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MSc/PhD available
by Rachael Jack 20 Mar '17

20 Mar '17

Dear colleagues We are excited to announce a 4-year fully ESRC funded MSc+PhD position on the project Building a Culturally Flexible Generative Model of Face Signalling for Social Robots at the Institute of Neuroscience & Psychology, University of Glasgow, UK in collaboration with Dimensional Imaging (DI4D), Glasgow, UK. We are looking for someone with multidisciplinary experience and so casting a very wide net. See the findaphd.com<http://findaphd.com> advert here: https://tinyurl.com/maw9fad I have also attached the advert in PDF and JPEG format. I would be very grateful if you could share this advert in your departments and to any other persons or groups you think might be interested or have good connections. See also my posts on FB and Twitter (@rachaelejack). I would be very grateful if you could RT and share. Many thanks! Rachael E. Jack, Ph.D., RSE YAS Lecturer Institute of Neuroscience & Psychology School of Psychology http://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/psychology/staff/rachaeljack/ Member of the RSE Young Academy of Scotland [cid:96cd7982-33ee-493b-a07e-0e141adbe5ca@campus.gla.ac.uk] [cid:0a42bc60-de08-4e38-bbc6-bd901604d3ca@campus.gla.ac.uk]

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PhD opportunity in Lille (North of France) : Expression Recognition "in the wild"
by Ioan Marius BILASCO 15 Mar '17

15 Mar '17

The FOX research group (http://cristal.univ-lille1.fr/FOX <http://cristal.univ-lille1.fr/FOX>) of CRSItAL laboratory (http://www.cristal.univ-lille.fr <http://www.cristal.univ-lille.fr/>) (UMR CNRS 9189), France, is looking for a promising candidate to work on the field of Human Behavior Analysis from video under unconstrained settings. The recognition and prediction of people behaviour from videos are major concerns in the field of computer vision. A specific class of behavior analysis concerning facial expression recognition attracts lot of attention from researchers and industry in various fields. State of the art solutions work fine in controlled environments were expressions are exaggerated and the head of the subject stay still, but as soon as the subject moves freely and expressions are natural, the performances of existing systems drop in an important manner. This observation is confirmed by performance evaluation conducted on new datasets (such as RECOLA, GEMEP) where the acquisitions conditions are similar to natural interaction settings. We look for a PHD candidate in order to study and propose algorithms that analyze human behavior from video in unconstrained environments. http://sujets-these.lille.inria.fr/details.html?id=a1382de1c76647509ef9e25c… <http://sujets-these.lille.inria.fr/details.html?id=a1382de1c76647509ef9e25c…> == Required expertise Strong preference will be given to candidates with experience in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and a good knowledge of written and oral English. Background in motion analysis field would be appreciated. Applicants are expected to have a strong background in Computer Science. Strong programming skills (C or C++) are a plus. French language skills are not required, English is mandatory. The thesis shall start October 1st in Lille. Applications must be sent by email to Prof. Ch. Djeraba (chabane.djeraba(a)univ-lille1.fr <mailto:chabane.djeraba@univ-lille1.fr>) and IM Bilasco (marius.bilasco(a)univ-lille1.fr <mailto:marius.bilasco@univ-lille1.fr> <mailto:marius.bilasco@univ-lille1.fr <mailto:marius.bilasco@univ-lille1.fr>>), Subject: [Phd Position]. They must contain a statement of interest, a CV, a list of publications, if any, and the names of two references. Please contact the Prof. Ch. Djeraba <chabane.djeraba(a)univ-lille1.fr <mailto:chabane.djeraba@univ-lille1.fr>> and IM Bilasco (marius.bilasco(a)univ-lille1.fr <mailto:marius.bilasco@univ-lille1.fr> <mailto:marius.bilasco@univ-lille1.fr <mailto:marius.bilasco@univ-lille1.fr>>) for more informations. — Ioan Marius BILASCO MCF Univ Lille 1 Centre de Recherche en Image, Signal et Automatique (CRIStAL) Équipe FOX - Groupe IMAGE Bureau 336, Bât M3 Ext Cité Scientifique 59650 Villeneuve d'Ascq Cedex - France mailto:2emePrenom.Nom@univ-lille1.fr <mailto:2emePrenom.Nom@lifl.fr> http://www.cristal.univ-lille.fr/~bilasco <http://www.lifl.fr/~bilasco> phone: (+33) (0)3 3 20 43 41 88 / 3 62 53 15 84 fax: (+33) (0)3 28 77 85 37 Trust in CNRS's certificates: http://igc.services.cnrs.fr/Doc/General/trust.html <http://igc.services.cnrs.fr/Doc/General/trust.html>

