Albert Ali Salah

Tuba Bircan

Emre Eren Korkmaz

Migration is a complex phenomenon with multi-dimensional factors. With ever-expanding data storage and processing capabilities, new data sources (such as social media, mobile call data records, and satellite imaging) are becoming available to study migration from both qualitative and quantitative perspectives. Data Science for Migration and Mobility addresses the needs of both migration scholars who stand to benefit from the analysis of these new sources but lack the computational tools, as well as data scientists who have practical and theoretical knowledge in dealing with these data sources but have no familiarity with the relevant questions of migration research. It describes the main conceptual frameworks, explains techniques of data collection and processing, provides case studies, discusses the strengths and limitations of each data source, and critically discusses the ethical, legal, and privacy-related issues specific to each data source.

Data Science for Migration and Mobility

Rita Cucchiara

Louis-Philippe Morency

Hyun Soo Park

Yong Jae Lee

Yaser Sheikh

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Human Behavior Understanding, HBU 2014, held in Zurich, Switzerland, in September 2014. The 9 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 18 submissions. They are organized in topical sections named: social signals; face and affect; motion analysis; and multiparty interactions.

5th International Workshop, HBU 2014, Zurich, Switzerland, September 12, 2014, Proceedings

Human Behavior Understanding

Hatice Gunes

Hayley Hung

Oya Aran

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Human Behavior Understanding, HBU 2013, held in Barcelona, Spain, in October 2013. The 21 papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 50 submissions. The papers are grouped in topical sections on: behaviour and affect in arts, creativity, entertainment, and edutainment applications; actions and activities; facial behavior; social signals; and affective signals.

4th International Workshop, HBU 2013, Barcelona, Spain, October 22, 2013, Proceedings

Diane J. Cook

Ben J.A. Kröse

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Human Behavior Understanding, HBU 2015, held in Osaka, Japan, in September 2015. The 11 full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 15 initial submissions. They are organized in topical sections named: interaction with elderly, learning behavior patterns, and mobile solutions.

6th International Workshop, HBU 2015, Osaka, Japan, September 8, 2015, Proceedings

Pierre-Yves Oudeyer

Javier Ruiz-del-Solar

Cetin Mericli

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third Workshop on Human Behavior Understanding, HBU 2012, held in Vilamoura, Portugal, in October 2012. The 14 revised papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 31 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on sensing human behavior; social and affective signals; human-robot interaction; imitation and learning from demonstration.

Third Workshop, HBU 2012, Vilamoura, Portugal, October 7, 2012, Proceedings

Mohamed Chetouani

Jeffrey Cohn

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Human Behavior Understanding, HBU 2016, held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, in October 2016. The 10 full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 17 initial submissions. They are organized in topical sections named: behavior analysis during play; daily behaviors; gesture and movement analysis; and vision based applications.

7th International Workshop, HBU 2016, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, October 16, 2016, Proceedings

Alessandro Vinciarelli

Nicu Sebe

Theo Gevers

It was a great pleasure to organize the First International Workshop on Human Behavior Understanding (HBU), which took place as a satellite workshop to International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR) on August 22, 2010, in Istanbul, Turkey. This workshop arose from the natural marriage of pattern recognitionwiththerapidlyadvancingareaofhumanbehavioranalysis.Ouraim was to gather researchersdealing with the problem of modeling human behavior under its multiple facets (expression of emotions, display of relational attitudes, performance of individual or joint actions, etc.), with particular attention to pattern recognition approaches that involve multiple modalities and those that model actual dynamics of behavior. The contiguity with ICPR, one of the most important events in the p- tern recognition and machine learning communities, is expected to foster cro- pollination with other areas, for example temporal pattern mining or time - ries analysis, which share their important methodological aspects with human behavior understanding. Furthermore, the presence of this workshop at ICPR was meant to attract researchers, in particular PhD students and postd- toral researchers, to work on the questions of human behavior understanding that is likely to play a major role in future technologies (ambient intelligence, human–robot interaction, arti?cial social intelligence, etc.), as witnessed by a number of researche?orts aimed at collecting and annotating large sets of multi sensor data,collected from observingpeople in naturaland often technologically challenging conditions.

First International Workshop, HBU 2010, Istanbul, Turkey, August 22, 2010, Proceedings

Alexey Karpov

Rodmonga Potapova

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Speech and Computer, SPECOM 2019, held in Istanbul, Turkey, in August 2019. The 57 papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 86 submissions. The papers present current research in the area of computer speech processing including audio signal processing, automatic speech recognition, speaker recognition, computational paralinguistics, speech synthesis, sign language and multimodal processing, and speech and language resources.

21st International Conference, SPECOM 2019, Istanbul, Turkey, August 20–25, 2019, Proceedings

Speech and Computer

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Workshop on Human Behavior Understanding, HBU 2010, a satellite workshop of the International Conference on Pattern Recognition in Istanbul, Turkey, on August 22, 2010. The 13 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 29 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on analysis of human activities; non-verbal action dynamics; visual action recognition; and social signals.

Alex Pentland

Bruno Lepri

Emmanuel Letouzé

After the start of the Syrian Civil War in 2011–12, increasing numbers of civilians sought refuge in neighboring countries. By May 2017, Turkey had received over 3 million refugees — the largest refugee population in the world. Some lived in government-run camps near the Syrian border, but many have moved to cities looking for work and better living conditions. They faced problems of integration, income, welfare, employment, health, education, language, social tension, and discrimination. In order to develop sound policies to solve these interlinked problems, a good understanding of refugee dynamics isnecessary. This book summarizes the most important findings of the Data for Refugees (D4R) Challenge, which was a non-profit project initiated to improve the conditions of the Syrian refugees in Turkey by providing a database for the scientific community to enable research on urgent problems concerning refugees. The database, based on anonymized mobile call detail records (CDRs) of phone calls and SMS messages of one million Turk Telekom customers, indicates the broad activity and mobility patterns of refugees and citizens in Turkey for the year 1 January to 31 December 2017. Over 100 teams from around the globe applied to take part in the challenge, and 61 teams were granted access to the data. This book describes the challenge, and presents selected and revised project reports on the five major themes: unemployment, health, education, social integration, and safety, respectively. These are complemented by additional invited chapters describing related projects from international governmental organizations, technological infrastructure, as well as ethical aspects. The last chapter includes policy recommendations, based on the lessons learned. The book will serve as a guideline for creating innovative data-centered collaborations between industry, academia, government, and non-profit humanitarian agencies to deal with complex problems in refugee scenarios. It illustrates the possibilities of big data analytics in coping with refugee crises and humanitarian responses, by showcasing innovative approaches drawing on multiple data sources, information visualization, pattern analysis, and statistical analysis.It will also provide researchers and students working with mobility data with an excellent coverage across data science, economics, sociology, urban computing, education, migration studies, and more.

The 'Data for Refugees Challenge' Study

Guide to Mobile Data Analytics in Refugee Scenarios

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Human Behavior Understanding, HBU 2011, held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, in November 2011, in conjunction with AmI-11, the International Joint Conference on Ambient Intelligence. The 13 revised full papers presented together with 2 keynote talks and one summarizing paper were carefully reviewed and selected from 32 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on analysis of human actions and activities, face and gesture analysis, persuasive technologies, and social interactions.

Albert Ali Salah

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