<html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> </head> <body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""> *** With apologies for multiple postings *** <div class=""><br class=""> </div> <div class="">FACES 2019: Computational Modeling of Facial Images and Their Description <div class="">===========================================================</div> <div class=""><br class=""> Workshop to be held at the 22nd Nordic Conference on Computational Linguistics (NoDaLiDa 2019) Conference, Turku University, Turku, Finland, on 30 September 2019.<br class=""> <br class=""> Workshop goals<br class=""> <br class=""> The workshop will provide a forum to present and discuss current research focusing on the way human faces are perceived, understood and described by humans, as well as the way computational models represent (and therefore ‘understand’) human faces and generate descriptions of faces, or facial images corresponding to descriptions, for different purposes and applications.<br class=""> <br class=""> Recent research on multimodal analysis of images and text or the generation of image descriptions has focussed on general data sets, involving everyday scenes and objects, or on domain-specific data. While some of these might contain faces as a subset, we argue that the specific challenges associated with faces are not adequately represented. Descriptions of faces are frequent in human communication, for example when one seeks to identify an individual or distinguish one person from another. They are also pervasive in descriptive or narrative text. Depending on the context, they may focus on physical attributes, or incorporate inferred characteristics and emotional elements.<br class=""> <br class=""> The ability to adequately model and describe faces is interesting for a variety of language technology applications, e.g., conversational agents and interactive narrative generation, as well as forensic applications in which faces need to be identified or generated from textual or spoken descriptions. Such systems would need to process the images associated with human faces together with their linguistic descriptions, therefore the research needed to develop them is placed at the interface between vision and language research, a cross-disciplinary area which has received considerable attention in recent years, e.g. through the series of workshops on Vision and Language organised by the European Network on Integrating Vision and Language (iV&L Net), the 2015–2018 Language and Vision Workshops, or recently the Workshop on Shortcomings in Vision and Language.<br class=""> <br class=""> Human faces are being studied by researchers from different research communities, including those working with vision and language modeling, natural language generation and understanding, cognitive science, cognitive psychology, multimodal communication and embodied conversational agents. The workshop aims to reach out to all these communities to explore the many different aspects of research on human faces and foster cross-disciplinary synergy.topics<br class=""> <br class=""> <br class=""> Relevant topics<br class=""> <br class=""> We are inviting short and long papers of original research, surveys, position papers, and demos on relevant topics that include, but are not limited to, the following ones:<br class=""> <br class=""> <div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"></span>• Datasets of facial images and descriptions<br class=""> <br class=""> </div> <div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"></span>• Experimental studies of facial expression understanding by humans<br class=""> <br class=""> </div> <div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"></span>• Discovery of face descriptions in corpora<br class=""> <br class=""> </div> <div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"></span>• Automatic structuring of descriptions and semantic web representations and databases<br class=""> <br class=""> </div> <div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"></span>• Algorithms for automatic facial description generation<br class=""> <br class=""> </div> <div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"></span>• Emotion recognition by humans<br class=""> <br class=""> </div> <div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"></span>• Emotion recognition, perception and interpretation of face descriptions<br class=""> <br class=""> </div> <div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"></span>• Multimodal automatic emotion recognition from images and text<br class=""> <br class=""> </div> <div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"></span>• Subjectivity in face perception<br class=""> <br class=""> </div> <div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"></span>• Communicative, relational and intentional aspects of head pose and eye-gaze<br class=""> <br class=""> </div> <div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"></span>• Collection and annotation methods for facial descriptions<br class=""> <br class=""> </div> <div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"></span>• Inferential aspects of facial descriptions<br class=""> <br class=""> </div> <div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"></span>• Understanding and description of the human face in different contexts, including commercial applications, art, forensics, etc.