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<b>3AS</b> @ ICIAP2025<br>
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<b>4th Automatic Affect Analysis and Synthesis Workshop</b><br>
In conjunction with the <a
href="https://sites.google.com/view/iciap25"
moz-do-not-send="true">23rd International Conference on Image
Analysis and Processing</a> (ICIAP)<br>
Rome, Italy<br>
15 September 2025<br>
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<b>Workshop Chairs</b><br>
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Nadia Bianchi-Berthouze, University College of London, UK<br>
Luigi Celona, University of Milano-Bicocca Italy<br>
Vittorio Cuculo, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy<br>
Alessandro D'Amelio, University of Milano, Italy<br>
Javier Lorenzo Navarro, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria,
Spain<br>
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<b>Scientific Program Committee</b><br>
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Leonardo Alchieri, Università della Svizzera italiana, Switzerland<br>
Hane Aung, Cornell University, USA<br>
Giuseppe Boccignone, University of Milano, Italy<br>
Carlos Busso, University of Texas Dallas, USA<br>
Pedro J.S. Cardoso, University of Algarve, Portugal<br>
Gianluigi Ciocca, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy<br>
Livia Del Gaudio, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia<br>
Sabrina Patania, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy<br>
Michael Valstar, University of Nottingham, UK<br>
Guoying Zhang, University of Oulu, Finland<br>
(others to be confirmed)<br>
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<b>Important Dates</b><br>
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Paper submission deadline: 14 June 2025<br>
Paper acceptance notification: 1 July 2025<br>
Paper camera ready due: 10 July 2025<br>
Registration: TBA<br>
Workshop date: 15 September 2025<br>
<p><b>Call for papers</b><br>
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<p>Affective computing is a research field dedicated to endowing
machines with the ability to recognize, interpret, and generate
emotions, enhancing human-computer interaction in applications
such as virtual assistants, storytelling, and immersive
experiences. This workshop focuses on two key areas: Affective
Understanding and Affective Generation. Affective Understanding
involves analyzing human emotions using multimodal data, including
visual, auditory, textual, and physiological signals. Key
challenges include ensuring transparency with explainable AI,
protecting sensitive emotional data through privacy-preserving
techniques, and mitigating bias to promote fairness and
inclusivity. Affective Generation focuses on producing emotionally
expressive content or responses that elicit specific reactions in
humans. The rise of Large Language Models (LLMs) and Multimodal
Large Language Models (MLLMs) has significantly advanced this
field, enabling more sophisticated emotional modeling and response
generation.<br>
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We invite original contributions that address a wide range of
theoretical and practical issues, including but not limited to:<br>
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<li>Emotion recognition in large-scale multimodal datasets;</li>
<li>Sentiment analysis leveraging deep learning techniques;</li>
<li>Affective computing in generative AI applications;</li>
<li>Large Language Models (LLMs) and Multimodal Large Language
Models (MLLMs) for affective computing;</li>
<li>Bias mitigation strategies in emotion-aware models;</li>
<li>Privacy-enhancing techniques for affective data processing;</li>
<li>Explainability and fairness in AI-driven emotional analysis;</li>
<li>Emotion-aware reinforcement learning;</li>
<li>Affective computing applications in robotics and human-robot
interaction;</li>
<li>Interactive affective content creation for entertainment and
media;</li>
<li>Novel datasets and benchmarks for emotion recognition;</li>
<li>Affective applications: medical, assistive; virtual reality;
entertainment; ambient intelligence; multimodal interfaces.</li>
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<p>All the accepted workshop papers will be published by Springer
LNCS in a separate proceedings book. Furthermore, selected papers
of the workshop will be invited to be extended for a special issue
on a leading international journal.<br>
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