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Conference Chairing<\/h4>\n
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  1. \u00a0General Chair 13th International Conference on Affective Computing & Intelligent Interaction (ACII 2025), Roland Goecke, Guoying Zhao, Bj\u00f6rn Schuller, AAAC\/IEEE, Canberra, Australia, 08.-11.10.2025.<\/li>\n
  2. General Chair 2nd International Conference on Signal Processing and Computer Vision (SIPCOV-2025), Springer, Silchar, India, 08.-09.08.2025.<\/li>\n
  3. General Chair 2025 International Conference on Health Big Data (HBD 2025), ACM, Kunming, China, 28.-30.03.2025.<\/li>\n
  4. General Chair 2024 7th<\/sup> International Conference on Computer Information Science and Artificial Intelligence (CISAI 2024), CCF, Shaoxing, China, 13.-15.09.2024.<\/li>\n
  5. General Chair International Conference on Signal Processing and Computer Vision (SIPCOV-2023), National Institute of Technology Silchar, IEEE, Silchar, India, 30.-31.03.2023.<\/li>\n
  6. General Chair 8th\u00a0International aaac\u00a0Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction 2019 (ACII 2019), Jonathan Gratch, Hatice Gunes, Bj\u00f6rn Schuller, Michel Valstar, IEEE, Cambridge, UK, 03.-06.09.2019.<\/li>\n
  7. General Chair 1st aaac Asian Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII Asia 2018), Jianhua Tao, Bj\u00f6rn Schuller, Nick Campbell, Beijing, P.R. China, 20.-22.05.2018.<\/li>\n
  8. General Chair 16th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2014), Albert Ali Salah, Jeffrey Cohn, Bj\u00f6rn Schuller, ACM, Istanbul, Turkey, 12.-16.11.2014.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Conference Steering<\/h4>\n
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    1. Advisory Board Member 8th International Conference on Activity and Behavior Computing (ABC 2026), IEEE, Hakodate, Japan, 09.\u201311.03.2026.<\/li>\n
    2. Advisory Committee Member International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Emerging Technologies (ICAIET 2025), IEEE, Harirajpur, India, 06.-08.08.2025<\/li>\n
    3. Advisory Board Member 7th International Conference on Activity and Behavior Computing (ABC 2025), IEEE,\u00a0 Abu Dhabi, UAE, 21.-25.04.2025.<\/li>\n
    4. Advisory Board Member\u00a06th International Conference on Activity and Behavior Computing (ABC 2024), IEEE,\u00a0 Nakatsu and Kitakyushu, Japan, 29.-31.05.2024.<\/li>\n
    5. Honorary Chair\/ Advisory Committee Member 3rd International Conference on Advanced Communication and Intelligent Systems (ICACIS), Springer, New Delhi, India, 16.-17.05.2024.<\/li>\n
    6. Advisory Board Member The 5th International Conference onActivity and Behavior Computing (ABC), IEEE, Kaiserslautern, Germany, 07.-09.09.2023.<\/li>\n
    7. Steering Committee Member ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ACM ICMI), 2019 – 2027.<\/li>\n
    8. Executive Committee Member ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ACM ICMI), 2019 – 2024.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      Grand Challenge Chairing<\/h4>\n
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      1. Organisation and Co-Chair of MER 2026: 4th Chinese Multimodal Emotion Recognition Challenge, 34th ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM Multimedia), Jianhua Tao, Zheng Lian, Bj\u00f6rn W. Schuller, Guoying Zhao, Erik Cambria, ACM, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 10.-14.11.2026.<\/li>\n
      2. Organisation and General Chair of MPDD-AVG: Multimodal Personality-Aware Depression Detection via Audio-Visual Interview and Gait Analysis, 34th ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM Multimedia), Changzeng Fu, Yiming Zhang, Ming Shang, Shiqi Zhao, Alexis Meneses, Zhaojie Luo, Chaoran Liu, Yuichiro Yoshikawa, Hiroshi Ishiguro, Bj\u00f6rn Schuller, ACM, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 10.-14.11.2026.<\/li>\n
      3. Organisation and Co-Chair of MER 2025: 3rd Chinese Multimodal Emotion Recognition Challenge, 33rd ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM Multimedia), Jianhua Tao, Zheng Lian, Bj\u00f6rn W. Schuller, Guoying Zhao, Erik Cambria,\u00a0ACM, Dublin, Ireland, 27.-31.10.2025.<\/li>\n