<br class=""> <br class=""> </div> <div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"></span>• Modelling of the human face and facial expressions for embodied conversational agents<br class=""> <br class=""> </div> <div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"></span>• Generation of facial images from descriptions<br class=""> <br class=""> </div> <br class=""> Important dates<br class=""> <br class=""> Paper submission deadline: July 7<br class=""> Notification of acceptance: July 25<br class=""> Camera ready Papers: September 1<br class=""> Workshop Schedule: September 18<br class=""> Workshop: September 30 (half day) <br class=""> <br class=""> Submission guidelines<br class=""> <br class=""> Submission URL: <a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=faces2019" class="">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=faces2019</a><br class=""> <br class=""> Short paper submissions may consist of up to 4 pages of content, while long papers may have up to 8 pages of content. References do not count towards these page limits.<br class=""> <br class=""> All submissions must follow the NoDaLiDa 2019 style files, which are available for LaTeX (preferred) and MS Word and can be retrieved from the following address:<br class=""> <br class=""> <a href="http://www.nodalida2019.org/authorkit.zip" class="">http://www.nodalida2019.org/authorkit.zip</a><br class=""> <br class=""> Submissions must be anonymous, i.e. not reveal author(s) on the title page or through self-references. Papers must be submitted digitally, in PDF, and uploaded through the online submission system. The authors of accepted papers will be required to submit a camera-ready version to be included in the final proceedings. Authors of accepted papers will be notified after the notification of acceptance with further details.<br class=""> <br class=""> Accepted papers will be published in the ACL Anthology <a href="https://aclanthology.info" class="">https://aclanthology.info</a>.<br class=""> <br class=""> <br class=""> Organisers<br class=""> <br class=""> Patrizia Paggio, University of Copenhagen and University of Malta, <a href="mailto:paggio@hum.ku.dk" class="">paggio@hum.ku.dk</a><br class=""> <br class=""> Albert Gatt, University of Malta, <a href="mailto:albert.gatt@um.edu.mt" class="">albert.gatt@um.edu.mt</a><br class=""> <br class=""> Roman Klinger, University of Stuttgart, <a href="mailto:roman.klinger@ims.uni-stuttgart.de" class="">roman.klinger@ims.uni-stuttgart.de</a><br class=""> <br class=""> <br class=""> Programme committee <br class=""> <br class=""> <div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"></span>• Adrian Muscat, University of Malta<br class=""> </div> <div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"></span>• Andreas Hotho, University of Würzburg<br class=""> </div> <div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"></span>• Andrew Hendrickson, Tilburg University<br class=""> </div> <div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"></span>• Anja Belz, University of Brighton<br class=""> </div> <div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"></span>• Costanza Navarretta, CST, University of Copenhagen<br class=""> </div> <div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"></span>• David Hogg, University of Leeds<br class=""> </div> <div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"></span>• Diego Frassinelli, University of Stuttgart<br class=""> </div> <div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"></span>• Emiel van Miltenburg, Tilburg University and VU Amsterdam<br class=""> </div> <div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"></span>• Francesca D’Errico, Roma Tre University<br class=""> </div> <div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"></span>• Gerard de Melo, Rutgers University<br class=""> </div> <div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"></span>• Gholamreza Anbarjafari, University of Tartu<br class=""> </div> <div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"></span>• Isabella Poggi, Roma Tre University<br class=""> </div> <div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"></span>• Jan Snajder, University of Zagreb<br class=""> </div> <div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"></span>• Jordi Gonzalez, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona<br class=""> </div> <div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"></span>• Lonneke van der Plas, University of Malta<br class=""> </div> <div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"></span>• Michael Tarr, Carnegie Mellon University<br class=""> </div> <div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"></span>• Paul Buitelaar, National University of Ireland, Galway<br class=""> </div> <div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"></span>• Raffaella Bernardi, CiMEC Trento<br class=""> </div> <div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"></span>• Sebastian Padó, University of Stuttgart<br class=""> </div> <div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"></span>• Spandana Gella, University of Edinburgh<br class=""> </div> <div class=""><br class=""> </div> <div class=""><br class=""> </div> </div> <br class=""> <br class=""> <div class=""> <div dir="auto" class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"> <div dir="auto" class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"> <div class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"> <div class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; widows: 2; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"> <div class=""> <div class="">Patrizia Paggio</div> <div class=""><br class=""> </div> <div class="">Senior Researcher</div> <div class="">University of Copenhagen</div> <div class="">Centre for Language Technology</div> <div class=""><a href="mailto:paggio@hum.ku.dk" class="">paggio@hum.ku.dk</a></div> <div class=""><br class=""> </div> <div class="">Professor</div> <div class="">University of Malta</div> <div class="">Institute of Linguistics and Language Technology</div> <div class=""><a href="mailto:patrizia.paggio@um.edu.mt" class="">patrizia.paggio@um.edu.mt</a></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </body> </html>