In conjunction with ICCV 2021 (virtual) (Oct 11th- Oct 17th, 2021)
Website: https://vision4vitals.github.io
Codalab: https://competitions.codalab.org/competitions/31978
CMT is open: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/V4V2021
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Call for Papers | Participation: ICCV’2021 Understanding Social Behavior in Dyadic and Small Group Interactions Workshop and Challenge
June 15th, 2021 
Daniela Lopez de Luise Workshop description
http://chalearnlap.cvc.uab.es/workshop/44/description/
Human interaction has been a central topic in psychology and social sciences, aiming at explaining the complex underlying mechanisms of communication with respect to cognitive, affective and behavioral perspectives. From a computational point of view, research in dyadic and small group interactions enables the development of automatic approaches for detection, understanding, modeling and synthesis of individual and interpersonal social signals and dynamics. Many human-centered applications for good (e.g., early diagnosis and intervention, augmented telepresence and personalized agents) depend on devising solutions for such tasks.
Verbal and nonverbal communication channels are used in dyadic and small group interactions to convey our goals and intentions while building a common ground. During interactions, people influence each other based on the cues they perceive. However, the way we perceive, interpret, react, and adapt to them depends on a myriad of factors (e.g., our personal characteristics, either stable or transient; the relationship and shared history between individuals; the characteristics of the situation and task at hand; societal norms; and environmental factors). To analyze individual behaviors during a conversation, the joint modeling of participants is required due to the existing dyadic or group interdependencies. While these aspects are usually contemplated in non-computational dyadic research, context- and interlocutor-aware computational approaches are still scarce, largely due to the lack of datasets providing contextual metadata in different situations and populations.
Topics and Motivation: In line with these, we would like to bring together researchers in the field and from related disciplines to discuss the advances and new challenges on the topic of dyadic and small group interactions. We want to put a spotlight on the strengths and limitations of the existing approaches, and define the future directions of the field. In this context, we accept papers addressing the issues related to, but not limited to, these topics:
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Detection, understanding, modeling and synthesis of individual and interpersonal social signals and dynamics;
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Verbal / nonverbal communication analysis in dyadic and small groups;
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Contextual analysis in dyadic and small groups;
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Datasets, annotation protocols and bias discovering/mitigation methods in dyadic and small groups;
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Interpretability / Explainability in dyadic and small groups;
Workshop papers will be published in two different venues, detailed next.
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Papers submitted following our “ICCV Workshop schedule” will use the ICCV format and will be published in the proceedings of ICCV’2021.
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Paper submission (ICCV): July 25, 2021
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Author notification (ICCV): September 10th, 2021
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Camera-ready (ICCV): September 16th, 2021
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Papers submitted following our “PMLR Workshop schedule” will use the PMLR format and will be published in Proceedings of Machine Learning Research (PMLR).
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Paper submission (PMLR): October 31th, 2021
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Author notification (PMLR): November 30th, 2021
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Camera-ready (PMLR): December 20th, 2021
INVITED SPEAKERS:
Louis-Philippe Morency, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Alexander Todorov, Princeton University, USA
Hatice Gunes, University of Cambridge, UK
Daniel Gatica-Perez, IDIAP, Switzerland
Qiang Ji, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA
Yaser Sheikh, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Norah Dunbar, UC Santa Barbara, USA
Challenge description
http://chalearnlap.cvc.uab.es/challenge/45/description/
To advance and motivate the research on visual human behavior analysis in dyadic and small group interactions, the challenge will use a large scale, multimodal, and multiview (UDIVA) dataset recently collected by our group, which provides many related challenges. It will address two different problems, divided in two competition tracks:
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Automatic self-reported personality recognition of single individuals (i.e., a target person) during a dyadic interaction, from two individual views.
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Behavior forecasting: the focus of this track will be to estimate future (up to N frames) 2D facial landmarks, hand, and upper body pose of a target individual in a dyadic interaction.
In both tasks, multiview and multimodal information (audio-visual, transcriptions, context and medatada) are expected to be exploited to solve the problem.
