in conjunction with FG 2026 (May 25-29, Kyoto, Japan)In the past decade, artificial intelligence (AI) has achieved remarkable progress in recognizing faces, gestures, and multimodal signals. However, the most challenging question remains: How can AI understand all humans, not only the “typical” ones? According to the World Health Organization (WHO) report in 2023, an estimated 1.3 billion people (about 16% of the global population) live with significant disabilities affecting vision, hearing, cognition, or mobility. Their gestures are subtler, their facial cues atypical, and their voices sometimes silent.
This workshop proposes “Empathic Intelligence,” which extends beyond perception and action, bringing social understanding, affective awareness, and human-centered reasoning into intelligent systems. We aim to explore how multimodal AI can perceive, express, and respond responsibly to non-normative human signals, designing technologies and applications that make the world more accessible, inclusive, and emotionally intelligent.
Whether you are a general public, a master/PhD student just starting, or an expert with years of interdisciplinary experience, this workshop provides useful research perspectives and practical skills.
https://fg2026.ieee-biometrics.org
Topic of Interest
Workshop topics include (but are not limited to):
Foundations of Empathic Intelligence
- Predictive processing, embodied cognition, and symbol emergence
- Modeling emotion, intention, and individual diversity
- Multimodal learning across vision, physiology, and language
- Computational modeling of emotion and intention under individual differences
Inclusive and Accessible Interaction
- Face, gesture, and gaze systems for sensory, motor, or cognitive impairments
- Adaptive interaction for diverse sensory, motor, and cognitive abilities
- Assistive communication and embodied interaction (e.g., AR/VR accessibility)
Robustness Across Human Variability
- Recognition under atypical, incomplete, or noisy signals
- Learning from small, imbalanced, or underrepresented datasets
- Fairness-aware benchmarking and evaluation frameworks
Ethics and Human-Centered Design
- Privacy, consent, dignity, and value-sensitive design
- Bias mitigation for accessibility-focused AI
- Cross-disciplinary perspectives from neuroscience, psychology, and social sciences
Call for Papers
Important Dates
- Call for Papers released: January 11, 2026
- Submission Deadline:
February 11, 2026→ April 4, 2026 ( Anywhere on Earth, AoE ) - Acceptance Notification:
March 20, 2026→ April 15, 2026 ( Anywhere on Earth, AoE ) - Camera Ready Submission: April 21, 2026 ( Anywhere on Earth, AoE )
- Workshop Date: May 25, 2026
Graduado em Ciências Atuariais pela Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF) e mestrando em Computação.Palestrante e Professor de Inteligência Artificial e Linguagem de Programação; autor de livros, artigos e aplicativos.Professor do Grupo de Trabalho em Inteligência Artificial da UFF (GT-IA/UFF) e do Laboratório de Inovação, Tecnologia e Sustentabilidade (LITS/UFF), entre outros projetos.
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