Sunday 15 September 2024
Locations
Tutorials will be held both at the Glasgow Grosvenor Hotel & at the Advanced Research Centre (ARC), University of Glasgow. The registration desk will be at the hotel foyer. Registration will be open from 8am till 6pm.
Glasgow Grosvenor Hotel address – Glasgow Grosvenor Hotel, 1-9 Grosvenor Terrace, Glasgow G12 0TB.
Advanced Research Centre (ARC) address – Advanced Research Centre, 11 Chapel Lane, Glasgow G11 6Ew, United Kingdom, Glasgow G11 6EW.
The impact of the AI Act on affective computing research and development
ABSTRACT
The recently adopted AI Act, which is primarily a product safety law, aims to protect individuals from the adverse effects of AI. Undoubtedly, the AI Act will have a profound impact on the affective computing community. Notably, this legislation prohibits emotion recognition in the workplace and educational institutions. While there are some exemptions, this legislation forbids many envisioned applications, such as those that smooth human-machine interaction through monitoring emotional responses. Besides these prohibitions, emotion recognition systems are generally classified as high-risk systems.
In the tutorial, we will 1) provide information about the AI Act, and 2) form our ideas about whether and how we could ensure applications of emotion recognition that are responsible and meet the requirements of the AI Act and societal concerns. In line with these goals, we split the workshop into two parts. In the ‘Background’ part, we will provide information about the AI Act from a legal perspective. In the ‘Discussion’ part, we break out into groups to discuss, using concrete use cases. The outcomes of the tutorial will be the start of an opinion paper, to be shared with the newly established AI Office in Brussels.
TIME
Morning session
ROOM
Botanic Suite
BUILDING
Grosvenor hotel – see Locations above
PRESENTERS
Dr. Andreas Häuselmann, Assistant Professor of Privacy and Data Protection Law, Open Universiteit, The Netherlands.
Dr. Deniz Iren, Associate Professor of Affective Computing, Open Universiteit, The Netherlands.
Transactions on Affective Computing: Tutorial for Associate Editors (and those wishing to become Associate Editors)
ABSTRACT
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TIME
Afternoon session
ROOM
Grosvenor Suite
BUILDING
Grosvenor hotel – see Locations above
PRESENTERS
Prof. Jesse Joey, Editor-in-Chief, Transaction on Affective Computing & Professor of Computer Science, University of Waterloo, Canada.
A Tale of Two Eyes: Importance of eye gaze in Affective Computing
ABSTRACT
Humans perceive their environment through voluntary or involuntary eye movement to receive, fixate and track visual stimuli, or in response to an auditory, or cognitive stimulus. The eye movements therefore can provide insights into our visual attention and cognition (emotions, beliefs and desires). We rely on these insights extensively in day-to-day communication and social interaction. Even with notable progress in the last 10 years, automatic gaze analysis still remains challenging due to the uniqueness of eye appearance, eye-head interplay, occlusion, image quality, and illumination conditions. There are several open questions, including what are the important cues to interpret gaze direction in an unconstrained environment without prior knowledge and how to encode them in real-time. In this tutorial, we review the progress across a range of gaze analysis tasks and applications to elucidate these fundamental questions, identify effective methods in gaze analysis, and provide possible future directions.
Recent works in gaze estimation, gaze following have shown exciting prospects of gaze following in social interaction by (1) leveraging learning with less label paradigm, (2) building self-supervised context-specific learning objectives and (3) combining different modalities. In this context, we propose a half-day tutorial in which we will provide an in-depth coverage of different angles on performing/building-upon the `social gaze’ aspect with less human supervision.
Website: https://i-am-shreya.github.io/acii2024-tutorial-A-tale-of-two-eyes/
TIME
Morning session
ROOM
ARC-237B
BUILDING
Advanced Research Centre (ARC) – see Locations above
PRESENTERS
Dr. Shreya Ghosh, Research Academic (Post-Doctoral), Human-Centric AI Group, Curtin University, Australia.
Dr. Leimin Tian, Research Fellow, Human-Robot Interaction group, Monash University, Australia.