International Workshop on 
Automatic Face- and Gesture-Recognition

June 26-28, 1995
University of Zurich
Irchel Campus
Zurich, Switzerland

PURPOSE

Automatic face and gesture recognition has rapidly developed into a highly 
active field of research with application potential in areas such as contact- 
less man-machine interaction, access control, automatic search in visual 
databases, and very-low bit-rate compression.
This international workshop will focus on image- and video-based face 
recognition, facial expression recognition, and hand gesture and body 
movement analysis. Topics of special interest include: 3D data acquisition, 
segmentation, modeling, invariance to illumination and geometrical 
transformations.
This international work-shop is an ideal forum for identifying, encouraging 
and exchanging ideas on research and de-velopment as well as on new 
applications of Automated Face- and Gesture Recognition.
The workshop is supported by the IEEE Computer Society, the Swiss Computer 
Graphics Association (SCGA), the Swiss Informaticians Society (SI) and Orell 
Fussli Security Printing, Ltd.

CONTRIBUTIONS

Contributions are invited in analysis by synthesis techniques, acquisition 
of articulated shape models, deformable models, illumination invariant 
segmentation and recognition, analysis of face, gesture and gait movements, 
model-based methods for shape and motion estimation, feature identification, 
physics-based modelling, contactless man-machine interfaces and interaction 
with virtual worlds, very-low bit-rate encoding, face and person 
identification for access control and other applications, as well as 
other related topics.

SUBMISSION OF CONTRIBUTIONS

Four copies of the full paper, including figures and drawings not exceeding 
6 pages (5500 words for a text without figures) should be submitted to the 
Local Arrangement Chairman. A latex style sheet can be obtained via 
anonymous ftp at 
ftp.ifi.unizh.ch 
The style file 
IWAFGR95.sty 
and an example file are located in the directory 
/pub/conferences/IWAFGR95
Papers must be received no later than December 1, 1995. Notification of 
acceptance will be sent to the authors by January 31, 1995. Full camera 
ready papers are due by March 31, 1995. Accepted papers will be collected 
in the proceedings of the conference.

STEERING AND PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Prof. Dr. T. S. Huang 
Beckman Institute and Coordinated Science Laboratory, 
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Prof. Dr. A. Pentland 
Vision and Modelling Group, Media Laboratory, 
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Prof. Dr. P. Stucki
MultiMedia Laboratory, Department of Computer Science, University of Zurich

Local Arrangement Chairman
Dr. M. Bichsel
MultiMedia Laboratory, Department of Computer Science, 
University of Zurich, Irchel Campus, 
CH8057 Zurich,Switzerland, 
Phone ++41 1 257 4358, Fax ++41 1 363 0035, 
E-Mail mbichsel@ifi.unizh.ch 

PARTICIPATION

People interested in participating at this International Workshop are asked 
to fill in the enclosed form and to return it as soon as possible. A 
preliminary program and further information will be sent out in January 1994. 
The participation fee will be sFr. 200-, for members of the sponsoring 
professional organizations, sFr. 250.- for non-members and free for authors 
presenting a paper.

 
Pre-Registration Form

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Please return to
        
Mrs Maja Ebner
MultiMedia Laboratory
Department of Computer Science
University of Zurich, Irchel Campus     
Winterthurerstrasse 190
CH-8057 Zurich, Switzerland

Phone:  ++41 1 257 4321
Fax:    ++41 1 363 0035
E-mail: ebner@ifi.unizh.ch

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