<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;color:rgb(61,133,198)"></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;color:#3d85c6"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black">Dear colleagues,</span><span style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black"></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black">We are inviting abstract submissions for a
special session on “</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black">Artificial Intelligence for Automated Human Health-care
and Monitoring</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black">”, as part of the 16th IEEE International
Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG’21, <a href="http://iab-rubric.org/fg2021/">http://iab-rubric.org/fg2021/</a>),
December 15-18, 2021. Details on the special session follow below.</span><span style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black"></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black">Title, abstract, list of authors, as well as
the name of the corresponding author should be emailed directly to Abhijit Das
(</span><a href="mailto:abhijitdas2048@gmail.com" target="_blank" style="color:blue"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black">abhijitdas2048@gmail.com</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black">).
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black"><br></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black">Please submit your abstracts before Sunday,
May 8^th 2021. The expected paper submission deadline will be on 1st August 2021.</span><span style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black"></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black">Feel free to contact Abhijit Das, if you have
any further questions.</span><span style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black"></span></p>

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to others, who might be interested.</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Abhijit Das (Thapar
University, India)</span></p>

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France)</span></p>

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Brook University, USA</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">)</span></p>

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Brémond  (Inria, France)</span><span lang="FR" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black"></span></p>

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Chen (CAS, China)</span><span lang="FR" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"></span></p>

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<b>Call for abstract for FG 2021 special session </b></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;text-align:center;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black">Artificial
Intelligence for Automated Human Health-care and Monitoring</span></b><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"></span></b></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;text-align:center;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"> </span></p>

<p class="gmail-Normal1" style="margin:12pt 0in;text-align:justify;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black">Automated Human
Health Monitoring Based on Computer Vision has gained rapid scientific
attention in the decade, fueled by a large number of research articles and
commercial systems based on a set of features, extracted from face and gesture.
Recently, the COVID-19 pandemic has pushed the need for virtual diagnosis and
monitoring health protocols (such as regulations for social distancing,
surveillance of individuals wearing the mask in-crowd, gauging body temperature and
other physiological measurements from distance). Consequently, researchers from
computer vision, as well as from the medical science community have given significant attention to goals ranging from patient analysis and monitoring to diagnostics
(e.g., for dementia, depression, general healthcare, physiological measurements,
rare neurologic diseases). Moreover, healthcare represents an area of broad
economic<a style="color:blue" href="#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" title=""><span class="gmail-MsoFootnoteReference" style="vertical-align:super"><span class="gmail-MsoFootnoteReference" style="vertical-align:super"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;color:black">[1]</span></span></span></a>,
social, and scientific impact. </span></p>

<p class="gmail-Normal1" style="margin:12pt 0in;text-align:justify;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black">We aim to
document recent advancements in automated healthcare, as well as enable and discuss
the 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.</span></p>

<p class="gmail-Normal1" style="margin:12pt 0in;text-align:justify;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black">Topics of
interest include, but are not limited to:</span></p>

<p class="gmail-Normal1" style="margin:12pt 0in 12pt 39pt;text-align:justify;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black">·    Health monitoring based on face analysis,</span></p>

<p class="gmail-Normal1" style="margin:12pt 0in 12pt 39pt;text-align:justify;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black">·    Health monitoring based on gesture analysis,</span></p>

<p class="gmail-Normal1" style="margin:12pt 0in 12pt 39pt;text-align:justify;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black">·    Health monitoring based corporeal-based visual
features,</span></p>

<p class="gmail-Normal1" style="margin:12pt 0in 12pt 39pt;text-align:justify;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black">·    Depression analysis based on visual features,</span></p>

<p class="gmail-Normal1" style="margin:12pt 0in 12pt 39pt;text-align:justify;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black">·    Face analytics for human behaviour
understanding,</span></p>

<p class="gmail-Normal1" style="margin:12pt 0in 12pt 39pt;text-align:justify;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black">·    Anxiety diagnosis based on face and gesture,</span></p>

<p class="gmail-Normal1" style="margin:12pt 0in 12pt 39pt;text-align:justify;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black">·    Physiological measurement employing face
analytics,</span></p>

<p class="gmail-Normal1" style="margin:12pt 0in 12pt 39pt;text-align:justify;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black">·    Databases on health monitoring, e.g.,
depression analysis,</span></p>

<p class="gmail-Normal1" style="margin:12pt 0in 12pt 39pt;text-align:justify;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black">·     Augmentative
and alternative communication,</span></p>

<p class="gmail-Normal1" style="margin:12pt 0in 12pt 39pt;text-align:justify;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black">·     Human-robot
interaction,</span></p>

<p class="gmail-Normal1" style="margin:12pt 0in 12pt 39pt;text-align:justify;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black">·     Home
healthcare,</span></p>

<p class="gmail-Normal1" style="margin:12pt 0in 12pt 39pt;text-align:justify;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black">·     Technology
for cognition,</span></p>

<p class="gmail-Normal1" style="margin:12pt 0in 12pt 39pt;text-align:justify;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black">·     Automatic
emotional hearing and understanding,</span></p>

<p class="gmail-Normal1" style="margin:12pt 0in 12pt 39pt;text-align:justify;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black">·     Visual
attention and visual saliency,</span></p>

<p class="gmail-Normal1" style="margin:12pt 0in 12pt 39pt;text-align:justify;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black">·     Assistive
living,</span></p>

<p class="gmail-Normal1" style="margin:12pt 0in 12pt 39pt;text-align:justify;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black">·     Privacy
preserving systems,</span></p>

<p class="gmail-Normal1" style="margin:12pt 0in 12pt 39pt;text-align:justify;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black">·     <a name="_GoBack"></a>Quality of life technologies,</span></p>

<p class="gmail-Normal1" style="margin:12pt 0in 12pt 39pt;text-align:justify;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black">·       Mobile and
wearable systems,</span></p>

<p class="gmail-Normal1" style="margin:12pt 0in 12pt 39pt;text-align:justify;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black">·      
Applications for the visually impaired,</span></p>

<p class="gmail-Normal1" style="margin:12pt 0in 12pt 39pt;text-align:justify;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black">·       Sign
language recognition and applications for hearing impaired,</span></p>

<p class="gmail-Normal1" style="margin:12pt 0in 12pt 39pt;text-align:justify;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black">·      
Applications for the ageing society,</span></p>

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Personalized monitoring,</span></p>

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