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<span style="font-family:Verdana;">We would like to invite you to submit </span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">article in the special session of the </span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">9th International Conference on Affective Computing & Intelligent Interaction (ACII 2021</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">)</span><span style="color:#333333;"><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;">. </span></b><span style="font-family:Verdana;">The</span><span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Verdana;"> ACII </span><span style="color:#333333;font-family:Verdana;font-size:14px;text-align:justify;white-space:normal;background-color:#FFFFFF;">is the premier international forum for research on affective and multimodal human-machine interaction and systems. </span></span>
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<span style="color:#333333;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;"><strong>Title of the </strong><strong>Special Sesssion</strong>: <span style="color:#333333;font-family:Verdana;font-size:14px;text-align:justify;white-space:normal;background-color:#FFFFFF;">Uncover our Hidden Emotion: Psychological Fundamentals, Computational Techniques, and Ethical Issues</span></span></span>
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<span style="font-size:14px;"><strong>Background and </strong></span><span style="font-size:14px;"><strong>Motivation</strong>: </span><span style="font-size:14px;">Emotions are hidden in social life for some reasons. For examples, men are normally not encouraged to show their fear emotions; an non-cooperated patient with depression may show happy face in the diagnosis; a husband could show satisfied smile to a non-delicious dish cooked by his wife. The hiding of emotion is important in social communication. However, it can also hamper ourselves to understand our real emotion, mislead the psychological therapist, and affect our well-being. </span>
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<span style="font-size:14px;">The hidden emotion could leave trace through expressions, which mainly include masked expressions and micro expressions. Micro-expression is a subtle facial expression and happens when people fail to suppress their expressions. Masked expression is another way of manipulating facial expressions, i.e. the expression evoked by real emotions is intentionally masked by another expression, but two expressions may co-exist on face. Physiological signals, including ECG, EEG, SC, etc. are also indicators of emotion and could not controlled by will. </span>
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<span style="font-size:14px;">The overall goal of this special session is to explore the latest developments in hidden emotion recognition，aiming to further understand the psychological and cognitive mechanism of hiding emotions. In addition, the ethical issue for the research in this specific field will be also covered. </span>
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<strong><span style="font-size:14px;">Topics of Interest (</span></strong><span style="font-size:14px;">but not limited to):</span><span style="font-size:14px;"> </span>
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<span style="font-size:14px;">(i) Micro-expression recognition </span>
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<span style="font-size:14px;">(ii) Masked-expression recognition </span>
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<span style="font-size:14px;">(iii) Physiological-signal-based or voice-signal-based emotion recognition</span>
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<span style="font-size:14px;">(iv) Multi-modal signal based emotion recognition</span>
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<span style="font-size:14px;">(v) Psychological and cognitive mechanism of hidden emotion </span>
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<span style="font-size:14px;">(vi) Ethical issue in hidden emotion research</span>
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<span style="color:#333333;"><span style="font-family:'Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif';"><strong>ACII 2021 Website</strong>: https://www.acii-conf.net/2021/ </span></span>
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<span style="font-family:Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;color:#333333;"><strong>Special Issue Website</strong> : https://www.acii-conf.net/2021/special-session2/ </span>
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重庆西南大学
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电子信息工程学院
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