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Walter Scheirer @wjscheirer.bsky.social · 9d

The October issue of the PAMI-TC newsletter is out: tinyurl.com/4b2pf55a

#ICCV2025 and the paper deadline for #CVPR2026 are right around the corner...

Registration is open for #WACV2026

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Mohammad Soleymani @msoleymani.bsky.social · 20d

#FG2026 abstract registration deadline is today. Authors may update the abstract and title until the paper deadline. Authors' order may be modified by the full paper submission deadline.

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Tim Krief @timkrief.com · 29d

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Morteza Dehghani @mdehghani.bsky.social · Sep 8

Come work with us at USC! We're hiring an NSF-funded Postdoc for the Everyday Respect Project. 🤖

You'll work directly with me, Ben Graham, and Shri Narayanan, using cutting-edge AI to analyze police body-worn camera footage to improve police-community relations.

Postdoctoral Scholar - Research Associate at USC

Learn more about applying for Postdoctoral Scholar - Research Associate at USC

usccareers.usc.edu

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Mohammad Soleymani @msoleymani.bsky.social · Sep 1

#FG2026 1st submission deadline is approaching. #Kyoto is calling! fg2026.ieee-biometrics.org Abstract 25 September, Full paper 2 October!

The 20th IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition

The IEEE conference series on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition is the premier international forum for research in image and video-based face, gesture, and body movement recognition. It is co-spo...

fg2026.ieee-biometrics.org

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Albert Ali Salah @albertalisalah.bsky.social · Aug 15

This needs to be re-posted regularly… IEEE is quietly changing the DEI programs into something “trumpically correct”…

putawomanincharge.bsky.social @putawomanincharge.bsky.social · Aug 15

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ACII 2025 Official @acii2025official.bsky.social · Jul 24

🚨 Extended Deadline! 🚨
🚀 Call for Demos – ACII 2025
📍 Co-located with ICMI 2025 | 📅 Canberra, 8–11 October 2025
📄 Submission deadline: 25 July 2025

ACII 2025 Official @acii2025official.bsky.social · Jul 15

🚨 Extended Deadline! 🚨
📄 Submission deadline: 22 July 2025
📬 Submit via EasyChair
🎥 Include a short demo video
👉 More info: acii-conf.net/2025/calls/c...

Questions? Please contact Iulia Lefter and Ram Subramanian via [email protected]

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Branko Milanovic @brankomilan.bsky.social · Jul 5

"It mattered not at all whether people were killed, because even those who were killed would surely appreciate the good intentions with which they were killed."

Branko Milanovic @brankomilan.bsky.social · Jul 5

Pensioners for war
branko2f7.substack.com/p/pensioners...

Pensioners for war

Many years ago when I lived in Belgrade, just before the beginning of the “Yugoslav Wars of Succession”, I noticed an interesting phenomenon.

branko2f7.substack.com

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Morteza Dehghani @mdehghani.bsky.social · Jun 28

My new op-ed in the @nytimes.

I argue that Iranians are caught in a state of “moral paralysis,” a psychological trap set by the Islamic Republic itself. It pits two of our most sacred values against each other: liberation vs. self-determination. (1/2) www.nytimes.com/2025/06/28/o...

Opinion | The Moral Paralysis Facing Iranians Right Now

www.nytimes.com

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Justin Salamon @justinsalamon.bsky.social · Jun 24

I think we finally cracked it? FLAM can detect *any* sound via text prompts

arXiv (ICML'25): arxiv.org/abs/2505.053...
demos: flam-model.github.io

Led by Yusong Wu, with @tsirif.bsky.social Ke Chen, Cheng-Zhi Anna Huang, Aaron Courville, @urinieto.bsky.social @pseeth.bsky.social

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ACII 2025 Official @acii2025official.bsky.social · Jun 19

🎤 Call for Demos – #ACII2025
📍 Canberra | 🗓️ 8–11 Oct | Co-located w/ ICMI

Got a system, prototype, or product in affective computing or intelligent interaction? Show it live!

📝 2-page abstract (in proceedings)
📹 Short demo video
📅 Submit by 15 July 2025
🔗 EasyChair | ❓ [email protected]

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United Faculty - UAW @unitedfaculty-uaw.bsky.social · Jun 11

At the same time democracy & higher ed are under attack, USC admin is standing in the way of our democratic choice to form a union.

Faculty & our allies are coming together to urge USC to do the right thing – RESPECT OUR VOICE AND OUR VOTE. Add your name at unitedfaculty-uaw.org/community-support

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ACII 2025 Official @acii2025official.bsky.social · Jun 5

If you are a PhD student working in Affective Computing, or related areas, the Doctoral Consortium at ACII 2025 is a fantastic opportunity.

Important Dates:
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Submission deadline: 30 June 2025

Website: acii-conf.net/2025/call-fo...

