March 2018 - Face-research-list - University of Stirling Mailing Lists

Open Positions: 1 Ph.D. student and 2 Postdocs in the area of Computer Vision and Deep Learning at INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France
by Antitza Dantcheva 09 Aug '18

09 Aug '18

Open Positions: 1 Ph.D. student and 2 Postdocs in the area of Computer Vision and Deep Learning at INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France ------------------------------ ------------------------------ ------------------------------ ------------------------------ ------------------------------ ---------------------- Positions are offered within the frameworks of the prestigious grants - ANR JCJC Grant *ENVISION*: "Computer Vision for Automated Holistic Analysis for Humans" and the - INRIA - CAS grant *FER4HM* "Facial expression recognition with application in health monitoring" and are ideally located in the heart of the French Riviera, inside the multi-cultural silicon valley of Europe. Full announcements: - Open Ph.D.-Position in Computer Vision / Deep Learning (M/F) *ENVISION*: http://antitza.com/ANR_phd.pdf - Open Post Doc - Position in Computer Vision / Deep Learning (M/F) *FER4HM*: http://antitza.com/INRIA_CAS_p ostdoc.pdf - Open Post Doc - Position in Computer Vision / Deep Learning (M/F) (advanced level) *ENVISION*: http://antitza.com/ANR_postdoc .pdf To apply, please email a full application to Antitza Dantcheva ( antitza.dantcheva(a)inria.fr ), indicating the position in the e-mail subject line.

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PhD studentships at Stirling
by Peter Hancock 23 Mar '18

23 Mar '18

I have two funded studentships available for start in October (or earlier, if convenient), to work in the general area of human face perception and recognition. I'd be interested in working with someone on computational modelling for one of them, for which some facility in a programming language such as Matlab or Python would be helpful. One is funded by the Dylis Crabtree Scholarship, for which preference will be given to female applicants. Both are funded for UK/EU citizens only. The studentships will be based in the Face Lab at Stirling and join two postdocs working on the EPSRC-funded FACER2VM project (https://facer2vm.org/) Please get in touch with me directly in the first instance to discuss your interests, pjbh1(a)stir.ac.uk<mailto:pjbh1@stir.ac.uk>. I have no formal closing date but hope to make decisions by early May. Peter Hancock Professor, Deputy Head of Psychology, Faculty of Natural Sciences University of Stirling FK9 4LA, UK phone 01786 467675 fax 01786 467641 http://stir.ac.uk/190 http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6025-7068 http://www.researcherid.com/rid/A-4633-2009 Psychology at Stirling: 100% 4* Impact, REF2014 Come and study Face Perception at the University of Stirling! Our unique MSc in the Psychology of Faces is open for applications. For more information see http://www.stir.ac.uk/postgraduate/programme-information/prospectus/psychol… [highly cited 2016]

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The OMG-Emotion Recognition Challenge
by Pablo Barros 14 Mar '18

14 Mar '18

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION The One-Minute Gradual-Emotion Recognition (OMG-Emotion) held in partnership with the WCCI/IJCNN 2018 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. https://www2.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/wtm/OMG-EmotionChallenge/ I. Aim and Scope Our One-Minute-Gradual Emotion Dataset (OMG-Emotion Dataset) is composed of 420 relatively long emotion videos with an average length of 1 minute, collected from a variety of Youtube channels. The videos were selected automatically based on specific search terms related to the term ``monologue''. Using monologue videos allowed for different emotional behaviors to be presented in one context and that changes gradually over time. Videos were separated into clips based on utterances, and each utterance was annotated by at least five independent subjects using the Amazon Mechanical Turk tool. To maintain the contextual information for each video, each annotator watched the clips of a video in sequence and had to annotate each video using an arousal/valence scale and a categorical emotion based on the universal emotions from Ekman. The participants are encouraged to use crossmodal information in their models, as the videos were labeled by humans without distinction of any modality. II. How to Participate To participate, please send us an email to barros(a)informatik.uni-hamburg.de with the title "OMG-Emotion Recognition Team Registration". This e-mail must contain the following information: Team Name Team Members Affiliation Each team can have a maximum of 5 participants. You will receive from us the access to the dataset and all the important information about how to train and evaluate your models. For the final submission, each team will have to send us a .csv file containing the final arousal/valence values for each of the utterances on the test dataset. We also request a link to a GitHub repository where your solution must be stored, and a link to an ArXiv paper with 4-6 pages describing your model and results. The best papers will be invited to submit their detailed research to a journal yet to be specified. Also, the best participating teams will hold an oral presentation about their solution during the WCCI/IJCNN 2018 conference. III. Important Dates Publishing of training and validation data with annotations: March 14, 2018. Publishing of the test data, and an opening of the online submission: April 11, 2018. Closing of the submission portal: April 13, 2018. Announcement of the winner through the submission portal: April 18, 2018. IV. Organization Pablo Barros, University of Hamburg, Germany Egor Lakomkin, University of Hamburg, Germany Henrique Siqueira, Hamburg University, Germany Alexander Sutherland, Hamburg University, Germany Stefan Wermter, Hamburg University, Germany --------------------------

