[agents] Call for Papers GENEA Workshop at ICMI 2021 (Generation and Evaluation of Nonverbal Behaviour for Embodied Agents)

[Yumak, Z. (Zerrin)]

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Call for papers: GENEA (Generation and Evaluation of Nonverbal Behaviour for Embodied Agents) Workshop 2021
Date:  18-22 October, 2021 (Exact date to be defined)

Website: https://genea-workshop.github.io/2021/
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Important dates
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Abstract Registration Due
Jun 12, 2021
Submission Deadline
Jun 15, 2021
Notification Due
Jul 12, 2021
Final Version Due
Aug 3, 2021


Overview
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Generating nonverbal behaviours, such as gesticulation, facial expressions and gaze, is of great importance for natural interaction with embodied agents such as virtual agents and social robots. At present, behaviour generation is typically powered by rule-based systems, data-driven approaches, and their hybrids. For evaluation, both objective and subjective methods exist, but their application and validity are frequently a point of contention.


This workshop asks "What will be the behaviour-generation methods of the future? And how can we evaluate these methods using meaningful objective and subjective metrics?" The aim of the workshop is to bring together researchers working on the generation and evaluation of nonverbal behaviours for embodied agents to discuss the future of this field. To kickstart these discussions, we invite all interested researchers to submit a paper for presentation at the workshop.


GENEA 2021 is the second GENEA workshop and an official workshop of ACM ICMI'21, which will take place either in Montreal, Canada, or online. Accepted submissions will be included in the adjunct ACM ICMI proceedings.


Paper topics include (but are not limited to) the following
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  *   Automated synthesis of facial expressions, gestures, and gaze movements
  *   Audio- and music-driven nonverbal behaviour synthesis
  *   Closed-loop nonverbal behaviour generation (from perception to action)
  *   Nonverbal behaviour synthesis in two-party and group interactions
  *   Emotion-driven and stylistic nonverbal behaviour synthesis
  *   New datasets related to nonverbal behaviour
  *   Believable nonverbal behaviour synthesis using motion-capture and 4D scan data
  *   Multi-modal nonverbal behaviour synthesis
  *   Interactive/autonomous nonverbal behavior generation
  *   Subjective and objective evaluation methods for nonverbal behaviour synthesis
  *   Guidelines for nonverbal behaviours in human-agent interaction


For papers specifically on the topic of healthcare, whether for generating or understanding nonverbal behaviours, consider submitting to the workshop on Socially-Informed AI for Healthcare, also taking place at ICMI'21. The website of that workshop can be found at: https://social-ai-for-healthcare.github.io/rbal


Submission guidelines
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Please format submissions for double-blind review according to the ACM conference format.


We will accept long (8 pages) and short (4 pages) paper submissions, along with posters (3 page papers), all in the double-column ACM conference format. Pages containing only references do not count toward the page limit for any of the paper types. Submissions should be made in PDF format through OpenReview.


Keynote speakers

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Louis-Philippe Morency (CMU, USA)<https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~morency/>
Hatice Gunesh (University of Cambridge, UK)<https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~hg410/>


Organisers

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Taras Kucherenko, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden

Zerrin Yumak, Utrecht University, The Netherlands

Gustav Eje Henter, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden

Pieter Wolfert, Ghent University, Belgium

Youngwoo Yoon, ETRI / KAIST, South Korea

Patrik Jonell, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden

The main contact address of the workshop is: genea-contact at googlegroups.com



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