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[CFP] Fifth Emotion Recognition in the Wild challenge 2017
by abhinav dhall 06 Mar '17

06 Mar '17

Apologies for cross-postings Call for challenge participation Fifth Emotion Recognition in the Wild (EmotiW) Challenge 2017 https://sites.google.com/site/emotiwchallenge @ ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction 2017, Glasgow --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Fifth Emotion Recognition in the Wild 2017 Challenge consists of multimodal classification challenges, which mimics real-world conditions. Traditionally, emotion recognition 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-world situations. With the increase in the number of video clips online, it is worthwhile to explore the performance of emotion recognition methods that work ‘in the wild’. There are two sub-challenges: audio-video based emotion recognition in videos and group-level emotion recognition in the images (new). Timeline: Challenge Website Up: early March 2017 Train and validate data available: April 2017 Test data available: 8 July 2017 Last date for uploading the results: 23 July 2017 Paper submission deadline: 10 August 2017 Notification: 1 September 2017 Camera-ready papers: 21 September 2017 Organisers Abhinav Dhall, Roland Goecke, Jyoti Joshi, Jesse Hoey and Tom Gedeon Contact emotiw2014(a)gmail.com -- Abhinav Dhall, PhD (ANU) Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Ropar

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biometrics in the wild
by Peter Hancock 23 Feb '17

23 Feb '17

I asked about the relevance of the Image and Vision Computing (IVC) Special Issue on Biometrics in the Wild to Psychologists. This was Vito's response: It may be important to provide some context first. The special issue builds on a workshop that we are organizing as part of the 2017 edition of the IEEE Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (http://luks.fe.uni-lj.si/bwild17/) but is open to everyone interested in contributing. While we issued a call for biometrics in general, we expect most submitted papers to be face and (maybe gesture) related - due to our connection to AFGR. I feel that papers on the psychology of face recognition would fit nicely into the scope of the planned special issue. Work on perceptual and cognitive aspects of face recognition and connections to recent machine learning models would certainly be interesting as well. I see a lot of work in this area that would make sense for the special issue. 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…

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CFP: IVC Special Issue on Biometrics in the Wild
by Vitomir Štruc 20 Feb '17

20 Feb '17

** Apologies for cross-posting ** **************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS Image and Vision Computing (IVC) Special Issue on: Biometrics in the Wild Submission deadline: 30 June, 2017 Target publication date: April, 2018 **************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS IVC SI: Biometrics in the Wild ** Motivation ** Biometric recognition from data captured in unconstrained settings, commonly referred to as biometric recognition in the wild, represents a challenging and highly active area of research. The interest in this area is fueled by the numerous application domains that deal with unconstrained data acquisition conditions such as forensics, surveillance, social media, consumer electronics or border control. While the existing biometric technology has matured to a point, where excellent performance can be achieved for various tasks in ideal laboratory-like settings, many problems related to in-the-wild scenarios still require further research and novel ideas. The goal of this special issue is to present the most advanced work related to biometric recognition in unconstrained settings and introduce novel solutions to open biometrics-related problems. Submitted papers should make a significant contribution in terms of theoretical findings or empirical observations, demonstrate improvements over the existing state-of-the-art and use the most challenging datasets available. ** Topics of Interest ** We invite high-quality papers on topics related to biometric recognition in the wild, including, but not limited to: • Region of interest detection (alignment, landmarking) in the wild, • Soft biometrics in the wild, • Context-aware techniques for biometric detection and recognition, • Novel normalization techniques, • Multi-modal biometrics in the wild, • Biometric recognition in the wild, • Biometrics from facial behavior (e.g., eye movement, facial expressions, micro-expressions), • Biometrics based on facial dynamics, • Novel databases and performance benchmarks, • Ethical issues, privacy protection and de-identification, • Spoofing and countermeasures, • Deep learning approaches for unconstrained biometric recognition, • Related applications, especially mobile. ** Important Dates ** Submission deadline: 30 June, 2017 Notifications to authors: 31 January, 2018 Target publication date: April, 2018 ** Guest Editors ** Bir Bhanu, University of California, Riverside, United States Abdenour Hadid, University of Oulu, Finland Qiang Ji, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, United States Mark Nixon, University of Southampton, United Kingdom Vitomir Struc, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia ** Advisory Editors ** Rama Chellappa, University of Maryland, United States Josef Kittler, University of Surrey, United Kingdom For more information visit: www.journals.elsevier.com/image-and-vision-computing/call-for-papers/specia… -- ass.prof. Vitomir Struc, PhD Laboratory of Artificial Perception, Systems and Cybernetics Faculty of Electrical Engineering University of Ljubljana Slovenia Tel: +386 1 4768 839 Fax: +386 1 4768 316 URL: luks.fe.uni-lj.si/nluks/people/vitomir-struc/ Co-organizer: Workshop on Biometric in the Wild 2017 http://luks.fe.uni-lj.si/bwild17 Program Co-chair: International Symposium on Image and Signal Processing and Analysis 2017 http://www.isispa.org/ Competition Co-chair: International Joint Conference on Biometrics 2017 http://www.ijcb2017.org/