Contact: [email protected]

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Dr. Angelica Lim @petitegeek.bsky.social · May 26

Speaking of modeling the variability in reactions -- new Multi-modal Multiple Appropriate Reaction in Social Dyads (MARS) challenge. Human-human dyadic interaction audio-visual-EEG clips of 23 speakers and 137 listeners. Audio, face, and EEG behaviours, 20 to 35min
sites.google.com/view/react2025

REACT2025

According to the Stimulus Organism Response theory, for a given external stimulus, individuals may react differently according to their internal state and external contextual factors in a specific per...

sites.google.com

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ACII 2025 Official @acii2025official.bsky.social · Apr 16

The list of ACII workshops is now available:
acii-conf.net/2025/worksho...

Workshops – ACII 2025

acii-conf.net

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Michael J. Black @michael-j-black.bsky.social · Apr 11

Will there be an AI tariff? TL;DR: The societies that will "win" the AI race will not be those that develop the technology first. It will be those that are best able to manage the long-term social disruption AI will cause.
perceiving-systems.blog/en/news/what...
on Medium
medium.com/@black_51980...

The AI tariff?

perceiving-systems.blog

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ACII 2025 Official @acii2025official.bsky.social · Mar 28

Deadline extended for #ACII2025!

Main track full paper submission deadline: 9 April 2025

Website: acii-conf.net/2025/call-fo...

General Chairs
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Roland Goecke ( @rolaustral.bsky.social )
Guoying Zhao
Björn Schuller

Call for Papers – ACII 2025

acii-conf.net

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Mohammad Soleymani @msoleymani.bsky.social · Mar 28

Most are laundry lists. Sometimes book chapters are better for an intro to a topic; more common in social sciences. One issue is that it is not very flashy to write them, they often end up being written by someone who is starting in the field and misses the forest for the trees

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ACII 2025 Official @acii2025official.bsky.social · Mar 24

Final call for paper for #ACII2025!

Main track full paper submission deadline: 31 March 2025

Website: acii-conf.net/2025/call-fo...

General Chairs
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Roland Goecke ( @rolaustral.bsky.social )
Guoying Zhao
Björn Schuller

ACII 2025 Official @acii2025official.bsky.social · Feb 14

Gentle reminder for call for papers!

ACII 2025 Official @acii2025official.bsky.social · Feb 4

Call for paper for #ACII2025 is up!

The paper submission deadline for 13th edition of the #ACII 2025 is 31 March 2025.

The theme for #ACII2025 is Socially Responsible Affective Computing.

For more details, please visit our website: acii-conf.net/2025/call-fo...

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GENEA Workshop 2025 @geneaworkshop.bsky.social · Mar 15

Excited to announce that the GENEA workshop will take place at ACM MM’25 in Dublin, Ireland this year! Follow us & stay tuned for more details! #GENEA #ACMMM2025

Organising committee:
Taras Kucherenko
Youngwoo Yoon
Alice Delbosc
Oya Celiktutan
Rajmund Nagy
Laura B. Hensel
Gustav Eje Henter

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ACM-ICMI 2025 Official @icmi2025official.bsky.social · Mar 13

2nd call for paper!

ACM-ICMI 2025 Official @icmi2025official.bsky.social · Feb 4

Call for paper for #ICMI2025 is up!

The paper submission deadline for the 27th edition of the #ICMI 2025 is as follows:

Abstract deadline: April 18th, 2025
Paper Submission: April 25th, 2025

Website: icmi.acm.org/2025/call-fo...

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Branko Milanovic @brankomilan.bsky.social · Mar 8

These factories have a raw material which is called students and which they turn, at regular annual intervals, into graduates. Any disturbance in that production process is like a disturbance to a supply chain. It has to be eliminated as soon as possible..
www.globalpolicyjournal.com/blog/13/05/2...

Universities as factories

Branko Milanovic unpicks the motives of those cracking down on campus protests.

www.globalpolicyjournal.com

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Mohammad Soleymani @msoleymani.bsky.social · Feb 28

America must not surrender its Democratic values | Bernie Sanders
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

America must not surrender its Democratic values | Bernie Sanders

Together, we must fight for our long-held values and work with people around the world who share them

www.theguardian.com

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Walter Scheirer @wjscheirer.bsky.social · Feb 21

Yet another nonsensical paper on detecting criminality from face images using computer vision has been published, this time in the Springer-Nature journal Multimedia Tools and Applications:

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Identification of criminal & non-criminal faces using deep learning and optimization of image processing - Multimedia Tools and Applications

Since identifying criminals is a crucial function of intelligent surveillance systems, it has attracted a lot of attention. Although various approaches are developed for criminal face recognition, the...

link.springer.com

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Oya Celiktutan @oyaceliktutan.bsky.social · Feb 15

We look forward to your contributions to the 27th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2025) in Canberra! Join us in advancing safe and responsible multimodal interactions. #ACMICMI2025 #SafeAI #ResponsibleAI #MultimodalInteraction
icmi.acm.org/2025/call-fo...

Call for Papers - ICMI 2025 :: 27th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction

icmi.acm.org

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