CVPR4HB 2011 - CVPR4HB 2011 : Fourth IEEE Workshop on CVPR for Human Communicative Behavior Analysis

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

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.

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 open 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 (tentative)

Lourdes Agapito Queen Mary, University London, UK
Yiannis Aloimonos University of Maryland, USA
Nadia Berthouze University College London, UK
Aaron Bobick Georgia Tech, USA
Richard Bowden University of Surrey, UK
Edmond Boyer INRIA, France
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
Daniel Gatica-Perez IDIAP, Switzerland
Qiang Ji Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA
Seong-Whan Lee Korea University, Korea
Aleix Martinez Ohio State University, USA
Peter McOwan Queen Mary University, UK
Louis P. Morency 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
Ioannis Pitas University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Stan Sclaroff Boston University, USA
Bjoern Schuller Technical University of Munich, Germany
Nicu Sebe University of Trento, Italy
Alessandro Vinciarelli University of Glasgow, UK
Yaser Yacoob University of Maryland, USA
Ming-Hsuan Yang University of California, Merced, USA
Lijun Yin Binghamton University, USA
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%)
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)