Proceedings of the 2013 on Emotion recognition in the wild challenge and workshop
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It is our great pleasure to welcome you to the 2013 Emotion Recognition In The Wild Challenge and Workshop -- EmotiW'13. This is the first challenge and workshop with a focus on methods, data and challenges related to emotion recognition in real-world conditions. This event comprises of a grand challenge and workshop papers around the emotion recognition in the wild theme. The call for papers attracted 29 team registrations. A total of 9 teams submitted test labels for evaluation and 8 of them submitted full papers describing their methods. The workshop has an invited paper from an industry expert Real Eyes, which discusses the challenges from an expert perspective. Along with the industrial track papers there are 2 more workshop papers. We also encourage attendees to attend the keynote and invited talk presentations. These valuable and insightful talks can and will guide us to a better understanding of the future: Keynote: Emotion Recognition in the Wild - A Practitioner's View, Prof. Jeffrey Cohn (Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh and Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University) Industrial expert talk: Facing Reality: An Industrial View on Large Scale Use of Facial Expression Analysis, Dr. Gábor Szirtes (R&D Team Leader at RealEyesit) Invited talk: Body Movement and touch behaviour as means to recognize and enhance affective experience, Dr. Nadia Berthouze (Reader in Affective Interaction and Computing at University College London)