SUMMER SCHOOL ON PATTERN RECOGNITION IN MULTIMODAL HUMAN INTERACTION (Bjoern Schuller )


Subject: SUMMER SCHOOL ON PATTERN RECOGNITION IN MULTIMODAL HUMAN INTERACTION
From:    Bjoern Schuller  <schuller@xxxxxxxx>
Date:    Sat, 11 Feb 2012 07:49:47 +0000
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--_000_543D4FD247AF9C489398AAD86F8577FE39C1B191BADWLRZSWMBX1ad_ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Dear List, For those of you interested - thank you for excusing cross-postings. _______________________________ AERFAI SUMMER SCHOOL ON PATTERN RECOGNITION IN MULTIMODAL HUMAN INTERACTION 4-8 june 2012, Vigo, Spain http://aerfaiss12.uvigo.es/ _______________________________ It is a pleasure to announce the Call for Participation for the AERFAI Summ= er School 2012 (AERFAISS'2012) organized by the Spanish Association for Pat= tern Recognition (AERFAI) in collaboration with the Group of Multimedia Tec= hnologies of the University of Vigo and the Multimodal Task Force of the Ga= lician R&D Center in Advanced Telecommunications (GRADIANT). This is the sixth edition in a series of AERFAI Summer Schools devoted to a= wide range of topics in the fields of Pattern Recognition and Machine Lear= ning. The focus of this year's Summer School is to provide the students the= most relevant techniques to analyze and understand the information conveye= d in human's audiovisual communication. This event is open to any researcher or PhD-student who is interested in le= arning or refreshing their knowledge about the most successful approaches i= n the fields of human action recognition, affective computing, human-machin= e interfaces, human identification, behavior analysis, social signal proces= sing, .. The Summer School 2012 is organized as a five-day intensive course to be he= ld June 4-8 in Vigo (Spain). Leading experts in the field shall present eac= h tutorial, followed by a practice session with specific software and/or de= mos in order for participants to gain a better understanding of the theory.= Non-formal poster presentations will also be organized for the participant= s to present their current research and interact with their scientific peer= s. LIST OF CONFIRMED TALKS AND LECTURERS: Human Action Recognition: Ivan Laptev (INRIA , France), http://www.irisa.fr/vista/Equipe/People/Ivan.Laptev.html Social Behaviour Analysis from Sensor Data : Daniel Gatica (IDIAP, Switzerland), http://www.idiap.ch/~gatica/ Component Analysis for Human Sensing: Fernando de la Torre (Carnegie Melon University, USA), http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~ftorre/ Facial Signals in Affect Analysis: Albert Ali Salah (Bogazici University, Turkey) , http://www.cmpe.boun.edu.tr/~salah/ Spoken Language Processing: Alex Acero (Microsoft Research , USA), http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/people/alexac/ Speaker-Listener Interaction: Dirk Heylen (University of Twente , Netherlands), http://wwwhome.ewi.utwente.nl/~heylen/Home.html Speaker State and Trait Analysis: Bj=F6rn Schuller (Tech. Univ. Munich, Germany), http://www.schuller.it/ People interested in this Summer School should fill an application form tha= t will be soon available at the webpage and send it before March 15th 2012.= Confirmation of acceptance will be announced by April 1st, 2012. The early= -bird registration fee for this event is available till May 1st, 2012. Plea= se note that AERFAI's members have an important cut-off price, so this is = an excellent opportunity for participants to join the AERFAI association an= d register at an affordable cost. The fee includes access to all lectures, = handling material, coffee breaks and lunches at the event. Half School atte= ndance and per-lecture attendance is also possible. Please note that the nu= mber of participants registering at the AERFAI's summer schools is high wit= h a limited number of seats available, and therefore early registration is = highly recommended. We look forward to welcoming you at the summer school !! --_000_543D4FD247AF9C489398AAD86F8577FE39C1B191BADWLRZSWMBX1ad_ Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <html xmlns:v=3D"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o=3D"urn:schemas-micr= osoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w=3D"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" = xmlns:m=3D"http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2004/12/omml" xmlns=3D"http:= //www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"> <head> <meta http-equiv=3D"Content-Type" content=3D"text/html; charset=3Diso-8859-= 1"> <meta name=3D"Generator" content=3D"Microsoft Word 12 (filtered medium)"> <style><!-- /* Font Definitions */ @xxxxxxxx {font-family:"Cambria Math"; panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4;} @xxxxxxxx {font-family:Calibri; panose-1:2 15 5 2 2 2 4 3 2 4;} /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {margin:0cm; margin-bottom:.0001pt; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";} a:link, span.MsoHyperlink {mso-style-priority:99; color:blue; text-decoration:underline;} a:visited, span.MsoHyperlinkFollowed {mso-style-priority:99; color:purple; text-decoration:underline;} p.MsoPlainText, li.MsoPlainText, div.MsoPlainText {mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-link:"Nur Text Zchn"; margin:0cm; margin-bottom:.0001pt; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";} span.E-MailFormatvorlage17 {mso-style-type:personal-compose; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:windowtext;} span.NurTextZchn {mso-style-name:"Nur Text Zchn"; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-link:"Nur Text"; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";} .MsoChpDefault {mso-style-type:export-only;} @xxxxxxxx WordSection1 {size:612.0pt 792.0pt; margin:70.85pt 70.85pt 2.0cm 70.85pt;} div.WordSection1 {page:WordSection1;} --></style><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:shapedefaults v:ext=3D"edit" spidmax=3D"1026" /> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:shapelayout v:ext=3D"edit"> <o:idmap v:ext=3D"edit" data=3D"1" /> </o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--> </head> <body lang=3D"EN-GB" link=3D"blue" vlink=3D"purple"> <div class=3D"WordSection1"> <p class=3D"MsoPlainText"><span lang=3D"EN-US">Dear List,<o:p></o:p></span>= </p> <p class=3D"MsoPlainText"><span lang=3D"EN-US"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=3D"MsoPlainText"><span lang=3D"EN-US">For those of you interested = &#8211; thank you for excusing cross-postings.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=3D"MsoPlainText"><span lang=3D"EN-US"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=3D"MsoPlainText"><span lang=3D"EN-US">____________________________= ___<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=3D"MsoPlainText"><span lang=3D"EN-US"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=3D"MsoPlainText"><span lang=3D"EN-US">AERFAI SUMMER SCHOOL ON<o:p>= </o:p></span></p> <p class=3D"MsoPlainText"><span lang=3D"EN-US">PATTERN RECOGNITION IN<o:p><= /o:p></span></p> <p class=3D"MsoPlainText"><span lang=3D"EN-US">MULTIMODAL HUMAN INTERACTION= <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=3D"MsoPlainText"><span lang=3D"EN-US"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=3D"MsoPlainText"><span lang=3D"EN-US">4-8 june 2012, Vigo, Spain<o= :p></o:p></span></p> <p class=3D"MsoPlainText"><span lang=3D"EN-US"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=3D"MsoPlainText"><span lang=3D"ES"><a href=3D"http://aerfaiss12.uv= igo.es/"><span lang=3D"EN-US">http://aerfaiss12.uvigo.es/</span></a></span>= <span lang=3D"EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=3D"MsoPlainText"><span lang=3D"EN-US">____________________________= ___<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=3D"MsoPlainText"><span lang=3D"EN-US"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=3D"MsoPlainText"><span lang=3D"EN-US"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=3D"MsoPlainText"><span lang=3D"EN-US">It is a pleasure to announce= the Call for Participation for the AERFAI Summer School 2012 (AERFAISS'201= 2) organized by the Spanish Association for Pattern Recognition (AERFAI) in= collaboration with the Group of Multimedia Technologies of the University of Vigo and the Multimodal Task Force of th= e Galician R&amp;D Center in Advanced Telecommunications (GRADIANT).<o:p></= o:p></span></p> <p class=3D"MsoPlainText"><span lang=3D"EN-US"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=3D"MsoPlainText"><span lang=3D"EN-US">This is the sixth edition in= a series of AERFAI Summer Schools devoted to a wide range of topics in the= fields of Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning. The focus of this year= 's Summer School is to provide the students the most relevant techniques to analyze and understand the information con= veyed in human's&nbsp; audiovisual communication.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=3D"MsoPlainText"><span lang=3D"EN-US"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=3D"MsoPlainText"><span lang=3D"EN-US">This event is open to any re= searcher or PhD-student who is interested in learning or refreshing their k= nowledge about the most successful approaches in the fields of human action= recognition, affective computing, human-machine interfaces, human identification, behavior analysis, social signal process= ing, ..<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=3D"MsoPlainText"><span lang=3D"EN-US"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=3D"MsoPlainText"><span lang=3D"EN-US">The Summer School 2012 is or= ganized as a five-day intensive course to be held June 4-8 in Vigo (Spain).= Leading experts in the field shall present each tutorial, followed by a pr= actice session with specific software and/or demos in order for participants to gain a better understanding of t= he theory. Non-formal poster presentations will also be organized for the p= articipants to present their current research and interact with their scien= tific peers.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=3D"MsoPlainText"><span lang=3D"EN-US"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=3D"MsoPlainText"><span lang=3D"EN-US">LIST OF CONFIRMED TALKS AND = LECTURERS:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=3D"MsoPlainText"><span lang=3D"EN-US"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=3D"MsoPlainText"><span lang=3D"EN-US">Human Action Recognition:&nb= sp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class=3D"MsoPlainText"><span lang=3D"EN-US">Ivan Laptev (INRIA , France)= ,<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=3D"MsoPlainText"><span lang=3D"ES"><a href=3D"http://www.irisa.fr/= vista/Equipe/People/Ivan.Laptev.html"><span lang=3D"EN-US">http://www.irisa= .fr/vista/Equipe/People/Ivan.Laptev.html</span></a></span><span lang=3D"EN-= US"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=3D"MsoPlainText"><span lang=3D"EN-US"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=3D"MsoPlainText"><span lang=3D"EN-US">Social