Best Paper Award on Social Signal Processing To promote research and visibility of Social Signal Processing, the EU Social Signal Processing Network of Excellence SSPNet will provide the coming years a Best Paper Award on Social Signal Processing for PhD students or young researchers having received a PhD in less than 2 years from Technical Sciences and Human Sciences working in the [...] [...]
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Applications are invited for a PhD position in speech processing and machine learning funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation and supported by the the European Network of Excellence in Social Signal Processing SSPNet. The duration of the appointment is for a maximum of 4 years with a competitive PhD salary. The position is available from November 2011 onwards. Starting date [...] [...] All details at the following link: http://mmi.tudelft.nl/?q=node/7581 PHD IN EMOTION AND AMBIENCE RECOGNITION FROM UNOBTRUSIVE SENSORS Faculty: Department Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science Level: Master degree Maximum employment: Maximum of 38 hours per week (1 FTE) Duration of contract: 4 years Salary: €2042 to €2612 per month gross JOB DESCRIPTION As a PhD student you will collaborate to the ACE project (Adaptive Ambience [...] [...] SpeechGraphics, a company co-founded by Edinburgh SSPNet researcher Gregor Hofer, was awarded a John Logie Baird award in March 2011 for their innovative audio-driven animation. See the Press Association report on the 2011 John Logie Baird awards. [...] The Journal on Multimodal User Interfaces is a publication of OpenInterface (www.openinterface.org) Editor in Chief: Jean-Claude Martin Founding Editor: Benoît Macq www.jmui.org Guest editors: Paul Brunet, Queen’s University Belfast Roddy Cowie, Queen’s University Belfast Dirk Heylen, University of Twente Anton Nijholt, University of Twente Marc Schröder, DFKI This special issue will address the rapidly emerging field of social signal processing, which covers both recognition and interpretation [...] [...] In conjunction with the IEEE International Conference on Face and Gesture Recognition 2011, we are organising the first Facial Expression Recognition and Analysis challenge (FERA2011). We are inviting computer vision and machine learning researchers from all over the world to participate in this challenging competition. See the call for participation, and visit our website for [...] [...] Topic The goal of the PhD project is to develop automatic approaches for assessing the quality of rapport in mobile phone conversations. The methodology is based on detection and analysis of “social signals”, nonverbal behavioural cues aimed at conveying relational information during social interactions. In particular, the project will make use of several sensing devices embedded in [...] [...] Assistant or Associate Research Professors, Center for Mind/Brain Sciences, Trento The Center for Mind/Brain Sciences (CIMeC) at the University of Trento is seeking to fill a number of research positions in cognitive neuroscience at the Assistant or Associate Research Professor level. The Center offers an international and vibrant research setting in which to investigate the functioning of the brain through [...] [...] The way one conceptualizes social signals has a large impact on what one considers social signal processing to be and even more importantly it more or less dictates the right way to proceed with the study of social signal processing. Within SSPNet, a general framework is being drawn up that tries to get a grip on the many variables [...] [...] Special Issue of Cognitive Processing Guest Editors Isabella Poggi (Roma Tre University) Francesca D’Errico (Roma Tre University) Alessandro Vinciarelli (University of Glasgow / Idiap Research Institute) Call for Papers Social signals are communicative or informative signals that, either directly or indirectly, provide information concerning social interactions, social emotions, social attitudes or social relations. As they are manifested through a multiplicity of non-verbal [...] [...] |
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