[agents] Last call for papers: GENEA (Generation and Evaluation of Non-verbal Behaviour for Embodied Agents) Workshop 2023 at ICMI

[Jieyeon Woo]

*** WORKSHOP ANNOUNCEMENT ***

[Apologies for multiple copies of this announcement]

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Call for papers: GENEA (Generation and Evaluation of Non-verbal 
Behaviour for Embodied Agents) Workshop 2023 at ICMI
Date: October 9, 2023

Location: Sorbonne University, Paris, France

Website: https://genea-workshop.github.io/2023/workshop/ [1]
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Important dates
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July 19, 2023 - Paper abstract deadline

July 21, 2023 - Paper submission deadline

Aug 4, 2023   - Notification of paper acceptance

Aug 11, 2023 - Deadline for camera-ready papers

Aug 18, 2023 - Poster-session submission deadline

Sep 1, 2023   - Notification of poster acceptance

Oct 9, 2023    - In-person workshop at ICMI

Overview
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GENEA 2023 is the fourth GENEA Workshop and an official workshop of ACM 
ICMI '23, which will take place in Paris, France. Accepted paper 
submissions will be included in the adjunct ACM ICMI proceedings.

Generating non-verbal 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 
non-verbal 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.

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

Submission guidelines
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We will accept long (8 pages) and short (4 pages) paper submissions, all 
in the same double-column ACM conference format as used by ICMI 
(https://icmi.acm.org/2023/guidelines-for-authors/ [2]). Pages 
containing only references do not count toward the page limit for any of 
the paper types. Submissions should be formatted for double-blind review 
made in PDF format through OpenReview [3].

To encourage authors to make their work reproducible and reward the 
effort that this requires, we have introduced the GENEA Workshop 
Reproducibility Award [4].

We will also host an open poster session for advertising your 
late-breaking results and already-published work to the community. No 
paper submission is needed to participate in the poster session, and 
these posters will not be part of any proceedings (non archival). 
Submission guidelines for the poster session will be available on the 
workshop website.

Keynote speakers

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Rachel McDonnell, Associate Professor in Creative Technologies, Trinity 
College Dublin, Ireland

Sean Andrist, Senior Researcher at Microsoft Research in Redmond, 
Washington, USA

Organisers

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Youngwoo Yoon ETRI, South Korea, youngwoo at etri.re.kr

Taras Kucherenko SEED, Electronic Arts, Sweden, tkucherenko at ea.com

Pieter Wolfert Ghent University, Belgium, pieter.wolfert at ugent.be

Rajmund Nagy KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden, rajmundn at kth.se

Jieyeon Woo Sorbonne University, France, woo at isir.upmc.fr

Gustav Eje Henter KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden, ghe at kth.se

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

Links:
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[1] https://genea-workshop.github.io/2023/workshop/
[2] https://icmi.acm.org/2023/guidelines-for-authors/
[3] https://openreview.net/group?id=ACM.org/ICMI/2023/Workshop/GENEA
[4] 
https://genea-workshop.github.io/2022/workshop/#reproducibility-award

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