1) The Human Face and Aging: Classifying, Modeling, Synthesizing, and Building Robust Recognition Technologies
http://www.csc.uncw.edu
Organizers:
Dr. Karl Ricanek, Jr
Department of Computer Science, University of North Carolina Wilmington, Wilmington, North Carolina, USA
Dr. Edward Boone
Department of Operations Management & Statistics, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond Virginia, USA
Dr. Eric Patterson
Department of Computer Science, University of North Carolina Wilmington, Wilmington, North Carolina, USA
Dr. Midori Albert
Department of Anthropology, University of North Carolina Wilmington, Wilmington, North Carolina, USA
Mrs. Amrutha Sethuram
Face Aging Group, University of North Carolina Wilmington, Wilmington, North Carolina, USA
Speakers:
TBA
2) Brains and Muscles: Learning about Facial Expressions and Gestures using EMG and EEG Measurements
http://www.elec.qmul.ac.uk
Organizers:
Anton Nijholt (University of Twente, Enschede, the Netherlands) and
Ioannis Patras (Queen Mary, University of London, UK)
Speakers:
Marco Tamietto, and Beatrice de Gelder, Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience Laboratory, Tilburg University, The Netherlands; Department of Psychology, University of Torino, Italy
Philippe Schyns and Marie L. Smith, University of Glasgow
Sebastian Korb, Swiss Center for Affective Sciences and Department of Psychology, University of Geneva, Switzerland
3) Multi-Sensor HCI for Smart Environments
http://wsnl.stanford.edu/FG08
Organizers:
Hamid Aghajan, Stanford University, USA
Ming-Hsuan Yang, Honda Research, USA
Speakers:
- Anton Nijholt "Meeting Behavior Detection in Smart Environments: Nonverbal Cues that Help to Obtain Natural Interaction", by Mannes Poel, Ronald Poppe and Anton Nijholt, Univ. of Twente, The Netherlands
- Rainer Stiefelhagen "Tracking Identities and Attention in Smart Environments - Contributions and Progress in the CHIL Project", by Rainer Stiefelhagen, Keni Bernardin, Hazim K. Ekenel, Michael Voit, Univ. Karlsruhe, Germany
- Daniel Gatica-Perez "Identifying Dominant People in Meetings from Audio-Visual Sensors", by Daniel Gatica-Perez(1,2) and Hayley Hung(2), (1)EPFL and (2)IDIAP, Switzerland
- Christopher Wren "Ambient Intelligence as the Bridge to the Future of Pervasive Computing", by Christopher Wren and Yuri Ivanov, MERL, USA
Call for Special Sessions and Panels
NOTE: the deadline for special session and panel submissions is January 25th.
FG2008 invites proposals for special sessions and panels that highlight important research directions in face and gesture recognition.
Special sessions will comprise four invited papers. The session organizers will be responsible for recruiting and selecting the session papers (including the review process of these submissions). Organizers should consider having the first paper in the session be an overview paper on the topic.
Panels may be organized around a topic of interest to the FG community
and should be focused on key trends and directions in the field.
To submit a special session proposal, include the following information:
- the title of the proposed session,
- a brief abstract explaining the importance and purpose of the session,
- the name(s)/affiliation(s)/contact info of the organizer(s),
- and a tentative list of authors and paper topics (or for a panel, a tentative list of speakers with brief descriptions of their contributions).
Submit the proposal via email to Dr. Vladimir Pavlovic at vladimir+fg08@cs.rutgers.edu.
Questions regarding special sessions or panels may be directed to the same address.
Important Dates
| January 25, 2008: | Proposal for special session due. | |
| February 15, 2008: | Decision for special session proposal due. | |
| March 31, 2008: | Submission of manuscripts to the organizer of the special sessions due. | |
| May 31, 2008: | Acceptance notification. | |
| July 1, 2008: | Final camera-ready papers due in electronic form. |