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<p align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:13.0pt;background:white"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">==== We apologies if you have received multiple copies ====</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333"> ==== Please, feel free to share this call for Papers with your colleagues who might be interested ====</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Dear Colleagues,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">This is Call for Papers for Special Session in 21st International Conference on Content-based Multimedia Indexing<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">September 18-20, Reykjavik, Iceland<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://cbmi2024.org/?page_id=100#UHBER"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Special Sessions – CBMI 2024</span></a><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:105%"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Multimodal Data Analysis for Understanding of Human Behaviour, Emotions and their Reasons</span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:105%"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">This special session addresses the processing of all types of data related to understanding of human behaviour, emotions, and their reasons, such as
current or past context. Understanding human behaviour and context may be beneficial for many services both online and in physical spaces. For example, detecting lack of skills, confusion or other negative states may help to adapt online learning programmes,
to detect a bottleneck in the production line, to recognise poor workplace culture etc., or maybe to detect a dangerous spot on a road before any accident happens there. Detection of unusual behaviour may help to improve security of travellers and safety of
dementia sufferers and visually/ audio impaired individuals, for example, to help them to stay away from potentially dangerous strangers, e.g., drunk people or football fans forming a big crowd.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:105%"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">In context of multimedia retrieval, understanding human behaviour and emotions could help not only for multimedia indexing, but also to derive implicit
(i.e., other than intentionally reported) human feedback regarding multimedia news, videos, advertisements, navigators, hotels, shopping items etc. and improve multimedia retrieval.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:105%"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Humans are good at understanding other humans, their emotions and reasons. For example, when looking at people engaged in different activities (sport,
driving, working on a computer, working in a construction site, using public transport etc.), a human observer can understand whether a person is engaged in the task or distracted, stopped the recommended video because the video was not interesting, or because
the person quickly found what he needed in the beginning of the video. After observing another human for some time, humans can also learn his/ her tastes, skills and personality traits.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:105%"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Hence the interest of this session is, how to improve AI understanding of the same aspects? The topics include (but are not limited to) the following<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">
</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Use of various sensors for monitoring and understanding human behaviour, emotion/ mental state/ cognition, and context: video, audio, infrared, wearables, virtual (e.g., mobile device usage, computer usage)
etc.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Methods for information fusion, including information from various heterogeneous sources<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Methods to learn human traits and preferences from long term observations<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Methods to detect human implicit feedback from past and current observations<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">
</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Methods to assess task performance: skills, emotions, confusion, engagement in the task, context<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Methods to detect potential security and safety threats and risks<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">
</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Methods to adapt behavioural and emotional models to different end users and contexts without collecting a lot of labels from each user and/ or for each context: transfer learning, semi-supervised learning,
anomaly detection, one-shot learning etc.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">
</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">How to collect data for training AI methods from various sources, e.g., internet, open data, field pilots etc.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Use of behavioural or emotional data to model humans and adapt services either online or in physical spaces.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:5.0pt;mso-margin-bottom-alt:5.0pt;mso-margin-top-alt:5.0pt;margin-left:18.0pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:justify;line-height:105%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Ethics and privacy issues in modelling human emotions, behaviour, context and reasons<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Proceedings should be published by ACM, the information will soon appear in the conference web page. Best papers will be invited to Multimedia Tools and Applications
journal.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Conference Website:
</span></b><a href="http://cbmi2024.org/"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1155CC">http://cbmi2024.org/</span></b></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Authors can submit full papers (6 pages + references), short papers (4 pages + references), special session papers (6 pages + references) and demonstration proposals (4 pages + 1 page demonstration
description + references). Authors of certain best papers of the conference will be invited to submit extended versions of their contributions to a special journal issue in MTAP (approval pending). Submissions to CBMI are peer reviewed in a single blind process.
All types of papers must use the IEEE templates at </span><a href="https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1155CC">https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html</span></a><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">.
The language of the conference is English.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Submission Deadlines</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Full and short research papers are due March 22, 2024<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2">
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Special session papers are due March 22, 2024<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2">
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Demonstration submissions are due April 22, 2024<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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