      4. Organisation and General Chair of the ACM Multimedia 2025 1st MPDD Challenge: Multimodal Personality-aware Depression Detection (MPDD 2025), 33rd ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM Multimedia), Changzeng Fu, Shiqi Zhao, Jiadong Wang, Siyang Song, Zhaojie Luo, Mingyue Niu, Wenbo Shi, Junfeng Yao, Yuliang Zhao, Chaoran Liu, Yuichiro Yoshikawa, Bj\u00f6rn Schuller, Hiroshi Ishiguro, ACM, Dublin, Ireland, 27.-31.10.2025.<\/li>\n
      5. Organisation and Co-Chair of the ICASSP 2025 Grand Challenge: MEIJU-The 1st Multimodal Emotion and Intent Joint Understanding Challenge, Signal Processing Grand Challenge at the 50th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Rui Liu, Xiaofen Xing, Zheng Lian, Haizhou Li, Bj\u00f6rn W. Schuller, Haolin Zuo, Hyderabad, India, 06.-11.04.2025.<\/li>\n
      6. Organisation and Co-Chair of the 1st Empathic Virtual Agent Challenge (EVAC), Grand Challenge held at the 26th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2024), Fabien Ringeval, Bj\u00f6rn Schuller, G\u00e9rard Bailly, Hippolyte Fournier, Safaa Azzakhnini, ACM, Osaka, Japan, 04.-08.11.2024.<\/li>\n
      7. Organisation and Co-Chair of MER 2024: Noise Robustness, Semi-Supervised Learning, and Open-set Multimodal Emotion Recognition, Competition and Challenge held at the 33rd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2024), Zheng Lian, Jianhua Tao, Bj\u00f6rn Schuller, Erik Cambria, Guoying Zhao, Jeju Island, South Korea, 03.-09.08.2024.<\/li>\n
      8. Organisation and General Chair of the ACM Multimedia 2023 Computational Paralinguistics ChallengE (ComParE), 31st ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM Multimedia), Bj\u00f6rn W. Schuller, Anton Batliner, Shahin Amiriparian, Alexander Barnhill, Alan S. Cowen, Claude Montaci\u00e9, ACM, Ottawa, Canada, 29.10.-02.11.2023.<\/li>\n
      9. Organisation and Co-Chair of MER 2023: Chinese Multimodal Emotion Recognition Challenge: Multi-label Learning, Semi-Supervised Learning, and Modality Robustness, 31st ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM Multimedia), Zheng Lian, Jianhua Tao, Erik Cambria, Bj\u00f6rn W. Schuller, Guoying Zhao, ACM, Ottawa, Canada, 29.10.-02.11.2023.<\/li>\n
      10. Organisation and General Chair of the ACM Multimedia 2022 Computational Paralinguistics ChallengE (ComParE), 30th ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM Multimedia), Bj\u00f6rn W. Schuller, Anton Batliner, Christian Bergler, Shahin Amiriparian, ACM, Lisbon, Portugal, 10.-14.10.2022.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

        Workshop Chairing<\/h4>\n
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        1. Organisation and Co-General Chair of \u201cThe First Joint Workshop on Human Behavior Analysis and Interaction for Emotional Intelligence, with the 4th MiGA Challenge\u201d, IJCAI 2026 Competition and Workshop, 35th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), IJCAI, Bremen, Germany, 15.-21.08.2026.<\/li>\n
        2. Organisation and Co-Chairing The 2nd International Workshop & Challenge on Subtle Visual Computing (SVC) @CVPR 2026, held in conjunction with the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Zitong Yu, Adam Czajka, Dan Guo, Sergio Escalera, Xun Lin, Ghada Khoriba, Shuo Ye, Adams Wai-Kin Kong, Xiaobao Guo, Qi Dou, Bj\u00f6rn W. Schuller, Yefeng Zheng, Philip Torr, Xiaochun Cao, IEEE, Denver, CO, USA, 03.06.2026.<\/li>\n
        3. Organisation and Co-Chair of The 1st CogMAEC Workshop: Cognition-oriented Multimodal Affective and Empathetic Computing, 33rd ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM Multimedia), Hao Fei, Bobo Li, Meng Luo, Qian Liu, Lizi Liao, Fei Li, Min Zhang, Bj\u00f6rn W. Schuller, Mong-Li Lee, Erik Cambria, ACM, Dublin, Ireland, 27.-28.10.2025.<\/li>\n
        4. Organisation and Co-Chair of the 2nd International Workshop on Multimodal and Responsible Affective Computing (MRAC 2025), 33rd ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM Multimedia), Jianhua Tao, Zheng Lian, Bj\u00f6rn W. Schuller, Guoying Zhao, Erik Cambria, Shreya Ghosh, Zhixi Cai, Abhinav Dhall, Roland Goecke, Tom Gedeon, ACM, Dublin, Ireland, 27.-28.10.2025.<\/li>\n
        5. Organisation and Co-Chairing Subtle Visual Computing & 1st Multimodal Deception Detection Competition, held in conjunction with the 33rd ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM Multimedia), Zitong Yu, Xin Liu, Naser Damer, Deng-Ping Fan, Jingang Shi, Xiaobao Guo, Xun Lin, Bihan Wen, Adams Wai-Kin Kong, Heikki K\u00e4lvi\u00e4inen, Bj\u00f6rn W. Schuller, Xiaochun Cao, ACM, Dublin, Ireland, 27.-28.10.2025.<\/li>\n