Behaviour Analysis fr= om Sensor Data&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; :<o:p>= </o:p></span></p> <p class=3D"MsoPlainText"><span lang=3D"EN-US">Daniel Gatica (IDIAP, Switze= rland), <o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class=3D"MsoPlainText"><span lang=3D"ES"><a href=3D"http://www.idiap.ch/= ~gatica/"><span lang=3D"EN-US">http://www.idiap.ch/~gatica/</span></a></spa= n><span lang=3D"EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=3D"MsoPlainText"><span lang=3D"EN-US"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=3D"MsoPlainText"><span lang=3D"EN-US">Component Analysis for Human= Sensing: <o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class=3D"MsoPlainText"><span lang=3D"ES">Fernando de la Torre (Carnegie = Melon University, USA), <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=3D"MsoPlainText"><span lang=3D"ES"><a href=3D"http://www.cs.cmu.ed= u/~ftorre/">http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~ftorre/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=3D"MsoPlainText"><span lang=3D"ES"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=3D"MsoPlainText"><span lang=3D"EN-US">Facial Signals in Affect Ana= lysis:&nbsp; <o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class=3D"MsoPlainText"><span lang=3D"EN-US">Albert Ali Salah (Bogazici U= niversity, Turkey)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ,<o:p></= o:p></span></p> <p class=3D"MsoPlainText"><span lang=3D"ES"><a href=3D"http://www.cmpe.boun= .edu.tr/~salah/"><span lang=3D"EN-US">http://www.cmpe.boun.edu.tr/~salah/</= span></a></span><span lang=3D"EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=3D"MsoPlainText"><span lang=3D"EN-US"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=3D"MsoPlainText"><span lang=3D"EN-US">Spoken Language Processing:&= nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class=3D"MsoPlainText"><span lang=3D"EN-US">Alex Acero&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;= &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; (Microsoft Research , USA),<o:p></o:p>= </span></p> <p class=3D"MsoPlainText"><span lang=3D"ES"><a href=3D"http://research.micr= osoft.com/en-us/people/alexac/"><span lang=3D"EN-US">http://research.micros= oft.com/en-us/people/alexac/</span></a></span><span lang=3D"EN-US"><o:p></o= :p></span></p> <p class=3D"MsoPlainText"><span lang=3D"EN-US"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=3D"MsoPlainText"><span lang=3D"EN-US">Speaker-Listener Interaction= :&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class=3D"MsoPlainText"><span lang=3D"EN-US">Dirk Heylen&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp= ;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; (University of Twente , Netherlands),<o:p><= /o:p></span></p> <p class=3D"MsoPlainText"><span lang=3D"ES"><a href=3D"http://wwwhome.ewi.u= twente.nl/~heylen/Home.html"><span lang=3D"EN-US">http://wwwhome.ewi.utwent= e.nl/~heylen/Home.html</span></a></span><span lang=3D"EN-US"><o:p></o:p></s= pan></p> <p class=3D"MsoPlainText"><span lang=3D"EN-US"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=3D"MsoPlainText"><span lang=3D"EN-US">Speaker State and Trait Anal= ysis:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbs= p;&nbsp;&nbsp; <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=3D"MsoPlainText"><span lang=3D"EN-US">Bj=F6rn Schuller&nbsp;&nbsp;= &nbsp;&nbsp; (Tech. Univ. Munich, Germany),<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=3D"MsoPlainText"><span lang=3D"ES"><a href=3D"http://www.schuller.= it/"><span lang=3D"EN-US">http://www.schuller.it/</span></a></span><span la= ng=3D"EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=3D"MsoPlainText"><span lang=3D"EN-US"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=3D"MsoPlainText"><span lang=3D"EN-US">People interested in this Su= mmer School should fill an application form that will be soon available at = the webpage and send it before March 15th 2012. Confirmation of acceptance = will be announced by April 1st, 2012. The early-bird registration fee for this event is available till May 1st, = 2012. Please note that AERFAI's members have an important cut-off price,&nb= sp; so this is an excellent opportunity for participants to join the AERFAI= association and register at an affordable cost. The fee includes access to all lectures, handling material, coffee b= reaks and lunches at the event. Half School attendance and per-lecture atte= ndance is also possible. Please note that the number of participants regist= ering at the AERFAI's summer schools is high with a limited number of seats available, and therefore early regi= stration is highly recommended.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=3D"MsoPlainText"><span lang=3D"EN-US"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=3D"MsoPlainText"><span lang=3D"EN-US"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=3D"MsoPlainText"><span lang=3D"EN-US"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=3D"MsoPlainText"><span lang=3D"EN-US">We look forward to welcoming= you at the summer school !!<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=3D"MsoNormal"><span lang=3D"EN-US"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=3D"MsoNormal"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p> <p class=3D"MsoNormal"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p> </div> </body> </html> --_000_543D4FD247AF9C489398AAD86F8577FE39C1B191BADWLRZSWMBX1ad_--


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