Affective Computing Conference. Submission Deadline March 23 2009
The Third International Conference on Affective Computing and
Intelligent Interaction (ACII 2009)
September 10-12, 2009
Amsterdam, the Netherlands
http://www.acii2009.nl
Sponsored by HUMAINE Association and University of Twente
Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE
*** Submission Deadline — March 23, 2009 ****
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SCOPE AND PAPERS
The conference series on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction is
the premier international forum for state of the art in research on
affective and multimodal human-machine interaction and systems. Every other
year the ACII conference plays an important role in shaping related
scientific, academic, and higher-education programs. This year, we are
especially soliciting papers discussing Enabling Behavioral and
Socially-Aware Human-Machine Interfaces in areas including psychology and
cognition of affective and social behaviour in HCI, affective and social
behaviour analysis and synthesis, affective and social robotics. General
conference topics will include:
* Recognition & Synthesis of Human Affect
(face/ body/ speech/ physiology/ text analysis & synthesis)
* Affective & Behavioural Interfaces
(adaptive/ human-centered/ collaborative/ proactive interfaces)
* Affective & Social Robotics
(robot’s cognition & action, embodied emotion, bio-inspired architectures)
* Affective Agents
(emotion, personality, memory, reasoning, and architectures of ECA)
* Psychology & Cognition of Affect in Affective Computing Systems
(including cultural and ethical issues)
* Affective Databases, Evaluation & Annotation Tools
* Applications
(virtual reality, entertainment, education, smart environments and biometric applications)
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PUBLICATIONS
Accepted papers will be published by IEEE Xplorer.
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PAPER SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Paper submission will be handled electronically. Authors should prepare an
Adobe Acrobat PDF version of their full paper. All submitted papers will be
judged by at least three referees. Papers must be formatted using IEEE
Authors’ Kit (http://www.acii2009.nl/content/submission_instructions) .
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IMPORTANT DATES
March 23, 2009: Deadline for submission of regular papers.
April 27, 2009: Deadline for submission of extended abstracts for demos.
June 1, 2009: Acceptance notification
July 1, 2009: Final camera-ready papers due in electronic form.
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CONFERENCE VENUE
The 2009 conference will be held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, in De Rode
Hoed, a former Remonstrant church built in 1616 and located in the heart of
Amsterdam’s historic district. One of the leading cultural centers of
Europe, with one of the continent’s largest historical inner cities,
Amsterdam has breathtaking architecture, an extensive web of canals and side
streets, and many world-renowned museums and cultural attractions. The city
offers a wide range of accommodation, from luxury hotels to modest hostels,
and is easily accessible from the Amsterdam International Airport.
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We are looking forward to receiving your valuable contributions!
Best wishes,
Jeff Cohn, Anton Nijholt, and Maja Pantic
ACII’09 General Chairs
and
Jianhua Tao and Kostas Karpouzis
ACII’09 P
CRV Conference
CALL FOR PAPERS
Sixth Canadian Conference on Computer and Robot Vision (CRV’09)
http://www.computerrobotvision.org
Kelowna, British Columba, CANADA
May 25-37, 2009
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THE SIXTH CANADIAN CONFERENCE ON COMPUTER AND ROBOT VISION (CRV’09)
will be held on May 25-27, 2009, in Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada.
Held jointly with the Graphics Interface 2009 (GI) and the Artificial
Intelligence 2009 (AI) conferences, a single registration will permit
attendees to attend any talk in the three conferences (CRV, GI, AI),
which will be scheduled in parallel tracks.
CRV seeks contributions of complete, original research papers on any
aspect of computer vision, robot vision, robotics, medical imaging,
image processing or pattern recognition. CRV provides an excellent
environment for interdisciplinary interaction as well as for
networking of students and scientists in computer vision, robotic
vision, robotics, image understanding and pattern recognition. In
addition to the regular sessions, there will be three invited
speakers. Four paper awards will be presented: one for the best
overall paper, one for the best paper with a student as first author,
and area awards for the best paper in vision and robotics.
For more detailed information, please consult the CFP at the following
URL: http://www.computerrobotvision.org/cfp.html.
