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Please find below the invitation to contribute to t<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">h<a href="https://affective-behavior-analysis-in-the-wild.github.io/11th" target="_blank" id="OWA518a12c7-362e-d2d7-9164-865e2fb80a97" class="x_OWAAutoLink" title="https://affective-behavior-analysis-in-the-wild.github.io/11th" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="0" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-decoration: none; margin: 0px;">e</a></span><a href="https://affective-behavior-analysis-in-the-wild.github.io/11th" target="_blank" id="OWA6f90e660-43ed-2372-6412-9b3f78a9430a" class="x_OWAAutoLink" title="https://affective-behavior-analysis-in-the-wild.github.io/11th" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="1" style="text-decoration: none; margin: 0px;"> </a><a href="https://affective-behavior-analysis-in-the-wild.github.io/11th" target="_blank" id="OWA3b603792-1609-ef96-089e-e80b3150657c" class="x_OWAAutoLink" title="https://affective-behavior-analysis-in-the-wild.github.io/11th" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="2" style="margin: 0px;"><b>11</b></a><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://affective-behavior-analysis-in-the-wild.github.io/11th" target="_blank" id="OWA99eecd55-1947-1d5b-23e8-8375aefe53ed" class="x_OWAAutoLink" title="https://affective-behavior-analysis-in-the-wild.github.io/11th" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="3" style="margin: 0px;"><b><u>th Workshop
and Competition on Affective & Behavior Analysis in-the-wild (ABAW)</u></b></a></span> to be held in conjunction with <u>European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2026.</u></div>
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(1): The <b><i>Competition</i></b> is split into the below two<b> Challenges</b>:</div>
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<u>Multi-Task Learning Challenge</u></div>
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<span style="font-weight: 500;"><u>Ambivalence/Hesitancy (AH) Video Recognition </u></span><u>Challenge</u></div>
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The first Challenge is based on a static version of the Aff-Wild2 database; the second is based on the BAH dataset. More details can be found <a href="https://affective-behavior-analysis-in-the-wild.github.io/11th" target="_blank" id="OWAd2775414-1efc-9994-fb91-2c340602498b" class="x_OWAAutoLink" title="https://affective-behavior-analysis-in-the-wild.github.io/11th" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="4" style="margin: 0px;">here</a>.</p>
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All accepted papers from the Competition will be part of the ECCV 2026 proceedings.</div>
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<b>Important Dates</b>:</div>
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><i>Team registration begins</i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>: </i> 25<i> May, 2026</i></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: normal;"><i>Final submission deadline</i></span><i>: 16 July, 2026</i></div>
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<span style="line-height: normal;"><i>Winners Announcement:</i></span> <i>18 July, 2026</i></div>
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<i>Paper Submission Deadline: </i> 20<i> July, 2026</i></div>
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<i>Review decisions sent to authors; Notification of acceptance: 10 August, 2026</i></div>
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<i>Camera ready version</i> <i>15 August, 2026</i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 12pt; color: black;">(2): The <b>Workshop</b> is a premier platform highlighting the latest advancements in multimodal analysis, generation, modeling, and understanding of
human affect and behavior in real-world, unconstrained environments. </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 12pt; color: black;">Original high-quality contributions, in terms of databases, surveys, studies, foundation models, techniques and methodologies (either uni-modal or multi-modal;
uni-task or multi-task ones) are solicited on -but are not limited to- the following topics:</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 12pt; color: black;">i) facial expression (basic, compound or other) or micro-expression analysis<br>
ii) facial action unit detection<br>
iii) valence-arousal estimation<br>
iv) physiological-based (e.g.,EEG, EDA) affect analysis<br>
v) face recognition, detection or tracking<br>
vi) body recognition, detection or tracking<br>
vii) gesture recognition or detection<br>
viii) pose estimation or tracking<br>
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x) lip reading and voice understanding<br>
xi) face and body characterization (e.g., behavioral understanding)<br>
xii) characteristic analysis (e.g., gait, age, gender, ethnicity recognition)<br>
xiii) group understanding via social cues (e.g., kinship, non-blood relationships, personality)<br>
xiv) video, action and event understanding<br>
xv) digital human modeling<br>
xvi) characteristic analysis (e.g., gait, age, gender, ethnicity recognition)</span></p>
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xvii) behaviour-aware, affective and social robotics</div>
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xviii) human-robot interaction, collaboration and communication</p>
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xix) robot perception of human affect, behaviour, intention, attention and social signals</p>
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xx) embodied AI agents, assistive robots and socially interactive robots</p>
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xxi) violence detection</p>
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xxii) autonomous driving</p>
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xxiii) domain adaptation, domain generalisation, few- or zero-shot learning for the above cases</p>
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xxiv) fairness, explainability, interpretability, trustworthiness, privacy-awareness, bias mitigation and/or subgroup distribution shift analysis for the above cases</p>
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xxv) editing, manipulation, image-to-image translation, style mixing, interpolation, inversion and semantic diffusion for all afore mentioned cases</p>
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<i>Paper Submission Deadline: </i> 20<i> July, 2026</i></div>
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<i>Review decisions sent to authors; Notification of acceptance: 10 August, 2026</i></div>
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<i>Dimitrios Kollias</i> (Queen Mary University of London, UK) </div>
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<span style="line-height: normal;"><i>Stefanos Zafeiriou </i>(Imperial College London, UK) </span></div>
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<span style="line-height: normal;"><i>Oya Celiktutan </i>(King’s College London, UK)</span></div>
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In case of any queries, please contact <span style="color: blue;"><a href="mailto:d.kollias@qmul.ac.uk" id="OWA3f4b0f0e-3af4-bced-0950-131bff3ff5de" class="x_x_x_x_x_OWAAutoLink" title="mailto:d.kollias@qmul.ac.uk" data-linkindex="5" data-loopstyle="link" data-safelink="true" style="color: blue; margin: 0px;"><u>d.kollias@qmul.ac.uk</u></a></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">on behalf of the organising committee</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">Dr Dimitrios Kollias, PhD, </span><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">FHEA, </span><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: white;">M-IEEE,
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of EECS, </span><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Queen Mary University of London</span></p>
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<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Program Director, MSc in Machine Learning for Visual Data Analytics</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"> Human Centred Computing | Predictive in vitro Models | Advanced Robotics</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">ITP registry Steering Committee Member</span></div>
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