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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=FR link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>---------------------------------------------------------<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Apologies for multiples copies<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>---------------------------------------------------------<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:70.8pt;text-indent:35.4pt'><span lang=EN-US>Call for Papers<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Video Processing for Human Behavioral Analysis (VP-HBA) Track<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:35.4pt'><a href="http://phuselab.di.unimi.it/VP-HBA2021/"><span lang=EN-US>http://phuselab.di.unimi.it/VP-HBA2021/</span></a><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-right:28.2pt;text-align:justify'><b><span lang=EN-US>Motivations and topics<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>The ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC) has been a primary gathering forum for applied computer scientists, computer engineers, software engineers, and application developers from around the world. SAC 2021 is sponsored by the ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing (SIGAPP), and will be held in Gwangju, Korea. The Second Edition of the technical track on Video Processing for Human Behavioral Analysis (VP-HBA) will be organized in SAC 2021.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>The automated understanding of a wide range of human activities from visual as well as multimodal data still remains a source of challenging topics. This track mainly intends to focus on all aspects of computer vision, pattern recognition and machine intelligence devoted to the automatic analysis of human behavior by applying recent or novel video and multimodal data processing techniques.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>The scope of VP-HBA includes, but is not limited to, the following topics:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Human behavior analysis from visual and multimodal information<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Information fusion for the analysis of human behavior<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Affective computing and interaction<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Cognitive interaction understanding<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Visual attention models and systems<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Crowd and social behavior understanding<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Human and group action recognition<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Human-machine interaction<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Databases for human-human interaction<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Scene understanding<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Automatic tracking in videos<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Social networks analysis<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Modeling and simulation of human interactions <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Multimodal dyadic interaction<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Artificial intelligence for human interaction analysis<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Pervasive computing for human interaction understanding<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Computer vision for health emergencies<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Gesture and gait analysis<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Applications of behavior analysis methods, e.g., in medicine, sports and games, well-being, security, environment<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-right:28.2pt;text-align:justify'><b><span lang=EN-US>Submission Guidelines<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-right:28.2pt;text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US>Authors are invited to submit original and unpublished papers of research and applications for this track. <i>The author(s) name(s) and address(es) must not appear in the body of the paper, and self-reference should be in the third person. This is to facilitate <b>double-blind review</b></i>. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-right:28.2pt;text-align:justify'><i><span lang=EN-US>Please, visit the website for more information about submission<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-right:28.2pt;text-align:justify'><i><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-right:28.2pt;text-align:justify'><b><span lang=EN-US>SAC No-Show Policy <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-right:28.2pt;text-align:justify'><u><span lang=EN-US>Paper registration is required</span></u><span lang=EN-US>, allowing the inclusion of the paper/poster in the conference proceedings. <u>An author or a proxy attending SAC MUST present the paper</u>. This is a requirement for the paper/poster to be included in the ACM digital library. No-show of registered papers and posters will result in excluding them from the ACM digital library.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-right:28.2pt;text-align:justify'><b><span lang=EN-US>Important Dates</span></b><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Submission of regular papers: September 15, 2020<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Notification of acceptance/rejection: November 10, 2020<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Camera-ready copies of accepted papers: November 25, 2020<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=IT>SAC Conference: March 22 - 26, 2021<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=IT><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=IT>Donatello Conte<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=IT>Giuliano Grossi<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Jianyi Lin<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Jean-Yves Ramel<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>(General chairs)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>