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Dear colleagues,

due to several requests the deadline for the Special Issue 
in the <i>Pattern Recognition Letters Journal</i> on

"Pattern Recognition in Human-Computer-Interatio<i><b>n"</b></i> 

has been extended to FEBRUARY 20, 2014.

Please find the CfP below and at 

<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.uni-ulm.de/fileadmin/website_uni_ulm/iui.inst.130/Mitarbeiter/schwenker/CfP.pdf">https://www.uni-ulm.de/fileadmin/website_uni_ulm/iui.inst.130/Mitarbeiter/schwenker/CfP.pdf</a>

With best regards, 
Friedhelm Schwenker (SI Guest Editor)

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Recognition

            in Human-Computer-Interaction</span></i></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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            style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">Pattern Recognition
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            style="mso-spacerun:yes">  </span>New Submission deadline:
          February 20, 2014 ***</span></b><span
        style="color:red;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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        mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">Building intelligent artificial
        companions capable to interact with humans in the same way
        humans interact with each other is a major challenge in
        affective computing. Such a type of interactive companion must
        be able to perceive<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">  </span>and
        interprete multimodal information about the user in order to be
        able to produce an appropriate response. The proposed special
        issue mainly focuses on pattern recognition and machine learning
        methods for the perception of the user’s affective states,
        activities and intentions. <o:p></o:p></span><span
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        interest include (yet, they are not limited to) the following
        issues.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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        mso-bidi-font-family:Courier">A. Algorithms to recognize
        emotions, behaviors, activities and intentions<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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        major-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:Courier">Facial expression
        recognition<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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        major-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:Courier">Recognition of
        gestures, head/body poses<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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        recognition<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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        bio-physiological data for emotion recognition<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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        fusion architectures<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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        Systems and Multi View Classifiers<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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        for social signal processing<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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        unlabeled and partially labeled data<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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        noisy/uncertain labels<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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        architectures<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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        series<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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        major-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:Courier">Robotics<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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        major-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:Courier">Assistive systems<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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        mso-bidi-font-family:Courier">D. Benchmark data bases<o:p></o:p></span><o:p> </o:p>
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        font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:Courier">This special
        issue invites paper submissions on the most recent developments
        in human computer interaction research rooted in pattern
        recognition. The special issue will comprise (1) papers
        submitted in response to this call, and (2) extended versions of
        selected papers from the recent, successful MPRSS 2012 and MPRSS
        2013 workshops sponsored by the International Association for
        Pattern Recognition.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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        font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:Courier">MPRSS 2012:
        November 11, 2012 Tsukuba, Japan </span><a
        href="http://neuro.informatik.uni-ulm.de/MPRSS2012/"><span
          style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Calibri;
          mso-bidi-font-family:Courier">http://neuro.informatik.uni-ulm.de/MPRSS2012/</span></a><o:p></o:p><o:p> </o:p>
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        font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:Courier">MPRSS 2013:
        June 15, 2013, Lausanne, Switzerland, </span><a
        href="http://neuro.informatik.uni-ulm.de/MPRSS2012/"><span
          style="font-size:
11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:Courier">http://neuro.informatik.uni-ulm.de/MPRSS2013/</span></a><span
        style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Calibri;

        mso-bidi-font-family:Courier"> </span><o:p></o:p><b
        style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span
          style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:
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    </p>
    <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-outline-level:1"><b
        style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span
          style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:
          13.0pt;font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:Courier">Paper
          submission<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal"
      style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;
      mso-pagination:none"><span
        style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:13.0pt;
        font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:Courier">The papers
        must be submitted online via the Pattern Recognition Letters
        Journal website (<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
          href="http://ees.elsevier.com/patrec/">http://ees.elsevier.com/patrec/</a>),
        selecting the choice that indicates this special issue
        (identifier: PR-HCI). Please, prepare your paper following the
        Journal guidelines for Authors (<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/505619/authorinstructions">http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/505619/authorinstructions</a>),
which

        include specifications for submissions aimed at Special Issues.
        Priority will be given to the papers with high novelty and
        originality.</span><o:p></o:p><span
        style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:13.0pt;
        font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:Courier"><o:p></o:p></span><span
        style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:13.0pt;
        font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:Courier"><o:p> </o:p></span>
    </p>
    <p class="MsoNormal"
      style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;
      mso-pagination:none"><b><span
          style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri;
          mso-ascii-theme-font:major-latin;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times
          New Roman";
          mso-hansi-theme-font:major-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times
          New Roman"">Submission templates</span></b><span
        style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri;
        mso-ascii-theme-font:major-latin;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times
        New Roman";
        mso-hansi-theme-font:major-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times
        New Roman""> (for both LaTex and MW Word users) are
        available and it is mandatory that  submissions are prepared  by
        using these templates. Potential contributors will find the
        templates in the guidelines for Authors  in the PRLetters
        webpage.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal"
      style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;
      mso-hyphenate:auto;tab-stops:35.4pt"><span
        style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:
        Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:major-latin;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times