Important Dates:
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Dataset access request period open: 18th May, 2021
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Start of the Challenge (development phase): June 1st, 2021
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Start of test phase: September 1st, 2021
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End of the Challenge: September 17th, 2021
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Release of final results: September 30th, 2021
Top winning solutions will be invited to give a talk to present their work at the associated ICCV 2021 ChaLearn workshop (http://chalearnlap.cvc.uab.es/workshop/44/description/).
ORGANIZATION and CONTACT*
Sergio Escalera*, Computer Vision Center (CVC) and University of Barcelona, Spain <sergio.escalera.guerrero@gmail.com>
Cristina Palmero*, Computer Vision Center (CVC) and University of Barcelona, Spain <c.palmero.cantarino@gmail.com>
Wei-Wei Tu, 4Paradigm Inc., China
Albert Clapés, Computer Vision Center (CVC), Spain
Julio C. S. Jacques Junior, Computer Vision Center (CVC/UAB), Spain
Sponsors: This event is sponsored by ChaLearn, 4Paradigm Inc., and Facebook Reality Labs. University of Barcelona, Computer Vision Center at Autonomous University of Barcelona, and Human Pose Recovery and Behavior Analysis (HuPBA) group, are the co-sponsors of the Challenge.
Prizes: Top winning solutions will be invited to give a talk to present their work at the associated ICCV 2021 ChaLearn workshop, will receive a winning certificate and will have free ICCV registration. Our sponsors are also offering the following prizes:
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Track 1: Top-1 solution: 1000$ / Top-2 solution: 500$ / Top-3 solution: 300$
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Track 2: Top-1 solution: 1000$ / Top-2 solution: 500$ / Top-3 solution: 300$
Honorable mention: based on the significance of the result in a particular trait/s (track 1) or body part (track 2) and the level of novelty/originality of the solution, in addition to top-3 solutions, we may announce additional honorable mentions, which will also receive a winning certificate and a free ICCV registration.
IC-MSQUARE 2021, 2nd Call for Papers
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FINAL Call for Position Papers — 16th Conference on Computer Science and Intelligence Systems (FedCSIS’2021; ranked B in CORE2021) — ONLINE, 2-5 September, 2021
June 15th, 2021 Daniela Lopez de Luise 16th Conference on Computer Science and Intelligence Systems (FedCSIS’2021)
Online, 2-5 September, 2021
FedCSIS is ranked B in CORE2021
FedCSIS IEEE conference number: #52320
Strict submission deadline: June 14th, 2021, 23:59 UCT (no extensions)
********************* COVID-19 Information *********************
While we have planned the 2021 conference to take place in Sofia,
Bulgaria, slow progress in fighting the global pandemic has forced us to
switch to the fully online mode. Therefore, we plan to organize FedCSIS
2022 in Sofia, and hope that by that time COVID will be over, and we
will be able to meet in person.
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Please feel free to forward this announcement to your colleagues and
associates who could be interested in it.
The FedCSIS 2021 Federated Conference invites submissions of POSITION
PAPERS to its respective events. Position papers must not exceed 8 pages
and they should relate to an ongoing research or experience. Position
papers will be presented by the authors alongside regular papers.
Position papers may be also submitted as DEMO PAPERS and presented as
demonstrations of software tools and products. They should describe
non-for-profit software tools in a prototype-, alpha-, or beta-version.
We invite TWO TYPES OF POSITION PAPERS:
– EMERGING RESEARCH PAPERS present preliminary research results from
work-in-progress based on sound scientific approach but presenting work
not completely validated as yet. They must describe precisely the
research problem and its rationale. They must also define the intended
future work including the expected benefits from solution to the tackled
problem.
– CHALLENGE PAPERS propose and describe research challenges in theory or
practice of computer science and information systems. The papers in this
category must be based on deep understanding of existing research or
industrial problems and should be defining new promising research
directions.