        6. Organisation and Co-Chairing 6th International Multimodal Sentiment Analysis Workshop (MuSe 2025), held in conjunction with the 33rd ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM Multimedia), Shahin Amiriparian, Bj\u00f6rn W. Schuller, Erik Cambria, Lukas Christ, Maurice Gerczuk, ACM, Dublin, Ireland, 27.-28.10.2025.<\/li>\n
        7. Organisation and General Chair Workshop on Launching Affective AI at Scale, Huawei Research Center Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 23.10.2025.<\/li>\n
        8. Organisation and Co-General Chair of \u201cThe 3rd Challenge & Workshop on Human Behavior Analysis for Emotion Understanding (MiGA 3rd)\u201d, IJCAI 2025 Competition and Workshop, 34th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), Guoying Zhao, Bj\u00f6rn Schuller, Ehsan Adeli, Haoyu Chen, IJCAI, Montreal, Canada, 16.-22.08.2025.<\/li>\n
        9. Organisation and Co-Chairing FLute: Workshop on Federated Learning for Audio Understanding, held in conjunction with the 50th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Lorena Qendro, Soumyajit Chatterjee, Aaqib Saeed, Akhil Mathur, Paolo Bellavista, Bj\u00f6rn Schuller, IEEE, Hyderabad, India, 06.-11.04.2025.<\/li>\n
        10. Organisation and Co-Chairing 5th Multimodal Sentiment Analysis Challenge and Workshop (MuSe 2024), held in conjunction with the 32nd ACM International Conference on Multimedia (MM 2024), Shahin Amiriparian, Bj\u00f6rn W. Schuller, Erik Cambria, Simone Eulitz, Andreas K\u00f6nig, Lukas Christ, ACM, Melbourne, Canada, 28.10.-01.11.2024.<\/li>\n
        11. Organisation and Co-Chair of 2nd International Workshop on Multimodal and Responsible Affective Computing (MRAC 2024), 32nd ACM International Conference on Multimedia (MM 2024), Jianhua Tao, Zheng Lian, Erik Cambria, Bj\u00f6rn W. Schuller, Guoying Zhao, ACM, Melbourne, Australia, 01.11.2024.<\/li>\n
        12. Organisation and Co-Chairing 4th International Workshop on Vocal Interactivity in-and-between Humans, Animals and Robots (VIHAR 2024) held at INTERSPEECH 2024, Marius Miron, Yossi Yovel, Sara Keen, Eliya Nachmani, Paola R. Pe\u00f1a, Bj\u00f6rn Schuller, Olivier Pietquin, ISCA, Kos, Greece, 01.-05.09.2024.<\/li>\n
        13. Organisation and Co-General Chair of \u201cThe 2nd Workshop & Challenge on Micro-gesture Analysis for Hidden Emotion Understanding (MiGA 2nd)\u201d, IJCAI 2024 Competition and Workshop, 33rd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), Haoyu Chen, Guoying Zhao, Bj\u00f6rn Schuller, Ehsan Adeli, IJCAI, Jeju, South Korea, 03.-09.08.2024.<\/li>\n
        14. Organisation and General Chair of the 1st International Workshop on Data Mining for Mental Disorders (DMMD 2023) held at the 23rd IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM 2023), Bj\u00f6rn Schuller, Johanna L\u00f6chner, Kun Qian, Zichao Nie, Bin Hu, Yoshiharu Yamamoto, IEEE, Shanghai, China, 01.-04.12.2023.<\/li>\n
        15. Organisation and Co-Chairing 4th Multimodal Sentiment Analysis in Real-life Media Challenge and Workshop (MuSe 2023), held in conjunction with the 31st ACM International Conference on Multimedia (MM 2023), Shahin Amiriparian, Bj\u00f6rn W. Schuller, Erik Cambria, Andreas K\u00f6nig, Alan Cowen, Eva-Maria Messner, Lukas Christ, ACM, Ottawa, Canada, 29.10.-02.11.2023.<\/li>\n
        16. Organisation and Co-Chair of 1st International Workshop on Multimodal and Responsible Affective Computing (MRAC 2023), 31st ACM International Conference on Multimedia (MM 2023), Jianhua Tao, Zheng Lian, Erik Cambria, Bj\u00f6rn W. Schuller, Guoying Zhao, ACM, Ottawa, Canada, 29.10.-02.11.2023.<\/li>\n
        17. Organisation and Co-General Chair of the 3rd Workshop on What\u2019s Next in Affect Modeling held in conjunction with the 11th International Conference on Affective Computing & Intelligent Interaction (ACII 2023), Matthew Barthet, Konstantinos Makantasis, Georgios N. Yannakakis, Guoying Zhao, Bj\u00f6rn Schuller, IEEE, Cambridge, MA, USA, 10.09.2023.<\/li>\n