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Research question
by Parker, Bonnie 07 Feb '17

07 Feb '17

Dear colleagues I wonder if you are able to help me please. I am a third year Psychology student with the Open University and I am just about to embark on my final year experimental project. My area of interest for this project is the interaction between simultaneous vs sequential presentation and neutral vs leading phrasing in accuracy rates of rejection in target absent line-ups. I have been searching high and low for short videos of nonviolent crimes (I'm aiming for 4). Do you have any advice about where I could go about locating anything like that? I really appreciate you talking the time to read my email. Thank you Kind regards Bonnie Parker Research Administrator Department of Physics King's College London Strand Building S3.07 | Strand | London | WC2R 2LS +44 (0) 20 7848 2155 bonnie.parker(a)kcl.ac.uk<mailto:bonnie.parker@kcl.ac.uk> www.kcl.ac.uk/physics<http://www.kcl.ac.uk/physics>

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eNTERFACE'17, 13th International Summer Workshop on Multimodal Interfaces : Final project proposal submission deadline (10 February)
by Luís Teixeira 03 Feb '17

03 Feb '17

**Please forward to anyone who might be interested** Apologies for cross-posting ************************************************************************** CfP eNTERFACE'17 Workshop: International Summer Workshop on Multimodal Interfaces http://artes.ucp.pt/enterface17/ Final project proposal submission deadline (10 February) http://artes.ucp.pt/enterface17/authors-kit/eNTERFACE17_Authors_Kit.pdf ************************************************************************** eNTERFACE workshops aim at establishing a tradition of collaborative, localized research and development work by gathering, in a single place, a team of senior project leaders in multimodal interfaces, researchers, and (undergraduate) students, to work on a pre-specified list of challenges, for 4 weeks. Following the success of the previous eNTERFACE workshops held in Mons (Belgium, 2005), Dubrovnik (Croatia, 2006), Istanbul (Turkey, 2007), Paris (France, 2008), Genova (Italy, 2009), Amsterdam (Netherlands, 2010), Plzen (Czech Republic, 2011), Metz (France, 2012), Lisbon (Portugal, 2013), Bilbao (Spain, 2014), Mons (Belgium, 2015), Twente (Netherlands 2016), the Digital Creativity Centre (CCD)<http://artes.ucp.pt/ccd>, Universidade Catolica Portuguesa, has the pleasure to host eNTERFACE’17<http://artes.ucp.pt/enterface17>, the 13th Summer Workshop on Multimodal Interfaces, to be held in Porto, Portugal from July 3rd to 28th, 2017. The eNTERFACE'17 committee<http://artes.ucp.pt/enterface17/Committees_eNTERFACE17.html> now invites researchers to submit project proposals that will be evaluated by the scientific committee. All the information asked to submit a project is available on the website of the workshop. The proposals should contain a full description of the project's objectives, required hardwares/softwares and relevant literatures. Participants are organized in teams, attached to specific projects, working on free software. Each week will typically consist of working sessions by the teams on their respective projects plus a tutorial given by an invited senior researcher and a presentation of the results achieved by each project group. The last week will be devoted to writing an article on the results obtained by the teams plus a big session where all the groups will present their achievements. Proceedings are expected to be published by CITAR Journal. CITAR Journal was recently (July 2016) accepted for inclusion in a new index of the Web of Science (WoS) Core Collection: the Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI), and has also been accepted for indexing by Elsevier's Scopus. TOPICS Although not exhaustive, the submitted projects can cover one or several of the topics : Art and Technology, Affective Computing, Assistive and Rehabilitation Technologies, Assistive Technologies for Education and Social Inclusion, Augmented Reality, Conversational Embodied Agents, Human Behavior Analysis, Human Robot Interaction, Interactive Playgrounds, Innovative Musical Interfaces, Interactive Systems for Artistic Applications, Multimodal Interaction, Signal Analysis and Synthesis, Multimodal Spoken Dialog Systems, Search in Multimedia and Multilingual Documents, Smart Spaces