Third IEEE International Workshop on 

Recognition, Analysis and Tracking of Faces and Gestures (RATFG 2003)

 

In conjunction with ICCV 2003, Beijing, 18 October 2003

 

Scope

A wide range of applications including but not limited to human-computer interaction, teleconferencing, visual surveillance, augmented virtual environment, video indexing and search not only require real-time and consistent detection and tracking of human faces and hand positions, but also accurate recognition of faces and interpretation of body gestures. This workshop is intended to expand the scope of the ICCV conference to novel approaches specifically in the area of face and hand gesture tracking and recognition, and the visual interpretation of human body motion patterns. The workshop will emphasise on techniques and systems that tackle problems in real-time. A major goal of the workshop is to highlight and discuss the relevance of recent developments to real-world applications. We therefore encourage the participation of representatives from industry.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

* Localization and tracking of faces and hands
* Localization and recognition of facial features and action units

* 2D and 3D, spatial and temporal representations

* Face recognition (in particular under varying lighting condition and pose)

* Facial expression interpretation
* Dynamics and learning for gesture interpretation

* Fusion of multi-modalities
* Applications of face and hand gesture recognition
* Applications in HCI, teleconferencing and distance learning
* Indexing and retrieval of faces in video
* Video compression of facial and body movements

Submissions and important dates

Paper submission:	23 May 2003
Notification of acceptance:	30 June 2003
Camera-ready copy:	25 July 2003
Workshop:	18 October 2003

Papers should be submitted electronically in pdf (preferred) or postscript with no more than 8 pages including all figures, references and appendices using the ICCV 2003 submission format. Submissions should be emailed to the workshop chair Shaogang Gong at sgg@dcs.qmul.ac.uk.

Please also supply on a separate page the following information:

* Paper title

* Abstract
* Key words

* Author name(s) and affiliation(s)
* Name, address, email, phone and fax number for the contact author

Organizing committee

Shaogang Gong	Queen Mary, University of London, UK	General Chair
Stan Li	Microsoft Research Asia, China	Local Chair
Andrew Senior	IBM Research, USA
Rainer Herpers	Fachhochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg, Germany

Programme committee

Aaron Bobick	Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Rama Chellappa	University of Maryland, USA
Jim Crowley	I.N.P. Grenoble, France
Wen Gao	Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Shaogang Gong	Queen Mary, University of London, UK
Rainer Herpers	Fachhochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg, Germany
Adrian Hilton	University of Surrey, UK
David Hogg	University of Leeds, UK
Josef Kittler	University of Surrey, UK
Stan Li	Microsoft Research Asia, China
Stephen McKenna	University of Dundee, UK
Markus Michaelis	INRIA Rhone-Alpes, France
Baback Moghaddam	MERL, USA
Jonathan Phillips	NIST, USA
Andrew Senior	IBM Research, USA
Tieniu Tan	Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Matthew Turk	University of California at Santa Barbara, USA

Programme

The workshop is to follow the successful format of RATFG 2001 in Vancouver and will consist of invited speakers, oral presentations, a poster session and a demonstration session (industrial systems are particularly encouraged). For information on setting up demonstrations, please contact the workshop local organisation chair Stan Li at szli@microsoft.com.

Invited Keynote Speakers

 

Professor Alex Pentland from the MIT Media Laboratory will give the first invited Keynote talk.

Professor Rama Chellappa from the University of Maryland will give the second invited Keynote talk.

Proceedings

 

Proceedings will be published by the IEEE Computer Society. Camera-ready copies are required to be prepared electronically.

 

Previous events

 

IEEE International Workshop on Recognition, Analysis and Tracking of Faces and Gestures, Vancouver, 2001

IEEE International Workshop on Recognition, Analysis and Tracking of Faces and Gestures, Corfu, 1999

 

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