• Scope
  
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Scope

The 2008 edition of the IEEE Int'l Conference on Face and Gesture will feature a special session devoted to Multi-Sensor HCI for Smart Environments.

Integration of multiple sensors in a distributed HCI application embodies new research opportunities in algorithm design methods based on collaborative sensing and processing, data fusion, event interpretation, context extraction, and generation of behaviour models. Moreover, developing proper algorithmic interfaces between the quantitative information units (in charge of sensing and processing) and the high-level qualitative information units (in charge of context and behaviour models) is an area of growing inter-disciplinary research interest.

This special session aims to offer a perspective onto the newest trends in multi-sensor HCI development for user-centric smart environments. By including contributions from active researchers in the field covering a variety of recent innovative projects, the session provides an insight into the new paradigms employed in the design of such systems, and the challenges in making pervasive and unobtrusive interfaces for smart environments a reality. Through covering topics from sensing to interpretation and application development, the special session also aims to instil awareness in different research communities of the various potentials for collaboration in this multi-disciplinary topic.

Program

Special Session Talks

• Anton Nijholt "Meeting Behavior Detection in Smart Environments: Nonverbal Cues that Help to Obtain Natural Interaction", Mannes Poel, Ronald Poppe and Anton Nijholt, University of Twente, The Netherlands
• Rainer Stiefelhagen "Tracking Identities and Attention in Smart Environments - Contributions and Progress in the CHIL Project", Rainer Stiefelhagen, Keni Bernardin, Hazim K. Ekenel, Michael Voit, Universitaat Karlsruhe, Germany
• Daniel Gatica-Perez "Identifying Dominant People in Meetings from Audio-Visual Sensors", Daniel Gatica-Perez(1,2) and Hayley Hung(2), (1)EPFL and (2)IDIAP, Switzerland
• Christopher Wren "Ambient Intelligence as the Bridge to the Future of Pervasive Computing", Christopher Wren and Yuri Ivanov, MERL, USA

Panel Discussion:

"Interplay of concept and technology in advancing smart environments development"

Historically, many applications dubbed as examples of smart environments (a.k.a. ambient intelligence) have been conceptualized by researchers in the computing communities prior to the existence of viable technologies to enable them. On the other hand, the plethora of novel sensing and interactivity technologies introduced in recent years has ushered in an unprecedented opportunity to create new types of real-time applications in daily life for comfort, well-being, and entertainment. Proliferation of such technologies is setting the stage for development of even more advanced application concepts. The panel will explore the interplay of concept and technology in advancing development in this area, and aims to provide clues to the research and development directions with the highest potential in shaping the future of smart environments.

• Panelists:
  • Anton Nijholt (Univ. ot Twente, The Netherlands)
  • Rainer Stiefelhagen (Universitaat Karlsruhe, Germany)
  • Daniel Gatica-Perez (IDIAP, Switzerland)
  • Christopher Wren (MERL, USA)
  • Ralph Braspenning (Philips Research, The Netherlands)
  • Louis-Philippe Morency (Univ. of Southern California, USA)

Organizers

Special session chairs:

• Hamid Aghajan, Stanford University, USA
• Ming-Hsuan Yang, Honda Research, USA

Dates

• Paper submission: April 14, 2008
• Review results: May 31, 2008
• Camera-ready: June 28, 2008
• FG-08 Conference: September 17-19, 2008

Paper page limit: 6 pages
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Contact

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