-------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers Third IEEE International Workshop on Analysis and Modeling of Faces and Gestures (AMFG) October 20, 2007 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (in conjunction with ICCV2007) During the last 30 years, face recognition and related problems such as face detection/tracking, facial expression recognition have attracted researchers from both the engineering and psychology communities. In addition, extensive research has been carried out to study hand and body gestures, human activities and behaviors. The understanding of how humans perceive these important cues has significant scientific value and extensive applications. For example, human-computer interaction, video indexing, visual surveillance are active application areas. Aiming towards putting such amazing perception capability onto computer systems, researchers have made substantial progress. However, technological challenges still exist in many aspects. This one-day workshop (AMFG'07) will provide a focused international forum to bring together researchers and research groups to review the status of recognition, analysis and modeling of face, gesture, activity & behavior, to discuss the challenges that we are facing, and to explore future directions. The workshop will consist of two to three invited talks contributed by highly-respected experts, regular papers (oral and poster) and demos. Original high-quality papers are solicited on topics including, but not limited to, 1. Advanced methods, including mathematical tools, novel sensors and algorithms for face & gesture modeling, analysis and recognition. 2. Novel applications in which detection, tracking and recognition of face and gesture can be reliably accomplished. 3. Efficient computational methods to implement advanced algorithms for real-time systems. 4. Psychology studies that can help us build better systems. 5. Motion analysis, tracking and extraction of 3D face structure from image sequences using single or multiple cameras 6. Detection and recognition of face objects under large 3D rotations, illumination changes, partial occlusions, aging, etc. 7. Face/Gait detection and recognition in low-quality, low-resolution surveillance video. 8. Demonstration of face recognition in outdoor environments. 9. Dynamics and learning for gesture, activity, and behavior interpretation. 10. Fusion of multi-modalities such as face and gesture. We allow ICCV dual submission but NOT dual publication. Submitted papers will undergo a double-blind reviewing process by three program committee members. Accepted papers will be included in a proceeding published by Springer-Verlag. We expect to have several awards along with cash. * PAPER SUBMISSION Manuscripts should be submitted electronically as PDF files and be formatted using the camera-ready templates. Detailed submission instructions are available at the workshop Web site http://mmlab.ie.cuhk.edu.hk/iccv07/. * IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission: May 18, 2007 Pacific Time 11:59pm (Friday) Reviews due: July 20, 2007 (Friday) Paper acceptance: August 3, 2007 (Friday) Camera ready: August 10, 2007 (Friday) Workshop date: October 20, 2007 (Saturday) * INVITED SPEAKERS To be announced * ORGANIZATION Workshop Co-Chairs S. Kevin Zhou, Wen-Yi Zhao, Xiaoou Tang, Shaogang Gong Advisory Committee Rama Chellappa, Thomas Huang, Anil Jain Program committee Jake Aggarwal UT Austin, USA Aaron Bovick GaTech, USA Kevin Bowyer Notre Dame, USA Rama Chellappa Maryland, USA Tsuhan Chen Carnegie Mellon, USA Jeff Cohn Pittsburgh, USA Robert Collins Penn State, USA Tim Cootes Manchester, UK James Davis Ohio State, USA Larry Davis Maryland, USA David Hogg Leeds, UK David Jacobs Maryland, USA Anil Jain Michigan State, USA Mike Jones MERL, USA Ron Kimmel Technion, Israel Josef Kittler Surrey, UK David Kriegman UCSD, USA Stan Li NLPR, China Chengjun Liu NJIT, USA Qingshan Liu NLPR, China Jiebo Luo Kodak, USA Aleix Martinez Ohio State, USA Gerard Medioni USC, USA Dimitris Metaxas Rutgers, USA Alice O'Toole UT Dalles, USA Jonathon Phillips NIST, USA Matti Pietikainen OULU, Finland Long Quan UST, HK Amit Roy-Chowdhury UCRiverside, USA Stan Sclaroff Boston, USA Matthew Turk UCSB, USA Harry Wechsler Goerge Mason, USA Shuicheng Yan UIUC, USA Ming-Hsuan Yang Honda Research, USA Zhengyou Zhang Microsoft Research, USA