Bodily Expressed Emotion
Understanding (BEEU)

Overview

Humans inherently communicate through body language. Bodily expressions are a fundamental, often subconscious, way of responding to social situations and expressing emotions. Despite extensive studies in psychology, human behavior, dance, and theater, computational interpretation of body language, to predict internal states such as emotions or intention, remains challenging and underexplored. Addressing this gap holds significant potential across various fields: from socially adept robots and intuitive AI interfaces to holistic AI systems approaching human-level physical intelligence.

The 2nd International Workshop on Bodily Expressed Emotion Understanding welcomes discussions on approaches and latest results on modeling body language automatically. A primary focus will be on predicting emotions and emotion-related behavior, while research on related tasks and applications (e.g., activity recognition, generation of socially appropriate behavior, embodied intelligence, etc.) will also be strongly encouraged to be shared.

Topics of Interest

1. Automatic Modeling of Body Language
2. Emotion Recognition using Body Language
3. Activity Recognition using Body Language
4. Emotion Understanding Beyond Facial Expression
5. Emotional Gesture Generation
6. Applications in Robotics, HRI, or related fields
7. Use of Large Foundation Models for Emotion Recognition, Expression, Generation
8. Data sharing and open-science with human subjects data
9. Expressive human pose representation
10. Human movements coding system
11. Algorithmic fairness and data ethics related to emotion modeling

The workshop will include the following components: oral paper presentations, lightning talk sessions, keynote talks by invited speakers, and a panel discussion. The workshop will also have a challenge component, and the presentations can include top submissions made to our challenge track. It will be a 1-day event.

Paper Submission Guidelines