[agents] CfP SIVA'23 workshop on Socially Interactive Human-like Virtual Agents

[Catherine PELACHAUD]

[Apologies for cross-posting]

CALL FOR PAPERS: SIVA'23
Workshop on Socially Interactive Human-like Virtual Agents
 From expressive and context-aware multimodal generation of digital 
humans to understanding the social cognition of real humans

Submission (to be openened July, 22 2022): 
https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/SIVA2023
SIVA'23 workshop: January, 4 or 5 2023, Waikoloa, Hawaii, 
https://www.stms-lab.fr/agenda/siva/detail/
FG 2023 conference: January 4-8 2023, Waikoloa, Hawaii, 
https://fg2023.ieee-biometrics.org/

OVERVIEW

Due to the rapid growth of virtual, augmented, and hybrid reality 
together with spectacular advances in artificial intelligence, the 
ultra-realistic generation and animation of digital humans with 
human-like behaviors is becoming a massive topic of interest. This 
complex endeavor requires modeling several elements of human behavior 
including the natural coordination of multimodal behaviors including 
text, speech, face, and body, plus the contextualization of behavior in 
response to interlocutors of different cultures and motivations. Thus, 
challenges in this topic are two folds—the generation and animation of 
coherent multimodal behaviors, and modeling the expressivity and 
contextualization of the virtual agent with respect to human behavior, 
plus understanding and modeling virtual agent behavior adaptation to 
increase human’s engagement. The aim of this workshop is to connect 
traditionally distinct communities (e.g., speech, vision, cognitive 
neurosciences, social psychology) to elaborate and discuss the future of 
human interaction with human-like virtual agents. We expect 
contributions from the fields of signal processing, speech and vision, 
machine learning and artificial intelligence, perceptual studies, and 
cognitive and neuroscience. Topics will range from multimodal generative 
modeling of virtual agent behaviors, and speech-to-face and posture 2D 
and 3D animation, to original research topics including style, 
expressivity, and context-aware animation of virtual agents. Moreover, 
the availability of controllable real-time virtual agent models can be 
used as state-of-the-art experimental stimuli and confederates to design 
novel, groundbreaking experiments to advance understanding of social 
cognition in humans. Finally, these virtual humans can be used to create 
virtual environments for medical purposes including rehabilitation and 
training.

SCOPE

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

+ Analysis of Multimodal Human-like Behavior
- Analyzing and understanding of human multimodal behavior (speech, 
gesture, face)
- Creating datasets for the study and modeling of human multimodal behavior
- Coordination and synchronization of human multimodal behavior
- Analysis of style and expressivity in human multimodal behavior
- Cultural variability of social multimodal behavior

+ Modeling and Generation of Multimodal Human-like Behavior
- Multimodal generation of human-like behavior (speech, gesture, face)
- Face and gesture generation driven by text and speech
- Context-aware generation of multimodal human-like behavior
- Modeling of style and expressivity for the generation of multimodal 
behavior
- Modeling paralinguistic cues for multimodal behavior generation
- Few-shots or zero-shot transfer of style and expressivity
- Slightly-supervised adaptation of multimodal behavior to context

+ Psychology and Cognition of of Multimodal Human-like Behavior
- Cognition of deep fakes and ultra-realistic digital manipulation of 
human-like behavior
- Social agents/robots as tools for capturing, measuring and 
understanding multimodal behavior (speech, gesture, face)
- Neuroscience and social cognition of real humans using virtual agents 
and physical robots

IMPORTANT DATES

Submission Deadline September, 12 2022
Notification of Acceptance: October, 15 2022
Camera-ready deadline: October, 31 2022
Workshop: January, 4 or 5 2023

VENUE

The SIVA workshop is organized as a satellite workshop of the IEEE 
International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition 2023. 
The workshop will be collocated with the FG 2023 and WACV 2023 
conferences at the Waikoloa Beach Marriott Resort, Hawaii, USA.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION AND SUBMISSION DETAILS

Submissions must be original and not published or submitted elsewhere. 
  Short papers of 3 pages excluding references encourage submissions of 
early research in original emerging fields. Long paper of 6 to 8 pages 
excluding references promote the presentation of strongly original 
contributions, positional or survey papers. The manuscript should be 
formatted according to the Word or Latex template provided on the 
workshop website.  All submissions will be reviewed by 3 reviewers. The 
reviewing process will be single-blinded. Authors will be asked to 
disclose possible conflict of interests, such as cooperation in the 
previous two years. Moreover, care will be taken to avoid reviewers from 
the same institution as the authors.  Authors should submit their 
articles in a single pdf file in the submission website - no later than 
September, 12 2022. Notification of acceptance will be sent by October, 
15 2022, and the camera-ready version of the papers revised according to 
the reviewers comments should be submitted by October, 31 2022. Accepted 
papers will be published in the proceedings of the FG'2023 conference. 
More information can be found on the SIVA website.

DIVERSITY, EQUALITY, AND INCLUSION

The format of this workshop will be hybrid online and onsite. This 
format proposes format of scientific exchanges in order to satisfy 
travel restrictions and COVID sanitary precautions, to promote inclusion 
in the research community (travel costs are high, online presentations 
will encourage research contributions from geographical regions which 
would normally be excluded), and to consider ecological issues (e.g., 
CO2 footprint). The organizing committee is committed to paying 
attention to equality, diversity, and inclusivity in consideration of 
invited speakers. This effort starts from the organizing committee and 
the invited speakers to the program committee.


ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
🌸 Nicolas Obin, STMS Lab (Ircam, CNRS, Sorbonne Université, ministère 
de la Culture)
🌸 Ryo Ishii, NTT Human Informatics Laboratories
🌸 Rachael E. Jack, University of Glasgow
🌸 Louis-Philippe Morency, Carnegie Mellon University
🌸 Catherine Pelachaud, CNRS - ISIR, Sorbonne Université


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