Call for papers
The fifth MLMI workshop will be held in Utrecht, The Netherlands, following successful workshops in Martigny (2004), Edinburgh (2005), Washington (2006) and Brno (2007). 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, in Europe and the United States.
MLMI 2008 will feature a special session on user requirements and evaluation of meeting browsers, and the AMI Knowledge and KnowHow Transfer Day.
Workshop topics
MLMI 2008 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
- audio-visual perception of humans
- 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
Guidelines for submission
The workshop proceedings will be published in Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. The first four editions of MLMI were published as LNCS 3361, 3869, 4299, and 4892. However, unlike previous MLMIs, the proceedings of MLMI 2008 will be printed before the workshop and will be already available onsite to MLMI 2008 participants.
Submissions are invited either as long papers (12 pages) or as short papers (6 pages), and may include a demonstration proposal. Upon acceptance of a paper, the Program Committee will also assign to it a presentation format, oral or poster, taking into account:
- the most suitable format given the content of the paper
- the length of the paper (long papers are more likely to be presented orally)
- the preferences expressed by the authors
Please submit PDF files using the submission website at (to be announced later), 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).
Camera-ready versions of accepted papers, both long and short, are required to follow these guidelines and to take into account the reviewers' comments. Authors of accepted short papers are encouraged to turn them into long papers for the proceedings.
Important dates
- Submission of papers/posters:
- Monday, 31 March 2008
Monday, 7 April 2008 (extended) - Acceptance notifications:
- Monday, 12 May 2008
- Submission of student posters:
- Sunday, 15 June 2008
- Camera-ready versions of papers:
- Monday, 16 June 2008
- Workshop:
- 8-10 September 2008