<h4 style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; background: white; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">Dear Connectionists,</span></h4><h4 style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; background: white; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial;"> </h4><h4 style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; background: white; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">I would like to inform you of</span></h4><h4 style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; background: white; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">Multimodal Emotion Recognition Competition 2020 (MERC 2020</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">),</span></h4><h4 style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; background: white; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">which is unique to <span style="color: rgb(0, 112, 192); line-height: normal; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">combine video, audio, and speech text data for emotion recognition</span>.</span></h4><h4 style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; background: white; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial;"> </h4><p style="line-height: 17.6px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; background: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17.6px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-size: 14.6667px;">This competition aims at developing the state-of-the-art models for emotion recognition from human-labelled facial videos.</span></p><p style="line-height: 17.6px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; background: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17.6px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-size: 14.6667px;">In each video, a Korean actor shows facial and vocal expressions of a targeted emotion while speaking a given script.</span></p><p style="line-height: 17.6px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; background: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17.6px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-size: 14.6667px;">All these emotion labels are tagged by human evaluators.</span></p><p style="line-height: 17.6px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; background: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17.6px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-size: 14.6667px;">The participants are expected to submit their <b>multimodal integration recognition results</b> for the test dataset.</span></p><h4 style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; background: white; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial;"> </h4><h4 style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; background: white; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">To provide fair condition, the dialogue texts are converted into embedding vectors and</span></h4><h4 style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; background: white; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">NO KNOWLEDGE ON SPECIFIC LANGUAGE IS REQUIRED!</span></h4><p style="line-height: 17.6px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"> </p><p style="line-height: 17.6px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 19.2px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">Please visit the EVAL.AI webpage for more information at</span></p><p style="line-height: 17.6px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 19.2px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><a href="https://eval.ai/web/challenges/challenge-page/692/phases"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 16px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://eval.ai/web/challenges/challenge-page/692/phases</span></a></span></p><p style="line-height: 17.6px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"> </p><p style="line-height: 17.6px; word-break: keep-all; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><strong><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(157, 157, 157); background: white; font-weight: normal; line-height: 19.2px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">Organized by:</span></strong><span class="fs-16" style="line-height: 17.6px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background: white; line-height: 19.2px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"> KAIST Institute of AI</span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 19.2px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"> <br><strong><span style="color: rgb(157, 157, 157); background: white; font-weight: normal; line-height: 19.2px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Ends on:</span></strong><span class="fs-16" style="line-height: 19.2px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span style="background: white; line-height: 19.2px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> Nov 24, 2020 8:59:59 AM. </span></span> </span></p><p style="line-height: 17.6px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"> </p><p style="line-height: 17.6px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 19.2px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">best regards,</span></p><p style="line-height: 17.6px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"> </p><p style="line-height: 17.6px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 19.2px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">Dr. Soo-Young Lee,</span></p><p style="line-height: 17.6px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 19.2px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">PI, Korean Flagship AI Project on Emotional Conversational Agents</span></p><p style="line-height: 17.6px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 19.2px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">Professor Emeritus, School of Electrical Engineering / Institute for Artificial Intelligence</span></p><p style="line-height: 17.6px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 19.2px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology</span></p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; line-height: 17.6px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"> </p>
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Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology</p></body></html>
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