        18. Organisation and Co-General Chair of the Workshop on LiLAC: Lifelong Learning in Affective Computing held in conjunction with the 11th International Conference on Affective Computing & Intelligent Interaction (ACII 2023), Nikhil Churamani, Martin Mundt, Bj\u00f6rn Schuller, Hatice Gunes, Cambridge, IEEE, MA, USA, 10.09.2023.<\/li>\n
        19. Organisation and Co-General Chair of \u201cThe 1st Workshop & Challenge on Micro-gesture Analysis for Hidden Emotion Understanding (MiGA)\u201d, IJCAI 2023 Competition and Workshop, 32nd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), Guoying Zhao, Bj\u00f6rn Schuller, Ehsan Adeli, Tingshao Zhu, IJCAI, Macao, China, 21.08.2023.<\/li>\n
        20. Organisation and Co-General Chair of the NII Shonan Meeting #199 Everlasting Social Signal Processing – From Labs into the Real World, Sozo Inoue, Yuki Matsuda, Wolfgang Minker, Bjo\u0308rn Schuller, NII, Shonan, Japan,\u00a0 13.-16.03.2023.<\/li>\n
        21. Organisation and Co-Chairing The 2022 ACII Affective Vocal Bursts Workshop & Challenge (A-VB 2022), held in conjunction with the 10th International Conference on Affective Computing & Intelligent Interaction (ACII 2022), Alice Baird, Panagiotis Tzirakis, Bj\u00f6rn Schuller, Anton Batliner, Dacher Keltner, Alan Cowen, AAAC\/IEEE, Nara, Japan, 18.-21.10.2022.<\/li>\n
        22. Organisation and Co-Chairing 2nd Workshop on What\u2019s Next in Affect Modeling?, held in conjunction with the 10th International Conference on Affective Computing & Intelligent Interaction (ACII 2022), Georgios N. Yannakakis, Bj\u00f6rn Schuller, Guoying Zhao, Konstantinos Makantasis, AAAC\/IEEE, Nara, Japan, 18.-21.10.2022.<\/span><\/li>\n
        23. Organisation and Co-Chairing 3rd Multimodal Sentiment Analysis in Real-life Media Challenge and Workshop (MuSe 2022), held in conjunction with the 30th ACM International Conference on Multimedia (MM 2022), Bj\u00f6rn W. Schuller, Erik Cambria, Andreas K\u00f6nig, Alan Cowen, Eva-Maria Messner, Lukas Christ, Shahin Amiriparian, ACM, Lisbon, Portugal, 10.-14.10.2022.<\/li>\n
        24. Organisation and Co-Chairing The ICML Expressive Vocalization (ExVo) Workshop and Competition 2022, held in conjunction with the 39th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2022), Alice Baird, Panagiotis Tzirakis, Kory Mathewson, Bj\u00f6rn Schuller, Erik Cambria, Dacher Keltner, Alan Cowen, ICML, Baltimore, USA, 17.-23.07.2022.<\/li>\n
        25. Co-Chairing Second International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence for Dementia Prevention & Intervention in Dementia Care (AIDEM 2021) within the Third Krems Dementia Conference 2021, Lucas Paletta, Sandra Sch\u00fcssler, Bj\u00f6rn Schuller, virtual, Krems, Austria, 29.10.2021.<\/li>\n
        26. Organisation and Co-Chairing 2nd Multimodal Sentiment Analysis in Real-life Media Challenge and Workshop (MuSe 2021), held in conjunction with the 29th ACM International Conference on Multimedia (MM 2021), Bj\u00f6rn W. Schuller, Erik Cambria, Eva-Maria Messner, Guoying Zhao, Lukas Stappen, ACM, Chengdu, China, 20.-24.10.2021.<\/li>\n
        27. Organisation and Co-Chairing the 6th International Workshop on Affective Social Multimedia Computing (ASMMC 2021), held in conjunction with ICMI 2021, Dong-Yan Huang, Bj\u00f6rn Schuller, Jianhua Tao, Lei Xie, Jie Yang, ACM, Montreal, Canada, 18.-22.10.2021.<\/li>\n
        28. Organisation and Co-Chairing What\u2019s Next in Affect Modeling? – ACII 2021 Workshop, held in conjunction with the 9th International Conference on Affective Computing & Intelligent Interaction (ACII 2021), Konstantinos Makantasis, Georgios N. Yannakakis, Bj\u00f6rn W. Schuller, AAAC\/IEEE, (virtual) Nara, Japan, 28.09.-01.10.2021.<\/span><\/li>\n
        29. Organisation and Co-General Chair of the Dagstuhl Seminar Conversational Agent as Trustworthy Autonomous System (Trust-CA), Effie Law, Asbj\u00f8rn F\u00f8lstad, Jonathan Grudin, Bjo\u0308rn Schuller, Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany, 19.-24.09.2021.<\/li>\n
        30. Co-Chairing User Experience for Multi-Device Ecosystems: Challenges and Opportunities, CHI 2021 workshop, Ru Zhang, Yuanchun Shi, Bj\u00f6rn Schuller, Elisabeth Andr\u00e9, Sharon Oviatt, Aaron Quigley, Nicolai Marquardt, Ilhan Aslan, Ran Ju, ACM, Yokohama, Japan, 08.05.2021.<\/li>\n
