Workshop program is out!

3rd Automatic Affect Analysis and Synthesis Workshop

in conjunction with the 22nd Int. Conf. on Image Analysis and Processing (ICIAP), Sept. 11-15, 2023, Udine, Italy

Call for papers

Affective computing is a research field that tries to endow machines with the ability to recognize, interpret and express emotions. On the one hand, the ability to automatically handle human emotions is crucial in many human-computer interaction applications. On the other hand, people express emotions through a complex series of actions relating to facial expression, body movements, gestures, voice prosody accompanied by a variety of physiological signals, such as heart rate, perspiration, etc.

Thus, goals set by affective computing involve a number of challenging issues on how systems should be conceived, built, validated, and compared.

In this perspective, we are soliciting original contributions that address a wide range of theoretical and practical issues including, but not limited to:

Facial expression analysis, recognition and synthesis;
Body gesture and movement recognition;
Affective speech analysis, recognition and synthesis;
Heart rate monitoring from videos;
Emotion analysis from physiological signs;
Multimodal affective computing;
Privacy-preserving affect sensing and modeling;
Explainability and transparency in the context of affective computing;
Affect understanding and synthesis;
Computational visual aesthetics;
Recognition of group emotion;
Tools and methods of annotation for provision of emotional corpora;
Affective applications: medical, assistive; virtual reality; entertainment; ambient intelligence; multimodal interfaces.

All the accepted workshop papers will be published by Springer LNCS in a separate proceedings book. Furthermore, selected papers of the workshop will be invited to be extended for a special issue on a leading international journal.

Dates

Paper submission deadline: 7 July 2023
Paper acceptance notification: 7 August 2023
Paper camera ready due: 20 August 2023
Registration: TBA
Workshop date: 11 September 2023

All deadlines are at 23:59 UTC-12 (Anywhere on Earth).

People

Organizers

Nadia Bianchi-Berthouze, University College of London, UK
Simone Bianco, University of Milano-Bicocca Italy
Luigi Celona, University of Milano-Bicocca Italy
Vittorio Cuculo, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy
Alessandro D'amelio, University of Milano, Italy
Paolo Napoletano, University of Milano-Bicocca Italy

PC Members

Leonardo Alchieri, Università della Svizzera Italiana, Switzerland
Giuseppe Boccignone, University of Milano, Italy
Gianluigi Ciocca, University of Milan-Bicocca, Italy
Donatello Conte, Ecole Polytechnique de l’Université de Tours, France
Hatice Gunes, Cambridge University, UK
Marwa Mahmod, Cambridge University, UK
Honging Meng, Brunell University, UK
Raimondo Schettini, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy
Michael Valstar, University of Nottingham, UK

Invited speakers

Silvia Santini

Associate Professor - Università della Svizzera italiana, Switzerland

Associate Professor at the Faculty of Informatics of the Università della Svizzera italiana (USI) in Lugano, Switzerland. She previously held appointments as Assistant Professor at TU Darmstadt and as Associate Professor TU Dresden, Germany, as well as senior researcher at ETH Zurich, Switzerland. She holds a master’s degree (with honors) in telecommunication engineering from the Sapienza University of Rome and a PhD in Computer Science from ETH Zurich. Silvia’s research focus is on mobile and wearable computing and in particular on the design of novel models and systems for modelling human behaviour and supporting well-being and productivity at work. Silvia is one of the founding Editors and the current Editor-in-Chief of the Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Computing Technologies (PACM IMWUT), the leading journal for research on ubiquitous and wearable computing systems. She is a member of the Steering Committee of the UbiComp conference series and has served on the Technical Program Committees of several leading venues in the fields of mobile computing, ubiquitous and wearable computing, internet of things and cyber-physical systems, including MobiSys, SenSys, IPSN, InfoCom, and more. Silvia is also a member of USI’s University Senate and of USI’s University Council, and an engaged promoter of an inclusive leadership culture within academia and beyond.

Raffaella Lanzarotti

Associate Professor - Università di Milano

Associate Professor in Computer Engineering, doing research since 2004 in the artificial intelligence domain, focusing on perceptual computing and human sensing. Her researches have been devoted to the development of biopsychosocial models aiming at understanding human identities and affective expressions, cognitive and emotional states and, more generally, non-verbal behaviors. She has been author of more than 60 papers on international conferences and journals, and she has been principal investigator or participant of several projects focused on human wellbeing.

Submit

Instructions and Policies

Format and paper length

A paper submission has to be in English, in pdf format, and at most 12 pages (including references). The paper format must follow the same guidelines as for all ICIAP 2023 submissions.

Single-blind review policy

The review process is single blind. Authors do not know the names of the chair/reviewers of their papers.

Dual submission policy

Dual submission is not allowed. If a paper is submitted also to ICIAP and accepted, the paper cannot be published both at the ICIAP and the workshop.

Submission site

All submissions will be handled electronically via the conference's CMT Website: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/3AS2023

Proceedings

Accepted and presented papers will be published after the conference by Springer LNCS in a separate proceedings book. The will be indexed as peer-reviewed publication in the Web of Science.

Author Kit

The final manuscripts should be prepared using LaTeX2e and the author kit provided by Springer.

The author kit provides a LaTeX2e template for paper submissions.

Please refer to LNCS proceedings guidelines for detailed formatting instructions.

Springer's proceedings LaTeX templates are available on Overleaf or may be found on the Springer LNCS site, under Proceedings and Other Multiauthor Volumes.

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