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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:18.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Call for papers</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:18.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Workshop on
<a name="OLE_LINK5"></a><a name="OLE_LINK6">Visual Computing for Social and Cognitive Robots</a></span></b><b><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:22.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Apr 15, 2015
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Tsinghua University, Beijing, China</span></b><b><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:8.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> (in conjunction with Computational Visual Media Conference)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:3.0pt">Social and cognitive robots will play a considerable role in the 21<sup>st</sup> century. The major challenge in dealing with these kinds of robots is in making them perceive and learn from the visual information
received through their sensors and respond in human-like fashion using multimodal sensors and actuators. They should also have higher level cognitive functions that involve reasoning, for example, about goals, perception, actions, and the mental states of
the users. To achieve this complex task of visual perception and learning, <a href="http://link.springer.com/search?dc.title=Visual+Attention&facet-content-type=ReferenceWorkEntry&sortOrder=relevance">
Visual Attention</a> models should also be developed. A visual attention model enables the social robot to choose the right segment of visual information allowing behaving adequately.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:6.0pt"><span style="">We are seeking full papers with the following topics, but which are not limited to:</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="">-<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span style="">Gesture recognition</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt; text-indent:-18.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="">-<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span style="">Face expression recognition</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt; text-indent:-18.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="">-<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span style="">Action recognition and representation</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt; text-indent:-18.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="">-<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span style="">Brain Mapping and Integrated Computational Model</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt; text-indent:-18.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="">-<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span style="">Awareness and autonomy for Social Robots</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt; text-indent:-18.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="">-<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span style="">Enhanced Visual Memory</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt; text-indent:-18.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="">-<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span style="">Visual Attention Models</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt; text-indent:-18.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="">-<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span style="">Perceptual based Visual Signal Processing</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt; text-indent:-18.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="">-<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span style="">Visual Search, Understanding and Recognition</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt; text-indent:-18.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="">-<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span style="">Tracking and sensing</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt; text-indent:-18.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="">-<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span style="">User studies and evaluation</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt; text-indent:-18.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="">-<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span style="">Perception, presence, and cognition</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt; text-indent:-18.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="">-<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span style="">Navigation for robots</span></p>
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</span></span></span><span style="">Multiparty dialogs with robots </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt; text-indent:-18.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="">-<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span style="">Affective computing for social robots</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt; text-indent:-18.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="">-<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span style="">Decision making for social robots</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt; text-indent:-18.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="">-<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span style="">Personality in social robots</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt; text-indent:-18.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="">-<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span style="">Expressive behavior generation for robots</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt; text-indent:-18.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="">-<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span style="">Vision-based locomotion </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt; text-indent:-18.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="">-<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span style="">Learning through vision </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt; text-indent:-18.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="">-<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span style="">Gaze modelling </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:35.7pt; text-indent:-17.85pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="">-<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span style="">Cooperation between humans and social robots </span>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Papers will be selected for publication in the Visual Computer (Springer) and the Journal of Computational Visual Media (A new launched journal by IEEE and Tsinghua University Press from 2015).</p>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Workshop Chair:</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:3.0pt; text-indent:12.45pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Daniel Thalmann, NTU, SG</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Important Dates:</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.7pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Submission of full papers<b>: January 25, 2015</b></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.7pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Notification of acceptance:
<b>February 20, 2015</b></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.7pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Camera ready copy:<b> March 10, 2015</b></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Workshop date:</span><b>
</b><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt">April 15, 2015</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt; font-family:Consolas">---------------------------------------------------</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt; font-family:Consolas">Prof. Daniel Thalmann</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt; font-family:Consolas">Institute for Media Innovation (IMI)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt; font-family:Consolas">Nanyang Technological University</span></p>
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