<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;color:#3d85c6"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:16px;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">Dear colleagues,</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:16px;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif"> </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:16px;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">We are inviting abstract submissions for a special session on “Human Health Monitoring Based on Computer Vision”, as part of the 14th IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG’19, <a href="http://fg2019.org/" target="_blank">http://fg2019.org/</a>), Lille, France, May 14-18, 2019. Details on the special session follow below.</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:16px;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:16px;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">Title, abstract, list of authors, as well as the name of the corresponding author, should be emailed directly to Abhijit Das (<a href="mailto:abhijitdas2048@gmail.com" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">abhijitdas2048@gmail.com</span></a>). We hope to receive abstracts before October 8th 2018. Full paper submission December 9th 2018.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:16px;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:16px;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">Feel free to contact Abhijit Das if you have any further questions.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black">Kindly circulate this email to others who might be interested.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:16px;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">We look forward to your contributions!<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:16px;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:16px;line-height:normal"><span lang="FR" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">François Brémond  (INRIA, France)<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px;line-height:normal"><span lang="FR" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black">Antitza Dantcheva (INRIA, France)  <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black">Abhijit Das (INRIA, France)<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black">Xilin Chen  (CAS, China)<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black">Hu Han (CAS, China)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black"><br></span></p><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;text-align:center;line-height:13.91px"><font color="#000000" face="verdana, sans-serif">--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br><b>Call for abstract for FG 2018 special session </b></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;text-align:center;line-height:13.91px"><font color="#000000" face="verdana, sans-serif"><b>on</b><span style="text-align:justify"> </span> </font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;text-align:center;line-height:13.91px"><font color="#000000" face="verdana, sans-serif"><b>Human Health Monitoring Based on Computer Vision<br></b></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;text-align:center;line-height:13.91px"><font color="#000000" face="verdana, sans-serif">---------------------------------------------------------------</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;text-align:center;line-height:13.91px"><font color="#000000" face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;text-align:justify;line-height:13.91px"><font color="#000000" face="verdana, sans-serif">Human Health Monitoring Based on Computer Vision <span lang="EN-AU" style="line-height:13.91px">has gained rapid scientific growth in the last years, with many research articles and complete systems based on a set of features, extracted from face and gesture. Researchers from the computer, as well as from medical science have granted significant attention, with goals ranging from patient analysis and monitoring to diagnostics. (e.g., for dementia, depression, healthcare, physiological measurement [5, 6]). </span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;text-align:justify;line-height:13.91px"><span lang="EN-AU" style="line-height:13.91px"><font color="#000000" face="verdana, sans-serif">   Despite the progress, there are various open, unexplored, and unidentified challenges.  Such as the robustness of these techniques in the real-world scenario, collecting large dataset for research, heterogeneity of the acquiring environment and the artefacts. Moreover, healthcare represents an area of broad economic (e.g., <a href="https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/healthcare-automation-market-to-reach-us5898-billion-by-2025-smarter-technologies-up-the-game-for-automated-solutions-in-healthcare-industry-622761234.html" target="_blank">https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/healthcare-automation-market-to-reach-us5898-billion-by-2025-smarter-technologies-up-the-game-for-automated-solutions-in-healthcare-industry-622761234.html</a>), social, and scientific impact. Therefore, it is imperative to foster efforts coming from computer vision, machine learning, and the medical domain, as well as multidisciplinary efforts. Towards this, we propose a special session, with a focus on multidisciplinary efforts. We aim to document recent advancements in automated healthcare, as well as enable and discuss progress.. Therefore, the goal of this special session is to bring together researchers and practitioners working in this area of computer vision and medical science, and to address a wide range of theoretical and practical issues related to real-life healthcare systems.