C A L L   f o r   P A P E R S
 			        for
                       International Workshop on
                           
            Recognition, Analysis, and Tracking of Faces  
                and Gestures in Real-Time Systems                           
 			 (RATFG-RTS'99)
 	(http://www.cs.toronto.edu/iccv99/RATFG-RTS99)
 
                          Corfu, Greece
                      September 26-27, 1999
                        
                    In conjunction with ICCV'99
 
 Face and hand gesture recognition as well as their interpretation are
 complex and difficult computational tasks which are important for
 various application fields such as surveillance and security,
 intelligent computer interaction, telecommunication including
 telemedicine, distance learning, and others. 
    These application fields are identified to play an important role in
 future industrial and multi-media applications as well as in the mass
 market.  Common to all these application fields is that they have to
 meet relatively fixed real-time demands. 
 
 SCOPE
 
 This workshop is intended to expand the scope of the ICCV Conference to
 novel approaches in the area of face and hand gesture recognition.  One
 major goal of the workshop is to provide and discuss the relevance of
 recent developments to industrial applications.  We would therefore also
 encourage the participation of the industry. 
    It is intended to reserve sufficient room for discussions on real-time
 demands and system integration aspects.  Another major item will
 encompass what is actually performable and which kind of methods are
 applicable for robust and reliable recognition and tracking tasks. 
    Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
    - Localization and Tracking of Faces and Hands
    - Face Recognition and Facial Analysis, Emotions, and Expressions
    - Dynamics and Learning for Gesture Interpretation
    - Applications of Face and Hand Gesture Recognition
    - Applications in the area of Teleconferencing and Distance Learning 
    - Retrieval of Faces in Video Sequences 
    - Compression of Faces and Gestures with respect to MPEG Standards
   
 INVITED SPEAKERS
   James Crowley		IMAG-PRIMA Group, France
   Bill Freeman		MERL, USA
   Dimitris Metaxas	University of Pennsylvania, USA
   Alex Pentland		MIT Media Lab, USA
   Thomas Vetter 	MPI fuer Biol. Kybernetik, Germany
   
 SUBMISSION PROCEDURES
   Authors are invited to submit four (4) copies of original papers as well as
   reports of applications to the workshop chair.
 	Rainer Herpers, Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto
 	Pratt Building, 6 King's College Road, Toronto, Ontario, M5S 3H5 CANADA
 	E-Mail: herpers@vis.toronto.edu
   Submitted manuscripts should not exceed 8 pages in length including an
   abstract of approximately 300 words, references and figures. Text font
   should be Times Roman, a minimum of 12 point and 1.5 line spacing. 
   A separate cover sheet stating: (1) paper title, (2) key words, (3) name, 
   address, fax, and e-mail address of the contact author should be attached 
   to each copy of the manuscript.
 
 Electronic submissions are welcome. Please upload a PS-file of your
 manuscript at the workshop ftp site:
 	ftp://ftp.cs.toronto.edu/pub/iccv99/RATFG-RTS99/in.coming
 Please notify the committee when you have chosen electronic submission 
 by sending an email to herpers@vis.toronto.edu.
 
 Papers must be received at the address given above no later than April
 30th, 1999.  All submissions will be reviewed by the Program Committee.
 Furthermore, demonstrations of program systems in the areas given above
 are welcome. Please contact any member of the organization committee for
 further informations. 
 
 PROCEEDINGS
   Proceedings will be published by IEEE. 
   Therefore, electronic submission of accepted papers is neccessary!
   It is planned to publish a selection of the best papers in a special 
   issue of the International Journal of Image and Vision Computing.
 
 IMPORTANT DATES
   Paper proposals due             April 30, 1999
   Notification of Acceptance      June 30, 1999
   Conference                      September 26-27, 1999 
 
 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
   Rainer Herpers      University of Toronto, Canada
   Markus Michaelis    Plettac Electronics, Fuerth, Germany
   Stephanos Kollias   National Technical University of Athens, Greece
 
 PROGRAM COMMITTEE
   J. Crowley	IMAG, France
   R. Cowie	U of Belfast, Northern Ireland
   A. Jepson	U of Toronto, Canada
   D. Metaxas	U of Pennsylvania, USA
   R. McCready	U of Toronto, Canada
   J. Ohya         ATR, Japan
   A. Senior	IBM, USA
   G. Sommer	U of Kiel, Germany
   A. Stoschek	Stanford, USA
   T. Vetter	MPI, Germany