- From: Silvia Rocchi <sirocchi@itc.it>
- Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2005 10:52:35 +0200
- To: <irst@itc.it>
Posted on behalf of Alessandro Vinciarelli and Jean-Marc Odobez CALL FOR PAPERS --------------------------------------------------------------------- INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON MULTIMODAL MULTIPARTY MEETING PROCESSING --------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.idiap.ch/ICMI05/ October 7 Trento, Italy Workshop at the 7th International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces http://icmi05.itc.it. --------------------------------------------------------------------- OVERVIEW --------------------------------------------------------------------- The interest in automatic collection and analysis of meeting recordings is constantly increasing in the research community. Current efforts try to focus not only on the single modality of speech, but to take a broader view attempting to derive useful information from meetings, based on multimodal perception and understanding of a wide array of information sources (gesture, handwriting, sketches and other manual activity, body and head pose, eye gaze, email leading up to a given meeting, documents that are part of the subject matter or background for a meeting, agendas, lists of critical outcomes, etc.). Such a wide spectrum of input sources gives the opportunity to explore truly multimodal processing approaches, which remain a hard and open challenge under many aspects. Technology has still to be proven effective as a mean of handling meetings, from both offline and online perspectives. Offline processing technologies are aimed at making meeting recording archives a valuable asset, by extracting the content of meeting archives and capitalizing on the knowledge they contain. Important research efforts are directed towards more and more complex content analysis algorithms producing useful indexing material, ranging from fact detection and extraction to analysis tasks involving higher level interpretation, such as participant interaction analysis (is there agreement ?) or evaluation of the meeting development (has any decision been made ? what is the agenda ? did the meeting reach the initial goals ?). At the same time, sophisticated interfaces moving beyond simple content reproduction and allowing users to access and use effectively data of such a complexity must be designed. Online processing is aimed essentially at developing systems that support colocated meeting participants activities and/or involve remote participants. In such a situation, computers become the channel of human-human interaction and represent a bottleneck resulting into non-natural feelings as well as lack of communication effectiveness. For this reason, many researchers have studied ways to use computational support to create collaborative environments that is at least good as, if not better than, "being there". The use of multimodal interfaces can address the problem by conveying more information and/or driving the attention of the users towards actually important elements. The goal of this workshop is to gather researchers from the academic and industry, active in the above or related domains, in order to acquire a broad view of current state-of-the-art, share experiences, exchange ideas and establish collaborations and contacts. The workshop will be the place to discuss the opportunities and effective usefulness of newly developped technologies for meeting applications. Thus, we are looking for position as well as research papers debating on or contributing to the following (and other related) areas: - Smart meeting rooms, Meeting data collection and Annotation tools - Multichannel processing - Multimodal identification of intent and emotion - Multimodal person identification - Meeting dynamics and human-human interaction modeling - Multimodal dialogue modeling - Remote collaboration in meetings - Content abstraction, summarization and structuring - Multimodal indexing and retrieval PAPER SUBMISSION --------------------------------------------------------------------- We are inviting to submit both POSITION or RESEARCH papers. In both cases, submission should take the form of an article (maximum 8 pages), along with a paper summary (maximum one page) in the same format. All submissions will be pre-reviewed and selected based on contribution to the workshop topic, originality and the shared interests of participants. Please send your submissions (and indicate your paper type -research or position) as two (paper+summary) PDF or PS files to icmi_mmmp@idiap.ch before July 14, 2005. For the format, we strongly recommend to use ACM SIG Proceedings Templates. IMPORTANT DATES --------------------------------------------------------------------- Paper submission deadline: July, 14, 2005. Acceptance notification: July, 28, 2005. Full-version camera ready papers due to: August 24, 2005. Workshop: October 7, 2005. PUBLICATIONS --------------------------------------------------------------------- All papers accepted for the workshop will be published in the Workshop Proceedings provided by ITC and paper summaries will be published in the workshop website. Detailed information about the ACM SIG Proceedings Templates can be found on the web site: http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html. WORKSHOP PROGRAM COMMITTEE --------------------------------------------------------------------- Hervé Bourlard, IDIAP Research Institute (Switzerland) Trevor Darrell, Massachussets Institute of Technology (USA) Irfan Essa, Georgia Institute of Technology (USA) Hynek Hermansky, IDIAP Research Institute (Switzerland) Alex Jaimes, Fuji-Xerox Research (Japan) Iain McCowan, E-Healt Research Center (Australia) Stanley Peters, Center for the Study of Language Information, Stanford University (USA) Christine Perey, Perey Research and consulting (USA/Switzerland) ORGANIZERS (CO-CHAIRS) --------------------------------------------------------------------- Alessandro Vinciarelli Jean-Marc Odobez IDIAP Research Institute, Rue du Simplon 4 PO 592, CH 1920 Martigny, Switzerland Phone: +41 (0)27 721 77 24 or 26 - Fax : +41 (0)27 721 77 13. email: vincia@idiap.ch, odobez@idiap.ch Phil Cohen OHSU and Natural Interaction Systems, LLC (USA) email: pcohen@cse.ogi.edu
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