<div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Apologies for cross-postings</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Call for challenge participation</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Fifth </span><span style="font-size:12.8px">Emotion</span><span style="font-size:12.8px"> </span><span style="font-size:12.8px">Recognition</span><span style="font-size:12.8px"> in the Wild (<span class="gmail-il">EmotiW</span>) Challenge <span class="gmail-il">2017</span></span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/emotiwchallenge" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" style="font-size:12.8px">https://sites.google.com/site/emotiwchallenge</a><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">@ ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction <span class="gmail-il">2017, Glasgow</span></span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">------------------------------</span><span style="font-size:12.8px"><wbr>------------------------------</span><span style="font-size:12.8px"><wbr>---------</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">The Fifth </span><span style="font-size:12.8px">Emotion</span><span style="font-size:12.8px"> </span><span style="font-size:12.8px">Recognition</span><span style="font-size:12.8px"> in the Wild <span class="gmail-il">2017</span> Challenge consists of multimodal classification challenges, which mimics real-<span class="gmail-il">world</span> conditions. Traditionally, </span><span style="font-size:12.8px">emotion </span><span style="font-size:12.8px"></span><span style="font-size:12.8px">recognit<wbr>ion</span><span style="font-size:12.8px"> has been performed on laboratory controlled data. While undoubtedly worthwhile at the time, such lab controlled data poorly represents the environment and conditions faced in real-<span class="gmail-il">world</span> situations. Wi</span><span style="font-size:12.8px">th the increas</span><span style="font-size:12.8px">e in the number of video clips online, i</span><span style="font-size:12.8px">t is worthwhil</span><span style="font-size:12.8px">e to explore the performance o</span><span style="font-size:12.8px">f emotion reco</span><span style="font-size:12.8px">gnition methods that work ‘in</span><span style="font-size:12.8px"> the wild’. Th</span><span style="font-size:12.8px">ere are two sub-challenges: audio-video based </span><span style="font-size:12.8px">emotion</span><span style="font-size:12.8px"> </span><span style="font-size:12.8px">recognition</span><span style="font-size:12.8px"> in videos and group-level </span><span style="font-size:12.8px">emotion</span><span style="font-size:12.8px"> </span><span style="font-size:12.8px">recognitio<wbr>n</span><span style="font-size:12.8px"> in the images (new).</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Timeline:</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px">Challenge Website Up: early March 2017<br>Train and validate data available: April 2017<br>Test data available: 8 July 2017<br>Last date for uploading the results: 23 July 2017<br>Paper submission deadline:  10 August 2017<br>Notification: 1 September 2017<br>Camera-ready papers: 21 September 2017<br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Organisers</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Abhinav Dhall, Roland Goecke, Jyoti Joshi, Jesse Hoey and Tom Gedeon</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Contact</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><a href="mailto:emotiw2014@gmail.com" target="_blank" style="font-size:12.8px">emotiw2014@gmail.com</a><br clear="all"><div><br></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">Abhinav Dhall, PhD (ANU)<div><font size="1">Assistant Professor,</font></div><div><font size="1">Indian Institute of Technology Ropar</font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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