CALL FOR PAPERS: ICMI'05 Workshop on Multimodal Multiparty Meeting Processing

Posted on behalf of Alessandro Vinciarelli and Jean-Marc Odobez


CALL FOR PAPERS

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INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON MULTIMODAL MULTIPARTY MEETING PROCESSING

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http://www.idiap.ch/ICMI05/ 

October 7
Trento, Italy

Workshop at the 7th International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces  http://icmi05.itc.it.

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OVERVIEW
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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)
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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

Received on Monday, 20 June 2005 08:55:23 UTC