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LAST CALL FOR PAPERS – HBU 2022

12th International Workshop on Human Behavior Understanding (HBU)

Focus theme: Applications for Clinical and Behavioral Sciences

Held in conjunction with ICPR 2022

Workshop website: https://www.cmpe.boun.edu.tr/hbu/2022/

Paper submission deadline: May 3rd, 2022

Notifications: June 1st, 2022

Early-bird registration deadline: June 6th, 2022

Camera-ready submission deadline: June 24th, 2022

Workshop: August 21st/25th, 2022 (to be confirmed)

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ORGANIZERS

Albert Ali Salah, Universiteit Utrecht, Netherlands, and Boğaziçi University, Turkey

Sergio Escalera, Universitat de Barcelona and Computer Vision Center, Spain

Cristina Palmero, Universitat de Barcelona and Computer Vision Center, Spain

Henning Müller, HES-SO, Switzerland

Hugo Jair Escalante, Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica, Óptica y Electrónica, México

ABOUT

Domains for human behavior understanding (e.g. multimedia, human-computer interaction, robotics, affective computing and social signal processing) predominantly rely on advanced pattern recognition techniques to automatically interpret complex behavioral patterns generated when humans interact with machines or with other agents. This is a challenging research area where many issues are still open, including the joint modeling of behavioral cues taking place at different time scales, the inherent uncertainty of machine detectable evidences of human behavior, the mutual influence of people involved in interactions, the presence of long term dependencies in observations extracted from human behavior, and the important role of dynamics in human behavior understanding. For clinical and behavioral sciences, not only accurate behavior analysis is essential, but further aspects like explainability, privacy-aware processing, and fairness are often required. The development of explainable and interpretable models for social behavior analysis would result in more trustable solutions that could be adopted by domain experts for informed decision making. Furthermore, public datasets are often difficult to obtain and share in a privacy-aware manner (particularly during Covid-19), which hampers scientific progress.

This workshop, organised as part of ICPR 2022, will gather researchers dealing with the problem of modeling human behavior under its multiple facets (expression of emotions, display of relational attitudes, performance of individual or joint actions, etc.), with particular attention to clinical settings and tools usable for behavioral scientists. Examples of challenges are automatic labeling, annotation, and reporting systems, datasets acquired from real or simulated clinical conditions, systems that focus on the analysis of interaction dynamics, early diagnosis and intervention systems, augmented telepresence, personalized agents, and multimodal approaches.

The HBU workshops, previously organized as satellite events to major conferences in different disciplines (ICPR'10, AMI'11, IROS'12, ACMMM'13, ECCV'14, UBICOMP'15, ACMMM'16, FG'18, ECCV'18, ICCV'19, WACV'21) have a unique aspect of fostering cross-pollination of disciplines, bringing together researchers from a variety of fields, such as computer vision, pattern recognition, HCI, artificial intelligence, interaction design, ambient intelligence, social signal processing, psychology, and robotics. The diversity of human behavior, the richness of multimodal data that arises from its analysis, and the multitude of applications that demand rapid progress in this area ensure that the HBU Workshops provide a timely and relevant discussion and dissemination platform.

TOPICS OF INTEREST

The topics for submission include all papers relevant to the automatic analysis and modeling of human behavior. These include, but are not limited to:

• Applications of human behavior analysis for clinical and behavioral sciences

• Explainable and interpretable models for the analysis of human behavior

• Detection, understanding, modeling and synthesis of individual and interpersonal social signals and dynamics

• Verbal / nonverbal communication analysis

• Contextual analysis in interpersonal interactions

• Datasets, annotation protocols and bias discovering/mitigation methods

• Multimodal human behavior analysis

• Fairness in human behavior analysis

• Privacy-aware processing of human behavior

• Clinical datasets and validity

• Social behaviour analysis

• Affective computing

• Human-computer interaction

• Behavioral biometrics

INVITED SPEAKERS

Juan Wachs, Purdue University, USA

Ehsan Hoque, University of Rochester, USA

Rich Caruana, Microsoft Research, USA

PAPER SUBMISSION

Submission instructions can be found at

https://www.cmpe.boun.edu.tr/hbu/2022/submission.html

Please feel free to reach out for further details.

Albert Ali Salah, Sergio Escalera, Cristina Palmero, Henning Müller, Hugo Jair Escalante

HBU 2022 Organizers

Miembros IEEE de Region 9,

Nos complace invitarlo a la 2022 IEEE Cuadragésima Convención de Centroamérica y Panamá (CONCAPAN) que se llevará a cabo en la Ciudad de Panamá (Panamá) del 9 al 12 de noviembre de 2022.

CONCAPAN es uno de los eventos tecnológicos internacionales más importantes de la industria eléctrica en la región centroamericana que reúne a cientos de profesionales, desarrolladores e investigadores de la industria y la academia que trabajan en todas las áreas de la ingeniería eléctrica.

Lo invitamos a presentar ponencias que aborden los siguientes temas:

• Energía eléctrica
• Telecomunicaciones
• Informática y tecnología de la información
• Procesamiento de señales
• Ingeniería en medicina y biología.
• Aplicaciones industriales
• Robótica, automatización y control
• Sistemas aeroespaciales y electrónicos
• Tecnología vehicular y sistemas inteligentes de transporte

Todos los artículos completos (en inglés) revisados por pares y presentados en la conferencia serán sometidos para una posible publicación en IEEE Xplore.

La convocatoria de trabajos ya está abierta en

https://www.esimposio.com/concapanxl/

Agradecemos su apoyo en la promoción de esta importante conferencia internacional entre sus colegas y en la presentación de artículos para ponencias.

Su presencia en esta conferencia es importante para nosotros. Esperamos verle allí.

Saludos cordiales,

Carlos A. Medina C.
Programa Técnico

Para obtener más detalles, siga el enlace:

https://www.ieee.org/concapan2022

IEEE Region 9 Members,

We take great pleasure in inviting you to the 2022 IEEE 40^th Central America and Panama Convention (CONCAPAN) that will take place in Panamá City (Panama) next November 9 – 12, 2022.  

 CONCAPAN is one of the most important international technological events of the electrical industry in the Central American region that brings together hundreds of professionals, developers and researchers from the industry and academy that work in all areas of electrical engineering.

We invite submissions for papers addressing the following topics:

• Power & Energy
• Telecommunications
• Computing and Information Technology
• Signal processing
• Engineering in Medicine and Biology
• Industry Applications
• Robotics, Automation, and Control
• Aerospace and Electronic Systems
• Vehicular Technology and Intelligent Transportation Systems

All peer-reviewed full conference papers (in English) presented will be submitted for publication in IEEE Xplore.

The call for papers is already open at

https://www.esimposio.com/concapanxl/

We would appreciate your support in promoting this important international conference among your colleagues, and in submitting academic papers.

Your presence at this conference is important to us. We look forward to seeing you there.

Sincerely,

Carlos A. Medina C.
Technical Program Chair

For more details, please follow the link:

https://www.ieee.org/concapan2022