This workshop is dedicated to discussing computational methods for sensing and recognition of nonverbal cues and internal states in the wild to realize cooperative intelligence between humans and intelligent systems. We gather researchers from different expertise, yet having the common goal, motivation, and resolve to explore and tackle this delicate issue considering the practicality of industrial applications. We are calling for papers to discuss novel methods to realize human-robot cooperative intelligence by sensing and understanding humans’ behavior, internal states, and to generate empathetic interactions.

Topics

• Human internal state inference, e.g., cognitive, emotional, and intention models.
• Recognition of nonverbal cues, e.g., gaze and attention, body language, para-language.
• Multi-modal sensing fusion for scene perception.
• Nonverbal behavior generation for robots/agents, e.g., gaze salience, gesture.
• Synchronization of nonverbal and verbal behavior
• Learning algorithms for cooperative intelligence, e.g., imitation learning.
• Generative and adversarial algorithms to enhance human-robot interaction, e.g., LLMs, diffusion models, and VLMs.
• Empathetic interaction between humans and intelligent systems.
• Robust sensing of facial and body key points.
• Social interaction dynamics modeling, e.g., harmony level, engagements.
• Personalization of intelligent systems from nonverbal cues and trust evaluation.
• Applications of cooperative intelligence in the wild.

Keywords: "Human: Face, gaze, body, pose, gesture, movement, attention, cognitive state, emotion state, intention, empathy, Environment: Object"

Secondary subjects: "Human-Robot cooperative intelligence", "Nonverbal cues recognition from audiovisual", "Human internal state inference from multi-modality", "Vision applications and systems", "Human-Object interaction and scene understanding"

Submission Guidelines

We invite authors to submit unpublished papers (2-4 pages) to our workshop, to be presented at a workshop session upon acceptance. Submissions will undergo a peer-review process by the workshop's program committee and accepted papers will be invited to present their works at the workshop (see presentation format).

Important Dates

• Paper submission deadline                                August 14, 2024 PST
• Extended paper submission deadline (final)        August 24, 2024 PST
• Notification of acceptance                                 September 14, 2024 PST
• Camera-ready paper submission deadline           September 28, 2024 PST
• Pre-recorded video submission deadline             September 28, 2024 PST
• Workshop day                                                  October 14, 2024 

Submission Instructions

Please use the IEEE conference paper format to write your manuscript.

• LaTex and MS Word template: https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html

Please submit your paper electronically through the workshop's EasyChair submission system.

Presentation Format

Accepted papers should be presented in a three-way presentation approach to foster active participation

• Spotlight talks (6 mins talk, Q&A in the poster session)
• In-person A0 posters for in-depth discussions
• Short pre-recorded videos (about 2 minutes) to be uploaded on the workshop webpage

Publication Format

Authors are recommended to archive their papers and inform workshop organizers once this procedure is completed.

• Link to arXiv: https://info.arxiv.org/help/submit/index.html

Accepted papers which have been archived will be hosted on the workshop webpage.

Committees

Organizing Committee

• Jouh Yeong Chew (Honda Research Institute Japan)
• Xucong Zhang (TU Delft)
• Iolanda Leite (KTH Royal Institute of Technology)
• Daisuke Kurabayashi (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
• Eiichi Yoshida (Tokyo University of Science)
• Siyu Tang (ETH Zürich)
• Andreas Bulling (University of Stuttgart)

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to jouhyeong.chew@jp.honda-ri.com