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All,</p>
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for cross-posting.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
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the success of UHBER at CBMI 2024, we are organising special
session again at CBMI 2025:</p>
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Multimodal Data Analysis for Understanding of Human Behaviour,
Emotions and their Reasons</b></p>
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special session addresses the processing of all types of data
related to understanding of human behaviour, emotion, and their
reasons, such as current or past context. Understanding human
behaviour and context may be beneficial for many services both
online and in physical spaces, e.g., for workplaces, travel and
leisure activities, for health support etc.</p>
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the context of multimedia retrieval, understanding human behaviour
and emotions could help not only for multimedia indexing, but also
to derive implicit (i.e., other than intentionally reported) human
feedback regarding multimedia news, videos, advertisements,
navigators, hotels, shopping items etc. and to improve multimedia
retrieval. For example, probably a movie recommender system should
not put tragic movie on top of recommended movies when a user is
tired and stressed.</p>
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are good at understanding other humans, their emotions and
reasons, and learning their tastes, skills and personality traits.
Hence the interest of this session is, how to improve AI
understanding of the same aspects? The topics include (but are not
limited to) the following:</p>
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of various sensors for monitoring and understanding human
behaviour, emotion / mental state / cognition, and context:
video, audio, infrared, wearables, virtual (e.g., mobile device
usage, computer usage) sensors etc.</li>
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for information fusion, including information from various
heterogeneous sources.</li>
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to learn human traits and preferences from long term
observations.</li>
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to detect human implicit feedback from past and current
observations.</li>
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to assess task performance: skills, emotions, confusion,
engagement in the task and/or context.</li>
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to detect potential security and safety threats and risks.</li>
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to adapt behavioural and emotional models to different end users
and contexts without collecting a lot of labels from each user
and/or for each context: transfer learning, semi-supervised
learning, anomaly detection, one-shot learning etc.</li>
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to collect data for training AI methods from various sources,
e.g., internet, open data, field pilots etc.</li>
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of behavioural or emotional data to model humans and adapt
services either online or in physical spaces.</li>
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and privacy issues in modelling human emotions, behaviour,
context and reasons.</li>
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conference proceedings will be published by IEEE</b>. All
submitted papers must conform to the<span
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manuscript templates for conference proceedings</a><span
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provides.</p>
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session submissions can be up to 6 pages + references in IEEE
format. The review process is single-blind, i.e. submissions do
not need to be anonymized. Please consider the submission
guidelines on the conference website:<span
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your paper at<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a
href="https://www.conftool.pro/cbmi2025"
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class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://www.conftool.pro/cbmi2025</a></b></p>
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style="background: yellow;">And please remember to choose
UHBER in the submission tool.</span></b></p>
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Deadline: 23 Apr 2025 (AoE), will be probably extended.<br>
Notification: 1 Jul 2025 (AoE)<br>
Camera-ready & Registration: 1 Aug 2025 (AoE)</b></p>
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October 22-24 Dublin, Ireland</b></p>
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lang="FI"><a
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lang="EN-GB">https://www.cbmi2025.org/cfp/special-sessions/</span></a></span></p>
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