============================================================ FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS 2008 IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition September 17-19, 2008 Amsterdam, The Netherlands (FG-2008) www.fg2008.nl ============================================================ The IEEE conference series on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition is the premier international forum for state of the art image and video-based biometric gesture and body movement recognition. Each year the FG conference plays an important role in shaping related scientific, academic, and higher-education programs. The 2008 conference will be held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, in De Rode Hoed, a former Remonstrant church built in 1616 and located in the heart of Amsterdam's historic district. This year, we are especially soliciting papers discussing Enabling Behavioral and Contextual Human-Machine Interfaces in areas including behavioral and affective computing, multimodal and context-sensitive interfaces, vision-based human robot interaction, and ambient intelligence. General conference topics will include: * Face Recognition/Analysis (tracking/detection, recognition, expression analysis, 3D analysis) * Gesture Recognition/Analysis (gesture interpretation, head tracking, arm/limb and body analysis/tracking) * Body Motion Analysis (human motion analysis, gait recognition, 3d movement and gait analysis) * Psychological Analysis (face recognition, gesture recognition and variation, face and body movement) * Technologies (sensors, feature analysis, fusion of modalities, biometric and surveillance applications) The program will be single track with posters. IMPORTANT DATES March 22, 2008: Deadline for submission of regular papers. March 22, 2008: Deadline for submission of extended abstracts for demos. May 31, 2008: Acceptance notification July 1, 2008: Final camera-ready papers due in electronic form. For more information about the conference see the Call of Papers (http://www.fg2008.nl/pages/cfp-fg2008.pdf) and check www.fg2008.nl Conference Chairs Jeffrey Cohn, University of Pittsburgh, USA Thomas S. Huang, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Maja Pantic, Imperial College London, UK / University of Twente, Netherlands Nicu Sebe, University of Amsterdam, NL Finance Chair Emile Hendriks, Delft University of Technology, NL Special Sessions / Panel Chairs Vladimir Pavlovic, Rutgers University, USA Matthew Turk, Univ. of California at Santa Barbara, USA Demos / Visual Proceedings Chair Ioannis Patras, Queen Mary University of London, UK Publicity Chairs Aleix Martinez, Ohio State University, USA Fernando de la Torre, Carnegie Mellon University, USA European Liaisons Josef Kittler, University of Surrey, UK Mark Nixon, University of Southampton, UK Asian Liaisons Toshi Kato, Chuo University, Tokyo, Japan Seong-Whan Lee, Korea University, Korea USA Liaisons Javier Movellan, Univ. of California in San Diego, USA Alex Pentland, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA Web Masters / Publication Chairs Ferdinand Beljaars / Pyrrhos Stathis, Fyper VOF, Delft, NL Local Arrangements/Social activities Marianne Dijkmans, SPITZ Congres & Event, The Hague, NL