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Challenges of Human Behavior Understanding

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Human Behavior Understanding (HBU 2010)

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Recent advances in pattern recognition has allowed computer scientists and psychologists to jointly address automatic analysis of of human behavior via computers. The Workshop on Human Behavior Understanding at the International Conference on Pattern Recognition explores a number of different aspects and open questions in this field, and demonstrates the multi-disciplinary nature of this research area. In this brief summary, we give an overview of the Workshop and discuss the main research challenges.

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  1. Institute of Informatics, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Albert Ali Salah & Theo Gevers

  2. Dept. of Information Engineering and Computer Science, University of Trento, Trento, Italy

    Nicu Sebe

  3. Department of Computing Science, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland

    Alessandro Vinciarelli

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Salah, A.A., Gevers, T., Sebe, N., Vinciarelli, A. (2010). Challenges of Human Behavior Understanding. In: Salah, A.A., Gevers, T., Sebe, N., Vinciarelli, A. (eds) Human Behavior Understanding. HBU 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6219. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-14715-9_1

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