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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><i><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Roboto">[Intentional BCC to mailing lists to avoid Reply all]<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><i><u><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Roboto">Apologies for cross-posting!<o:p></o:p></span></u></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><i><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Roboto"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Roboto">Dear All,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Roboto"><br>
We are happy to announce the upcoming first workshop on Lifelong Learning in Affective Computing  (LiLAC), to be held in September at the
<b>International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII) 2023</b> conference at MIT Media Labs. Links to the relevant resources and a call of papers (short and long, with a deadline at the end of April) are attached in this email.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Roboto"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Roboto">We are looking forward to your contributions and participation! <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Roboto"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Roboto">Best,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Roboto"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Roboto">LiLAC organizers<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Roboto">Nikhil Churamani, Martin Mundt, Björn Schuller and Hatice Gunes<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">OVERVIEW</span></b><span style="color:white"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Despite state-of-the-art performance on affect recognition benchmarks, deep learning solutions struggle in real-world applications where systems dynamically interact with different users. Assuming
 a clear separation of training and test settings requires models to have all the data available apriori, making such methods unsuitable or, at the least, inefficient when data distributions shift with each user or task. Lifelong or Continual Learning (CL)
 aims to address this challenge, enabling systems to adapt with a continuous and sequential stream of data, acquired from non-stationary or changing environments. This makes CL a ‘natural fit’ for real-world affective computing. To this end, we are organising <b>LiLAC
 2023: The first Workshop on Lifelong Learning in Affective Computing </b>to be held in conjunction with the <b>International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII) 2023 (<a href="https://acii-conf.net/2023/" target="_blank">https://acii-conf.net/2023/</a>),
 In-person </b>from <b>September 10–13, 2023 </b>at the <b>MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, MA, USA.</b></span><span style="color:white"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">This workshop aims to initiate a systematic and structured discussion towards the successful adoption of the CL paradigm for affective computing, bringing together a multidisciplinary
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt">start formalising key challenges towards dynamic adaptation in affect perception models;</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;text-align:justify;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-size:10.0pt">bring forth the merits and demerits of existing CL-based works in the context of affective computing;</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;text-align:justify;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-size:10.0pt">investigate novel methodologies adopting the CL paradigm for affective computing;</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;text-align:justify;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-size:10.0pt">formalise the benchmarks and evaluative metrics for CL-based affective computing.  </span><o:p></o:p></li></ol>
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<p style="margin:0cm"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">TOPICS OF INTEREST (include but are not limited to):</span></b><span style="color:white"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Multi-modal, few-shot, transfer, federated, continual, lifelong learning methods in and for affective computing;</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Affective and lifelong learning benchmarks, metrics, evaluation considerations, fairness and ethics;</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Applications for affective lifelong computing: sentiment analysis, face/body gesture analyses, affective speech analysis, digital health;</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#1D1D1D;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Research datasets, software, open-source tools, hardware analysis, system benchmarks in/for affective lifelong computing  </span><o:p></o:p></li></ul>
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<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="color:#1D1D1D">We invite authors to submit their contributions either as regular (6-8 pages) or short papers (2-4 pages), following the ACII 2023 submission guidelines. All papers will be peer-reviewed in a **double-blind**
 fashion. </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">The accepted workshop papers will appear in the ACII Demo and Workshop Proceedings. Authors will be invited to present their accepted papers in an oral presentation during the workshop. </span><span style="color:white"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">We will also invite researchers to submit their preliminary or work-in-progress contributions as a 1-page extended abstract for <b>poster presentation</b>. The authors will receive a notification
 of acceptance after a light review that only examines fit and factual correctness, but they will receive feedback from the audience during the workshop. These 1-page extended abstracts will not appear in the workshop proceedings.</span><span style="color:white"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo3"><span style="color:#1D1D1D">Submission Guidelines: <a href="https://acii-conf.net/2023/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/2023-ACII-Submission-Guidelines.pdf" target="_blank">https://acii-conf.net/2023/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/2023-ACII-Submission-Guidelines.pdf</a></span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo3"><span style="color:#1D1D1D">EasyChair Submission System:</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt"> </span><span style="color:#1D1D1D"><a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/submissions?a=30547390" target="_blank">https://easychair.org/conferences/submissions?a=30547390</a></span><o:p></o:p></li></ul>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo4"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Submission deadline: <b>28 April 2023, Anywhere On Earth (AoE)</b></span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo4"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Notification of acceptance: <b>09 June 2023</b></span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo4"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Camera-ready deadline: <b>1 August 2023 (same as ACII main conference)</b></span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo4">
<span style="font-size:10.0pt">Workshop Day: <b>10 September 2023</b></span><o:p></o:p></li></ul>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l5 level1 lfo5"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Prof Bing Liu, University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC).</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l5 level1 lfo5"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Dr Ognjen (Oggi) Rudovic, MIT Media Lab & Apple.</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l5 level1 lfo5"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Prof Gemma Roig, Goethe University Frankfurt.</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l5 level1 lfo5"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Dr Pablo Barros, Sony R&D Brussels.</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l5 level1 lfo5"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Dr Jing Han, University of Cambridge.</span><o:p></o:p></li></ul>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l4 level1 lfo6"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Nikhil Churamani, University of Cambridge. </span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l4 level1 lfo6"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Martin Mundt, TU-Darmstadt, Hessian AI, ContinualAI.</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l4 level1 lfo6"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Björn Schuller, Imperial College London, University of Augsburg.</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l4 level1 lfo6"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Hatice Gunes, University of Cambridge. </span><o:p></o:p></li></ul>
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<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">We look forward to your contributions and seeing you at ACII 2023.</span><span style="color:white"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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