Topics

The covered topics include, among others:

• Autonomous mental development
• Behavioral biometrics
• Benchmarking studies on novel databases
• Facial, gestural and voice-based affect recognition for robotics
• Human motion analysis and action recognition
• Human-robot interaction
• Imitation learning (learning from demonstration)
• Mathematical description and integration of contextual information
• New feature selection and extraction methods
• Novel sensors (e.g. RGB-D cameras)
• Pattern discovery
• Robots and smart environments
• Sign-language recognition
• Social behavior analysis & modeling, multimodal behavior patterns
• Temporal patterns