        31. Co-Chairing First International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence for Dementia Prevention, Intervention and Care (AIDEM 2020) within the Second Krems Dementia Conference 2020, Lucas Paletta, Sandra Sch\u00fcssler, Bj\u00f6rn Schuller, Bettina Huseb\u00f8, virtual, Krems, Austria, 17.11.2020.<\/li>\n
        32. Organisation and Co-Chairing Multimodal Sentiment Analysis in Real-life Media Challenge and Workshop (MuSe 2020), held in conjunction with the 28th ACM International Conference on Multimedia (MM 2020), Bj\u00f6rn Schuller, Iulia Lefter, Erik Cambria, Ioannis (Yiannis) Kompatsiaris, Lukas Stappen, ACM, Seattle, WA, 16.10.2020.<\/li>\n
        33. Organisation and Co-Chairing 9th Audio\/Visual Emotion Challenge and Workshop (AVEC 2019), held in conjunction with the 27th ACM International Conference on Multimedia (MM 2019), Fabien Ringeval, Bj\u00f6rn Schuller, Michel Valstar, Nicholas Cummins, Roddy Cowie, Maja Pantic, ACM, Nice, France, 21.-25.10.2019.<\/li>\n
        34. Organisation and Co-Chairing the 5th International Workshop on Affective Social Multimedia Computing (ASMMC 2019), held in conjunction with ACII 2019, Bj\u00f6rn Schuller, Jianhua Tao, Lei Xie, Jie Yang, AAAC\/IEEE, Cambridge, UK, 03.09.2019.<\/li>\n
        35. Co-Chairing the Joint Workshop of the 4th Workshop on Affective Social Multimedia Computing and the 1st Multi-Modal Affective Computing of Large-Scale Multimedia Data Workshop (ASMMC \u2013 MMAC 2018), satellite workshop held in conjunction with the 26th ACM International Conference on Multimedia (MM 2018), Dong-Yan Huang, Bj\u00f6rn Schuller,\u00a0Jianhua Tao,\u00a0Lei Xie,\u00a0Jie Yang (ASMMC), and\u00a0Sicheng Zhao, Hongxun Yao, Min Xu, Qingming Huan, Bj\u00f6rn Schuller (MMAC), ACM, Seoul, South Korea, 26.10.2018.<\/li>\n
        36. Organisation and Co-Chairing 8th Audio\/Visual Emotion Challenge and Workshop (AVEC 2018), held in conjunction with the 26th ACM International Conference on Multimedia (MM 2018), Fabien Ringeval, Bj\u00f6rn Schuller, Michel Valstar, Roddy Cowie, Maja Pantic, ACM, Seoul, South Korea, 22.10.2018.<\/li>\n
        37. Organisation and Co-Chairing the ICMI 2018 Eating Analysis and Tracking\u00a0(EAT) Challenge, held in conjunction with the 20th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2018), Simone Hantke, Maximilian Schmitt, Panagiotis Tzirakis, Bj\u00f6rn Schuller, ACM, Boulder, CO, 20.10.2018.<\/li>\n
        38. Organisation and Co-Chairing\u00a08th Workshop “emotion and computing – current research and future impact”, Workshop at KI 2018,\u00a0Dirk Reichardt, Slim Abdennadher, Yomna Abdelrahman, Hana Boukricha, Alia El Bolock, Patrick Gebhard, Eva Krumhuber, John-Jules Charles Meyer, G\u00f6tz Renner, Michael M. Richter, Bj\u00f6rn Schuller, David S\u00fcndermann, GI, Stuttgart, Germany, 24.-25.09.2018.<\/li>\n
        39. Organisation and Co-Chairing 7th Audio\/Visual Emotion Challenge and Workshop (AVEC 2017), held in conjunction with the 25th ACM International Conference on Multimedia (MM 2017), Fabien Ringeval, Bj\u00f6rn Schuller, Michel Valstar, Jonathan Gratch, Roddy Cowie, Maja Pantic, ACM, Mountain View, CA, 23.-27.10.2017.<\/li>\n
        40. Organisation and Co-Chairing\u00a0Legal & Ethical Issues Workshop (ETHics In Corpus collection, Annotation and artificial Intelligence (ETHICAI)), satellite workshop of the 11th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2018), Gilles Adda,\u00a0Khalid Choukri,\u00a0Laurence Devillers,\u00a0Pawel Kamocki, Erik Ketzan,\u00a0Joseph Mariani,\u00a0Stelios Piperidis,\u00a0Bj\u00f6rn Schuller,\u00a0Prodromos Tsiavos,\u00a0Andreas Witt,\u00a0ELRA,\u00a0Miyazaki, Japan, 08.05.2018.<\/li>\n
        41. Chair 2nd Multimodal Emotion Recognition Challenge (MEC 2017), part of the 1st\u00a02018 Asian\u00a0Conference on Affective \u00a0Computing and Intelligent Interaction (AACII), Jianhua Tao, Bj\u00f6rn Schuller, China, 2018.<\/li>\n
        42. Organisation and Co-Chairing 1st Workshop on Tools and Algorithms for Mental Health and Wellbeing, Pain, and Distress (MHWPD), held in conjunction with ACII 2017, Akane Sano, Ognjen Rudovic, Nadia Bianchi-Berthouze, Bj\u00f6rn Schuller,\u00a0Rosalind W. Picard, IEEE,\u00a0San Antonio, TX, 23.10.2017.<\/li>\n
        43. Organisation and Co-Chairing 2nd International Workshop on Automatic Sentiment Analysis in the Wild\u00a0(WASA 2017) held in conjunction with ACII 2017, Maja Pantic, Bj\u00f6rn Schuller, Yannis Panagakis, Hesam Sagha, IEEE,\u00a0San Antonio, TX, 23.10.2017.<\/li>\n
