Mission

A widely accepted prediction is that computing will move to the background, weaving itself into the fabric of our everyday living spaces and projecting the human user into the foreground. To realize this prediction, next-generation computing will need to develop anticipatory user interfaces that are human-centered, built for humans, and based on naturally occurring multimodal human communication. Emerging interfaces will need to include the capacity to understand and emulate human communicative intentions as expressed through behavioral cues such as affective and social signals.

Important Dates

Paper submission:                               Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009
Notification of paper acceptance:        Friday, March 20th, 2009
Upload of camera ready paper:            Wednesday, April 1st, 2009
Workshop:                                           Thursday, June 25th, 2009 (Workshop Program (pdf))

Call for Papers

Papers should describe high-quality original research that has direct implications and contributions to machine analysis of naturally occurring human communicative behavior. All areas of human-human, human-environment, and human-computer interaction will be considered subject to the constraint that the submission makes an important contribution to the field of computer vision and/or pattern recognition. Survey papers are welcome and encouraged. Authors interested in submitting a survey article may want to contact Maja Pantic (m.pantic AT imperial.ac.uk) prior to submission.

Areas of interest include but are by no means limited to:

¨       Human affect analysis and Affective computing

¨       Social Signal Processing and Socially-aware computing

¨       Facial expression analysis

¨       Human gesture and action recognition

¨       Multimodal human behavior analysis

¨       Learning and multimodal data fusion

¨       Perceptual and multimodal user interfaces

¨       Sign language analysis and recognition

¨       Ambient intelligence

¨       Databases for training and testing

All accepted papers will be archived in IEEE eXplore with the CVPR 2009 proceedings.

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.

Manuscripts should be in the CVPR paper format.

Authors should submit papers as a PDF file.

Papers accepted for the workshop will be allocated 8 pages in the proceedings.

CVPR4HB 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.

Submission and reviewing will be handled via the EasyChair system.

The system is now closed for submissions!

General Chairs

Maja Pantic, Imperial College London, UK / University of Twente, Netherlands

Jeffrey Cohn, University of Pittsburgh / Carnegie Mellon University, USA

Matthew Turk, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA

Thomas S. Huang, Beckman Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA

Program Committee

Lourdes Agapito          Queen Mary University, UK

Marian Bartlett             UCSD, USA

Nadia Berthouze           University College London, UK

Aaron Bobick               Georgia Tech, USA

Richard Bowden           University of Surrey, UK

Ioan Buciu                    University of Oradea, Romania

Rama Chellappa           University of Maryland, USA

Trevor Darrell               University of California, Berkeley, USA

James Davis                 Ohio State University, USA

Fernando De la Torre   CMU, USA

Ahmed Elgammal         Rutgers University, USA

Luc van Gool                ETH, Switzerland

Ralph Gross                 CMU, USA

David Hogg                  University of Leeds, UK

Qiang Ji                        Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA

Seong-Whan Lee          Korea University, Korea

Aleix Martinez              Ohio State University, USA

Peter McOwan              Queen Mary University, UK

Louis P. Morency          University of South California, USA

Anton Nijholt               University of Twente, Netherlands

Mark Nixon                  Univ. of Southampton, UK

Ioannis Patras              Queen Mary University, UK

Vladimir Pavlovic         Rutgers University, USA

Matti Pietikainen          University of Oulu, Finland

Ioannis Pitas                University of Thessaloniki, Greece

Stan Sclaroff                Boston University, USA

Bjoern Schuller             Technical University of Munich, Germany

Nicu Sebe                     University of Trento, Italy

Rainer Stiefelhagen      University of Karlsruhe, Germany

Alessandro Vinciarelli  IDIAP, Switzerland

Yaser Yacoob               University of Maryland, USA

Ming-Hsuan Yang        University of California, Merced, USA

Lijun Yin                      Binghamton University, USA

Email for all inquiries: m.pantic AT imperial.ac.uk

Previous Workshops

CVPR4HB’08, Anchorage, Alaska, held in conjunction with CVPR’08