Welcome

IEEE International Workshop on Social Signal Processing

Mission
The ability to understand and manage social signals of a person we are communicating with is the core of social intelligence. Social intelligence is a facet of human intelligence that has been argued to be indispensable and perhaps the most important for success in life. A widely accepted prediction is that next-generation computing needs to include the essence of social intelligence – the ability to recognize and generate social signals and social behaviours – in order to become more eﬀective and more eﬃcient. Due to this vision of the future, automated analysis and synthesis of social signals and social behaviors, including turn taking, politeness, and disagreement, have attracted increasing attention from various research communities including Computer Vision, Audio and Signal Processing, Computer Animation, and Artificial Intelligence research communities.

The SSP workshop is aimed towards bringing together scientists from a wide range of theoretical and application areas whose work impacts modeling, machine analysis, and machine synthesis of social signals and human social behavior. Its goal is to provide a state-of-the-art overview of paradigms and challenges in this novel, but steadily growing research field.

The 1st Int'l SSP workshop will be held in Amsterdam, Netherlands, in conjunction with the International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII-2009).

We seek to attract contributions representing the state-of-the-art efforts to model human social signals and social behaviors, to develop algorithms that can process naturally occurring human social communication, to decode communicative intent, to synthesize social signals and behaviors, and to react appropriately to the user's communicative intent .

Relevant topics for the workshop include but are by no means limited to:

- Social Signal Processing and Socially-aware computing
- Social Psychology
- Facial expression analysis and synthesis
- Human gesture and action recognition and synthesis
- Expressive speech analysis and synthesis
- Multimodal data fusion and Multimodal human behavior analysis and synthesis
- Socially-adapt Embodied Conversational Agents
- Perceptual and multimodal, socially-aware user interfaces
- Applications (deception detection, ambient intelligence, e-learning, etc.)
- Databases for training and testing

The program will be single track with posters, the contributions will be published by IEEE and included in a separate volume of ACII 2009 proceedings.

Program
The program is available at the following link.

Important Dates
Paper Submission: June 15th, 2009
Notification of paper acceptance: July 5th, 2009
Upload of camera ready paper: July 15th, 2009
Workshop: Sunday, September 13th, 2009

Call for Papers
Papers should describe high-quality original research that has direct implications and contributions to machine analysis of naturally occurring human social behaviour. 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 Social Signal Processing.

Instructions for Authors
- Authors must follow the format guidelines of ACII 2009 (click on this link)
- Papers can be submitted by clicking on this link.

Organization

General Chairs
- Maja Pantic (Imperial College London and University of Twente)
- Alessandro Vinciarelli (Idiap Research Institute)

Program Committee
- Shazia Afzal (University of Cambridge)
- Nick Campbell (Trinity College Dublin)
- Roddy Cowie (Queens University Belfast)
- Beat Fasel (University of Basel)
- Daniel Gatica-Perez (Idiap Research Institute)
- Thomas Hain (University of Sheffield)
- Dilek Hakkani Tur (ICSI-Berkeley)
- Emile Hendriks (Technical University Delft)
- Dirk Heylen (University of Twente)
- Kostas Karpouzis (National Technical University of Athens)
- Denis Lalanne (University of Fribourg)
- Ian McCowan (CSIRO)
- Marc Mehu (University of Geneva)
- Louis-Philippe Morency (University of Southern California)
- Ioannis Patras (Queen Mary University London)
- Catherine Pelachaud (CNRS)
- Isabella Poggi (RomaTre University)
- Alex Potamianos (Universty of Crete)
- Steve Renals (University of Edinburgh)
- Marc Schroeder (DFKI)
- Bjorn Schuller (Technical University Munchen)
- Nicu Sebe (University of Trento)
- Rainer Stiefelhagen (University of Karlsruhe)
- Zihong Zeng (University of Texas)

The workshop is organized by the Social Signal Processing Network (SSPNet)

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