The 6th Generation and Evaluation of Non-verbal Behaviour for Embodied Agents (GENEA) Workshop
October 27 or 28, 2025 (in person)
Held in conjunction with ACM Multimedia 2025, Dublin, Ireland
Website: https://genea-workshop.github.io/2025/workshop/

Paper submissions are now open for the 6th edition of the GENEA Workshop, focusing on the generation of non-verbal behaviours such as gesticulation, facial expressions, and gaze—a crucial component of natural interaction with embodied agents, including virtual agents and social robots.

Currently, behaviour generation is typically powered by rule-based systems, data-driven approaches like generative AI, or hybrid models. For evaluation, both objective and subjective methods are used, though their application and validity are often debated. This workshop aims to bring together researchers from diverse disciplines working on various aspects of non-verbal behaviour generation, facilitating discussion on advancing both generation techniques and evaluation methodologies.

✨ Topics of Interest

We invite original contributions on topics including (but not limited to):

• Automated synthesis of facial expressions, gestures, and gaze movements, including multimodal synthesis
• Audio-, music-, emotion-driven, or stylistic non-verbal behaviour synthesis
• Closed-loop / end-to-end non-verbal behaviour generation (from perception to action)
• Non-verbal behaviour synthesis in two-party and group interactions
• Use of LLMs/VLMs in the context of non-verbal behaviour synthesis
• New datasets, annotation methods, and analyses of existing datasets related to non-verbal behaviour
• Cross-cultural and multilingual influences on non-verbal behaviour generation
• Cognitive and affective models for non-verbal behaviour generation
• Social perception and attribution of synthesised non-verbal behaviour
• Ethical considerations and biases in non-verbal behaviour synthesis
• Subjective and objective evaluation methods for any of the above topics

📝 Submission Types

We welcome:

• Long papers (8 pages)
• Short papers (4 pages)

All submissions should follow the double-column ACM conference format used by ACM Multimedia (https://acmmm2025.org/call-for-papers/). Pages containing only references do not count toward the page limit. Papers must be submitted in PDF format via OpenReview and formatted for double-blind review. Accepted papers will be presented at the workshop and included in the companion proceedings. Submission site: https://openreview.net/group?id=acmmm.org/ACMMM/2025/Workshop/GENEA. 

🗓️ Important Dates (Anywhere on Earth, AoE)

• Paper abstract deadline: 9 July 2025
• Full submission deadline: 11 July 2025
• Notification of acceptance: 01 August 2025
• Camera-ready deadline: 10 August 2025
• Poster submission deadline: 19 September 2025
• Notification of poster acceptance: 3 October 2025
• Workshop date: 27 or 28 October 2025

✨Invited Speakers 

·      Catherine Pelachaud – CNRS-ISIR, Sorbonne University, France

·      Asli Ozyurek – Radboud University, The Netherlands

👥 Organisers

• Taras Kucherenko – Electronic Arts (EA), Sweden
• Rajmund Nagy – KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
• Alice Delbosc – Davi, The Humanizers, France
• Oya Celiktutan – King's College London, United Kingdom
• Youngwoo Yoon – ETRI, South Korea
• Gustav Eje Henter – KTH Royal Institute of Technology / Motorica AB, Sweden
• Laura Hensel – University of Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom

For more information, visit our website, contact us at genea-contact@googlegroups.com, or follow us:
🔵 @geneaworkshop.bsky.social (BlueSky)
🐦 @genea_workshop (X)
💼 LinkedIn Group

We look forward to your contributions!

We’re getting more and more excited for the 5th AutoML School, happening June 10–13 in Tübingen, Germany. The program is shaping up, and our speaker list is growing. See www.automlschool.org for details. 

Early Bird registration is still open (only until May 1st), so _now_ is the perfect time to secure your spot at a reduced rate. Our school will cover different aspects of AutoML, ranging from classic hyperparameter optimization and neural architecture search to automated model scaling, merging, and compression, agentic workflows, explainability, and cutting-edge AutoML systems. Thus, it’s the perfect research training event for anyone new to AutoML or who has just started their PhD. Our confirmed speaker list includes Anne-Laure Boulesteix (LMU Munich),  Anirudh Dagar (AWS), Aaron Klein (University of Leipzig/SCADS.AI), Balázs Kégl (Huawei France), David Salinas (University of Freiburg), Jonas Geiping (ELLIS Institute Tübingen), Jennifer D'Souza (Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology), Max Muschalik (LMU Munich), and more to come! Event Details

📍 Location: Tübingen, Germany 📆 Dates: June 10th – 13th, 2025 💡 Early Bird Discount Until May 1st 🔗 Register & Learn More: www.automlschool.org

We look forward to seeing you there!

