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submission to the SIVA’23 workshop has been extended
to: September, 20 2022</span></b></div>
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CALL FOR PAPERS: SIVA'23<br class="">
Workshop on Socially Interactive Human-like
Virtual Agents<br class="">
From expressive and context-aware multimodal
generation of digital humans to understanding
the social cognition of real humans<br
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Submission: <a
href="https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/SIVA2023"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/SIVA2023</a><br
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SIVA'23 workshop: January, 4 2023, Waikoloa,
Hawaii, <a
href="https://www.stms-lab.fr/agenda/siva/detail/"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://www.stms-lab.fr/agenda/siva/detail/</a><br
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FG 2023 conference: January 4-8 2023,
Waikoloa, Hawaii, <a
href="https://fg2023.ieee-biometrics.org/"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://fg2023.ieee-biometrics.org/</a></div>
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<div class="">IMPORTANT DATES<br class="">
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Submission Deadline <strike class="">September,
12 2022</strike> September, 20 2022<br
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Notification of Acceptance: October, 15 2022 <br
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Camera-ready deadline: October, 31 2022<br
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Workshop: January, 4 2023<br class="">
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OVERVIEW<br class="">
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Due to the rapid growth of virtual, augmented,
and hybrid reality together with spectacular
advances in artificial intelligence, the
ultra-realistic generation and animation of
digital humans with human-like behaviors is
becoming a massive topic of interest. This
complex endeavor requires modeling several
elements of human behavior including the
natural coordination of multimodal behaviors
including text, speech, face, and body, plus
the contextualization of behavior in response
to interlocutors of different cultures and
motivations. Thus, challenges in this topic
are two folds—the generation and animation of
coherent multimodal behaviors, and modeling
the expressivity and contextualization of the
virtual agent with respect to human behavior,
plus understanding and modeling virtual agent
behavior adaptation to increase human’s
engagement. The aim of this workshop is to
connect traditionally distinct communities
(e.g., speech, vision, cognitive
neurosciences, social psychology) to elaborate
and discuss the future of human interaction
with human-like virtual agents. We expect
contributions from the fields of signal
processing, speech and vision, machine
learning and artificial intelligence,
perceptual studies, and cognitive and
neuroscience. Topics will range from
multimodal generative modeling of virtual
agent behaviors, and speech-to-face and
posture 2D and 3D animation, to original
research topics including style, expressivity,
and context-aware animation of virtual agents.
Moreover, the availability of controllable
real-time virtual agent models can be used as
state-of-the-art experimental stimuli and
confederates to design novel, groundbreaking
experiments to advance understanding of social
cognition in humans. Finally, these virtual
humans can be used to create virtual
environments for medical purposes including
rehabilitation and training.<br class="">
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SCOPE<br class="">
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Topics of interest include but are not limited
to:<br class="">
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+ Analysis of Multimodal Human-like Behavior<br
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- Analyzing and understanding of human
multimodal behavior (speech, gesture, face)<br
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- Creating datasets for the study and modeling
of human multimodal behavior<br class="">
- Coordination and synchronization of human
multimodal behavior<br class="">
- Analysis of style and expressivity in human
multimodal behavior<br class="">
- Cultural variability of social multimodal
behavior<br class="">
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+ Modeling and Generation of Multimodal
Human-like Behavior<br class="">
- Multimodal generation of human-like behavior
(speech, gesture, face)<br class="">
- Face and gesture generation driven by text
and speech<br class="">
- Context-aware generation of multimodal
human-like behavior<br class="">
- Modeling of style and expressivity for the
generation of multimodal behavior<br class="">
- Modeling paralinguistic cues for multimodal
behavior generation<br class="">
- Few-shots or zero-shot transfer of style and
expressivity<br class="">
- Slightly-supervised adaptation of multimodal
behavior to context<br class="">
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+ Psychology and Cognition of of Multimodal
Human-like Behavior<br class="">
- Cognition of deep fakes and ultra-realistic
digital manipulation of human-like behavior<br
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- Social agents/robots as tools for capturing,
measuring and understanding multimodal
behavior (speech, gesture, face)<br class="">
- Neuroscience and social cognition of real
humans using virtual agents and physical
robots<br class="">
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VENUE<br class="">
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The SIVA workshop is organized as a satellite
workshop of the IEEE International Conference
on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition
2023. The workshop will be collocated with the
FG 2023 and WACV 2023 conferences at the
Waikoloa Beach Marriott Resort, Hawaii, USA.<br
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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION AND SUBMISSION DETAILS<br
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Submissions must be original and not published
or submitted elsewhere. Short papers of 3
pages excluding references encourage
submissions of early research in original
emerging fields. Long paper of 6 to 8 pages
excluding references promote the presentation
of strongly original contributions, positional
or survey papers. The manuscript should be
formatted according to the Word or Latex
template provided on the workshop website.
All submissions will be reviewed by 3
reviewers. The reviewing process will be
single-blinded. Authors will be asked to
disclose possible conflict of interests, such
as cooperation in the previous two years.
Moreover, care will be taken to avoid
reviewers from the same institution as the
authors. Authors should submit their articles
in a single pdf file in the submission website
- no later than September, 12 2022.
Notification of acceptance will be sent by
October, 15 2022, and the camera-ready version
of the papers revised according to the
reviewers comments should be submitted by
October, 31 2022. Accepted papers will be
published in the proceedings of the FG'2023
conference. More information can be found on
the SIVA website.<br class="">
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DIVERSITY, EQUALITY, AND INCLUSION<br class="">
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The format of this workshop will be hybrid
online and onsite. This format proposes format
of scientific exchanges in order to satisfy
travel restrictions and COVID sanitary
precautions, to promote inclusion in the
research community (travel costs are high,
online presentations will encourage research
contributions from geographical regions which
would normally be excluded), and to consider
ecological issues (e.g., CO2 footprint). The
organizing committee is committed to paying
attention to equality, diversity, and
inclusivity in consideration of invited
speakers. This effort starts from the
organizing committee and the invited speakers
to the program committee.<br class="">
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ORGANIZING COMMITTEE<br class="">
🌸 Nicolas Obin, STMS Lab (Ircam, CNRS,
Sorbonne Université, ministère de la Culture)<br
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🌸 Ryo Ishii, NTT Human Informatics
Laboratories<br class="">
🌸 Rachael E. Jack, University of Glasgow<br
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🌸 Louis-Philippe Morency, Carnegie Mellon
University<br class="">
🌸 Catherine Pelachaud, CNRS - ISIR, Sorbonne
Université</div>
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