HCSNet Workshop on the Use of Vision in HCI - VisHCI 2006

ANU, Canberra, 1-3 November 2006

In cooperation with RSISE, NICTA Canberra and Seeing Machines

Schedule (PDF)

All sessions are run in a single track fashion. All presentations are oral presentations of 30min (25min presentation + 5min question time). Morning tea, lunch, and afternoon tea will be provided as part of the free registration.

Wednesday, 1 November 2006
12.30-1.30pm Arrival, registration and light lunch
1.30-3.00pm

Keynote

Opening by Professor Terry Caelli (NICTA / ANU)

Vision in HCI: Embodiment, Multimodality and Information Capacity
David Powers (Flinders University)

3.00-3.30pm Afternoon tea
3.30-5.00pm

Recognition

Vowel recognition of English and German language using Facial movement (SEMG) for Speech control based HCI
Sridhar Poosapadi Arjunan, Hans Weghorn, Dinesh Kant Kumar, Wai Chee Yau (RMIT)

Image-Based Multi-view Scene Analysis using 'Conexels'
Josep R. Casas, Jordi Salvador (UPC Barcelona)

Image Feature Evaluation for Contents-based Image Retrieval
Adam Kuffner, Antonio Robles-Kelly (ANU / NICTA)

5.00-6.30pm Welcome Reception

Thursday, 2 November 2006
9.30-10.30pm

Keynote

Audio-Visual Technologies for Lecture and Meeting Analysis inside Smart Rooms
Gerasimos Potamianos (IBM TJ Watson Research Center)
10.30-11.00pm Morning tea + Demo of faceLAB by Seeing Machines
11.00-12.30pm

Face

Observer Annotation of Affective Display and Evaluation of Expressivity: Face vs. Face-and-Body
Hatice Gunes, Massimo Piccardi (UTS)

Face Refinement through a Gradient Descent Alignment Approach
Simon Lucey, Iain Matthews (CMU Pittsburgh)

Learning Active Appearance Models from Image Sequences
Jason Saragih, Roland Goecke (ANU / NICTA)

12.30-1.30pm Lunch + Demo of faceLAB by Seeing Machines + Demos by the SISM and Smart Cars projects (VISTA, NICTA)
1.30-3.00pm

Keynote

Hand

Fast and Accurate Active Appearance Models
Iain Matthews (CMU Pittsburgh)

Using Optical Flow for Step Size Initialisation in Hand Tracking by Stochastic Optimisation
Desmond Chik (ANU)

3.00-3.30pm Afternoon tea + Demo of faceLAB by Seeing Machines
3.30-5.00pm

Hand Tracking

Hand Gestures for HCI using ICA of EMG
Ganesh Naik, Dinesh Kant Kumar, Vijay Pal Singh, Marimuthu Palaniswami (RMIT)

Nuisance Free Recognition of Hand Postures over a Tabletop Display
João Carreira, Paulo Peixoto (University of Coimbra)

Hand Gesture and Face Recognition via T-CombP2DHMMs
This paper had to be withdrawn.
Nguyen Dang Binh, Nguyen Thi Thuy (Kyushu Institute of Technology / TU Graz)

7.00pm Chairman & Yip Restaurant
Workshop Dinner

Friday, 3 November 2006
9.30-10.30pm

Applications

Emotions in HCI - An Affective E-Learning System
Robin Kaiser, Karina Oertel (Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics Rostock)

Video to the Rescue
Girija Chetty, Michael Wagner (University of Canberra)

10.30-11.00pm Morning tea
11.00-12.30pm

AVSP

Patch-Based Representation of Visual Speech
Patrick Lucey, Sridha Sridharan (QUT)

Audio-Visual Speaker Verification using Continuous Fused HMMs
David Dean, Sridha Sridharan, Tim Wark (QUT)

Voiceless Speech Recognition using Dynamic Visual Speech Features
Wai Chee Yau, Dinesh Kant Kumar, Sridhar Poosapadi Arjunan (RMIT)

12.30-1.30pm Lunch + Tour of Seeing Machines facilities with further demos
1.30-3.00pm

Keynote

Audio-Visual Speech Processing: Progress and Challenges
Gerasimos Potamianos (IBM TJ Watson Research Center)

Closing Remarks

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