AVEC @ ACM MM 2016

The 6th Audio/Visual Emotion Challenge and Workshop

It is our great pleasure to invite your participation in AVEC 2016 ‘Depression, Mood, and Emotion’: the Audio-Visual Emotion and Depression Recognition Challenge, sixth in the AVEC series. The challenge/workshop will be the sixth competition event aimed at comparison of multimedia processing and machine learning methods for automatic audio, visual and physiological depression and emotion analysis, with all participants competing under strictly the same conditions. It will be ran as a workshop of ACM-Multimedia 2016 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, on 15 or 16 October 2016 (TBC).
We are calling for teams to participate in a Challenge of fully-continuous depression and emotion detection from audio, or video, or physiological data, or any combination of these three modalities. As benchmarking database the SimSensei corpus of human-agent interactions will be used for the Depression sub-challenge, and the RECOLA multimodal corpus of remote and collaborative affective interactions will be used for the Emotion sub-challenge. Both Depression and Emotion will have to be recognised in terms of continuous values, and Emotion will also have to be recognised in continuous time.

Besides participation in the Challenge we are calling for papers addressing the overall topics of this workshop, in particular works that address the differences between audio, video, and physiological processing of emotive data, and the issues concerning combined audio-visual-physiological emotion recognition.

Important dates:

* Challenge open: 03 April, 2016
* Baseline Results Available: 30 April, 2016
* Paper submission: 1 July, 2016, 23:59 Pacific Time
* Workshop: 15 or 16 October, 2016 (TBC)

Kindest regards,
Michel Valstar, Jonathan Gratch, Björn Schuller, Fabian Ringeval, Roddy Cowie and Maja Pantic,
Organisers of AVEC 2016 ‘Depression and Emotion’