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Please find below the invitation to contribute to the <b><a href="https://affective-behavior-analysis-in-the-wild.github.io/7th" id="OWAed46da9e-0f9d-4d5c-8f92-ab18cfcffc98" class="OWAAutoLink" title="https://affective-behavior-analysis-in-the-wild.github.io/7th" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-loopstyle="linkonly" style="margin: 0px;">7</a><a href="https://affective-behavior-analysis-in-the-wild.github.io/7th" id="OWAe7147a60-519f-a28e-61c5-ce4b30a96705" class="OWAAutoLink" title="https://affective-behavior-analysis-in-the-wild.github.io/7th" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-loopstyle="linkonly" style="margin: 0px;">th Workshop
and Competition on Affective Behavior Analysis in-the-wild (ABAW)</a> </b>to be held in conjunction with the
<u>European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2024.</u></div>
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(1): The <b><i>Competition</i></b> is split into the below <b>two Challenges</b>:</div>
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<u>Multi-Task-Learning Challenge</u> (three tasks are considered: i) valence-arousal estimation, ii) expression recognition and iii) action unit detection; a static version of Aff-Wild2 database is used)</div>
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Participants are invited to participate in at least one of these Challenges.</div>
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There will be one winner per Challenge; the top-3 performing teams of each Challenge will have to contribute paper(s) describing their approach, methodology and results to our Workshop;
<i>the accepted papers will be part of the ECCV 2024 proceedings;</i> all other teams are also encouraged to submit paper(s) describing their solutions and final results; the accepted papers will be part of the ECCV 2024 proceedings.</div>
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More information about the Competition can be found <a href="https://affective-behavior-analysis-in-the-wild.github.io/7th/" id="OWA7997af64-f0cf-81a7-f50c-44d36370a590" class="OWAAutoLink" title="https://affective-behavior-analysis-in-the-wild.github.io/7th/" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-loopstyle="linkonly" style="margin: 0px;">
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<i>09 May</i></div>
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(2): The <b>Workshop</b> solicits contributions on the recent progress of recognition, analysis, generation-synthesis and modelling of face, body, gesture, speech, audio, text and language while embracing the most advanced systems available for such in-the-wild
(i.e., in unconstrained environments) analysis, and across modalities like face to voice. In parallel, this Workshop will solicit contributions towards building fair, explainable, trustworthy and privacy-aware models that perform well on all subgroups and
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Original high-quality contributions, in terms of databases, surveys, studies, foundation models, techniques and methodologies (either uni-modal or multi-modal; uni-task or multi-task ones) are solicited on -but are not limited to- the following topics: </div>
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i) facial expression (basic, compound or other) or micro-expression analysis<br>
ii) facial action unit detection<br>
iii) valence-arousal estimation<br>
iv) physiological-based (e.g.,EEG, EDA) affect analysis<br>
v) face recognition, detection or tracking<br>
vi) body recognition, detection or tracking<br>
vii) gesture recognition or detection<br>
viii) pose estimation or tracking<br>
ix) activity recognition or tracking<br>
x) lip reading and voice understanding<br>
xi) face and body characterization (e.g., behavioral understanding)<br>
xii) characteristic analysis (e.g., gait, age, gender, ethnicity recognition)<br>
xiii) group understanding via social cues (e.g., kinship, non-blood relationships, personality)<br>
xiv) video, action and event understanding<br>
xv) digital human modeling<br>
xvi) characteristic analysis (e.g., gait, age, gender, ethnicity recognition)<br>
xvii) violence detection<br>
xviii) autonomous driving<br>
xix) domain adaptation, domain generalisation, few- or zero-shot learning for the above cases<br>
xx) fairness, explainability, interpretability, trustworthiness, privacy-awareness, bias mitigation and/or subgroup distribution shift analysis for the above cases<br>
xxi) editing, manipulation, image-to-image translation, style mixing, interpolation, inversion and semantic diffusion for all afore mentioned cases</div>
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Accepted workshop papers will appear at ECCV 2024 proceedings.</div>
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<i>Paper Submission Deadline: </i> 29<i> July</i></div>
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<i>Review decisions sent to authors; Notification of acceptance: 25 August</i></div>
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<i>Camera ready version</i> 31<i> August</i></div>
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Dimitrios Kollias, Queen Mary University of London, UK </div>
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Stefanos Zafeiriou, Imperial College London, UK </div>
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Irene Kotsia, Cogitat Ltd, UK </div>
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Abhinav Dhall,<span style="font-weight: 700;"> </span>Flinders University, Australia </div>
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Shreya Ghosh<span style="font-weight: 700;">, </span>Curtin University, Australia </div>
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