[Graphics-net] CFP: 5th Conf on Articulated Motion and Deformable Objects

Mon Jan 14 16:45:49 EET 2008

Second Call for Papers

Fifth Conference on Articulated Motion and Deformable Objects (AMDO 2008)

Andratx, Mallorca, Spain
9-11 July, 2008
http://dmi.uib.es/~ugiv/AMDO2008
email: amdo at uib.es
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The Spanish Association for Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis (AERFAI) and
the Mathematics and Computer Science Department of UIB are organising the fifth
international conference AMDO 2008 that will take place in Puerto de Andratx, 
Mallorca. This conference, IAPR endorsed, is the natural evolution of the AMDO's 
previous workshops. The goal of this conference is to promote interaction and 
collaboration among researchers working directly in the areas covered by the main 
tracks. New perceptual user interfaces and the emerging technologies strengthen the 
relationship between areas involved with human-computer interaction. The new perspective 
of the AMDO 2008 conference will be to strengthen the relationship between the many 
areas that have as  the key point the study of the human body using computer 
technologies as the main tool. It is a great opportunity to encourage links between 
research in the areas of computer vision, computer graphics, advanced multimedia 
applications and multimodal interfaces that share common problems and frequently 
use similar techniques or tools. In this particular edition the related topics are 
divided in several parallel tracks, including the topics above proposed. 

AMDO 2008 will consist of three days of lecture sessions, both regular and invited 
presentations, a poster session and international tutorials. The conference fee 
includes a social program (conference dinner, coffee breaks, snacks and cultural 
activities). Students, IAPR, EG, and  AERFAI members can register at a reduced fee.

The invited speakers are: 
    Prof. M. Pantic (Imperial College London, UK / Univ. of Twente, Netherlands), 
    Prof. E. Boyer (LJK / UJF / INRIA Rhone-Alpes, France)
    Prof. J. Abascal (Univ. of Pais Vasc, Spain)

TOPICS INCLUDE (but not restricted to):
   Track 1: Computer Graphics (Human Modelling & Animation)
   Track 2: Human Motion (Analysis, Tracking, 3D Reconstruction & Recognition)
   Track 3: Multimodal User Interaction (VR & AR, Speech, Biometrics)
   Track 4: Advanced Multimedia Systems (Standards, Indexed Video Contents)

PAPER SUBMISSION AND REVIEW PROCESS 

Papers should describe original and unpublished work about the above or closely 
related topics. Please submit your paper electronically to:

http://dmi.uib.es/~ugiv/AMDO2008/openconf/openconf.php

using the software provided. All submissions should be in Adobe Acrobat (pdf). The 
AMDO2008 secretariat must receive your paper before February 22, 17:00 (GMT).
Up to 10 A4 pages will be considered. All papers submitted will be subjected to a 
blind review process by at least three members of the program committee. The initial 
paper must not provide names and affiliation, and should include a title, a 150-word 
abstract, keywords and paper manuscript. Accepted papers will appear in the LNCS 
Springer-Verlag international proceedings that will be published and distributed to 
all participants at the workshop. For more details and news, visit our web page
(given above). 
N.B. Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to register and 
to present the communication at the conference, if accepted.

IMPORTANT DEADLINES:
Submission of papers February 22, 2008
Notification of acceptance March 31, 2008
Camera-ready April 30,2008
Early registration   May 31, 2008
Late registration June 30, 2008
V AMDO Conference 2008 July 9-11, 2008

CONFERENCE VENUE:
    Hotel Mon Port ****, Puerto de Andratx, Mallorca, Spain http://www.hotelmonport.com

GENERAL CO-CHAIRS:

F. J. Perales  (Computer Science Dep. UIB)
B. Fisher (IPAB, University of Edinburgh)

ORGANISING COMMITTEE: Gonzalez M., Igelmo A., Mas R., Jaume A., Mascar??M., Palmer 
P, Manresa C., Varona X., Buades, J. M., Abasolo M.J., Mir??M., Fiol  G., Arellano D., Rossi J., 
Nicolau G.  (Dep. Math & Computer Science, UIB).

PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
Aggarwal, J. K (Univ. of Texas, USA )
Badler, N. I (Univ. of Pennsylvania, USA )
Bartoli, A. (CNRS - LASMEA, France) 
Baumela, L. (Univ. Technical of Madrid, Spain)
Brunet, P. (Univ. Polytechnic Catalunya , Spain )
Boulic, R. (EPFL, Switzerland)
Boyer, E. (LJK / UJF / INRIA Rhone-Alpes, France)
Bowden, R. (Univ. of Surrey , UK )
Campilho A. (Univ. of Oporto , Portugal )
Caplier, A. (GIPSA-lab/DIS, France)
Cohen, I. (Honeywell ACS Labs, USA)
Coll, T. (DMI-UIB, Spain)
Davis, L. S. (Univ. of Maryland, USA) 
Del Bimbo, A. (Univ. di Firenze, Italy)
Dogan, S. (I-Lab/centre CCSR, Univ Surrey, UK)
Dugelay, J. L. (Eurecom, France)
Flerackers, E. (LUC/EDM, Belgium)
Flores, J. (Mar-USC, Spain)
G??el, M. ( fleXilution , Germany) 
Gong, S. (QM Westfield Coll, UK)
Gonz??ez, J. (IRI, CSIC-UPC, Spain) 
Gonzalez, M. (UIB-DMI, Spain) 
Hilton, A. (Univ. of Surrey, UK)
Jorge, Joaquim A. (Techn. Univ of Lisboa, Portugal) 
Kakadiaris, I. A, (Univ fo Houston, USA)
Kittler, J. (Univ. of Surrey, UK)
Kunii, T. L. (University of Hosei, Japan)
Long Q. (Hong Kong Univ. of S &T, China)
Matey, L. (CEIT, Spain)
Medioni, G. (Univ. of Southern California, USA)
Metaxas, D. (Univ. of Pennsylvania, USA)
Murino V. (Univ. Verona, Italy) 
Pantic M. (Imperial College London, UK / Univ. of Twente, Netherlands)
Pla, F. (Univ. Jaume I, Spain)
Perez de la Blanca, N. (Univ. Granada, Spain)
Radeva, P. (CVC-UAB, Spain) 
Qin, H (Stony Brook Univ, New York, USA)
Sanfeliu, A. (IRI, CSIC-UPC, Spain)
Santos-Victor, J. (IST, Portugal)
Seron, F. (Univ. of Zaragoza, Spain)
Shirai, Y. (Univ. of , Osaka , Japan)
Skala, V. (Univ. of West Bohemia, Czech Rep)
Susin, A. (Univ. Polytechnic Catalunya, Spain)
Tavares J.M, (University of Porto, Portugal) 
Terzopoulos, D. (Univ. of New York, USA) 
Teixeira, J. C. (FCTUC, Portugal) 
Van Gool, L. (Computer Vision Lab, ETH Switzerland)
Vetter, Th. (Univ. Basel, Switzerland)
Wang, L. (Univ. of Melbourne, Australia)
Thalmann, D. (EPFL, Switzerland)
Villanueva, J. J. (UAB-CVC, Spain)
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: A.Nijholt at ewi.utwente.nl 
  To: siggraph-l at acm.uiuc.edu ; graphics-net at iit.demokritos.gr ; sigmm at pi4.informatik.uni-mannheim.de 
  Sent: Monday, January 14, 2008 1:45 AM
  Subject: [SIGMM] Preliminary CfP: Facial and Bodily Expressions forControl and Adaptation of Games (ECAG '08)

  Call for Papers

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  Facial and Bodily Expressions for Control and Adaptation of Games (ECAG '08)

  http://hmi.ewi.utwente.nl/conference/ECAG08 

  Workshop organized in conjunction with the 2008 IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (http://www.fg2008.nl/), September 16, Amsterdam

  Facial and Bodily Expressions for Control and Adaptation of Games

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  Many interactive systems observe the human body and face and use these as a means for input. Examples are playing a boxing game using body movements, mimicking the user's facial expressions in Second Life, controlling a robot in a home environment, or adapting the teaching strategy based on the detection of frustration in a tutoring application. In these examples, observations of the face and body are used in different forms, depending on whether the user has the initiative and consciously uses his or her movements and expressions to control the interface or whether the application takes the initiative to adapt itself to the affective state of the user as it can be interpreted from the user's expressive behavior. Hence, we look at: 

  Voluntary control

  The user consciously produces facial expressions, head movements or body gestures to control a game. This includes commands that allow navigation in the game environment or that allow movements of avatars or changes in their appearances (e.g. showing similar facial expressions on the avatar's face, transforming body gestures to emotion-related or to emotion-guided activities). Since the expressions and movements are made consciously, they do not necessarily reflect the (affective) state of the gamer.

  Involuntary control

  The game environment detects, and gives an interpretation to the gamer's spontaneous facial expression and body pose and uses it to adapt the game to the supposed affective state of the gamer. This adaptation can affect the appearance of the game environment, the interaction modalities, the experience and engagement, the narrative and the strategy that is followed by the game or the game actors.

  We are soliciting papers that discuss research into this area, with a strong focus on applications. We consider the domain of entertainment, (serious) gaming and simulation. In addition to video-based observation, we also consider other means of input, including multi-modal approaches. Technical papers, as well as survey papers and empirical papers are eligible.

  Authors are invited to submit papers (between six and fifteen pages), using the formatting guidelines of the main conference. Papers will be refereed by at least three reviewers. Accepted papers will appear in paper proceedings with ISSN/ISBN. Send papers to anijholt at cs.utwente.nl.

  Registration

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  Registration is open for all FG2008 participants and for others. Registration fee is €50. Details about registration will follow later.

  Important Dates

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  Submission Deadline: June 15, 2008

  Acceptance: July 15, 2008

  Final Paper Submissions: September 1, 2008

  Registration: Not later than September 1, 2008

  Workshop: 16 September, 2008

  Programme Chairs and Organizers

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  Anton Nijholt (HMI, University of Twente, the Netherlands)

  Ronald Poppe (HMI, University of Twente, the Netherlands)

  Program Committee

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  Jeremy Bailenson (Stanford University, USA)

  Nadia Berthouze (University College London, UK)

  Antonio Camurri (Universty of Genova, Italy)

  Yun Fu (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)

  Hatice Gunes, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia

  Mitsuru Ishizuka (University of Tokyo, Japan)

  Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann (University of Geneva, Switzerland)

  Christopher Peters, Université de Paris 8, France

  Mannes Poel, University of Twente, the Netherlands

  Gang Qian, Arizona State University, USA

  Rainer Stiefelhagen (University of Karlsruhe, Germany)

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