WMDD 2015 - Workshop on Multimodal Deception Detection

The widespread use of deception in offline and online communication suggests the need for methods to automatically profile and identify deceivers. The 2015 International Workshop on Multimodal Deception Detection (WMDD 2015) in conjunction with the 17th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2015) will focus on multimodal and interdisciplinary approaches to deception detection as well as approaches which utilize single modality with clear potential for integration with additional modalities. Deception detection has received an increasing amount of attention due to the significant growth of digital media, as well as increased ethical and security concerns. Earlier approaches to deception detection were mainly focused on law enforcement applications and relied on polygraph tests, which had proven to falsely accuse the innocent and free the guilty in multiple cases. More recent work on deception has expanded to other applications, such as deception detection in social media, interviews, or deception in daily life. Moreover, recent research on deception detection has brought together scientists from fields as diverse as computational linguistics, speech processing, computer vision, psychology, and physiology, which makes this problem particularly appealing for multimodal processing.
Goal
The goal of this workshop is to provide the participants with a forum to foster the dissemination of ideas on computational and behavioral methodologies for deception detection. The proposed workshop will focus on multimodal approaches, taking advantage of the fact that deceptive recordings and interrogation data are multimodal in nature.