REACT 2024 Challenge: Multiple Appropriate Facial Reaction Generation in Dyadic Interactions Call for Papers

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

REACT 2024 Challenge: 
Multiple Appropriate Facial Reaction Generation in Dyadic Interactions
REACT2024 
at FG'24 

The second “Multiple Appropriate Facial Reaction Generation in
Dyadic Interactions” challenge (REACT2024) to be held in
conjunction with the Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG) 2024
in Istanbul, Turkey, is calling for contributions in the form of
papers and competition in the challenge. The competition will be using
the NoXI, and RECOLA datasets which contain audio-video clip data of
participants engaged in dyadic video-conference settings. The
challenge consists of two main tasks:

    Task 1 - Offline Appropriate Facial Reaction Generation
    Task 2 - Online Appropriate Facial Reaction Generation

Participants are invited to participate in one or both
sub-challenges. For more information about the challenge, check our
website https://sites.google.com/cam.ac.uk/react2024/home.

To register and access the challenge data, please fill the
registration form you will find on the website and feel free to
contact us by email: reactmultimodalchallenge@gmail.com .

For each task, training and validation data will be made available to
participants. At the end of the competition, participants will be
required to submit their trained models (in the form of working code)
via email. All submissions will be evaluated on a held-out test
dataset to ensure a fair comparison. Participants will also be
encouraged to submit a conference-style paper describing their
proposed approach for tackling the challenge task(s) as well as the
results obtained.

Challenge timeline is as follows:

    Launching Challenge website and call for participation poster: November 2, 2023
    Registration open: November 5, 2023
    Training and validation sets released: November 14, 2023
    Baseline paper and code released: December 31, 2023
    Final result and model submission: March 15, 2024
    Paper submission deadline: March 29, 2024
    Paper acceptance notification: April 5, 2024
    Camera ready paper submission deadline: April 15, 2024

The Organisers

* Dr Siyang Song*, University of Leicester & University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

* Dr Micol Spitale*, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

* Cheng Luo,  Monash University, Australia

* Cristina Palmero, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

* German Barquero, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

* Prof Sergio Escalera, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

* Prof Michel Valstar, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom

* Dr Tobias Baur, University of Augsburg, Augsburg, Germany

* Dr Fabien Ringeval, Université Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France

* Prof Elisabeth Andrè, University of Augsburg, Augsburg, Germany

* Prof Hatice Gunes, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom


Contact us via email: reactmultimodalchallenge@gmail.com