Best regards, Katharina Eggensperger, on behalf of the organizers

SISAP 2025: 18th International Conference on Similarity Search and Applications
Reykjavik, Iceland, October 1-3, 2025
https://www.sisap.org/2025/
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Important Dates

• Abstract submission deadline: May 11, 2025 (AoE)
• Paper submission deadline: May 18, 2025 (AoE)
• Acceptance notification: July 14, 2025 (AoE)
• Camera-ready due: July 31, 2025 (AoE)

Scope

The 18th International Conference on Similarity Search and Applications (SISAP) is an annual forum for researchers and application developers in the area of similarity data management. It aims at the technological problems shared by numerous application domains, such as data mining, information retrieval, multimedia retrieval, computer vision, pattern recognition, computational biology, geography, biometrics, machine learning, and many others that make use of similarity search as a necessary supporting service. From its roots in metric indexing, SISAP has expanded to become the only international conference entirely devoted to all issues surrounding the theory, design, analysis, practice, and application of content-based and feature-based similarity search.

SISAP is recognized as a CORE Rank B conference since 2021.

The conference proceedings will be published by Springer as a volume in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series.

Paper Submissions

We welcome two categories of papers:

• Full Papers (9–14 pages): Detailed technical contributions.
• Short Papers (up to 8 pages): Innovative ideas, early results, demonstration, vision or position papers.

All submissions will be peer-reviewed through a double-blind review process and must be properly anonymized. The Best Paper Award will be recognized with a certificate and a monetary prize sponsored by Springer.

Submit your paper here

Special Sessions

In addition to regular sessions, SISAP 2025 will feature two focused special sessions:

• IRMC: Interactive Retrieval for Multimedia Collections
  Exploring user-centric interfaces, relevance feedback mechanisms, and interactive search paradigms to enhance multimedia retrieval experiences.
  Learn more about IRMC →
• BRIDGES: Bridging Past and Present – Similarity Search for Digital Cultural Heritage
  Focusing on retrieval techniques for Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums (GLAM) content, addressing technical innovations and real-world challenges in cultural heritage applications.
  Learn more about BRIDGES →

Topics of interest

Topics of interest to the SISAP community include (but are not limited to) the following:

• Similarity
• Similarity queries (k-NN, range, reverse NN, top-k, Approximate and/or precise solutions, etc.)
• Similarity measures (for vectors, graphs, structures, time series, complex data, tensors, secondary similarity, etc.)
• Similarity operations (joins, ranking, classification, categorization, filtering, etc.)
• Scalability
• Indexing and access methods for similarity-based processing
• High-performance/large-scale similarity search (distributed, parallel, etc.)
• Data management (transaction support, dynamic maintenance, etc.)
• Theory
• Models of similarity
• Intrinsic dimensionality and Curse of dimensionality
• Discriminability and contrast
• Languages for similarity databases
• Manifolds and subspaces
• Analytics, Learning, Artificial Intelligence
• Feature selection and extraction for similarity search
• Representations learning for feature extraction
• Visual analytics for similarity-based operations
• Learning/adaptive similarity measures
• Similarity in learning and mining
• Merging/combining multiple similarity modalities
• Evaluation
• Evaluation techniques for similarity queries and operations
• Cost models and analysis for similarity data processing
• Performance studies and comparisons
• Test collections and benchmarks
• Applications
• Multimedia retrieval systems
• Dense retrieval
• Vector databases
• Similarity search in emerging data domains
• Applications of similarity-based operations
• Industrial applications and case studies
• Similarity search cloud services
• Security and privacy of in similarity search
• Similarity search for forensics and security

For more information and updates, visit the SISAP 2025 website.

We look forward to seeing you in Iceland!