2nd International Audio/Visual Emotion Challenge and Workshop
facing continuous emotion representation
In conjunction with ICMI 2012, October 22-26, Santa Monica, California, USA (downloadable pdf version of the call for participation).
OrganisersBjörn Schuller TUM, Germany
Michel Valstar University of Nottingham, UK michel.valstar@nottingham.ac.uk
Roddy Cowie Queen’s University Belfast, UK
Maja Pantic Imperial College London, UK |
ScopeThe Audio/Visual Emotion Challenge and Workshop (AVEC 2012) will be the second competition event aimed at comparison of multimedia processing and machine learning methods for automatic audio, visual and audiovisual emotion analysis, with all participants competing under strictly the same conditions. The goal of the challenge is to provide a common benchmark test set for individual multimodal information processing and to bring together the audio and video emotion recognition communities, to compare the relative merits of the two approaches to emotion recognition under well-defined and strictly comparable conditions and establish to what extent fusion of the approaches is possible and beneficial. A second motivation is the need to advance emotion recognition systems to be able to deal with naturalistic behavior in large volumes of un-segmented, non-prototypical and non-preselected data as this is exactly the type of data that both multimedia retrieval and human-machine/human-robot communication interfaces have to face in the real world. We are calling for teams to participate in emotion recognition from acoustic audio analysis, linguistic audio analysis, video analysis, or any combination of these. As benchmarking database the SEMAINE database of naturalistic video and audio of human-agent interactions, along with labels for four affect dimensions will be used. Emotion will have to be recognized in terms of continuous time, continuous valued dimensional affect in four dimensions: arousal, expectation, power and valence. Two sub-challenges are organised: The first involves fully continuous affect recognition, where the level of affect has to be predicted for every moment of the recording. The second sub-challenge requires participants to predict the level of affect at word-level, that is, only when the user is speaking. Besides participation in the Challenge we are calling for papers addressing the overall topics of this workshop, in particular works that address the differences between audio and video processing of emotive data, and the issues concerning combined audio-visual emotion recognition. |
Program CommitteeElisabeth André, Universität Augsburg, Germany Anton Batliner, Universität Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany Felix Burkhardt, Deutsche Telekom, Germany Rama Chellappa, University of Maryland, USA Fang Chen, NICTA, Australia Mohamed Chetouani, Institut des Systèmes Intelligents et de Robotique (ISIR), Fance Laurence Devillers, Laboratoire d’Informatique pour la Mécanique et les Sciences de l’Ingénieur (LIMSI), France Julien Epps, University of New South Wales, Australia Anna Esposito, International Institute for Advanced Scientific Studies, Italy Raul Fernandez, IBM, USA Roland Göcke, Australian National University, Australia Hatice Gunes, Queen Mary University London, UK Julia Hirschberg, Columbia University, USA Aleix Martinez, Ohio State University, USA Marc Méhu, University of Geneva, Switzerland Marcello Mortillaro, University of Geneva, Switzerland Matti Pietikainen, University of Oulu, Finland Ioannis Pitas, University of Thessaloniki, Greece Peter Robinson, University of Cambridge, UK Stefan Steidl, Uinversität Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany Jianhua Tao, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Fernando de la Torre, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Mohan Trivedi, University of California San Diego, USA Matthew Turk, University of California Santa Barbara, USA Alessandro Vinciarelli, University of Glasgow, UK Stefanos Zafeiriou, Imperial College London, UK
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Important Dates Paper submissionJuly 21, 2012 Notification of acceptanceAugust 6, 2012Camera ready paper August 15, 2012 Workshop October 22 or 26, 2012 |
Topics include, but are not limited to: Participation in the ChallengeAudio/Visual Emotion Recognition
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Submission Policy In submitting a manuscript to this workshop, the authors acknowledge that no paper substantially similar in content has been submitted to another conference or workshop.Accepted workshop papers will be included in the proceedings of ICMI 2012. Manuscripts should follow the ICMI main conference paper format: 8 pages ACM style. Authors should submit papers as a PDF file via http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=avec2012. AVEC 2012 reviewing is double blind. Reviewing will be by members of the program committee. Each paper will receive at least two reviews. Acceptance will be based on relevance to the workshop, novelty, and technical quality. |
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