This is a very good clip of Guillermo del Toro on the value of art. The value of human-made art is, in part, based on what the artist experienced that made them want to make the art. That is what we pay for. That is what AI does not have.

Apply to join one of the top AI research 🤖 institutes in the world in the wonderful city of Montréal! I will be recruiting 1-2 students this year. Just mention my name in your application.

The October issue of the PAMI-TC newsletter is out: tinyurl.com/4b2pf55a #ICCV2025 and the paper deadline for #CVPR2026 are right around the corner... Registration is open for #WACV2026

#FG2026 abstract registration deadline is today. Authors may update the abstract and title until the paper deadline. Authors' order may be modified by the full paper submission deadline.

Come work with us at USC! We're hiring an NSF-funded Postdoc for the Everyday Respect Project. 🤖 You'll work directly with me, Ben Graham, and Shri Narayanan, using cutting-edge AI to analyze police body-worn camera footage to improve police-community relations.

#FG2026 1st submission deadline is approaching. #Kyoto is calling! fg2026.ieee-biometrics.org Abstract 25 September, Full paper 2 October!

This needs to be re-posted regularly… IEEE is quietly changing the DEI programs into something “trumpically correct”…

🚨 Extended Deadline! 🚨 🚀 Call for Demos – ACII 2025 📍 Co-located with ICMI 2025 | 📅 Canberra, 8–11 October 2025 📄 Submission deadline: 25 July 2025

"It mattered not at all whether people were killed, because even those who were killed would surely appreciate the good intentions with which they were killed."

My new op-ed in the @nytimes. I argue that Iranians are caught in a state of “moral paralysis,” a psychological trap set by the Islamic Republic itself. It pits two of our most sacred values against each other: liberation vs. self-determination. (1/2) www.nytimes.com/2025/06/28/o...

I think we finally cracked it? FLAM can detect *any* sound via text prompts arXiv (ICML'25): arxiv.org/abs/2505.053... demos: flam-model.github.io Led by Yusong Wu, with @tsirif.bsky.social Ke Chen, Cheng-Zhi Anna Huang, Aaron Courville, @urinieto.bsky.social @pseeth.bsky.social

🎤 Call for Demos – #ACII2025 📍 Canberra | 🗓️ 8–11 Oct | Co-located w/ ICMI Got a system, prototype, or product in affective computing or intelligent interaction? Show it live! 📝 2-page abstract (in proceedings) 📹 Short demo video 📅 Submit by 15 July 2025 🔗 EasyChair | ❓ [email protected]

At the same time democracy & higher ed are under attack, USC admin is standing in the way of our democratic choice to form a union. Faculty & our allies are coming together to urge USC to do the right thing – RESPECT OUR VOICE AND OUR VOTE. Add your name at unitedfaculty-uaw.org/community-support

If you are a PhD student working in Affective Computing, or related areas, the Doctoral Consortium at ACII 2025 is a fantastic opportunity. Important Dates: ============== Submission deadline: 30 June 2025 Website: acii-conf.net/2025/call-fo... Contact: [email protected]

Speaking of modeling the variability in reactions -- new Multi-modal Multiple Appropriate Reaction in Social Dyads (MARS) challenge. Human-human dyadic interaction audio-visual-EEG clips of 23 speakers and 137 listeners. Audio, face, and EEG behaviours, 20 to 35min sites.google.com/view/react2025

The list of ACII workshops is now available: acii-conf.net/2025/worksho...

Will there be an AI tariff? TL;DR: The societies that will "win" the AI race will not be those that develop the technology first. It will be those that are best able to manage the long-term social disruption AI will cause. perceiving-systems.blog/en/news/what... on Medium medium.com/@black_51980...

Deadline extended for #ACII2025! Main track full paper submission deadline: 9 April 2025 Website: acii-conf.net/2025/call-fo... General Chairs ============ Roland Goecke ( @rolaustral.bsky.social ) Guoying Zhao Björn Schuller

Final call for paper for #ACII2025! Main track full paper submission deadline: 31 March 2025 Website: acii-conf.net/2025/call-fo... General Chairs ============ Roland Goecke ( @rolaustral.bsky.social ) Guoying Zhao Björn Schuller

Excited to announce that the GENEA workshop will take place at ACM MM’25 in Dublin, Ireland this year! Follow us & stay tuned for more details! #GENEA #ACMMM2025 Organising committee: Taras Kucherenko Youngwoo Yoon Alice Delbosc Oya Celiktutan Rajmund Nagy Laura B. Hensel Gustav Eje Henter

2nd call for paper!

These factories have a raw material which is called students and which they turn, at regular annual intervals, into graduates. Any disturbance in that production process is like a disturbance to a supply chain. It has to be eliminated as soon as possible.. www.globalpolicyjournal.com/blog/13/05/2...

America must not surrender its Democratic values | Bernie Sanders www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Yet another nonsensical paper on detecting criminality from face images using computer vision has been published, this time in the Springer-Nature journal Multimedia Tools and Applications: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

We look forward to your contributions to the 27th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2025) in Canberra! Join us in advancing safe and responsible multimodal interactions. #ACMICMI2025 #SafeAI #ResponsibleAI #MultimodalInteraction icmi.acm.org/2025/call-fo...

Gentle reminder for call for papers!

If you're interested in human motion generation (arxiv.org/abs/2405.18438) and/or novel view synthesis (arxiv.org/abs/2411.06365), make sure to check out our latest works at #WACV2025 in Tucson, AZ!

ICMI Workshops are great way to stimulate discussions around a focused topic in #multimodal #interaction and multimodal #machineLearning. Join us in #Canberra this year!

#ICMI2025 call for workshop proposal is up! Visit our website for more details: icmi.acm.org/2025/call-fo... Workshop chairs: @albertalisalah.bsky.social & @abhinavdhall.bsky.social Timeline ====== Submission Deadline: February 14 2025 Notification of Acceptance: February 21 2025

Our social media channels are up! Bluesky: @acii2025official.bsky.social Linkedin: www.linkedin.com/groups/14586... Facebook: www.facebook.com/share/g/15dF...

A bunch of policy memos for the incoming administration have been published by @thebulletin.org --- I had the opportunity to write one of them on sensible policies for AI. thebulletin.org/2025/01/memo...

This seems like a pretty balanced commentary. They certainly get this right: "connection between capability improvements & AI’s social or economic impacts is extremely weak. The bottlenecks for impact are the pace of product development and the rate of adoption" www.aisnakeoil.com/p/is-ai-prog...

For the emotion psychologists out there, if you're looking for hyperrealistic, valence-arousal controlled face stimuli editing, check out EmoStyle, our free, open source Python package. github.com/bihamta/emos...

We have released a Python package for LibreFace pypi.org/project/libf... LibreFace is a facial expression analysis tool that tracks action units and recognizes facial expressions. We also have a Windows version with GUI that runs as a component of OpenSense github.com/ihp-lab/Open...

Why the people who hope RFK Jr will bring some amount of needed reform to the nation’s health and food are wrong. He will likely bring a wrecking ball to the good parts, but doesn’t have the chops or the evidence mindset to go after, say, unhealthy food. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2024/11/16/o...

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