        44. Co-Organisation\u00a0Learning, Logic, Language Workshop, Francesca Toni and others, Imperial College London, London, UK, 21.09.2017.<\/li>\n
        45. Organisation and Co-Chairing 3rd ISCA International Workshop on Affective Social Multimedia Computing (ASMMC 2017), satellite of Interspeech 2017, Dong-Yan Huang, Bj\u00f6rn Schuller, Jianhua Tao, Lei Xie, Jie Yang, Sven B\u00f6lte, Haizhou Li, ISCA, Stockholm, Sweden, 25.08.2017<\/li>\n
        46. Organisation and Co-Chairing VocEmoApI Event,\u00a0Bj\u00f6rn Schuller, Klaus Scherer, Florian Eyben, Dagmar Schuller, Gilching, Germany, 24.04.2017.<\/li>\n
        47. Project Leader (Co-Principal Investigator) The Virtual Human Journalist, Michel Valstar,\u00a0Elisabeth Andr\u00e9,\u00a0Matthew Aylett,\u00a0Laurent Durieu,\u00a0Dirk Heylen,\u00a0Catherine Pelachaud, Bj\u00f6rn Schuller,\u00a0Mari\u00ebt Theune, Project in the 12th International Summer Workshop on Multimodal Interfaces (eNTERFACE 2016), Twente, The Netherlands,\u00a018.07.-12.08.2016.<\/li>\n
        48. Organisation and Co-Chairing 6th Audio\/Visual Emotion Challenge and Workshop (AVEC 2016), held in conjunction with the 24th ACM International Conference on Multimedia (MM 2016), Michel Valstar, Jonathan Gratch, Bj\u00f6rn Schuller, Fabien Ringeval, Roddy Cowie, Maja Pantic, ACM, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 15.-19.10.2016.<\/li>\n
        49. Chair Multimodal Emotion Recognition Challenge (MEC 2016), part of the 7th 2016 Chinese Conference on Pattern Recognition (CCPR), Jianhua Tao, Bj\u00f6rn Schuller, Springer CCIS, Chengdu, China, 04.11.2016.<\/li>\n
        50. Organisation and Co-Chairing 1st International Workshop on ETHics In Corpus Collection, Annotation and Application (ETHI-CA\u00b2 2016), satellite of LREC 2016, Laurence Devillers, Bj\u00f6rn Schuller, Emily Mower Provost, Peter Robinson, Jeff Hancock, Roddy Cowie, ELRA, Portoroz, Slovenia, 24.05.2016.<\/li>\n
        51. Organisation and Co-Chairing 6th International Workshop on Emotion and Sentiment Analysis (ESA 2016), satellite of LREC 2016, Juan Fernando Sanchez-Rada, Carlos A. Iglesias, Bj\u00f6rn Schuller, Gabriela Vulcu, Paul Buitelaar, Laurence Devillers, ELRA, Portoroz, Slovenia, 23.05.2016.<\/li>\n
        52. Organisation and Co-General Chair of the “Emotion Representations and Modelling for Companion Technologies” (ERM4CT) workshop 2015, joint workshop of the 3rd ERM4HCI (Emotion Representations and Modelling for Human-Computer-Interaction Systems) and the 2nd T2CT (Techniques Towards Companion Technologies) held in conjunction with the 17th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2015), Kim Hartmann, Ingo Siegert, Bj\u00f6rn Schuller, Louis-Philippe Morency, Albert Ali Salah, Ronald B\u00f6ck, ACM, Seattle, WA, 09.-13.11.2015.<\/li>\n
        53. Organisation and Co-Chairing 5th Audio\/Visual Emotion Challenge and Workshop (AV+EC 2015) `Audio, Video plus Physiology\u2019, held in conjunction with the 23rd ACM International Conference on Multimedia (MM 2015), Fabien Ringeval, Bj\u00f6rn Schuller, Michel Valstar, Roddy Cowie, Maja Pantic, ACM, Brisbane, Australia, 26.-30.10.2015.<\/li>\n
        54. Organisation and Co-Chairing 1st International Workshop on Automatic Sentiment Analysis in the Wild (WASA 2015) held in conjunction with ACII 2015, Maja Pantic, Bj\u00f6rn Schuller, Gabor Szirtes, Florian Eyben, IEEE, Xian, PR China, 21.09.2015.<\/li>\n
        55. Organisation and Co-Chairing 3rd International Workshop on Digital Games for Empowerment and Inclusion (IDGEI 2015) held in conjunction with the 20th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2015), Lucas Paletta, Bj\u00f6rn Schuller, Peter Robinson, Nicolas Sabouret, ACM, Atlanta, GA, 29.03.2015.<\/li>\n
        56. Organisation and Co-Chairing 3rd International Workshop on Emotion Representation, Analysis and Synthesis in Continuous Time and Space \u2013 EmoSPACE\u201915, held in conjunction with the IEEE FG 2015, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 04.\/08.05.2015.<\/li>\n
        57. Co-Chair Turkish German Multimodal Interaction Summit (TGMIS), pre-conference event of ACM ICMI 2014, Albert Ali Salah, Hazim Kemal Ekenel, Bj\u00f6rn Schuller, Christian Becker-Asano, Istanbul, Turkey, 11.11.2014.<\/li>\n
