[iva] FACES 2019 Workshop, Colocated with NoDaLiDa

[Patrizia Paggio]

With apologies for multiple postings.

Workshop to be held at the 22nd Nordic Conference on Computational
Linguistics (NoDaLiDa 2019) Conference, Turku University, Turku,
Finland, on 30 September 2019.

https://faces2019workshop.github.io/home/ <https://faces2019workshop.github.io/home/>

Workshop goals
===============
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.

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.

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.

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.


Relevant topics
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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:

- Datasets of facial images and descriptions
- Experimental studies of facial expression understanding by humans
- Discovery of face descriptions in corpora
- Automatic structuring of descriptions and semantic web representations
and databases
- Algorithms for automatic facial description generation
- Emotion recognition by humans
- Emotion recognition, perception and interpretation of face descriptions
- Multimodal automatic emotion recognition from images and text
- Subjectivity in face perception
- Communicative, relational and intentional aspects of head pose and
eye-gaze
- Collection and annotation methods for facial descriptions
- Inferential aspects of facial descriptions
- Understanding and description of the human face in different contexts,
including commercial applications, art, forensics, etc.
- Modelling of the human face and facial expressions for embodied
conversational agents
- Generation of facial images from descriptions


Important dates
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Paper submission deadline: July 7
Notification of acceptance: July 25
Camera ready Papers: September 1
Workshop Schedule: September 18
Workshop: September 30 (half day) 


Submission guidelines
===================
Submission URL: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=faces2019 <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=faces2019>

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.

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:

http://www.nodalida2019.org/authorkit.zip <http://www.nodalida2019.org/authorkit.zip>

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.

Accepted papers will be published in the ACL Anthology
https://aclanthology.info <https://aclanthology.info/>.

 
Organisers
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Patrizia Paggio, University of Copenhagen and University of Malta
Albert Gatt, University of Malta
Roman Klinger, University of Stuttgart


Programme committee
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Adrian Muscat, University of Malta
Andreas Hotho, University of Würzburg
Andrew Hendrickson, Tilburg University
Anja Belz, University of Brighton
Costanza Navarretta, CST, University of Copenhagen
David Hogg, University of Leeds
Diego Frassinelli, University of Stuttgart
Emiel van Miltenburg, Tilburg University and VU Amsterdam
Francesca D’Errico, Roma Tre University
Gerard de Melo, Rutgers University
Gholamreza Anbarjafari, University of Tartu
Isabella Poggi, Roma Tre University
Jan Snajder, University of Zagreb
Jordi Gonzalez, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Lonneke van der Plas, University of Malta
Michael Tarr, Carnegie Mellon University
Paul Buitelaar, National University of Ireland, Galway
Raffaella Bernardi, CiMEC Trento
Sebastian Padó, University of Stuttgart
Spandana Gella, University of Edinburgh
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