MwE'19: MwE 2019: The IROS-19 International Workshop on "Machines with Emotions" (Affect Modeling, Evaluation, and Challenges in Intelligent Cars) The Venetian Macao Resort Hotel Macao, China, November 4, 2019 |
Conference website | http://machines-with-emotions.com/ |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mwe19 |
Poster | download |
Submission deadline | July 31, 2019 |
Modeling the human behavior and integration of it into robots and intelligent systems lead to not only a better understanding and acceptance of those systems by users but also a considerable increase in adaptability and flexibility of the intelligent entity which is at service. Autonomous cars, by definition, are a unique type of service robots with a high level of complexity in their functions and services. Proactiveness and personalization, as the key aspects of comfort functions in the vehicle, along with the safety concerns in highly automated driving, require a good understanding of the current emotional status of the users and their intentions accordingly. Studying the human behavior in the cabin and its differences from other environments is the very first step in paving the road for further progress in this field and requires close coordination between the behavioral science, psychology and computer science besides automotive engineering.
Yet, developing generic models based on emotional behavior of the driver/passenger for emotion recognition systems is at its early stages. There is still a lack of proper fusion strategies for different modalities of data and sensory inputs in affect recognition which varies from use case to use case, altogether with the absence of the proper databases which are collected accordingly to study and train the AI-based functions. Meanwhile, defining the evaluation criteria for the systems which employ the emotional status of the user in the car seems to be a critical matter. This workshop aims to gather experts active in related scientific domains with the industry experts, dealing with the state-of-the-art technology in autonomous driving in order to shed a light on the currently existing challenges and their importance, with forming serious discussions. Our last but not least goal is to draw an outline for the close coordination of the research fields of robotics, humanoids, human-robot interaction, autonomous driving, emotion recognition, behavioral science, psychology, and affect recognition.
Submission Guidelines
Paper and poster presentations are intended to stimulate discussions among workshop participants: reflections on the past, descriptions of current initiatives, visions of the future, and new results in affective computing research and practice are welcome. During the workshop, posters will be presented in poster sessions. We solicit short/position papers of 5-9 pages that must not have been published or be under review elsewhere.
All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. You are kindely invited to submit:
- Short/Position papers of 5-9 pages in Springer LNCS format: https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines
List of Topics
Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
- Emotion representation and modeling of humans
- Modeling human behavior according to the emotional state
- Embedding affective models in cars
- Machine learning in human behavior modeling
- Multimodality in emotion recognition systems
- Multimodal databases for affect recognition
- Affective data acquisition technologies
- Approaches to obtaining reliable ground truth and affective data
- Approaches to annotating and mapping the expressive behavior to emotional states
- Sensory data fusion methods and approaches for emotion recognition systems
- Maintaining emotional awareness in autonomous cars
- New benchmarks for measuring the accuracy of emotion recognition
- Emotionally Intelligent Personal Assistants for self-driving cars
- Preserving privacy in developing multimodal databases
- Approaches to evaluating the robustness of the emotion recognition systems
Committees
Program Committee
- Mehrdad Ashtiani (Iran University of Science and Technology, Iran)
- Stelios Asteriadis (Maastricht University, Netherlands)
- Tibor Bosse (Radboud University, Netherlands)
- Shaun Canavan (University of South Florida, USA)
- Antonia Conti-Kufner (Technical University of Munich, Germany)
- Rogerio Eduardo da Silva (University of Houston-Victoria, USA)
- Michael Dorr (Technical University of Munich, Germany)
- Neska El Haouij (MIT Media Lab, USA)
- Patrick Gebhard (DFKI, Germany)
- Moojan Ghafurian (University of Waterloo, Canada)
- David Antonio Gómez Jáuregu (The Institute of Advanced Industrial Technologies, France)
- Hatice Gunes (University of Cambridge, UK)
- Dirk Heylen (University of Twente, Netherlands)
- Öğr. Üyesi Heysem Kaya (Namik Kemal University, Turkey)
- Jonghwa Kim (Cheju Halla University, Korea)
- Iulia Lefter (Delft University of Technology, Netherlands)
- Marwa Mahmoud (University of Cambridge, UK)
- Maurizio Mancini (University of Genoa, Italy)
- Taniya Mishra (Affectiva, USA)
- Radoslaw Niewiadomski (Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Italy)
- Desmond Ong (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
- Cecilia Ovesdotter Alm (Rochester Institute of Technology, USA)
- Ioannis Thomas Pavlidis (University of Houston, USA)
- Alejandra Quiros-Ramirez (University of Konstanz, Germany)
- Nicolas Sabouret (University Paris-Sud, France)
- Mohammad Soleymani (University of Southern California, USA)
- Reinhard Stolle (Autonomous Intelligent Driving GmbH, Germany)
- Leimin Tian (Monash University, Australia)
- Hans-Jörg Vögel (BMW Group, Germany)
- Takashi Yamauchi (Texas A&M University, USA)
- Sicheng Zhao (UC Berkeley, USA)
Organizing committee
- Sina Shafaei (TUM, DE)
- Alois Knoll (TUM, DE)
- Stefan Kugele (TUM, DE)
- Radoslaw Niewiadomski (U Genoa, IT)
- Christoph Segler (BMW Group, DE)
- Morteza Hashemi Farzaneh (TUM, DE)
- Eda Cicek (TUM, DE)
Confirmed Keynote Speakers
- Martin Arend (BMW Group, DE)
- Shiro Kumano (NTT Communication Science Laboratories, JP)
- Bao-Liang Lu (Shanghai Jiao tong University, CN)
- Daniel McDuff (Microsoft, USA)
- Ana Maria Paiva (INESC-ID and IST, U Lisbon, PT)
- Soujanya Poria (SUTD, SG)
- Stefan Scherer (University of South California, USA)
- Björn Schuller (U Augsburg, DE; Imperial College London, UK)
- Midori Sugaya (Shibaura Institute of Technology, JP)
- Dongrui Wu (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, CN)
- Michael Würtenberger (BMW Group, DE)
- Bo Xiao (Amazon, USA)
- Zipping Zhao (Tianjin Normal University, CN)
Publication
MwE'19 proceedings will be published in the CEUR Workshop Proceedings (CEUR-WS.org)
Venue
The conference will be held in the Venetian Macao, Macau, China
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to "shafaei@in.tum.de"