[humaine news] CFP: LREC 2010 Workshop on Multimodal Corpora: Advances in Capturing, Coding and Analyzing Multimodality

[Kostas Karpouzis]

		   	   LREC 2010 Workshop on
Multimodal Corpora: Advances in Capturing, Coding and Analyzing 
Multimodality
        	            	*** 18 May 2010, Malta ***

		    http://www.multimodal-corpora.org

A "Multimodal Corpus" involves the recording, annotation and analysis of 
several communication modalities such as speech, hand gesture, facial 
expression, body posture, etc. As many research areas are moving from 
focused but single modality research to fully-fledged multimodality 
research, multimodal corpora are becoming a core research asset and an 
opportunity for interdisciplinary exchange of ideas, concepts and data.

This workshop follows similar events held at LREC 00, 02, 04, 06, 08. 
There is an increasing interest in multimodal communication and 
multimodal corpora as visible by European Networks of Excellence and 
integrated projects such as HUMAINE, SIMILAR, CHIL, AMI, CALLAS and 
SSPNet. Furthermore, the success of recent conferences and workshops 
dedicated to multimodal communication (ICMI-MLMI, IVA, Gesture, PIT, 
Nordic Symposium on Multimodal Communication, Embodied Language 
Processing) and the creation of the Journal of Multimodal User 
Interfaces also testify to the growing interest in this area, and the 
general need for data on multimodal behaviours.

The 2010 full-day workshop is planned to result in a significant 
follow-up publication, similar to previous post-workshop publications 
like the 2008 special issue of the Journal of Language Resources and 
Evaluation and the 2009 state-of-the-art book published by Springer.

AIMS

In 2010, we are aiming for a wide cross-section of the field, with 
contributions on collection efforts, coding, validation and analysis 
methods, as well as actual tools and applications of multimodal corpora. 
However, we want to put emphasis on the fact that there have been 
significant advances in capture technology that make highly accurate 
data available to the broader research community. Examples are the 
tracking of face, gaze, hands, body and the recording of articulated 
full-body motion using motion capture. These data are much more accurate 
and complete than simple videos that are traditionally used in the field 
and therefore, will have a lasting impact on multimodality research. 
However, the richness of the signals and the complexity of the recording 
process urgently call for an exchange of state-of-the-art information 
regarding recording and coding practices, new visualization and coding 
tools, advances in automatic coding and analyzing corpora.

TOPICS

This LREC 2010 workshop on multimodal corpora will feature a special 
session on databases of motion capture, trackers, inertial sensors, 
biometric devices and image processing. Other topics to be addressed 
include, but are not limited to:

* Multimodal corpus collection activities (e.g. direction-giving 
dialogues, emotional behaviour, human-avatar interaction, human-robot 
interaction, etc.) and descriptions of existing multimodal resources
* Relations between modalities in natural (human) interaction and in 
human-computer interaction
* Multimodal interaction in specific scenarios, e.g. group interaction 
in meetings
* Coding schemes for the annotation of multimodal corpora
* Evaluation and validation of multimodal annotations
* Methods, tools, and best practices for the acquisition, creation, 
management, access, distribution, and use of multimedia and multimodal 
corpora
* Interoperability between multimodal annotation tools (exchange 
formats, conversion tools, standardization)
* Collaborative coding
* Metadata descriptions of multimodal corpora
* Automatic annotation, based e.g. on motion capture or image 
processing, and the integration with manual annotations
* Corpus-based design of multimodal and multimedia systems, in 
particular systems that involve human-like modalities either in input 
(Virtual Reality, motion capture, etc.) and output (virtual characters)
* Automated multimodal fusion and/or generation (e.g., coordinated 
speech, gaze, gesture, facial expressions)
* Machine learning applied to multimodal data
* Multimodal dialogue modelling

IMPORTANT DATES

* Deadline for paper submission (complete paper):    12 February 2010
* Notification of acceptance:    	  	     10  March
* Final version of accepted paper:   		     26 March
* Final program:    	    			     7 April
* Final proceedings:   				     14 April
* Workshop: 					     18 May

SUBMISSIONS

The workshop will consist primarily of paper presentations and 
discussion/working sessions. Submissions should be 4 pages long, must be 
in English, and follow the submission guidelines available under 
http://multimodal-corpora.org/mmc10.html

Submit your paper here: https://www.softconf.com/lrec2010/MMC2010

Demonstrations of multimodal corpora and related tools are encouraged as 
well (a demonstration outline of 2 pages can be submitted).

LREC-2010 MAP OF LANGUAGE RESOURCES, TECHNOLOGIES AND EVALUATION

When submitting a paper through the START page, authors will be kindly 
asked to provide relevant information about the resources that have been 
used for the work described in their paper or that are the outcome of 
their research. For further information on this new initiative, please 
refer to
http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2010/?LREC2010-Map-of-Language-Resources

ORGANISING COMMITTEE

Michael Kipp, DFKI, Germany
Jean-Claude Martin, LIMSI-CNRS, France
Patrizia Paggio, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Dirk Heylen, University of Twente, The Netherlands