        58. Organisation and Co-General Chair of the 2nd Workshop on \u201cEmotion representation and modelling in Human-Computer-Interaction-Systems\u201d (ERM4HCI 2014) held in conjunction with the 16th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2014), Kim Hartmann, Ronald B\u00f6ck, Bj\u00f6rn Schuller, Klaus R. Scherer, ACM, Istanbul, Turkey, 16.11.2014.<\/li>\n
        59. Organisation and Co-Chairing The first international audio\/visual Mapping Personality Traits Challenge & Workshop (MAPTRAITS 2014), held in conjunction with ACM ICMI 2014, Hatice Gunes, Bj\u00f6rn Schuller, Oya Celiktutan, Evangelos Sariyanidi, Florian Eyben, ACM, Istanbul, Turkey, 12.11.2014.<\/li>\n
        60. Organisation and Co-Chairing 4th Audio\/Visual Emotion Challenge and Workshop (AVEC 2014) `3D Dimensional Affect and Depression\u2019, held in conjunction with the 22nd ACM International Conference on Multimedia (MM 2014), Michel Valstar, Bj\u00f6rn Schuller, Jarek Krajewski, Jeffrey Cohn, Roddy Cowie, and Maja Pantic, ACM, Orlando, FL, 07.11.2014.<\/li>\n
        61. Organisation and Co-Chairing 5th International Workshop on Emotion Social Signals, Sentiment & Linked Open Data (ES\u00b3LOD 2014), satellite of LREC 2014, Bj\u00f6rn Schuller, Paul Buitelaar, Laurence Devillers, Catherine Pelachaud, Thierry Declerck, Anton Batliner, Paolo Rosso, Se\u00e1n Gaines, ELRA, Reykjavik, Iceland, 26.-27.05.2014.<\/li>\n
        62. Organisation and Co-Chairing 2nd International Workshop on Digital Games for Empowerment and Inclusion (IDGEI 2014) held in conjunction with the 19th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2014), Lucas Paletta, Bj\u00f6rn Schuller, Peter Robinson, Nicolas Sabouret, ACM, Haifa, Israel, 24.-27.02.2014.<\/li>\n
        63. Organisation and Co-General Chair of the Workshop on \u201cEmotion representation and modelling in Human-Computer-Interaction-Systems\u201d (ERM4HCI 2013) held in conjunction with the 15th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2013), Kim Hartmann, Ronald B\u00f6ck, Christian Becker-Asano, Jonathan Gratch, Bj\u00f6rn Schuller, Klaus R. Scherer, ACM, Springer LNCS, Sydney, Australia, 09.-13.12.2013.<\/li>\n
        64. Organisation and Co-Chairing 7th Workshop “emotion and computing – current research and future impact”, workshop at KI 2013, Dirk Reichardt, Joscha Bach, Christian Becker-Asano, Patrick Gebhard, Nicola Henze, Michael Kipp, Paul Levi, John-Jules Charles Meyer, G\u00f6tz Renner, Michael M. Richter, Bj\u00f6rn Schuller, David S\u00fcndermann,\u00a0GI, Koblenz, Germany, 16.09.2013.<\/li>\n
        65. Organisation and Co-General Chair of the Workshop on Measuring affect and emotion in vocal communication via acoustic feature extraction: State of the art, current research, and benchmarking, Klaus Scherer, Bj\u00f6rn Schuller, Johan Sundberg, Geneva, Switzerland, 01.-02.09.2013.<\/li>\n
        66. Organisation and General Chair of the Third International Audio\/Visual Emotion Challenge and Workshop (AVEC 2013), Bj\u00f6rn Schuller, Michel Valstar, Roddy Cowie, Maja Pantic, Jarek Krajewski, Satellite of the 21st ACM International Conference on Multimedia (MM 2013), ACM, Barcelona, Spain, 21.-25.10.2013.<\/li>\n
        67. Organisation and Co-General Chair of the International Symposium on Attention in Cognitive Systems (ISACS 2013) held in conjunction with the 23rd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2013), Lucas Paletta, Laurent Itti, Bj\u00f6rn Schuller, Fang Fang, Springer LNAI, Beijing, China, 03.-04.08.2013.<\/li>\n
        68. Organisation and Co-General Chair of the 1st International Workshop on Intelligent Digital Games for Empowerment and Inclusion (IDGEI 2013) held in conjunction with the 8th Foundations of Digital Games 2013 (FDG), Bj\u00f6rn Schuller, Lucas Paletta, Nicolas Sabouret, ACM, Chania, Crete, Greece, 14.-17.05.2013.<\/li>\n
        69. Organisation and Co-General Chair of the Dagstuhl Seminar Computational Audio Analysis, Meinard M\u00fcller, Shrikanth Narayanan, Bj\u00f6rn Schuller, Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany, 04.-08.11.2013.<\/li>\n
        70. Organisation and Co-General Chair of the 2nd International Workshop on Emotion Synthesis, rePresentation, and Analysis in Continuous spacE (EmoSPACE 2013), Hatice Gunes, Bj\u00f6rn Schuller, Maja Pantic, Roddy Cowie, held in conjunction with the 10th International IEEE Conference on Face and Gesture Recognition 2013 (FG 2013), Shanghai, China, 22.-26.04.2013.<\/li>\n
