Fourth IEEE Workshop on CVPR for

Human Communicative Behavior Analysis

Colorado Springs, USA, Saturday June 25th, 2011, held in conjunction with CVPR 2011

 

Mission

A widely accepted prediction is that computing will move to the background, weaving itself into the fabric of our everyday living spaces and projecting the human user into the foreground. To realize this prediction, next-generation computing will need to develop anticipatory user interfaces that are human-centered, built for humans, and based on naturally occurring multimodal human communication. Emerging interfaces will need to include the capacity to understand and emulate human communicative intentions as expressed through behavioral cues such as affective and social signals.

Important Dates

Paper submission (firm deadline):           Friday, April 8th, 2011, 11.59 pm PST
Notification of paper acceptance:           Monday, April 25th, 2011
Upload of camera ready paper:                Friday, April 29th, 2011
Workshop:                                                  Saturday, June 25th, 2011    (FINAL PROGRAM (pdf)) (PRESENTATIONS (recordings))   

Call for Papers

Papers should describe high-quality original research that has direct implications and contributions to machine analysis of naturally occurring human communicative behavior. All areas of human-human, human-environment, and human-computer interaction will be considered subject to the constraint that the submission makes an important contribution to the field of computer vision and/or pattern recognition. Survey papers are welcome and encouraged. Authors interested in submitting a survey article may want to contact Maja Pantic (m.pantic AT imperial.ac.uk) prior to submission.

Areas of interest include but are by no means limited to:

¨       Human affect analysis and Affective computing

¨       Social Signal Processing and Socially-aware computing

¨       Facial expression analysis

¨       Human gesture and action recognition

¨       Multimodal human behavior analysis

¨       Learning and multimodal data fusion

¨       Perceptual and multimodal user interfaces

¨       Sign language analysis and recognition

¨       Ambient intelligence

¨       Databases for training and testing

All accepted papers will be archived in IEEE Xplore with the CVPR 2011 proceedings.

Call for Award: Outstanding Young Researcher in Automatic Human Behaviour Analysis (pdf)

This award is made annually for distinguished early-career research contributions in machine analysis of human behavior. To be eligible, nominees must be within two years of earning their PhD. The Award is sponsored by the European Research Council Starting Grant agreement no. ERC-2007-StG-203143 (MAHNOB) and is administered by the Awards Committee of the CVPR4HB Workshop Organization.

This year's award winner is Assistant Professor Xiaogang Wang (cv). Xiaogang is invited to give a Keynote lecture on his work on analyzing human behaviors in crowded and complex scenes during the CVPR4HB workshop.

Submission Policy

In submitting a manuscript to this workshop, the authors acknowledge that no paper substantially similar in content has been submitted to another conference or workshop.

Manuscripts should be in the CVPR paper format.

Authors should submit papers as a PDF file.

Papers accepted for the workshop will be allocated 6 pages in the proceedings.

CVPR4HB reviewing is double blind. Reviewing will be by members of the program committee. Each paper will receive at least two reviews. Acceptance will be based on relevance to the workshop, novelty, and technical quality.

Submission and reviewing will be handled via the EasyChair system.

The system is now closed for submissions!

General Chairs

Maja Pantic, Imperial College London, UK / University of Twente, Netherlands

Jeffrey Cohn, University of Pittsburgh / Carnegie Mellon University, USA

Bjoern Schuller, technical University Munich, Germany

Matthew Turk, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA

Roddy Cowie, Queen’s University Belfast, UK

Thomas S. Huang, Beckman Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA


Program Committee

Vassilis Athitsos          University of Texas, Arlington, USA

Nadia Berthouze          University College London, UK

Aaron Bobick               Georgia Tech, USA

Ioan Buciu                    University of Oradea, Romania

Rama Chellappa          University of Maryland, USA

Trevor Darrell               University of California, Berkeley, USA

Fernando De la Torre   CMU, USA

Ahmed Elgammal         Rutgers University, USA

Hatice Gunes                 Imperial College London, UK

Adrian Hilton                University of Surrey, UK

Qiang Ji                          Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA

Irene Kotsia                   Queen Mary University, UK

Aleix Martinez             Ohio State University, USA

Louis P. Morency         University of South California, USA

Shri Narayanan             University of South California, USA

Anton Nijholt               University of Twente, Netherlands

Ioannis Patras                Queen Mary University, UK

Vladimir Pavlovic        Rutgers University, USA

Alex Pentland               MIT, USA

Matti Pietikainen         University of Oulu, Finland

Nicu Sebe                      University of Trento, Italy

Rainer Stiefelhagen     Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany

Michel Valstar              Imperial College London, UK

Yaser Yacoob                University of Maryland, USA

Ming-Hsuan Yang        University of California, Merced, USA

Lijun Yin                        Binghamton University, USA

Stefanos Zafeiriou         Imperial College London, UK


Email for all inquiries: m.pantic AT imperial.ac.uk

Previous Workshops

CVPR4HB’10, San Francisco, California, held in conjunction with CVPR’10

(acceptance rate: 38%; oral presentations: 22%) (PRESENTATIONS (recordings))

CVPR4HB’09, Miami, Florida, held in conjunction with CVPR’09

(acceptance rate: 35%; oral presentations: 20%)

CVPR4HB’08, Anchorage, Alaska, held in conjunction with CVPR’08

(acceptance rate: 45%; oral presentations: 27%)


Sponsor

EC FP7 Social Signal Processing Network of Excellence (SSPNet)