SBA 2011 - IEEE International Workshop on Social Behavior Analysis (SBA 2011)

IEEE International Workshop on Social Behavior
Analysis (SBA 2011)

Santa Barbara, CA, 21 or 25 March 2011 (This is a one day workshop,
exact date will be announced soon), in conjunction with FG 2011

Important Dates

* Paper submission: 14 December 2010

* Notification to the authors: 13 January 2011

* Receipt of camera ready copy: 19 January 2011

Webpage: http://www.idiap.ch/~oaran/sba/index.html

There is a strong interest in fields like computer vision, audio
processing, multimedia, HCI, and pervasive computing, in designing
computational models of human interaction in realistic social
settings. Such interest is boosted by the increasing capacity to
acquire behavioral data with cameras, microphones and other fixed and
mobile sensors. Unlike the traditional HCI view, which emphasizes
communication between a person and a computer, the emphasis of an
emerging body of research has been shifting towards communicative
social behavior in natural situations, with examples such as informal
conversational settings, general workplace environments, interviews,
and meeting scenarios.

The workshop will gather, discuss, and disseminate unpublished work on
computational models and systems for the analysis of social behavior.
Given the scope of Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition conference,
we would like to focus on automatic techniques for visual analysis of
human communication and on the applications that are built on top of
it. We welcome contributions that present robust techniques for the
analysis of gestures and facial expressions in natural conversational
environments to model social behavior in everyday life and reason
about them. We also strongly encourage the participation of colleagues
from behavioral sciences: studies of nonverbal behavior and social
interaction provide highly valuable information, concepts, and
frameworks to guide automatic analysis, while efforts in automatic
analysis of social behavior provide new tools, data, and insights to
behavioral scientists interested in nonverbal behavior and social
interaction.
We invite contributions that address the following (non-exhaustive)
list of topics:

Social behavior analysis

* Analysis and recognition of visual social cues and others:

o Visual nonverbal cues (body postures, hand gestures, head
gestures, actions ...)

o Multimodal affect recognition

o Nonverbal cues from other sensors

* Multimodal computational models for the analysis, estimation,
and prediction of social behavior aspects and dimensions (interest
level, dominance, rapport, deception...) and of individual properties
affecting it (e.g., personality traits, preferences...)

* Analysis of conversational dynamics

* Multimodal data corpora for social behavior analysis

Systems and devices for capturing social behavior

* Smart camera/microphone systems

* Novel sensor technologies

* Wearable devices

* Cell phones

Socially aware systems and applications

* Computers and robots in the human interaction loop

* Individual and group self-awareness

* Educational applications

* Workplace applications

* Healthcare applications

* Game applications

* Art & creative applications

Organizers:
Oya Aran, Idiap Research Institute
Daniel Gatica-Perez, Idiap Research Institute
Louis-Philippe Morency, University of Southern California
Fabio Pianesi, University of Trento

More information can be found on the workshop web site:
http://www.idiap.ch/~oaran/sba/index.html