[Comp-neuro] Call for projects proposals eNTERFACE'12

The 8th International Workshop on Multimodal Interfaces; July 2nd - July 27th, 2012; Supélec (Metz, France) 

 

Reminder : Project submission deadline January 28th, 2012

After the previous workshops, held in Mons (Belgium), Dubrovnik (Croatia), Istanbul (Turkey), Paris (France), Genova (Switzerland), Amsterdam (The Netherlands) and Plzen (Czech Republic) which had an impressive success record and had proven the viability and usefulness of this original workshop, the 8th edition will take place in Supélec (Metz, France). eNTERFACE workshops aims at establishing a tradition of collaborative, localized research and development work by gathering, in a single place, a team of senior project leaders in multimodal interfaces,  researchers, and (undergraduate) students, to work on a pre-specified list of challenges, for 4 weeks. Participants are organized in teams, attached to specific projects, working on free software. Each week will typically consist of working sessions by the teams on their respective projects plus a tutorial given by an invited senior researcher and a presentation of the results achieved by each project group. The last week will be devoted to writing an article on the results obtained by the teams plus a big session where all the groups will present their achievements. 

 

This year, participants will be provided with an especially great technical infrastructure, the SmartRoom. In addition to basic network infrastructure and internet access, robots (Nao, Parrot drone, Koala, Rovio and Bioloid), multimedia devices (2d and 3d cameras, Kinect, array of microphones and even an holophonic room) and sensors (brain computer interfaces, eyetrackers and some biomedical sensors) will be available for the projects. For more details, see the website.

 

The eNTERFACE'12 committee now invites researchers to submit project proposals that will be evaluated by the scientific committee. All the informations asked to submit a project are available on the website of the workshop (http://enterface12.metz.supelec.fr). The proposals should contain a full description of the project's objectives, required hardwares/softwares and relevant literatures. When submitting a project proposal, a list of potential candidates can be proposed by the authors. Although not exhaustive, the submitted projects can cover one or several of the topics listed below. A special focus is made this year on human-robot and human-environment interaction. 

 

Topics : 

 

- Embodied agents 

- Human-robot and human-environments interactions in smart environments 

- Multimodal signal analysis and synthesis 

- Signal-level and meaning-level data fusion 

- Multimodal conversational systems 

- Intuitive interfaces and personalized systems in real and virtual environments 

- User, context and semantics aware self-learning and adapting systems 

- Innovative modalities and modalities conversion 

- Applications of Multimodal Interfaces 

 

Important dates : 

* December 17th, 2011    Reception of a 1 page Notification of Interest, with a summary of project goals, work-packages, and deliverables 

* January 28th, 2012    Reception of the complete project proposal in the format provided in the guidelines 

* February 18th, 2012    Notification of project acceptance, publication of the Call for Participation 

* April 1st, 2012    Closing of the Call for Participation 

* April 15th, 2012    Publication of the teams 

* July 2nd - July 27th, 2012    eNTERFACE'12 Workshop 

Website of the workshop : http://enterface12.metz.supelec.fr 

Send correspondence to : enterface12@supelec.fr 

The organizing committee of eNTERFACE'12 is looking forward for your submissions.