and Environments, Social Signal Processing, Tangible and Gesture Interfaces, Teleoperation and Telerobotics, Wearable Technology, Virtual Reality SUBMISSION PROCEDURE The general procedure of the eNTERFACE workshop series is as follows. Researchers are invited to submit project proposals. The project proposals will be evaluated by the eNTERFACE steering committee. If accepted, the projects will be published and researchers and students are invited to apply for up to 3 projects they would like to be part of. After notifying the applicants, the project leaders can start building their teams. Final project proposals must be submitted by email (PDF) to enterface17(a)porto.ucp.pt<http://mailto:enterface17%40porto.ucp.pt%3cmailto%3Aenterface17@porto.ucp.p…>. * Instructions for the final proposal: http://artes.ucp.pt/enterface17/authors-kit/eNTERFACE17_Authors_Kit.pdf IMPORTANT DATES * 20 January 2017: Notification of interest for a project proposal with a summary of project goals, work-packages and deliverables (1-page) * 10 February 2017: Submission deadline: Final project proposal * 20 February 2017: Notification of acceptance to project leaders * 06 March 2017: Start Call for Participation, participants can apply for projects * 21 April 2017: Call for Participation is closed * 28 April 2017: Teams are built, notification of acceptance to participants * 03 – 28 July 2017: eNTERFACE’17 Workshop Scientific Committee * Prof. Albert Ali Salah, University of Bogazici, Turkey * Prof. Alvaro Barbosa, University of Saint Joseph, Macao, China * Prof. Andrew Perkis, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway * Prof. Antonio Camurri, University of Genova, Italy * Prof. Benoit Macq, Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL), Belgium * Prof. Bruce Pennycook, University of Texas at Austin, USA * Prof. Christophe d'Alessandro, CNRS-LIMSI, France * Dr. Daniel Erro, Cirrus Logic, Spain * Prof. Dirk Heylen, University of Twente, Netherlands * Prof. Gualtiero Volpe, University of Genova, Italy * Prof. Igor S. Pandžić, University of Zagreb, Croatia * Prof. Inma Hernaez, University of the Basque Country, Spain * Prof. Jean Vanderdonckt, Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL), Belgium * Prof. Jorge C. S. Cardoso, University of Coimbra, Portugal * Prof. Khiet Truong, University of Twente, Netherlands * Prof. Kostas Karpouzis, National Technical University of Athens, Greece * Prof. Ludger Brümmer, ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhey, Germany * Prof. Luis Teixeira, Universidade Católica Portuguesa (UCP), Portugal * Prof. Martin Kaltenbrunner, Kunstuniversität Linz, Austria * Prof. Maureen Thomas, Cambridge University Moving Image Studio, UK * Prof. Milos Zelezny, University of West Bohemia, Czech Republic * Prof. Nuno Guimarães, Information Sciences, Technologies and Architecture Research Center (ISTAR-UL), Portugal * Prof. Olivier Pietquin, University of Lille | Google DeepMind, France * Prof. Sandra Pauletto, University of York, UK * Prof. Stefania Serafin Professor, Aalborg University Copenhagen, Denmark * Prof. Thierry Dutoit, University of Mons, Belgium * Prof. Yves Rybarczyk, New University of Lisbon, Portugal INFRASTRUCTURE eNTERFACE’17 will be held in the Digital Creativity Centre located on the campus of the Catholic Portuguese University in the city of Porto, Portugal. The Digital Creativity Centre<http://artes.ucp.pt/ccd> is a center of competence and creative excellence with an infrastructure equipped with cutting edge technology in the areas of Digital and Interactive Arts, Computer Music, Sound Design, Audiovisual and Cinematic Arts, Computer Animation. Facilities include experiment spaces, meeting rooms, as well as a Motion Capture (MoCap) Lab equipped with a Vicon Motion Capture System, a Digital and Interactive Arts (Yamaha Disklavier Grand Piano Robotic Performance System, a Notomoton Percussion Robot, two Reactable Live and one Reactable Media Bench Systems, various Microsoft Kinects, Nintendo Wiimotes, LeapMotion sensors, Webcameras, 3d-printers, Arduino and Raspberry Pi systems). ORGANIZATION eNTERFACE’17 will be organized and hosted by the Digital Creativity Centre, Universidade Catolica Portuguesa - School of Arts. ............................................................ 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Biometrics in the Wild 2017 (CFP) - Deadline extended
by Vitomir Štruc 26 Jan '17

