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First announcement and call for papers:
4th Joint Workshop on Machine Learning
and Multimodal Interaction (MLMI'07)
28-30 June 2007
Brno, Czech Republic
http://www.mlmi07.org
The fourth MLMI workshop is coming to Brno in the Czech Republic,
following successful workshops in Martigny (2004), Edinburgh (2005) and
Washington, DC (2006). MLMI brings together researchers from the
different communities working on the common theme of advanced machine
learning algorithms applied to multimodal human-human and human-computer
interaction. The motivation for creating this joint multi-disciplinary
workshop arose from the actual needs of several large collaborative
projects.
MLMI'07 will follow on directly from the annual conference of the
Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL/EACL 2007), which will
take place in Prague on June 25-27, 2007.
* Important dates
Submission of full papers: 23 February 2007 Submission of extended
abstracts: 23 March 2007 Submission of demonstration proposals: 23
March 2007 Acceptance decisions: 17 April 2007
Workshop: 28-30 June 2007
* Workshop topics
MLMI'07 will feature talks (including a number of invited speakers),
posters and demonstrations. Prospective authors are invited to submit
proposals in the following areas of interest, related to machine
learning and multimodal interaction:
- human-human communication modeling
- human-computer interaction modeling
- speech processing
- image and video processing
- multimodal processing, fusion and fission
- multimodal discourse and dialogue modeling
- multimodal indexing, structuring and summarization
- annotation and browsing of multimodal data
- machine learning algorithms and their applications to the topics
above
* Satellite events
MLMI'07 will feature special sessions and satellite events such as the
Summer school of the European Masters in Speech and Language
(http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/emasters/) and the PASCAL Speech Separation
Challenge II (http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/mlincol1/SSC2/). To propose
other special sessions or satellite events for MLMI'07, please contact
the organizing committee.
* Guidelines for submission
In common with the previous MLMI workshops, revised versions of selected
papers will be published in Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science
series (cf. LNCS 3361, 3869, 4299).
Submissions are invited in one of the following formats:
- full papers for oral or poster presentation (12 pages)
- extended abstracts for poster presentation only (1-2 pages)
- demonstration proposals (1-2 pages)
Please submit PDF files using the submission website at
http://groups.inf.ed.ac.uk/mlmi07/, following the Springer LNCS format
for proceedings and other multiauthor volumes
(http://www.springer.com/east/home/computer/lncs?SGWID=5-164-7-72376-0).
* Venue
Brno is the second largest city in the Czech Republic and the capital of
Moravia. Brno had been a royal city since 1347 and is the country's
judiciary and trade-fair center. With a population of almost four
hundred thousand and its six universities, Brno is also the cultural
center of the region.
Brno can be easily reached by direct flights from Prague, London and
Munich and by trains or buses from Prague (200 km) or Vienna (130 km).
MLMI'07 will take place at the Hotel Continental
(http://www.continentalbrno.cz), a modern hotel located in a quiet part
of the city within walking distance from the city center. The local
organizers are members of the Faculty of Information Technology
(http://www.fit.vutbr.cz) at Brno University of Technology, which was
founded in 1899 as the Czech Technological University.
* Organizing Committee
Honza Cernocky, Brno University of Technology (organization co-chair)
Andrei Popescu-Belis, University of Geneva (programme chair) Steve
Renals, University of Edinburgh (special sessions) Pavel Zemcik, Brno
University of Technology (organization co-chair)
* Programme Committee (to be extended)
Marc Al-Hames, Munich University of Technology Jan Alexandersson, DFKI
Tilman Becker, DFKI Samy Bengio, IDIAP Herve Bourlard, IDIAP Nick
Campbell, ATR Jean Carletta, University of Edinburgh Sadaoki Furui,
Tokyo Institute of Technology Honza Cernocky, Brno University of
Technology John Garofolo, NIST Daniel Gatica-Perez, IDIAP Luc van Gool,
ETHZ Thomas Hain, University of Sheffield (area chair) James Henderson,
University of Edinburgh Hynek Hermansky, IDIAP Vaclav Hlavac, Czech
Technical University Prague (area chair) Alejandro Jaimes, Fuji Denis
Lalanne, University of Fribourg Yang Liu, University of Texas at Dallas
(area chair) Stephane Marchand-Maillet, University of Geneva Jean-Claude
Martin, LIMSI Ludek Muller, University of West Bohemia Roderick
Murray-Smith, University of Glasgow Nelson Morgan, ICSI Sharon Oviatt,
OGI/OHSU (area chair) Andrei Popescu-Belis, University of Geneva
(programme chair) Steve Renals, University of Edinburgh Jan Sedivy, IBM
Prague Elizabeth Shriberg, SRI and ICSI Rainer Stiefelhagen, University
of Karlsruhe (area chair) Jean-Philippe Thiran, EPFL Pierre Wellner,
IDIAP Dekai Wu, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Pavel
Zemcik, Brno University of Technology
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