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MPRSS 2026 focuses on pattern recognition and machine learning methods for the perception of user affective states, activities, and intentions to build intelligent artificial companions. It is part of the 9th ICPR Workshop series.

Important Dates

Fri, May 29, 2026
Paper submission
Fri, Jun 5, 2026
Paper notification
Thu, Jun 18, 2026
Camera ready deadline

Call For Paper

Robotics
Facial expression recognition
Recognition of gestures, head/body poses
Audiovisual emotion recognition
Analysis of bio-physiological data for emotion recognition
Multimodal information fusion architectures
Multi classifier systems and multi view classifiers
Gesture recognition, activity recognition, behavior recognition
Temporal information fusion
Learning from unlabeled and partially labeled data
Learning with noisy/uncertain labels
Deep learning architectures
Learning of time series
Companion technologies
Assistive systems
Benchmark data sets relevant to workshop topic

MPRSS 2026 is open for papers on topics related to affective computing, social signal processing, and multimodal pattern recognition. Submissions must be 6-8 pages, prepared in Springer LNCS/LNAI format, and will undergo peer review by at least three experts.

Committee

Organizers

Mariofanna Milanova

University of Arkansas Little Rock

Patrick Thiam

Ulm University

Friedhelm Schwenker

Ulm University