FedCSIS TRACKS AND TECHNICAL SESSIONS
The FedCSIS 2021 consists of five conference Tracks, hosting Technical
Sessions, and a Doctoral Symposium:
Track 1: Advanced Artificial Intelligence in Applications (16th
Symposium AAIA'21)
*Computational Optimization (14th Workshop WCO'21)
Track 2: Computer Science & Systems (CSS'21)
* Actors, Agents, Assistants, Avatars (1st Workshop 4A'21)
* Computer Aspects of Numerical Algorithms (14th Workshop CANA'21)
* Multimedia Applications and Processing (14th International
Symposium MMAP'21)
* Scalable Computing (12th Workshop WSC'21)
Track 3: Network Systems and Applications (NSA'21)
* Internet of Things – Enablers, Challenges and Applications
(5th Workshop IoT-ECAW'21)
* Cyber Security, Privacy and Trust (2nd International Forum
NEMESIS'21)
Track 4: Advances in Information Systems and Technologies (AIST'21)
* Data Science in Health, Ecology and Commerce (3rd Special
Session DSH'21)
* Information Systems Management (16th Conference ISM'21)
* Knowledge Acquisition and Management (27th Conference KAM'21)
Track 5: Software, System and Service Engineering (S3E'21)
* Cyber-Physical Systems (8th Workshop IWCPS-8)
* Software Engineering (41th IEEE Workshop SEW-41)
* Advances in Programming Languages (8th Workshop WAPL'21)
Recent Advances in Information Technology (7th Doctoral Symposium
DS–RAIT'21)
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
* David Bader
New Jersey Institute of Technology
Keynote title: Solving Global Grand Challenges with High Performance
Data Analytics
* Rajkumar Buyya,
Cloud Computing and Distributed Systems (CLOUDS) Lab, The University of
Melbourne, Australia; and CEO, Manjrasoft Pvt Ltd, Melbourne, Australia
Keynote title: Neoteric Frontiers in Cloud and Edge Computing
* Hristo Djidjev
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Keynote title: Using quantum annealing for discrete optimization
* Moshe Y. Vardi
Rice University
Keynote title: Lessons from COVID-19: Efficiency vs Resilience
ZDZISŁAW PAWLAK BEST PAPER AWARD
The Professor Zdzisław Pawlak Awards are given in the following categories:
• Best Paper Award (€600)
• Young Researcher Paper Award (€400)
• Industry Cooperation Award (€400)
• International Cooperation Award (€400)
All papers accepted to FedCSIS are eligible to be considered as the
award winners.
This award will be awarded independently from awards given by individual
FedCSIS events (Tracks and/or Technical Sessions).
Past Award winners can be found here: https://fedcsis.org/2021/zp_award
POSITION PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION:
Position papers will be published as a Volume of the Annals of Computer
Science and Information Systems series (https://annals-csis.org/), with
an ISBN, ISSN and DOI numbers. The papers will be submitted for indexing
to DBLP Computer Science Bibliography and Google Scholar (see, also:
https://annals-csis.org/indexation). The Annals-CSIS volume will NOT be
placed in the IEEE Digital Library and will NOT be submitted to
Clarivate Analytics Web of Science.
Authors should submit a position paper in English, carefully checked for
correct grammar and spelling, using the on-line submission procedure.
The guidelines for paper formatting provided at the conference website
ought to be used for all submitted papers. The required submission
format is the same as the camera-ready format. Please check, and
carefully follow, the instructions and templates provided. Papers that
are out of the conference scope of the selected event, or that contain
any form of (self)plagiarism will be rejected without reviews. All
position papers will be refereed before inclusion in the conference program.
IMPORTANT DATES
+ Position paper submission: June 14, 2021
+ Author notification: July 5, 2021
+ Final paper submission and registration: July 26, 2021
+ Conference date: September 2-5, 2021
CHAIRS OF FedCSIS CONFERENCE SERIES
Maria Ganzha, Leszek A. Maciaszek, Marcin Paprzycki
CONTACT FedCSIS AT: secretariat@fedcsis.org
ABOUT FedCSIS Conference Series
FedCSIS is an annual international conference, this year organized
jointly by the Polish Information Processing Society (PTI), IEEE Poland
Section Computer Society Chapter and Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. The
mission of the FedCSIS Conference Series is to provide a highly
acclaimed forum in computer science and information systems. We invite
researchers from around the world to contribute their research results
and participate in Technical Sessions focused on their scientific and
professional interests in computer science and information systems.
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