Keynotes:</p>
<p style="margin:0px">Dr. Pushmeet Kohli, Microsoft Research Cambridge</p>
<p style="margin:0px">Dr. Antonio Camurri, Univ. of Genova, DIBRIS, Casa Paganini - InfoMus</p>
<p style="margin:0px">Research Centre</p>
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<p style="margin:0px"><br></p><p style="margin:0px">Topics:</p>
<p style="margin:0px">The covered topics would span one or more items from the following</p>
<p style="margin:0px">topic dimensions:</p>
<p style="margin:0px"><br></p><p style="margin:0px">Human Behavior Analysis Systems</p>
<p style="margin:0px">• Action and activity recognition</p>
<p style="margin:0px">• Affect analysis</p>
<p style="margin:0px">• Social signal processing</p>
<p style="margin:0px">• Face analysis</p>
<p style="margin:0px">• Gestures and haptic interaction</p>
<p style="margin:0px">• Voice and speech analysis</p>
<p style="margin:0px">• Learning and adaptation</p>
<p style="margin:0px">• Gaze, attention and saliency</p>
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<p style="margin:0px"><br></p><p style="margin:0px">Theory and Methodology of Human Interactive Behaviors</p>
<p style="margin:0px">• Theoretical frameworks of behavior analysis</p>
<p style="margin:0px">• Data collection, annotation, and benchmarking</p>
<p style="margin:0px">• User studies and human factors</p>
<p style="margin:0px">• Interaction design</p>
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<p style="margin:0px"><br></p><p style="margin:0px">Interactive Applications</p>
<p style="margin:0px">• Visual and digital arts</p>
<p style="margin:0px">• Games and entertainment</p>
<p style="margin:0px">• Healthcare and well-being</p>
<p style="margin:0px">• Education</p>
<p style="margin:0px">• Creativity</p>
<p style="margin:0px">• Robotics</p>
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<p style="margin:0px"><br></p><p style="margin:0px">Submissions:</p>
<p style="margin:0px">Submissions must represent original material. Papers are accepted for</p>
<p style="margin:0px">review with the understanding that the same work has been neither submitted</p>
<p style="margin:0px">to, nor published in, another journal or conference. All manuscripts will</p>
<p style="margin:0px">undergo a rigorous review process by the members of the program committee.</p>
<p style="margin:0px">Reviewing is single-blind.</p><p style="margin:0px"><br></p><p style="margin:0px">The submissions will be up to 12 pages, Lecture Notes in Computer Science</p>
<p style="margin:0px">style. The proceedings will be published by Springer Verlag's LNCS Series.</p>
<p style="margin:0px">The papers of the workshop will also be indexed by the ACM Digital Library.</p><p style="margin:0px"><br></p>
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<p style="margin:0px">You can submit a paper now at:</p>
<p style="margin:0px"><a href="https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=hbu2013">https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=hbu2013</a></p><p style="margin:0px"><br></p>
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<p style="margin:0px">Important Dates:</p>
<p style="margin:0px">July 5, 2013: Submission of full papers (23:59pm GMT)</p>
<p style="margin:0px">August 2, 2013: Notification of acceptance</p>
<p style="margin:0px">August 16, 2013: Camera-ready</p>
<p style="margin:0px">October 22, 2013: Workshop</p><p style="margin:0px"><br></p>
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<p style="margin:0px">Journal Special Issue:</p>
<p style="margin:0px">There will be a post-workshop special issue at ACM Transactions on</p>
<p style="margin:0px">Interactive Intelligent Systems. All workshop authors will be invited to</p>
<p style="margin:0px">submit significantly extended and revised versions of their papers to the</p>
<p style="margin:0px">special issue.</p><p style="margin:0px"><br></p>
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<p style="margin:0px">Contact:</p>
