Paper deadline: April 30,  1996
For more information: http://fg96.www.media.mit.edu/conferences/fg96. 

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Call for Papers
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2d International Conference on 
Automatic Face- and Gesture-Recognition

October 14-16
Killington, Vermont
USA

Purpose
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Automatic face and gesture   recognition has rapidly developed into  a
highly active field  of research with  application potential in  areas
such as contactless man-machine interaction, access control, automatic
search   in   visual databases,  and   very-low  bit-rate compression.
Consequently, this international conference series has been created to
provide an international forum  for research on image- and video-based
face recognition, facial expression  recognition, and hand gesture and
body movement analysis.

Contributions
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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.

Steering Committee
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Prof. Dr. T. S. Huang 
Beckman Institute and Coordinated Science Laboratory, 
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Prof. Dr. A. Pentland 
Perceptual Computing Section, The Media Laboratory, 
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Prof. Dr. P. Stucki
MultiMedia Laboratory, Department of Computer Science, 
University of Zurich

Program Coordinator:
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Dr. Irfan Essa,
Perceptual Computing Section, The Media Laboratory,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Program Committee:
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* Desai Narasimhalu, ISS/Singapore
* Shigeru. Akamatsu, ATR/Japan, 
* Josef Bigun, EPFL/Switzerland, 
* Martin Bichsel  U of Zurich/Switzerland,
* Andrew Blake, Oxford/UK,
* Micheal Black, Xerox/USA,
* Aaron Bobick,  MIT/USA,
* Rama Chellappa, U  of Maryland/USA,
* Justine Cassell, MIT/USA, 
* Roberto Cipolla, Cambridge U/UK,
* Ian Craw, Aberdeen U. / UK
* Jim Crowley, Grenoble/France,
* Larry Davis, U of Maryland/USA,
* Paul Ekman, UCSF/USA, 
* Shimon Edelman, Weizmann/Israel, 
* Bill Freeman, MERL/USA, 
* Gail Gordon, TASC/USA, 
* Prof. Kuno, Osaka U/Japan, 
* Christoph van der Malsburg, USC/USA,
* Alice O'Toole, U of Texas Dallas/USA, 
* Pietro Perona, Cal Tech/USA,
* Jonathan Phillips, ARL/USA, 
* Tomaso Poggio, MIT/USA, 
* Kenji Mase, ATR/Japan, 
* Jim Rehg, DEC CRL/USA, 
* Mike Swain U of Chicago/USA, 
* Matthew Turk Microsoft/USA,
* Chris Taylor, Manchester U/UK,
* Alex Waibel, CMU/USA,
* Harry Wechsler, George Mason/USA,
* John Weng, Michigan State U/USA, 
* Prof. Yachida, Osaka U/Japan.

Submission of Contributions
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Four  copies of the full paper,  (in two column, 10pt font, conference
proceedings style) including    figures and drawings not exceeding   6
single-sided pages   (5500 words of text  without   figures) should be
submitted to:

Irfan Essa
Program Coordinator, ICAFGR '96
Room E15-383, The Media Laboratory
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
20 Ames Street,
Cambridge, MA 02139 USA

Phone:  1-617-253-0872

Paper Submission Deadline:      April 30,  1996
Notification of Acceptance:     June 30,   1996.
Full Camera Ready Papers:       July 31,   1996.  
(Accepted papers  will  be collected in the proceedings of the conference.)

Style files for LATEX, RTF and WORD can  be obtained via anonymous ftp
>from ftp:/whitechapel.media.mit.edu/pub/conferences/ICAFGR96 or   from
the        WWW       site        for            this       conference:
http://fg96.www.media.mit.edu/conferences/fg96.


Participation
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People  interested in participating  at this  International Conference
are required  to preregister.  Preregistration can  be done at the WWW
site for this conference at:

http://fg96.www.media.mit.edu/conferences/fg96.

Additional details will  be directly mailed to  the preregistrants.  A
preliminary  program and further information will  be sent out in June
1995;  additional  information will be  made  available on the  WWW at
http://fg96.www.media.mit.edu/conferences/fg96

Killington, Vermont  is a major skiing  resort in middle  of the Green
Mountains; during    the month of     October the  leaves   change  to
spectacular colors and  the weather is  typically perfect  for hiking,
biking, boating, and similar outdoor sports.

Pre-Registration (In case access to the WWW is not available) 
        
If access to  the above  website is not   available then fill  in  the
enclosed form and return it via EMAIL to fg96@media.mit.edu or TELEFAX
to +1-617-253-8874 as soon as possible.

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Room E15-383, The Media Laboratory
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
20 Ames Street,
Cambridge, MA 02139 USA

Phone:  1-617-253-0872
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