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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The </span><font face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Computer
Vision and Machine Learning for Healthcare Applications </span></font><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">special issue aims to collect latest approaches
and findings, as well as to discuss the current challenges of machine learning and computer vision based e-health and welfare applications. The focus is on the employment of single or multi-modal face, gesture and pose analysis. We expect this special issue
to increase the visibility and importance of this area, and contribute, in the short term, in pushing the state of the art in the automatic analysis of human behaviors for health and wellbeing applications.</span><br>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:</span></p>
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<li style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Multi-modal integration</span></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Psychological profiling from (audio)-visual and/or multi-modal data</span></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Approaches based on psychology behavioral models</span></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Mobile-based and human-computer interaction applications</span></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">User-understanding in human-computer interaction</span></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Human behavior analysis for health and well-being support</span></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Assistive technologies for supporting vulnerable people</span></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Virtual avatars and coaching</span></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Physical and psychological therapy systems</span></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Assistive care</span></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">User acceptance of empathic assistive systems</span></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Real-time applications</span></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Datasets</span></li></ul>
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<span style="margin:0px; font-size:18.67px"><b>Important dates</b></span><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 18.67px; color: rgb(200, 38, 19);"><b><span> - extended!</span></b></span></p>
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<u><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(200, 38, 19);"><b style="color: rgb(200, 38, 19);">Paper submission deadline:</b></span><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(200, 38, 19);"><b><span style="color: rgb(200, 38, 19);"> 30th</span></b></span><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(200, 38, 19);"><b style="color: rgb(200, 38, 19);"> August,
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<span style="margin:0px; line-height:normal; font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Cristina Palmero (Universitat de Barcelona and Computer Vision Center, Spain)</span></p>
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of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) and SPIN RG, Spain</span><span lang="en-US" style="margin: 0px; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">)</span></p>
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<span style="margin:0px; line-height:normal; font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Bjorn W. Schuller (Imperial College London, UK, and University of Augsburg, Germany)</span></p>
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