The CALLAS Consortium is sponsoring next ACM Conference which will take place in Florence (Italy) on next 25-29 October.
The conference is a key event about Multimedia scientific achievements and innovative industrial products and it will host sessions, tutorials, panels and discussion meetings. The program includes also an Interactive Art session offering opportunity of interaction between artists and computer scientists and investigation on the application of multimedia technologies to art and cultural heritage.
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The CGIV 2010 , IEEE Computer Society, 7th International Conference on Computer Graphics, Imaging and Visualization will be hosted by University of Technology, Sydney, Australia.
A CALLAS paper has been accepted for presentation at the conference, about:
"Expressive MPEG-4 Facial Animation Using Quadratic Deformation Models" - By M.Obaid, R.Mukundan, M.Billinghurst[HITNZ], and C.Pelachaud [TCOM]]]>
CALLAS will participate to the 8th International Conference on Pervasive Computing within the workshop “Designing for Crowd†(May 17). The emphasis is on investigating interaction with technology in public and semi-public places, where crowded places are a major feature of these settings. The Common Touch CALLAS Showcase will be presented by representatives of AALTO and TEES, members in CALLAS.
A CALLAS Paper will be presented at the event:
"The Common Touch: Aesthetic and affective interaction in semi-public settings" – By C.Coutrix [AALTO], I. Avdouevski [AALTO], G.Jacucci[AALTO], V.Vervondel[TEES], S. Gilroy[TEES], M. Cavazza [TEES]
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Organised by Universite’ de Mons, the XXVIII Journees d’Etude sur la Parole, will be dedicated to communication by words, speech, acoustic expressions and their applications. The research made about laughing in CALLAS:
"La base de données AVLaughterCycle"
will be presented to a Poster Session at the event.]]>
Follow-up of its participation to AAMAS 2008 and AAMAS 2009, the CALLAS project attended AAMAS 2010, the 9th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, during which workshops and tutorials discussed aspects, approaches, methods, and ideas related to specific topics, both theoretical and applied, in the general area of Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems.
A CALLAS Paper was presented at the event:
"Multimodal Interaction with a Virtual Character in Interactive Storytelling" By Bee N., Wagner J., André E[UoA]., Charles F., Pizzi D., Cavazza M [TEES] Abstract]]>
CALLAS will participate to the 7th international conference on Language Resources and Evaluation organised by ELRA in cooperation with a wide range of international associations and organisations. The conference provides a unique forum for researchers, industrials and funding agencies from across a wide spectrum of areas to discuss problems and opportunities, find new synergies and promote initiatives for international cooperation, in support to investigations in language sciences, progress in language technologies and development of corresponding products, services and applications, and standards.
LREC 2010 will host the presentation of a CALLAS paper about:
"The AVLaughterCycle database"
by Urbain J [FPMS]., Bevacqua E. [TCOM], Dutoit T. [FPMS], Moinet A [FPMS], Niewiadomski R. [TCOM], Pelachaud C. [TCOM], Picart B [FPMS]., Tilmanne J[FPMS]., Wagner J. [UoA]
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CALLAS will participate to the Program of the International Conference on Kansei Engineering and Emotion Research 2010, organised by Arts et Métiers ParisTech and the Japan Society of Kansei Engineering (JSKE) in March 2-4 2010.
All the themes proposed for the KEER2010 have the common objective to gather the state-of-the-art in the research field of Kansei, with vision for the future societies and rigor for a high quality in knowledge sharing.
KEER 2010 will host CALLAS papers presentation in:
Session 3
about "Introducing Multimodal Sequential Emotional Expressions For Virtual Characters" By Niewiadomski R., Hyniewska S., Pelachaud C., [TCOM] Abstract
Session 4
about "Emotional Interactive Storyteller System" By P.Bleackley [BBC], S.Hyniewska, R.Niewiadomski, C. Pelachaud [TCOM], M.Price [BBC] Abstract
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Session 4
about "Emotional Interactive Storyteller System" By P.Bleackley [BBC], S.Hyniewska, R.Niewiadomski, C. Pelachaud [TCOM], M.Price [BBC] Abstract
BIOSTEC 2010, the 3rd International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies, hold four co-located conferences, each specialized in a specific knowledge area. A special workshop was dedicated the discussion of B-Interfaces: Bio-inspired Human-Machine Interfaces and Healthcare Applications, aiming to assemble researchers from diverse backgrounds together to discuss ideas and solutions addressing the health/healing power of various environmental elements including social activity, diet and nutrition, joy and stress, family, and lifestyle. All of these aspects will in fact extend the scope of applying physiological signals to multi-disciplinary research fields and offer great potential for daily healthcare monitoring.
Two CALLAS papers were presented in this session:
"The Smart Sensor Integration Framework and its Application in EU Projects" by J. Wagner, F. Jung, J. Kim, Elisabeth Andre' and Thurid Vogt [UOA]. See Abstract
"Ensemble approaches to parametric decision fusion for bimodal emotion recognition" by Jonghwa Kim and Florian Lingenfelser [UOA]. See Abstract
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DICTA is the main Australian conference on digital image processing, machine vision and related areas. DICTA2009 was hosted by the Australian Pattern Recognition Society (APRS), which attracted 120 participants from Australia and the Asia Pacific regions as well as many international researchers.
The HITLab NZ developed a novel facial expression recognition system based on Quadratic facial expression models. Their work was collaborated with the Research School of Information Sciences and Engineering at the Australian National University in Canberra. A paper, describing the method and the results, was presented at the Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications (DICTA 2009), about:
"A Quadratic Deformation Model for Facial Expression Recognition. Digital Image Computing and Applications"
by M. Obaid, R. Mukundan [HITNZ] , R. Goecke [University of Canberra], M. Billinghurst, H. Seichter[HITNZ] see abstract. ]]>