[chisigmail] 2nd HCSNet Workshop on the Use of Vision in HCI (VisHCI2007), Adelaide, 2 Dec 2007

[Roland Goecke]

Title: Second HCSNet Workshop on the Use of Vision in HCI (VisHCI2007)
Date: 2 December 2007
Location: Stamford Grand Adelaide Hotel, Glenelg, Adelaide
Contact: Roland Goecke vishci at rsise.anu.edu.au (Seeing Machines / ANU)
Homepage: http://users.rsise.anu.edu.au/~vishci/

Introduction:
After the success of VisHCI2006 and the feedback we have received from 
participants, the HCSNet Workshop on the Use of Vision in HCI will 
happen again in 2007! VisHCI2007 will be held in conjunction with DICTA 
2007 (http://dicta2007.infoeng.flinders.edu.au/) in Adelaide, South 
Australia. To maximise the opportunities for scholarly exchange, this 
year's VisHCI workshop will be held as a Tutorial Day on Sunday, 2 
December 2007, which is just before the HCSNet SummerFest'07 (3-7 
December 2007, Sydney) and the DICTA conference (3-5 December 2007, 
Adelaide), so that participants of the workshop can have a choice to 
attend either of these.

Tutorial Speakers:
A total of 4 half-day tutorials will be offered by renowned 
international and Australian researchers:

- Fang Chen (NICTA),
- David Cristinacce (U Manchester, UK), and
- Peter Kovesi (UWA).

Further details on these tutorials will be made available via the 
VisHCI2007 website.

Audience:
The VisHCI2007 workshop aims to bring together researchers, 
practitioners and students from a number of discplines related to using 
vision and visual evidence in human-computer interaction (HCI). Visual 
communication - such as hand and body gestures, facial expressions, 
auditory-visual speech, sign language etc. - is a major communication 
channel for humans. The availability of low-cost camera technology has 
led to an increased use of visual evidence in HCI.

One of the aims of HCSNet is to foster collaborations across 
disciplines. Visual HCI research is multi-disciplinary and both computer 
vision and HCI research have a strong tradition in Australia. Relevant 
disciplines include computer science, engineering, IT, psychology and 
spoken language research to name a few. Our goal is to provide an 
Australian-based, international forum for the presentation and 
discussion of current trends and recent ideas and results from leading 
national and international scientists to foster scholarly exchange and 
future collaborations in the human communication sciences.

We welcome people from academia and industry with interest in any area 
related to the use of vision in HCI, including but not limited to the 
following:

   * Hand and body gestures
   * Human motion and pose recognition
   * Visual object tracking (e.g. face, body, hands)
   * Facial expression analysis and recognition
   * Face recognition
   * Affective computing
   * Vision beyond the visible spectrum (e.g. temperature maps of body 
and face, bloodflow estimation)
   * Non-rigid object structure recovery (e.g. structure from motion for 
hand and face shapes, active shape models, active appearance models)
   * Auditory-visual speech processing
   * Vision processing in human factors analysis
   * Event detection and recognition
   * Visual interface design
   * Multimodal interfaces and integration
   * Perceptual user interfaces
   * Sign language analysis and recognition
   * Behaviour analysis
   * User and context modelling
   * Applications (e.g. person authentication, user monitoring, driver 
assistance technology, AV automatic speech recognition, meeting room 
technology)
   * Data corpora of visual HCI events

Registration:
Thanks to the generous support from HCSNet, registration for VisHCI 2007 
will again be free. However, we ask prospective participants to register 
via the VisHCI2007 website in due time for catering and planning 
purposes. More details will be posted on the website in the next few weeks.

Paper Submission:
As this year's VisHCI workshop will be held as a Tutorial Day in 
conjunction with DICTA 2007, prospective participants are kindly invited 
to submit papers relevant to VisHCI to the DICTA conference, if they 
wish to do so. Submitted papers will undergo the same review process as 
any other paper submitted to DICTA and accepted papers will be published 
in the DICTA conference proceedings. There will be no separate 
proceedings for VisHCI2007. The submission deadline is 3 August 2007. 
For author information on how to prepare and submit a paper to DICTA 
2007, please consult the relevant DICTA webpage at 
http://dicta2007.infoeng.flinders.edu.au/author_info.html.

Venue:
The VisHCI2007 workshop will be held at the Stamford Grand Adelaide 
Hotel (http://www.stamford.com.au/sga) in Glenelg, a suburb of Adelaide.