IMPORTANT DATES
Paper Submission Deadline 30 January 2009
Acceptance/Rejection notification 20 February 2009
Revised camera-ready papers due 6 March 2009
CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION
Program Co-Chairs
Frank Ferrie, McGill University
Mark Fiala, Ryerson University
More information about the conference can be found at the main site
http://www.computerrobotvision.org
Special Issue on Robot Learning Deadline Nov 8 2008
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Call For Papers: Autonomous Robots - Special Issue on Robot Learning
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Quick Facts
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Editors: Jan Peters, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics,
Andrew Y. Ng, Stanford University
Journal: Autonomous Robots
Submission Deadline: November 8, 2008
Author Notification: March 1, 2009
Revised Manuscripts: June 1, 2009
Approximate Publication Date: 4th Quarter, 2009
Abstract
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Creating autonomous robots that can learn to act in unpredictable
environments has been a long standing goal of robotics, artificial
intelligence, and the cognitive sciences. In contrast, current
commercially available industrial and service robots mostly execute
fixed tasks and exhibit little adaptability. To bridge this gap,
machine learning offers a myriad set of methods some of which have
already been applied with great success to robotics problems. Machine
learning is also likely play an increasingly important role in
robotics as we take robots out of research labs and factory floors,
into the unstructured environments inhabited by humans and into other
natural environments.
To carry out increasingly difficult and diverse sets of tasks, future
robots will need to make proper use of perceptual stimuli such as
vision, lidar, proprioceptive sensing and tactile feedback, and
translate these into appropriate motor commands. In order to close
this complex loop from perception to action, machine learning will be
needed in various stages such as scene understanding, sensory-based
action generation, high-level plan generation, and torque level motor
control. Among the important problems hidden in these steps are
robotic perception, perceptuo-action coupling, imitation learning,
movement decomposition, probabilistic planning, motor primitive
learning, reinforcement learning, model learning, motor control, and
many others.
Driven by high-profile competitions such as RoboCup and the DARPA
Challenges, as well as the growing number of robot learning research
programs funded by governments around the world (e.g., FP7-ICT, the
euCognition initiative, DARPA Legged Locomotion and LAGR programs),
interest in robot learning has reached an unprecedented high point.
The interest in machine learning and statistics within robotics has
increased substantially; and, robot applications have also become
important for motivating new algorithms and formalisms in the machine
learning community.
In this Autonomous Robots Special Issue on Robot Learning, we intend
to outline recent successes in the application of domain-driven
machine learning methods to robotics. Examples of topics of interest
include, but are not limited to:
• learning models of robots, task or environments
• learning deep hierarchies or levels of representations from sensor
& motor representations to task abstractions
• learning plans and control policies by imitation, apprenticeship
and reinforcement learning
• finding low-dimensional embeddings of movement as implicit
generative models
• integrating learning with control architectures
• methods for probabilistic inference from multi-modal sensory
information (e.g., proprioceptive, tactile, vision)
• structured spatio-temporal representations designed for robot
learning
• probabilistic inference in non-linear, non-Gaussian stochastic
systems (e.g., for planning as well as for optimal or adaptive
control)
From several recent workshops, it has become apparent that there is a
significant body of novel work on these topics. The special issue will
only focus on high quality articles based on sound theoretical
development as well as evaluations on real robot systems.
Time Line
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Submission Deadline: November 8, 2008
Author Notification: March 1, 2009
Revised Manuscripts: June 1, 2009
Approximate Publication Date: 4th Quarter, 2009
Editors
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Inquiries on this special issue should be send to one of the editors
listed below.
Jan Peters (http://www.jan-peters.net/)
Senior Research Scientist, Head of the Robot Learning Laboratory
Department for Machine Learning and Empirical Inference, Max Planck
Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tuebingen, Germany
Andrew Y. Ng (http://ai.stanford.edu/~ang/)
Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science, Stanford University, Palo Alto, USA_______________________________________________
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CVPR_2008 Conference and Workshop Media
To browse through the CVPR 2008 Conference DVD click here.
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Face and Gesture workshop: Facial and Bodily Expressions for Control and Adaptation of Games
Call:
http://hmi.ewi.utwente.nl/conference/ECAG08
Deadline: June 15
ICDL 2008: Deadline for Papers is March 14
This year is in Monterrey, California
August 9th-12th, 2008.
http://www.icdl08.org/
Important dates:
Feb. 15 Special session proposals due
March 14 Full 6-page paper submissions due
March 21 Tutorial proposals due
April 14 Notification of accept/reject
April 18 1-page poster abstracts due
May 9 Camera-Ready Copy due
AAAI deadline soon
AAAI may also be a decent venue for some of the projects done in mplab. Here is a link to past conferences to get an idea: http://www.aaai.org/Library/conferences-library.phpThe deadline for the 2008 conference is Jan 30, though some have abstracts due on the 25th. Here’s the link: http://www.aaai.org/Conferences/AAAI/aaai08.php
ICML and UAI deadlines soon
ICML and UAI have about the same audiences as NIPS. I’m not sure what should make you choose ICML versus UAI. They are opposite in schedule as NIPS: submit in winter, conference in summer. So a lot of people basically make two conference trips per year. This year UAI, ICML, and COLT are at the same place and location.Feb 8: ICML deadlineFeb 27: UAI abstract deadline, Feb 29 full submission. http://uai2008.cs.helsinki.fi/cfps.shtml
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