ACER-EMORE@WI-IAT2025 CFP

 

ACER-EMORE@WI-IAT2025:
International Workshop on Affective Computing and Emotion Recognition

London, United Kingdom, and online, November 15-18 2025

 

Conference and workshop websites

WI-IAT: https://www.wi-iat.com/

Submission deadline

DEADLINE EXTENSION: September 16 30 2025

 

Topics: emotion arousal and recognition cognitive computing artificial intelligence  social robots  VR/AR/MR cross-cultural applications ethical issues of ER  multimodal ER

 

 

Emotion recognition significantly enhances human-computer interaction, social media analytics, autonomous systems, and personalized digital experiences. Unlike traditional sentiment analysis, emotion recognition identifies specific emotional states at a deeper abstraction level. The ACER-EMORE workshop aims to present, discuss, and advance innovative techniques for emotion recognition within Artificial Intelligence and Affective Computing, emphasizing practical applications and interdisciplinary collaboration. ACER-EMORE invites researchers and practitioners from diverse fields, including computer science, psychology, cognitive neuroscience, and social sciences, to exchange ideas and foster cross-disciplinary cooperation. Topics include novel methodologies, multimodal approaches, comprehensive emotion datasets, ethical considerations, interpretability, and real-world applications. Contributions from ongoing research projects, doctoral showcases, and practical implementations are particularly encouraged.

ACER-EMORE invites original high-quality papers: conceptual, empirical as well as theoretical papers are welcome; graduate students are invited to submit their thesis showcase; experienced researchers are warmly invited to submit novel or updated versions of their work.

 

ACER aims also to create a network of research for future events and publications on Affective Computing, as already established in the previous editions (ACER2017@IEEE/ACM/WIC WI Leipzig, Germany, with the special issue Emotional Machines: the next revolution in the Web Intelligence Journal; previous edition including ACER@ICCSA2019 Saint Petersburg, Russia; ACER@WI2019 Thessaloniki, Greece, ACER@ICCSA2020, Cagliari, Italy), ACER-EMORE@WIA2021 Niagara Falls, ACER-EMORE@ICCSA2022 Malaga. Aiming at this collaboration path, ACER also welcomes papers on ongoing projects and PhD showcases, as well as applications, data sets, novel techniques, and multimodal or interdisciplinary approaches to emotion recognition. Cooperation between humans and machines for a shared action or goal is a desirable outcome.

Topics


Topics include, but are not limited to Affective Computing in:

 

·        Generative AI techniques for emotion recognition

·        Multimodal and multidimensional emotion recognition

·        Cross-cultural and contextual emotion recognition

·        Semantic emotion recognition, affective ontologies, and decision models

·        Emotion recognition in generative AI-driven recommender systems

·        Generative AI for facial, gesture-based, and video-stream emotion segmentation and synthesis

·        Emotion generation and recognition in virtual and augmented reality

·        Generative AI models for emotional interaction in social robotics

·        Ethical considerations and interpretability of generative AI in emotion recognition

·        Generative AI-driven emotion recognition for educational and therapeutic applications

·        Novel applications compliant with the EU AI ACT

 

Important dates

 

-      September 16 30, 2025: Deadline (extended) for paper submission to the ACER-EMORE Workshop through the Submission Website (please be sure ACER-EMORE is displayed in the top-right corner)

– Notification: October 2, 2025
– Camera-ready: October 10, 2025
– Program online: October 31, 2025

 

Committees

 

ACER organizing committee:

Chair organizer:

Valentina Franzoni, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Perugia, Italy, valentina.franzoni@unipg.it

 

Organizers committee:

Alfredo Milani, Department of Human Sciences, Link Campus University, Rome, a.milani@unilink.it

Giulio Biondi, Department of Engineering, University of Perugia, Italy, giulio.biondi@unipg.it

Rajdeep Niyogi, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India, rajdeep.niyogi@cs.iitr.ac.in

Clement HC Leung, Department of Computer Science, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzen, China, clementleung@cuhk.edu.cn

 

ACER program committee:

Emanuele Florindi, PhD School in Learning Technologies, University of Modena Reggio Emilia, Italy

Valentina Poggioni, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Perugia, Italy

Jordi Vallverdú, Department of Philosophy, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Catalonia

Cristian Randieri, eCampus University, Italy

WI-IAT organizing committee:

https://www.wi-iat.com/wi-iat2025/projects-Organization.html



WI-IAT


ACER-EMORE will be located at
the 24th IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology, held in London, UK, and online, on November 15-18 2025.

Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology (WI-IAT) aims to achieve a multi-disciplinary balance between research advances in theories and methods usually associated with collective intelligence, data science, human-centric computing, knowledge management, network science, autonomous agents and multi-agent systems. It is committed to addressing research that both deepen the understanding of computational, logical, cognitive, physical, and social foundations of the future Web, and enable the development and application of intelligent technologies. WI-IAT'25 provides a premier forum and features high-quality, original research papers and real-world applications in all theoretical and technology areas that make up the field of Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology. WI-IAT'25 welcomes research, application as well as Industry/Demo paper submissions. Tutorial, Workshop and Special-Session proposals and papers are also welcome. WI-IAT'25 in London (United Kingdom) is officially sponsored by IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Intelligent Informatics (TCII) and Web Intelligence Consortium (WIC).

 

WI-IAT'25 will provide a broad forum that academia, professionals and industry people can exchange their ideas, findings and strategies in deepening the understanding of all Web's entities, phenomena, and developments in utilizing the power of human brains and man-made networks to create a better world. More specifically, the fields of how artificial intelligence is impacting the Web of People, the Web of Data, the Web of Things, the Web of Trust, the Web of Agents, the Web of Everything, and emerging FAccT in WI-IAT. Therefore, “Web Intelligence = AI in the Connected World”.

 

Submission guidelines



Papers on applications, case studies, and data sets are welcome, as well as master/PhD thesis showcases. Each paper must be original and unpublished work, not submitted for publication elsewhere (copyright problems fall entirely under responsibility of the authors).

Submission of a paper should be regarded as an undertaking that, if the paper is accepted, at least one of the authors should register and present orally the paper in the conference. Failure to do so shall lead to exclusion of the paper from the proceedings.

 

Templates: https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates

Author information: The 24th IEEE/WIC WI-IAT 2025
ℹ️ Conference info: https://www.wi-iat.com/wi-iat2025/index.html
🌐 Workshop site: https://emore.sites.dmi.unipg.it/

📩 Contact: giulio.biondi@unipg.it , valentina.franzoni@unipg.it

 

 

Publication of proceedings

 

Each paper will be peer-reviewed by at least three PC members on the basis of technical quality, relevance, originality, significance and clarity. Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings by the ACM Press and published in the conference proceedings, which in the past years have been always indexed in Scopus and WoS. Selected papers will be further invited for expansion and publication in Web Intelligence journal and other international journals. Accepted papers must have a registered author presenting the paper in the workshop (in person or online).

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