        71. Organisation and General Chair of the Second International Audio\/Visual Emotion Challenge and Workshop (AVEC 2012), Grand Challenge and Satellite of ACM ICMI 2012, Bj\u00f6rn Schuller, Michel Valstar, Roddy Cowie, Maja Pantic, ACM, Santa Monica, CA, 22.-26.10.2012.<\/li>\n
        72. Project Leader (Principal Investigator) Socially Aware Many-to-Machine Communication (m2m), Project in the 8th International Summer Workshop on Multimodal Interfaces (eNTERFACE 2012), Metz, France, 02.07.2012-27.07.2012.<\/li>\n
        73. Organisation and Co-Chairing 6th Workshop “emotion and computing – current research and future impact”, workshop at KI 2012, Dirk Reichardt, Christian Becker-Asano, Patrick Gebhard, Nicola Henze, Michael Kipp, Paul Levi, John-Jules Charles Meyer, Christian Peter, G\u00f6tz Renner, Michael M. Richter, Bj\u00f6rn Schuller, David S\u00fcndermann,\u00a0GI, Saarbr\u00fccken, Germany, 24.09.2012.<\/li>\n
        74. Organisation and Co-General Chair of the First International Workshop on Wide Spectrum Social Signal Processing (WS\u00b3P 2012), held in conjunction with the ASE\/IEEE International Conference on Social Computing (SocialCom 2012), Mohamed Chetouani, Bj\u00f6rn Schuller, Peter Robinson, IEEE, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 03.-06.09.2012.<\/li>\n
        75. Organisation and Co-General Chair of the 4th International Workshop on EMOTION SENTIMENT & SOCIAL SIGNALS 2012 (ES\u00b3 2012) – Corpora for Research on Emotion, Sentiment & Social Signals, held in conjunction with LREC 2012, Laurence Devillers, Bj\u00f6rn Schuller, Anton Batliner, Paolo Rosso, Ellen Douglas-Cowie, Roddy Cowie, Catherine Pelachaud, ELRA, Istanbul, Turkey, 26.05.2012.<\/li>\n
        76. Organisation of the Social Signal Processing IACAPAP 2012 Workshop (SSP IACAPAP 2012), held in conjunction with the 20th World Congress on Brain, Mind and Development (Cerveau, Psych\u00e9 et D\u00e9veloppement), International Association for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Allied Professions (IACAPAP), Mohamed Chetouani, David Cohen, Jacqueline Nadel, Bj\u00f6rn Schuller, Paris, France, 21.-25.07.2012.<\/li>\n
        77. Organisation and General Chair of the First International Audio\/Visual Emotion Challenge and Workshop (AVEC 2011), held in conjunction with International HUMAINE Association Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction 2011 (ACII 2011), Bj\u00f6rn Schuller, Michel Valstar, Roderick Cowie, Maja Pantic, Springer LNCS, Memphis, TN, 09.10.2011.<\/li>\n
        78. Organisation and Co-General Chair of the 4th IEEE Workshop on CVPR for Human communicative Behavior analysis (CVPR4HB 2011), Maja Pantic, Jeffrey Cohn, Bj\u00f6rn Schuller, Matthew Turk, Roderick Cowie, Thomas S. Huang, held in conjunction with the 24th IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2011, Colorado Springs, CO, 24.06.2011.<\/li>\n
        79. Organisation and Co-General Chair of the International Workshop on Emotion Synthesis, rePresentation, and Analysis in Continuous spacE (EmoSPACE 2011), Hatice Gunes, Bj\u00f6rn Schuller, Maja Pantic, Roddy Cowie, held in conjunction with the 9th International IEEE Conference on Face and Gesture Recognition 2011 (FG 2011), Santa Barbara, CA, 21.03.2011.<\/li>\n
        80. Organisation and Co-General Chair of the 3rd International Workshop on EMOTION: Corpora for Research on Emotion and Affect, Laurence Devillers, Bj\u00f6rn Schuller, Roddy Cowie, Ellen Douglas-Cowie, Anton Batliner, Satellite of 7th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2010), ELRA, Valletta, Malta, 23.05.2010.<\/li>\n
        81. Organisation and Hosting 1st W3C Emotion Incubator Group F2F Meeting, W3C, Munich, Germany, 26.-27.3.2007.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

          Webinar Chairing<\/h4>\n
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          1. Organisation and Chairing Proceedings of the IEEE Webinar on Affective Computing, Vaishali Damle, Bj\u00f6rn Schuller, Matti Pietik\u00e4inen, IEEE, online, 16.09.2024.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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