Connectionists: ICMI 2022: Grand Challenge | Call for Workshop Papers

[Raj Sharma]

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ICMI 2022
24th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction
https://icmi.acm.org/2022/
7-11 Nov 2022, Bengaluru, India
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GENEA Challenge
The GENEA Challenge 2022: Full-body speech-driven gesture generation
https://icmi.acm.org/2022/grand-challenges/

The GENEA (Generation and Evaluation of Non-verbal Behaviour for Embodied
Agents) Grand Challenge 2022 aims at bringing together researchers that use
different methods for non-verbal-behaviour generation and evaluation, and
hopes to stimulate the discussions on how to improve both the generation
methods and the evaluation of the results.

The challenge topic is speech-driven gesture generation. Participants are
provided a large, common dataset of speech (audio+aligned text) and 3D
motion to develop their systems, and then use these systems to generate
motion on given test inputs. The generated motion clips are rendered onto a
common virtual agent and evaluated for aspects such as motion quality and
appropriateness in a crowdsourced user study. More details will be
available when the dataset is released. You can refer to the previous
challenge here
<https://genea-workshop.github.io/2020/#gesture-generation-challenge> (be
aware that the challenge dataset is different from the previous one).

More details about the challenge can be found here:
https://genea-workshop.github.io/2022/challenge/

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Call for Workshop Papers
https://icmi.acm.org/2022/workshops/

The 24th International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2022)
invites papers for its focussed workshops.  Visit the individual workshop
webpage given below to know more.
<https://icmi.acm.org/2022/workshops/#1>

   <https://icmi.acm.org/2022/workshops/#1>
   - <https://icmi.acm.org/2022/workshops/#1>Workshop on Multimodal Affect
   and Aesthetic Experience <https://icmi.acm.org/2022/workshops/#1>
   - Voice Assistant Systems in Team Interactions – Implications, Best
   Practice, Applications, and Future Perspectives (VASTI’22)
   <https://icmi.acm.org/2022/workshops/#2>
   - The GENEA Workshop 2022: The 3rd Workshop on Generation and Evaluation
   of Non-verbal Behaviour for Embodied Agents
   <https://icmi.acm.org/2022/workshops/#3>
   - 2nd International Workshop on Deep Video Understanding
   <https://icmi.acm.org/2022/workshops/#4>
   - MSECP-Wild: The 4th Workshop on Modeling Socio-Emotional and Cognitive
   Processes from Multimodal Data In-the-Wild
   <https://icmi.acm.org/2022/workshops/#5>
   - 3rd Workshop on Social Affective Multimodal Interaction for Health
   (SAMIH) <https://icmi.acm.org/2022/workshops/#6>

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