Call For Papers

Submission site

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Workshop date

September 29, 2024

Location

Allianz MiCo • Milano Convention Centre; Milano, Italy

Important dates

Submission Deadline: 26th July (AOE)

Notification of Acceptance: 9th August (AOE)

Camera-ready Deadline: 16th August (AOE)

Workshop: 29th September (AM)

Overview

The Expressive Encounters Workshop is an official workshop of The European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) 2024, which will take place in Milano, Italy. Accepted paper submissions will be included in the Springer post-conference proceedings.

Virtual embodied agents and robots are increasingly integrated into our daily lives, serving roles such as receptionists in public services, home assistants, virtual personal trainers, and coaches for physical and mental health activities. To ensure user acceptance and trust, it is essential to design these agents to be not only functionally complex and useful but also understandable and socially appropriate. People are more likely to accept such technologies when they perceive them as extensions of themselves. Therefore, human-human interaction, which incorporates not only language but also non-verbal communication that is richer in terms of social and cultural features, serves as a natural model for designing the behaviours of such agents. Consequently, there has been a significant effort in recent years to generate non-verbal gestures for agents automatically in a data-driven manner.

This workshop aims to advance the development of real-world applications that involve virtual embodied agents and robots. To ensure user acceptance and trust, such real-world applications require new generative models and evaluation methods to generate socially appropriate non-verbal behaviours, considering cultural and personal factors, as well as enable real-time processing (i.e., understanding and responding to the user on the fly).

The workshop will have two main tracks:

  • Track 1: Real-time non-verbal behaviour generation and addressing behaviour generation with personal factors (e.g., culture, personality)
  • Track 2: Gesture generation deployed on a real-world embodied agent

The workshop aims to bring together researchers working on the abovementioned areas of non-verbal behaviour generation 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, to either of the tracks.

Paper topics include (but are not limited to) the following

  • Multimodal (i.e., vision, audio, and/or text)data processing for gesture generation
  • Multimodal data modelling for understanding personal, affective, and cultural factors Real-time gesture generation techniques
  • Real-time gesture generation techniques
  • New generative models to model personal factors (e.g., culture, affect, and personality)
  • Incorporating personal factors into gesture generation
  • Gesture generation beyond monologues, in multi-party interaction settings
  • New approaches to transfer human-human interactions to human-agent interactions
  • Transfer learning and transformer techniques to apply virtual agents' gestures to reduced degrees of freedom embodied agents
  • Multimodal data modelling techniques for detecting human trust and openness towards embodied agents

Submission guidelines

We will accept long and short paper submissions, all in the style of the official ECCV 2024 template. Short papers are limited to 4 pages, and long papers should not exceed 8 pages, including figures and tables, in the LNCS style of Springer. Additional pages containing only cited references are allowed. Submissions will be processed in a single-blind review process, therefore the submitted formatting should indicate authors and acknowledgements/funding information and comply with the page limit.

At the workshop, we will host a poster session for the two tracks, and the best papers from each track will be invited to give an oral presentation of their work. An accepted paper submission is required to participate in the poster session.

Contact

The main contact address of the workshop is: expressiveencountersworkshop2024@googlegroups.com.

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