2nd International Workshop on Observing and Understanding Hands in Action Call for Papers

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                     2nd International Workshop on
          Observing and Understanding Hands in Action
                                HANDS 2016

           http://www.iis.ee.ic.ac.uk/dtang/hands2016/

               in conjunction with IEEE CVPR 2016

          Las Vegas, USA - June 26th to July 1st, 2016

           Paper Submission Deadline: April 8, 2016
          Extended Abstract Deadline: April 25, 2016

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CALL FOR PAPERS AND EXTENDED ABSTRACTS
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Development of RGB-D sensors (Kinect, Asus, Intel Creative, Leap Motion
etc) and camera miniaturization (wearable cameras, smart phones,
ubiquitous computing) have opened the door to a whole new range of
technologies and applications which require detecting hands and
recognizing hand poses in a variety of scenarios.

Our program will feature several high-quality invited talks, oral and
poster presentations, and a panel discussion to identify key research
questions and highlight future research directions. We invite submissions
of theoretical and applied papers in all areas covered by the workshop,
including, but not limited to:

- Hand detection
- Hand pose and gesture recognition
- 3D articulated hand tracking
- Hand modelling and rendering
- Grasping and object manipulation
- Hand activity recognition
- Gesture interfaces
- Egocentric vision systems
- Structured prediction
- Applications of hand pose estimation in AR/VR
- Applications of hand pose estimation in robotics and haptics
- Driver hand activity analysis

In the spirit of Chalearn "looking at people" for body pose estimation or
Pascal VOC Challenge for object recognition, we organize a challenge
associated with this workshop. We aim at comparing new and established
methods for hand detection and pose estimation on a standard and varied
data set covering multiple scenarios and settings. We released such
dataset and encourage participants to use it for evaluation and to
participate in the challenge.

In addition to regular papers, we also invite extended abstracts of
ongoing or published work, and invite authors of previous and ongoing work
to submit empirical results to our challenge. Accepted extended abstracts will 
be presented as a poster at the workshop. We receive your prior publications 
or CVPR16 main conference papers on the relevant topics as extended abstracts. 

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IMPORTANT DATES
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Submission deadline:             April 8th
Notification of acceptance:      May   6th
Camera ready deadline:           May   13th
Extended abstract deadline:      April 25th
Workshop:                        July  1st

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WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS
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Tae-Kyun Kim, Imperial College London, UK
Gregory Rogez, INRIA, France

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STEERING COMMITTEE
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Antonis Argyros, FORTH, Greece
Deva Ramanan, University of California, Irvine, USA
Jamie Shotton, Microsoft Research, UK
Mohan Trivedi, University of California, SAN DIEGO, USA

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WEBSITE AND CHALLENGE COMMITTEE
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Eshed Ohn-Bar, University of California, SAN DIEGO, USA
James S. Supancic III, University of California, Irvine, USA
DanHang Tang, Microsoft Research, Redmond, USA

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TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE
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Chen Yu (Indiana University)
Christian Theobalt (MPI Informatik)
HyungJin Chang (Imperial College London)
Iason Oikonomidis (FORTH)
Javier Romero (MPI-IS)
Jonathan Tompson (Google)
Jonathan Taylor (Microsoft Research Cambridge)
Jürgen Gall (University of Bonn)
Leonid Sigal (Disney Lab)
Li Cheng (AStar)
Nikolaos Kyriazis (FORTH)
Otmar Hilliges (ETH Zurich)
Richard Stebbing (Oxford University)
Robert Wang (Oculus)
Srinath Sridhar (MPI Informatik)
Tsz Ho Yu (Oculus)
Yichen Wei (Microsoft Research Asia)
Youngkyoon Jang (KAIST)

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INVITED SPEAKERS
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Prof. Antonis Argyros, ICS-FORTH, Greece
Prof. Deva Ramanan, Carnegie Mellon University
Prof. Vincent Lepetit, Graz University of Technology
Prof. Mohan Trivedi, University of California, San Diego
Dr. Jamie Shotton, Microsoft Research Cambridge

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CONTACT
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cvpr.hands.2016@gmail.com