26 Jan '17

** Apologies for cross-posting ** CALL FOR PAPERS - Deadline extended to February 6th, 2017 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2nd International Workshop on Biometrics in the Wild (B-Wild 2017) In conjunction with IEEE FG 2017 May 30/June 3, 2017 (TBD) Washington D.C., USA http://luks.fe.uni-lj.si/bwild17/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES: - Paper Submission: February 6th, 2017 (firm deadline, no further extensions) - Notification of Acceptance: March 3rd, 2017 - Camera-Ready Papers: March 8th, 2015 ORGANIZERS: - Bir Bhanu, University of California, Riverside, United States - Abdenour Hadid, University of Oulu, Finland - Qiang Ji, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, United States - Mark Nixon, University of Southampton, United Kingdom - Vitomir Struc, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia Program Committee: - Ross Beveridge, Colorado State University, United States - Terry Boult, University of Colorado Colorado Springs, United States - Thirimachos Bourlai, West Virginia University, United States - Kevin Bowyer, University of Notre Dame, United States - Patrizio Campisi, Universita degli Studi “Roma TRE”, Italy - Rama Chellappa, University of Maryland, United States - Xilin Chen, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China - Jean-Luc Dugelay, Eurecom, France - Hazim Kemal Ekenel, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey - Patrick Flynn, University of Notre Dame, United States - Manuel Günther, University of Colorado Colorado Springs, United States - Hu Han, Michigan State University, United States - Gang Hua, Microsoft Research Asia, China - Ioannis A. Kakadiaris, University of Houston, United States - Josef Kittler, University of Surrey, United Kingdom - Ajay Kumar, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China - Andreas Lanitis, Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus - Jiwen Lu, Tsinghua University, China - Karthik Nandakumar, IBM Research Collaboratory, Singapore - Vishal Patel, Rutgers, United States - Peter Peer, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia - Jonathon Phillips, NIST, United States - Matti Pietikainen, University of Oulu, Finland - Norman Poh, University of Surrey, United Kinkdom - Arun Ross, Michigan State University, United States - Sudeep Sarkar, University of South Florida, United States - Walter Scheirer, Harvard University, United States - Tieniu Tan, Chinese Academy of Science, China - Massimo Tistarelli, University of Sassari, Italy - Andreas Uhl, Salzburg University, Austria - Mayank Vatsa, IIIT-Delhi, India ** Submissions ** The manuscripts should be submitted in PDF format and should be no more than 8 pages in IEEE FG 2017 paper format. The submitted papers should present original work not currently under review elsewhere and should have no substantial overlap with already published work. Accepted papers will be included in the Proceedings of IEEE FG 2017 & Workshops and will be sent for inclusion into the IEEE Xplore digital library. A special issue on "Biometrics in the Wild" that will build on the BWild workshop series will also be organized in Image and Vision Computing. **About** To goal of this workshop is to present the most recent and advanced work related to biometric recognition in the wild. Submitted papers should clearly show improvements over the existing state-of-the-art and use the most challenging datasets available. We are interested in all parts of biometric systems ranging from detection, landmark localization, pre-processing, and feature extraction techniques to modeling and classification approaches capable of operating on biometric data captured in the wild. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): - Biometric recognition in the wild (face, ear, gait, palms, iris, periocular…), - Biometric detection in the wild (face, eyes, ears, body, …), - Soft biometrics in the wild, - Context-aware techniques for biometric detection and recognition, - Landmark localization in the wild, - Robust machine learning for biometrics in the wild, - Normalization techniques for recognition in the wild, - Multi-modal biometrics in the wild, - Novel databases and performance benchmarks, - Privacy protection and de-identification of biometric identifiers, - Spoofing of biometric systems, - Deep learning approaches for unconstrained biometric recognition, - Related applications. ** Date and Venue ** The workshop will be held in conjunction with the 12th International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (IEEE FG 2017) in Washington DC, USA on either May 30th or June 3rd, 2017 (TBD). For more information on BWild 2017 please visit: http://luks.fe.uni-lj.si/bwild17/ -- ass.prof. Vitomir Štruc, PhD Laboratory of Artificial Perception, Systems and Cybernetics Faculty of Electrical Engineering University of Ljubljana Slovenia Tel: +386 1 4768 839 Fax: +386 1 4768 316 URL: luks.fe.uni-lj.si/nluks/people/vitomir-struc/ Co-organizer: Workshop on Biometric in the Wild 2017 http://luks.fe.uni-lj.si/bwild17 Program Co-chair: International Symposium on Image and Signal Processing and Analysis 2017 http://www.isispa.org/ Competition Co-chair: International Joint Conference on Biometrics 2017 http://www.ijcb2017.org/