</font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;text-align:justify;line-height:13.91px"><span lang="EN-AU" style="line-height:13.91px"><font color="#000000" face="verdana, sans-serif">Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:</font></span></p><p class="gmail-m_2592903844774281869gmail-m_-693931398568520804gmail-m_-5996323833858599001gmail-m_537572945605271387gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 21pt;text-align:justify;line-height:14.95px"><font color="#000000" face="verdana, sans-serif"><span lang="EN-AU" style="line-height:14.95px">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal">         </span></span><span lang="EN-AU" style="line-height:14.95px">Health monitoring based on face analysis,</span></font></p><p class="gmail-m_2592903844774281869gmail-m_-693931398568520804gmail-m_-5996323833858599001gmail-m_537572945605271387gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 21pt;text-align:justify;line-height:14.95px"><font color="#000000" face="verdana, sans-serif"><span lang="EN-AU" style="line-height:14.95px">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal">         </span></span><span lang="EN-AU" style="line-height:14.95px">Health monitoring based on gesture analysis,</span></font></p><p class="gmail-m_2592903844774281869gmail-m_-693931398568520804gmail-m_-5996323833858599001gmail-m_537572945605271387gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 21pt;text-align:justify;line-height:14.95px"><font color="#000000" face="verdana, sans-serif"><span lang="EN-AU" style="line-height:14.95px">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal">         </span></span><span lang="EN-AU" style="line-height:14.95px">Health monitoring based corporeal-based visual features,</span></font></p><p class="gmail-m_2592903844774281869gmail-m_-693931398568520804gmail-m_-5996323833858599001gmail-m_537572945605271387gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 21pt;text-align:justify;line-height:14.95px"><font color="#000000" face="verdana, sans-serif"><span lang="EN-AU" style="line-height:14.95px">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal">         </span></span><span lang="EN-AU" style="line-height:14.95px">Depression analysis based on visual features,</span></font></p><p class="gmail-m_2592903844774281869gmail-m_-693931398568520804gmail-m_-5996323833858599001gmail-m_537572945605271387gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 21pt;text-align:justify;line-height:14.95px"><font color="#000000" face="verdana, sans-serif"><span lang="EN-AU" style="line-height:14.95px">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal">         </span></span><span lang="EN-AU" style="line-height:14.95px">Face analytics for human behaviour understanding,</span></font></p><p class="gmail-m_2592903844774281869gmail-m_-693931398568520804gmail-m_-5996323833858599001gmail-m_537572945605271387gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 21pt;text-align:justify;line-height:14.95px"><font color="#000000" face="verdana, sans-serif"><span lang="EN-AU" style="line-height:14.95px">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal">         </span></span><span lang="EN-AU" style="line-height:14.95px">Anxiety diagnosis based on face and gesture</span></font></p><p class="gmail-m_2592903844774281869gmail-m_-693931398568520804gmail-m_-5996323833858599001gmail-m_537572945605271387gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 21pt;text-align:justify;line-height:14.95px"><font color="#000000" face="verdana, sans-serif"><span lang="EN-AU" style="line-height:14.95px">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal">         </span></span><span lang="EN-AU" style="line-height:14.95px">Physiological measurement employing face analytics,</span></font></p><p class="gmail-m_2592903844774281869gmail-m_-693931398568520804gmail-m_-5996323833858599001gmail-m_537572945605271387gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 21pt;text-align:justify;line-height:14.95px"><font color="#000000" face="verdana, sans-serif"><span lang="EN-AU" style="line-height:14.95px">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal">         </span></span><span lang="EN-AU" style="line-height:14.95px">Databases on health monitoring</span><span style="line-height:14.95px">, e.g., depression analysis,</span><span lang="EN-AU" style="line-height:14.95px"></span></font></p><p class="gmail-m_2592903844774281869gmail-m_-693931398568520804gmail-m_-5996323833858599001gmail-m_537572945605271387gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 21pt;text-align:justify;line-height:14.95px"><font color="#000000" face="verdana, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:14.95px">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal">         </span></span><span style="line-height:14.95px">Augmentative and alternative communication,</span></font></p><p class="gmail-m_2592903844774281869gmail-m_-693931398568520804gmail-m_-5996323833858599001gmail-m_537572945605271387gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 21pt;text-align:justify;line-height:14.95px"><font color="#000000" face="verdana, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:14.95px">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal">         </span></span><span style="line-height:14.95px">Human-robot interaction,</span></font></p><p class="gmail-m_2592903844774281869gmail-m_-693931398568520804gmail-m_-5996323833858599001gmail-m_537572945605271387gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 21pt;text-align:justify;line-height:14.95px"><font color="#000000" face="verdana, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:14.95px">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal">         </span></span><span style="line-height:14.95px">Home healthcare,</span></font></p><p class="gmail-m_2592903844774281869gmail-m_-693931398568520804gmail-m_-5996323833858599001gmail-m_537572945605271387gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 21pt;text-align:justify;line-height:14.95px"><font color="#000000" face="verdana, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:14.95px">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal">         </span></span><span style="line-height:14.95px">Technology for cognition,</span></font></p><p class="gmail-m_2592903844774281869gmail-m_-693931398568520804gmail-m_-5996323833858599001gmail-m_537572945605271387gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 21pt;text-align:justify;line-height:14.95px"><font color="#000000" face="verdana, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:14.95px">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal">         </span></span><span style="line-height:14.95px">Automatic emotional hearing and understanding,</span></font></p><p class="gmail-m_2592903844774281869gmail-m_-693931398568520804gmail-m_-5996323833858599001gmail-m_537572945605271387gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 21pt;text-align:justify;line-height:14.95px"><font color="#000000" face="verdana, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:14.95px">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal">         </span></span><span style="line-height:14.95px">Visual attention and visual saliency,</span></font></p><p class="gmail-m_2592903844774281869gmail-m_-693931398568520804gmail-m_-5996323833858599001gmail-m_537572945605271387gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 21pt;text-align:justify;line-height:14.95px"><font color="#000000" face="verdana, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:14.95px">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal">         </span></span><span style="line-height:14.95px">Assistive living,</span></font></p><p class="gmail-m_2592903844774281869gmail-m_-693931398568520804gmail-m_-5996323833858599001gmail-m_537572945605271387gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 21pt;text-align:justify;line-height:14.95px"><font color="#000000" face="verdana, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:14.95px">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal">         </span></span><span style="line-height:14.95px">Privacy preserving systems,</span></font></p><p class="gmail-m_2592903844774281869gmail-m_-693931398568520804gmail-m_-5996323833858599001gmail-m_537572945605271387gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 21pt;text-align:justify;line-height:14.95px"><font color="#000000" face="verdana, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:14.95px">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal">         </span></span><span style="line-height:14.95px">Quality of life technologies,</span></font></p><p class="gmail-m_2592903844774281869gmail-m_-693931398568520804gmail-m_-5996323833858599001gmail-m_537572945605271387gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 21pt;text-align:justify;line-height:14.95px"><font color="#000000" face="verdana, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:14.95px">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal">         </span></span><span style="line-height:14.95px">Mobile and wearable systems,</span></font></p><p class="gmail-m_2592903844774281869gmail-m_-693931398568520804gmail-m_-5996323833858599001gmail-m_537572945605271387gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 21pt;text-align:justify;line-height:14.95px"><font color="#000000" face="verdana, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:14.95px">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal">         </span></span><span style="line-height:14.95px">Applications for the visually impaired,</span></font></p><p class="gmail-m_2592903844774281869gmail-m_-693931398568520804gmail-m_-5996323833858599001gmail-m_537572945605271387gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 21pt;text-align:justify;line-height:14.95px"><font color="#000000" face="verdana, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:14.95px">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal">         </span></span><span style="line-height:14.95px">Sign language recognition and applications for hearing impaired,</span></font></p><p class="gmail-m_2592903844774281869gmail-m_-693931398568520804gmail-m_-5996323833858599001gmail-m_537572945605271387gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 21pt;text-align:justify;line-height:14.95px"><font color="#000000" face="verdana, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:14.95px">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal">         </span></span><span style="line-height:14.95px">Applications for the ageing society,</span></font></p><p class="gmail-m_2592903844774281869gmail-m_-693931398568520804gmail-m_-5996323833858599001gmail-m_537572945605271387gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 21pt;text-align:justify;line-height:14.95px"><font color="#000000" face="verdana, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:14.95px">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal">         </span></span><span style="line-height:14.95px">Personalized monitoring,</span></font></p><p class="gmail-m_2592903844774281869gmail-m_-693931398568520804gmail-m_-5996323833858599001gmail-m_537572945605271387gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 21pt;text-align:justify;line-height:14.95px"><font color="#000000" face="verdana, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:14.95px">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal">         </span></span><span style="line-height:14.95px">Egocentric and first-person vision,</span></font></p><p class="gmail-m_2592903844774281869gmail-m_-693931398568520804gmail-m_-5996323833858599001gmail-m_537572945605271387gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt 21pt;text-align:justify;line-height:14.95px"><font color="#000000" face="verdana, sans-serif"><span lang="EN-AU" style="line-height:14.95px">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal">         </span></span><span style="line-height:14.95px">Applications to improve the health and wellbeing of children and the elderly, etc.</span></font></p></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail-m_2592903844774281869gmail-m_-693931398568520804gmail-m_-5996323833858599001gmail-m_537572945605271387gmail-m_-4786654741843006868gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><p class="gmail-m_2592903844774281869gmail-m_-693931398568520804gmail-m_-5996323833858599001gmail-m_537572945605271387gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt 21pt;text-align:justify;line-height:14.95px"><font color="#000000" face="verdana, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:16px">In addition, we plan to organise a special issue in a journal with the extended version of accepted special session papers.</span></font></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>