        New Roman";
        mso-hansi-theme-font:major-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times
        New Roman"; mso-fareast-language:DE">Submissions to the SI
        can be<b> at most 10 pages long</b> (in the PRLetters layout).
        This is different from what has been done until a few weeks ago,
        where Word/Figure-/Table counting was done at EES to check
        whether a paper had been prepared according to the rules or had
        to be sent back to Authors for editing. Now only page counting
        is done at the EES ASA department and papers longer than 10
        pages will be sent back to Authors to shorten them. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none"><span
        style="font-size:11.0pt;
mso-bidi-font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:Courier">If
you

        are not sure on whether your manuscripts matches the aims and
        scope of this special issue or not, do not hesitate to get in
        touch with the guest editors at any time.</span><o:p></o:p><o:p></o:p><o:p> </o:p>
    </p>
    <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-outline-level:1"><b
        style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span
          style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:
          13.0pt;font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:Courier">Guest
          editors<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal"
      style="mso-pagination:none;mso-outline-level:1;tab-stops: 11.0pt
      36.0pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><i
        style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span
          style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:
          14.0pt;font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:major-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:

          major-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">Friedhelm Schwenker
          (Managing Editor)<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal"
      style="mso-pagination:none;mso-outline-level:1;tab-stops: 11.0pt
      36.0pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><i
        style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span
          style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:
          14.0pt;font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:major-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:

          major-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">Institute of Neural
          Information Processing<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal"
      style="mso-pagination:none;mso-outline-level:1;tab-stops: 11.0pt
      36.0pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><i
        style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span
          style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:
          14.0pt;font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:major-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:

          major-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">Ulm University,
          Germany<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal"
      style="mso-pagination:none;mso-outline-level:1;tab-stops: 11.0pt
      36.0pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><a
        href="mailto:friedhelm.schwenker@uni-ulm.de"><i
          style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><span
            style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt;font-family:
            Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:major-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:major-latin;

            mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">friedhelm.schwenker@uni-ulm.de</span></i></a><i
        style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span
          style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:
          14.0pt;font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:major-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:

          major-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal"
      style="mso-pagination:none;mso-outline-level:1;tab-stops: 11.0pt
      36.0pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><i
        style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span
          style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:
          14.0pt;font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:major-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:

          major-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:11.0pt
      36.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><i
        style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><span
          style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt;font-family:
          Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:major-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:major-latin;

          mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">Stefan Scherer<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:11.0pt
      36.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><i
        style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><span
          style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt;font-family:
          Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:major-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:major-latin;

          mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">Multimodal Communication and
          Computation Laboratory<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:11.0pt
      36.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><i
        style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><span
          style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt;font-family:
          Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:major-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:major-latin;

          mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">Institute for Creative
          Technologies<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:11.0pt
      36.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><i
        style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><span
          style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt;font-family:
          Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:major-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:major-latin;

          mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">University of Southern California<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:11.0pt
      36.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><a
        href="mailto:scherer@ict.usc.edu"><i
          style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span
            style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Calibri;
            mso-ascii-theme-font:major-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:major-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:

            Arial">scherer@ict.usc.edu</span></i></a><i
        style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span
          style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Calibri;
          mso-ascii-theme-font:major-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:major-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:

          Arial"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:11.0pt
      36.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><i
        style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><span
          style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt;font-family:
          Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:major-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:major-latin;

          mso-bidi-font-family:Arial"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:11.0pt
      36.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><i
        style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><span
          style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt;font-family:
          Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:major-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:major-latin;

          mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">Louis-Philippe Morency<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:11.0pt
      36.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><i
        style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><span
          style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt;font-family:
          Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:major-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:major-latin;

          mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">Multimodal Communication and
          Computation Laboratory<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:11.0pt
      36.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><i
        style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><span
          style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt;font-family:
          Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:major-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:major-latin;

          mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">Institute for Creative
          Technologies<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:11.0pt
      36.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><i
        style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><span
          style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt;font-family:
          Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:major-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:major-latin;

          mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">University of Southern California<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:11.0pt
      36.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><a
        href="mailto:morency@ict.usc.edu"><i
          style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span
            style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Calibri;
            mso-ascii-theme-font:major-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:major-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:

            Arial">morency@ict.usc.edu</span></i></a></p>
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