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Image and Vision Computing (IVC): Special issue on Biometrics in the Wild (CFP)
by Vitomir Štruc 20 Jan '17

20 Jan '17

********************************************************* CALL FOR PAPERS Image and Vision Computing (IVC) Special Issue on Biometrics in the Wild Submission deadline: 30 June, 2017 ********************************************************* ** Motivation ** Biometric recognition from data captured in unconstrained settings, commonly referred to as biometric recognition in the wild, represents a challenging and highly active area of research. The interest in this area is fueled by the numerous application domains that deal with unconstrained data acquisition conditions such as forensics, surveillance, social media, consumer electronics or border control. While the existing biometric technology has matured to a point, where excellent performance can be achieved for various tasks in ideal laboratory-like settings, many problems related to in-the-wild scenarios still require further research and novel ideas. The goal of this special issue is to present the most advanced work related to biometric recognition in unconstrained settings and introduce novel solutions to open biometrics-related problems. Submitted papers should make a significant contribution in terms of theoretical findings or empirical observations, demonstrate improvements over the existing state-of-the-art and use the most challenging datasets available. The special issue builds on the Biometrics-in-the-Wild (BWild: http://luks.fe.uni-lj.si/bwild17/) workshop series organized as part of IEEE FG 2015 and IEEE FG 2017. The special issue is open to all, but submissions from past BWild participants are especially welcome. ** Topics of Interest ** We invite original high-quality papers on topics related to biometric recognition in the wild, including, but not limited to: • Region of interest detection (alignment, landmarking) in the wild, • Soft biometrics in the wild, • Context-aware techniques for biometric detection and recognition, • Novel normalization techniques, • Multi-modal biometrics in the wild, • Biometric recognition in the wild, • Biometrics from facial behavior (e.g., eye movement, facial expressions, micro-expressions), • Biometrics based on facial dynamics, • Novel databases and performance benchmarks, • Ethical issues, privacy protection and de-identification, • Spoofing and countermeasures, • Deep learning approaches for unconstrained biometric recognition, • Related applications, especially mobile. ** Important Dates ** Submission deadline: 30 June, 2017 Notifications to authors: 31 January, 2018 Target publication date: April, 2018 ** Guest Editors ** Bir Bhanu, University of California, Riverside, United States Abdenour Hadid, University of Oulu, Finland Qiang Ji, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, United States Mark Nixon, University of Southampton, United Kingdom Vitomir Štruc, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia ** Advisory Editors ** Rama Chellappa, University of Maryland, United States Josef Kittler, University of Surrey, United Kingdom -- ass.prof. Vitomir Štruc, PhD Laboratory of Artificial Perception, Systems and Cybernetics Faculty of Electrical Engineering University of Ljubljana Slovenia Tel: +386 1 4768 839 Fax: +386 1 4768 316 URL: luks.fe.uni-lj.si/nluks/people/vitomir-struc/ Co-organizer: Workshop on Biometric in the Wild 2017 http://luks.fe.uni-lj.si/bwild17 Program Co-chair: International Symposium on Image and Signal Processing and Analysis 2017 http://www.isispa.org/ Competition Co-chair: International Joint Conference on Biometrics 2017 http://www.ijcb2017.org/

