Connectionists: ACII 2021 - Special Session on Ordinal Affective Computing / Paper submission: 9/4!

[Georgios N Yannakakis]

Special Session on Ordinal Affective Computing

https://www.acii-conf.net/2021/special-session3/

Psychological theories and evidence from multiple disciplines including
neuroscience, economics and artificial intelligence suggest that the task
of assigning reference-based values to subjective notions is better aligned
with the underlying representations. An increasing number of studies have
reported the advantages of ordinal annotation over alternative methods
(e.g., nominal and interval descriptors) with respect to both reliability
and validity. The impact of such evidence on affective computing is
extremely important in the ways we annotate, analyze and process emotions.
The emerging approach of using ordinal representations has led to improved
performance across several tasks, including face analysis, speech
recognition, body-based affective interaction, game applications, and
retrieval of music and sounds.

Studies relying on the ordinal nature of emotions are scattered across
different venues, including several conferences related to affective
computing (ACM ICMI, IEEE FG, Interspeech, ICASSP, ACII). The second ACII
special session on the topic (the first was held in ACII 2019) has the
unique opportunity to bring together researchers working on, but not
limited to:

- Psychological methods and tools for the ordinal representation of emotions
- Statistical methods for ordinal label analysis
- Preference learning and ranking-based methods for emotion recognition
- Ordinal methods for the annotation of emotional behaviours
- Ordinal multimodal corpora
- Software for ordinal label processing

Organizers: Georgios N. Yannakakis, Carlos Busso, Shri Narayanan, and Roddy
Cowie

-- 
Georgios N. Yannakakis
Professor, Director
Institute of Digital Games
University of Malta, Msida 2080
Malta
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