@acii2025official.bsky.social ACII 2026 invites submissions to the Late-Breaking Research (LBR) track. Important Dates: Submission Deadline: June 20, 2026 Notification of Acceptance: July 15, 2026 Camera-Ready Deadline: July 24, 2026 Questions: [email protected]

The #CVPR2026 main conference open access proceedings is online: openaccess.thecvf.com/CVPR2026 The findings track and workshops are coming soon... see you in Denver!

If you have a Reinforcement Learning paper accepted at TMLR, JMLR, JAIR, AIJ, or MLJ, you can use this wonderful opportunity to present your work and meet your peers at RLC in Montreal, Canada. 🇨🇦

#arXiv is banning researchers for one year whose manuscripts contain hallucinated references. My latest for @nature.com: www.nature.com/articles/d41... @briannosek.bsky.social, @tdietterich.bsky.social, @richardsever.bsky.social, @dermotlynott.bsky.social, @philipncohen.com, #WCRI2026

Pope Leo on AI: “Within digital environments — structured to persuade — interaction is optimized to the point of rendering a real encounter superfluous; the otherness of persons in the flesh is neutralized, and relationships are reduced to functional responses.” This short thread is worth reading:

@acii2025official.bsky.social We invite tutorial proposals for ACII 2026 Theme, “Emotions beyond borders: Multicultural Affective Computing” encourages tutorials that address cross-cultural emotion understanding, culturally aware AI, and responsible affective computing. Submission deadline: 30 April

@acii2025official.bsky.social 📢 We invite you to showcase your innovations at the Demo Track. Present research prototypes, multimodal systems, and commercial products. • Demo submission: 30 April 2026 • Paper to Demo Fast track: 20 June 2026 • Notification: 30 June 2026 [email protected]

I think often of a New York Times photo of a little Iraqi girl tending to her parakeets in a bombed house, probably from 20 years ago now. I will think of this man and his sweet dog often now too. People just want to love what they love, care for their little beings, and instead we do this to them

The AP is reporting that Sharif University in Tehran has been bombed. This is Maryam Mirzakhani’s alma mater — the first woman to win a Fields Medal in math, and only one of two so far. The university is also a leading center of opposition to the government. apnews.com/video/ict-bu...

I told Michelle Goldberg of NYT: “this is no longer a war on the Islamic republic or its missiles or its nuclear facility. This is a war on the country. This is about turning Iran into a failed state.” www.nytimes.com/2026/04/02/o...

FG 2026 notifications are out; we received 301 valid submissions across two rounds, of which 107 were accepted (acceptance rate = 35.55%); the round 2 acceptance rate was 26.9%. Many thanks to the program committee for their had work. Hope to see you in Kyoto #FG2026

BREAKING President Trump confirms that the United States has bombed the B1 bridge in Karaj. This is civilian infrastructure, a major transportation artery. Where are the MIGA people now? How’s your Amoo Lindsey doing?

@acii2025official.bsky.social The Main Track full paper submission deadline for ACII 2026 – 14th International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction has been extended. 🆕 New deadline: 10 April 2026 📅 Previous deadline: 27 March 2026 We look forward to your contributions!

Disturbing anecdotal reports of "AI psychosis" and negative psychological effects have been emerging in the news. But what actually happens during these lengthy delusional "spirals"? In our preprint, we analyze chat logs from 19 users who experienced severe psychological harm🧵👇

It's a interesting time to be releasing a book teaching how to code. Yet, underneath it all is learning about algorithms: loops, conditionals, approaches to search, recursion, data storage, image representation, even map/filter/reduce. Might as well make it fun!

Best essay I have read on the war so far by @eskandarsadeghi.bsky.social www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ma...

🚨 Deadline Approaching! Workshop Proposals 🚨 The submission deadline for Workshop Proposals at ACII 2026 – 14th International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction is almost here! 📅 Deadline: 7 March 2026

The #WACV2026 main conference open access proceedings is online: openaccess.thecvf.com/WACV2026 Workshops are coming soon... enjoy Arizona everyone!

We are pleased to invite proposals for Workshops and Challenges at ACII 2026 Submission deadline for workshop proposals: 07 March 2026 For submission guidelines and detailed instructions, please consult the attached file.

Call for Papers for ACII2026 is now open! The paper submission deadline for the 14th edition of ACII 2026 is 27 March 2026. The theme is Emotions beyond borders: Multicultural Affective Computing. The conference will take place in Puebla, Mexico. Please visit our website: acii-conf.net/2026/

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...