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FG2017 - 1st International Workshop on Adaptive Shot Learning for Gesture Understanding and Production
by Daniel.Gill 16 Jan '17

16 Jan '17

Dear all, The submission deadline of the 1st International Workshop on Adaptive Shot Learning for Gesture Understanding and Production is very close (please see details below). Please notice that the accepted papers will be part of the FG proceedings and potentially some of them be part of a special issue of TPAMI. Kind regards, Daniel Gill ___________________________________ Dr. Daniel Gill Department of Psychology The University of Winchester Winchester SO22 4NR Phone (office): +44 (0) 1962 675144 e-mail Daniel.Gill(a)winchester.ac.uk<mailto:Daniel.Gill@winchester.ac.uk> CALL FOR PAPERS 1st International Workshop on Adaptive Shot Learning for Gesture Understanding and Production ASL4GUP 2017 In conjunction with IEEE FG 2017 May 30, 2017, Washington DC, USA https://engineering.purdue.edu/ASL4GUP Contact: jpwachs(a)purdue.edu ________________ IMPORTANT DATES ________________ Submission Deadline: Feb 1, 2017 Notification of Acceptance: March 1, 2017 Camera Ready: March 8, 2017 Workshop: May 30, 2017 ________________ SCOPE ________________ In the aim of natural interaction with machines, a framework must be developed to include the adaptability humans portray to understand gestures from context, from a single observation or from multiple observations. This is also referred as adaptive shot learning Ð the ability to adapt the mechanism of recognition to a barely seen gesture, well-known or entirely unknown. Of particular interest to the community are zero-shot and one-shot learning, given that most work has been done in the N-shot learning scenario. The workshop aims to encourage works that focus on the way in which humans produce gestures Ð the kinematic and biomechanical characteristics, and the cognitive process involved when perceiving, remembering and replicating them. We invite submission of papers presenting original research in the aforementioned theme. ________________ TOPICS ________________ Topics of interest (but not limited to): * One and zero shot recognition; * Gesture production from context or single observation; * EEG based gesture recognition * Context modeling from gesture languages; * Holistic approaches to gesture modeling and recognition; * Human-like gesture production and recognition; * Gesture based robotic control and interfaces ________________ SUBMISSIONS ________________ Submissions may be up to 8 pages, in accordance with the IEEE FG conference format. Papers longer than six pages will be subject to a page fee (100 USD per page) for the extra pages (two max). We welcome regular, position and applications papers. Submission through: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=asl4gup2017 Accepted papers will be included in the Proceedings of IEEE FG 2017 & Workshops and will be sent for inclusion into the IEEE Xplore digital library. Selected papers will be also invited for a full submission to a special issue in a leading journal in the field of machine learning and cognition. ________________ ORGANIZERS ________________ Juan P Wachs (Purdue University, USA); jpwachs(a)purdue.edu Richard Voyles (Purdue University, USA); rvoyles(a)purdue.edu Susan Fussell (Cornell University, USA); sfussell(a)cornell.edu Isabelle Guyon (UniversitŽ Paris-Saclay, France); guyon(a)clopinet.com Sergio Escalera (Computer Vision Center and University of Barcelona, Spain); sergio.escalera.guerrero(a)gmail.com ________________ Program Committee ________________ 1. Nadia Bianchi-Berthouze, University College London, UK (confirmed) 2. Albert Ali Salah, Bogazici University, Turkey (confirmed) 3. Adar Pelah, University of York, UK (confirmed) 4. Hugo Jair Escalante, INAOE, Mexico (confirmed) 5. Jun Wan, Insitute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China (confirmed) 6. Miriam Zacksenhouse, Technion, Israel (confirmed) 7. Marta Mejail, Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA), Argentina (confirmed) 8. Tamar Flash, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel (confirmed) 9. Luigi Gallo, Institutes of the National Research Council, Italy (confirmed) 10. Mathew Turk, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA (confirmed) 11. Daniel Gill, University of Winchester (UK) (confirmed) 12. Ray Perez, Office of Naval Research (ONR) – USA (confirmed) 13. Daniel Foti (Purdue) – USA (confirmed) 14. Yael Edan (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev) – Israel (confirmed). [University of Winchester] University of Winchester, a private charitable company limited by guarantee in England and Wales number 5969256. Registered Office: Sparkford Road, Winchester, Hampshire SO22 4NR

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