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Stirling/ESRC face database update
by Peter Hancock 09 Mar '18

09 Mar '18

Database update: Our face database at http://pics.stir.ac.uk/ESRC/index.htm has been updated. There are now 64 male and 71 female identities in most of the image types. I'm still updating a few, such as the stereo images and the conformed 3D models. The unedited 3D models are mostly of higher quality than previously. While there are still relatively few identities, the variety of imagery provided for each person is still the widest that I know of. Peter Peter Hancock Professor, Deputy Head of Psychology, Faculty of Natural Sciences University of Stirling FK9 4LA, UK phone 01786 467675 fax 01786 467641 http://stir.ac.uk/190 http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6025-7068 http://www.researcherid.com/rid/A-4633-2009 Psychology at Stirling: 100% 4* Impact, REF2014 Come and study Face Perception at the University of Stirling! Our unique MSc in the Psychology of Faces is open for applications. For more information see http://www.stir.ac.uk/postgraduate/programme-information/prospectus/psychol… [highly cited 2016]

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Database of faces across lifespan
by Marlene Behrmann 03 Mar '18

03 Mar '18

I am wondering whether anyone knows (or has) a database of faces with the same individual's face shown at multiple times across the lifespan - even just childhood and adulthood (and if there is a third point, this would be even better). Many thanks, Marlene Behrmann -- Marlene Behrmann, Ph.D George A. and Helen Dunham Cowan Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition and Department of Psychology Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA (412) 268-2790 behrmann(a)cmu.edu

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Re: [Face-research-list] Database of faces across lifespan (Marlene Behrmann)
by %Edwin Burns (Dr) 02 Mar '18

02 Mar '18

If you wanted unfamiliar faces for use with an American audience, then there are many soccer players who have childhood and adult images available online. Edwin. ________________________________________ From: Face-research-list [face-research-list-bounces(a)lists.stir.ac.uk] on behalf of face-research-list-request(a)lists.stir.ac.uk [face-research-list-request(a)lists.stir.ac.uk] Sent: Friday, 2 March, 2018 8:00:01 PM To: face-research-list(a)lists.stir.ac.uk Subject: Face-research-list Digest, Vol 84, Issue 2 Send Face-research-list mailing list submissions to face-research-list(a)lists.stir.ac.uk To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://lists.stir.ac.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/face-research-list or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to face-research-list-request(a)lists.stir.ac.uk You can reach the person managing the list at face-research-list-owner(a)lists.stir.ac.uk When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Face-research-list digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Re: Database of faces across lifespan (Marlene Behrmann) (Jodie Davies-Thompson) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2018 12:29:18 +0000 From: Jodie Davies-Thompson <davies.jodie(a)gmail.com> To: face-research-list(a)lists.stir.ac.uk Subject: Re: [Face-research-list] Database of faces across lifespan (Marlene Behrmann) Message-ID: <9866AE96-15ED-4BD2-8CFC-A73C6BD098FA(a)gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Dear Marlene, I don’t know of any databases per se, but I recently wondered the same thing and started pulling various links together. Below are a few instances I’m aware of when individuals or groups have taken photos every year (not ideal, but depending on what you’re after, could suffice). There is also a BBC documentary by Robert Winston (‘Child of Our Time') which follows 25 children born in 2000 - you could probably get some good images from there. If you ever pull together a database though, that would be a brilliant resource! - http://diply.com/same-family-photo-taken-22-years?publisher=trendyjoe - https://petapixel.com/2015/08/03/father-and-son-take-the-same-picture-every… - http://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/real-life/true-stories/five-friends-recrea… - https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/10/03/magazine/01-brown-sisters-fo… Sorry to not be able to supply anything better! All the best, Jodie ------------------------------ Subject: Digest Footer _______________________________________________ Face-research-list mailing list Face-research-list(a)lists.stir.ac.uk http://lists.stir.ac.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/face-research-list ------------------------------ End of Face-research-list Digest, Vol 84, Issue 2 ************************************************* ________________________________ **Disclaimer** The sender of this email does not represent Nanyang Technological University and this email does not express the views or opinions of the University.

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Re: [Face-research-list] Database of faces across lifespan (Marlene Behrmann)
by Jodie Davies-Thompson 01 Mar '18

01 Mar '18

Dear Marlene, I don’t know of any databases per se, but I recently wondered the same thing and started pulling various links together. Below are a few instances I’m aware of when individuals or groups have taken photos every year (not ideal, but depending on what you’re after, could suffice). There is also a BBC documentary by Robert Winston (‘Child of Our Time') which follows 25 children born in 2000 - you could probably get some good images from there. If you ever pull together a database though, that would be a brilliant resource! - http://diply.com/same-family-photo-taken-22-years?publisher=trendyjoe - https://petapixel.com/2015/08/03/father-and-son-take-the-same-picture-every… - http://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/real-life/true-stories/five-friends-recrea… - https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/10/03/magazine/01-brown-sisters-fo… Sorry to not be able to supply anything better! All the best, Jodie

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