[iva] Call for participation: GENEA Workshop 2024 at ICMI

[Rajmund Nagy]

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Call for participation: GENEA (Generation and Evaluation of Non-verbal 
Behaviour for Embodied Agents) Workshop 2024 at ICMI
Date: November 4 or 8, 2024
Location: Crowne Plaza San José Conference Center, San José, Costa Rica
Website: https://genea-workshop.github.io/2024/workshop
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Important dates
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July 8,   2024 - Paper abstract deadline
July 10, 2024 - Paper submission deadline
July 31, 2024 - Notification of paper acceptance
Aug 14, 2024 - Deadline for camera-ready papers
Nov 4 or 8, 2024 - In-person workshop at ICMI


Overview
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GENEA 2024 is the fifth GENEA Workshop and an official workshop of ACM 
ICMI ’24, which will take place in San José, Costa Rica. Accepted paper 
submissions will be included in the adjunct ACM ICMI proceedings.

Generating non-verbal behaviours, such as gesticulation, facial 
expressions and gaze, is of great importance for natural interaction 
with embodied agents such as virtual agents and social robots. At 
present, behaviour generation is typically powered by rule-based 
systems, data-driven approaches, and their hybrids. For evaluation, both 
objective and subjective methods exist, but their application and 
validity are frequently a point of contention.

This workshop asks, “What will be the behaviour-generation methods of 
the future? And how can we evaluate these methods using meaningful 
objective and subjective metrics?” The aim of the workshop is to bring 
together researchers working on the generation and evaluation of 
non-verbal behaviours for embodied agents 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.

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Paper topics include (but are not limited to) the following
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  * Automated synthesis of facial expressions, gestures, and gaze movements
  * Audio- and music-driven nonverbal behaviour synthesis
  * Closed-loop nonverbal behaviour generation (from perception to action)
  * Nonverbal behaviour synthesis in two-party and group interactions
  * Emotion-driven and stylistic nonverbal behaviour synthesis
  * New datasets related to nonverbal behaviour
  * Believable nonverbal behaviour synthesis using motion-capture and 4D
    scan data
  * Multi-modal nonverbal behaviour synthesis
  * Interactive/autonomous nonverbal behavior generation
  * LLMs and foundation models in the context of non-verbal behaviour
    synthesis
  * Subjective and objective evaluation methods for nonverbal behaviour
    synthesis
  * Guidelines for nonverbal behaviours in human-agent interaction

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Submission guidelines
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We will accept *long* (max 8 pages) and *short* (max 4 pages) paper 
submissions, all in the same double-column ACM conference format as used 
by ICMI (https://icmi.acm.org/2024/guidelines/). Pages containing only 
references do not count toward the page limit for any of the paper 
types. Submissions should be formatted for double-blind review made in 
PDF format through OpenReview 
(https://openreview.net/group?id=ACM.org/ICMI/2024/Workshop/GENEA). To 
encourage authors to make their work reproducible and reward the effort 
that this requires, we have introduced the GENEA Workshop 
Reproducibility Award 
<https://genea-workshop.github.io/2024/workshop/#reproducibility-award>.

We will also host an *open poster session* for advertising your 
late-breaking results and already-published work to the community. No 
paper submission is needed to participate in the poster session, and 
these posters will not be part of any proceedings (non archival). 
Submission guidelines for the poster session will be available on the 
workshop website.
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Organisers
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*Youngwoo Yoon*, ETRI, South Korea, youngwoo at etri.re.kr
*Alice Delbosc*, DAVI-Les Humaniseurs, France, alice.delbosc at lis-lab.fr
*Gustav Eje Henter*, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden, ghe at kth.se
*Taras Kucherenko*,**SEED, Electronic Arts, Sweden, tkucherenko at ea.com
*Teodor Nikolov*, Motorica AI, Sweden, tnikolov at hotmail.com
*Rajmund Nagy*, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden, rajmundn at kth.se

The main contact address of the workshop is: genea-contact at googlegroups.com

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