Connectionists: CBMI 2025: Special Session on Understanding Human Behaviour, Emotions and their Reasons

[Ioan Marius Bilasco]

Dear All,

Apologies for cross-posting.

Following the success of UHBER at CBMI 2024, we are organising special 
session again at CBMI 2025:

*UHBER: Multimodal Data Analysis for Understanding of Human Behaviour, 
Emotions and their Reasons*

This 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.

In 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.

Humans 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:

  * Use 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.
  * Methods for information fusion, including information from various
    heterogeneous sources.
  * Methods to learn human traits and preferences from long term
    observations.
  * Methods to detect human implicit feedback from past and current
    observations.
  * Methods to assess task performance: skills, emotions, confusion,
    engagement in the task and/or context.
  * Methods to detect potential security and safety threats and risks.
  * Methods 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.
  * How to collect data for training AI methods from various sources,
    e.g., internet, open data, field pilots etc.
  * Use of behavioural or emotional data to model humans and adapt
    services either online or in physical spaces.
  * Ethics and privacy issues in modelling human emotions, behaviour,
    context and reasons.

*The conference proceedings will be published by IEEE*. All submitted 
papers must conform to theIEEE manuscript templates for conference 
proceedings 
<https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html>and the 
instructions it provides.

*Special 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:https://www.cbmi2025.org*

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*Submit your paper athttps://www.conftool.pro/cbmi2025*

*And please remember to choose UHBER in the submission tool.*

**

*Submission Deadline: 23 Apr 2025 (AoE), will be probably extended.
Notification: 1 Jul 2025 (AoE)
Camera-ready & Registration: 1 Aug 2025 (AoE)*

*Conference: October 22-24 Dublin, Ireland*

https://www.cbmi2025.org/cfp/special-sessions/ 
<https://www.cbmi2025.org/cfp/special-sessions/>
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