<p style="margin:0px">Contact A.A. Salah (<a href="mailto:salah@boun.edu.tr">salah@boun.edu.tr</a>) about questions regarding HBU.</p><p style="margin:0px"><br></p>
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<p style="margin:0px">Committees:</p>
<p style="margin:0px"><br></p><p style="margin:0px">Organizing Committee:</p>
<p style="margin:0px">Albert Ali Salah, Bogaziçi Univ., Turkey.</p>
<p style="margin:0px">Hayley Hung, Delft Univ. of Technology, The Netherlands.</p>
<p style="margin:0px">Oya Aran, Idiap Research Institute, Switzerland.</p>
<p style="margin:0px">Hatice Gunes, Queen Mary Univ. of London (QMUL), UK.</p><p style="margin:0px"><br></p>
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<p style="margin:0px">Program Committee:</p>
<p style="margin:0px">Elisabeth Andre, Univ. Augsburg, Germany</p>
<p style="margin:0px">Nick Bryan-Kinns, Queen Mary Univ. London, UK</p>
<p style="margin:0px">Rafael E. Calvo, Univ. of Sydney, Australia</p>
<p style="margin:0px">Antonio Camurri, Univ. of Genova, Italy</p>
<p style="margin:0px">Jeffrey Cohn, Univ. Pittsburgh, USA</p>
<p style="margin:0px">Simon Colton, Imperial College London, UK</p>
<p style="margin:0px">Fernando de la Torre, CMU, USA</p>
<p style="margin:0px">Thierry Dutoit, Univ. Mons, Belgium</p>
<p style="margin:0px">Abdulmotaleb El Saddik, Univ. of Ottawa, Canada</p>
<p style="margin:0px">Jordi Gonzalez, UAB-CVC Barcelona, Spain</p>
<p style="margin:0px">Daniel Gonzalez-Jimenez, Gradiant, Spain</p>
<p style="margin:0px">Stefan Göbel, TU Darmstadt, Germany</p>
<p style="margin:0px">Zakia Hammal, CMU, USA</p>
<p style="margin:0px">Christian Jacquemin, LIMSI-CNRS, France</p>
<p style="margin:0px">Alejandro Jaimes, Yahoo Barcelona, Spain</p>
<p style="margin:0px">Dinesh Jayagopi, Idiap Research Institute, Switzerland</p>
<p style="margin:0px">Ben Kröse, Univ. of Amsterdam, the Netherlands</p>
<p style="margin:0px">Cem Keskin, Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK</p>
<p style="margin:0px">Dana Kulic, Univ. of Waterloo, Canada</p>
<p style="margin:0px">Matei Mancas, Univ. of Mons, Belgium</p>
<p style="margin:0px">Louis-Philippe Morency, USC, USA</p>
<p style="margin:0px">Florian 'Floyd' Mueller, RMIT, Australia</p>
<p style="margin:0px">Frank Nack, Univ. of Amsterdam, the Netherlands</p>
<p style="margin:0px">Hiroshi Okuno, Kyoto Univ., Japan</p>
<p style="margin:0px">Isabella Poggi, Univ. Roma Tre, Italy</p>
<p style="margin:0px">Thierry Pun, Univ. of Geneva, Switzerland</p>
<p style="margin:0px">Francis Quek, Virginia Tech, USA</p>
<p style="margin:0px">Ben Schouten, Eindhoven Tech. Univ., the Netherlands</p>
<p style="margin:0px">Björn Schuller, Tech. Univ. Munich, Germany</p>
<p style="margin:0px">Alan Smeaton, Dublin City Univ., Ireland</p>
<p style="margin:0px">Koray Tahiroglu, Aalto Univ., Finland</p>
<p style="margin:0px">Reiner Wichert, Fraunhofer IGD, Germany</p>
<p style="margin:0px">Giorgios Yannakakis, Univ. of Malta, Malta</p>
<p style="margin:0px"></p><div><br></div>-- <br>Dr. Albert Ali Salah<br>Bogazici University, Computer Engineering Dept.<br>34342 Bebek - Istanbul, Turkey<br>Phone: +90 212 359 (7774)<br><a href="http://www.cmpe.boun.edu.tr/~salah/" target="_blank">http://www.cmpe.boun.edu.tr/~salah/</a><br>
Bogazici University, Cognitive Science MA Program<br><a href="http://www.cogsci.boun.edu.tr" target="_blank">http://www.cogsci.boun.edu.tr</a><br>"If you are interested in Cognitive Sciences in Turkey, please consider joining the two communication groups established by the CogSci programs of METU and Bogazici Univ.; one in LinkedIn (<a href="http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=4348599" target="_blank">http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=4348599</a>) and the other in GoogleGroups: cogsci-news-tr (<a href="http://groups.google.com/group/cogsci-news-tr?hl=en)" target="_blank">http://groups.google.com/group/cogsci-news-tr?hl=en)</a>."