2007 IEEE International Workshop on
Analysis and Modeling of Faces and Gestures (AMFG)

October 20, 2007
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
(in conjunction with ICCV 2007)

Call for Papers

Paper Submission

Invited Speakers

Final Program

Previous Workshops

Forum

During the last 30 years, face recognition and related problems such as face detection/tracking, facial expression recognition have attracted researchers from both the engineering and psychology communities. In addition, extensive research has been carried out to study hand and body gestures, human activities and behaviors. The understanding of how humans perceive these important cues has significant scientific value and extensive applications. For example, human-computer interaction, video indexing, visual surveillance are active application areas. Aiming towards putting such amazing perception capability onto computer systems, researchers have made substantial progress. However, technological challenges still exist in many aspects.

This one-day workshop (AMFG'07) will provide a focused international forum to bring together researchers and research groups to review the status of recognition, analysis and modeling of face, gesture, activity & behavior, to discuss the challenges that we are facing, and to explore future directions. The workshop will consist of two to three invited talks contributed by highly-respected experts, regular papers (oral and poster) and demos. Original high-quality papers are solicited on topics including, but not limited to,

1. Advanced methods, including mathematical tools, novel sensors and algorithms for face & gesture modeling, analysis and recognition.
2. Novel applications in which detection, tracking and recognition of face and gesture can be reliably accomplished.
3. Efficient computational methods to implement advanced algorithms for real-time systems.
4. Psychology studies that can help us build better systems.
5. Motion analysis, tracking and extraction of 3D face structure from image sequences using single or multiple cameras
6. Detection and recognition of face objects under large 3D rotations, illumination changes, partial occlusions, aging, etc.
7. Face/Gait detection and recognition in low-quality, low-resolution surveillance video.
8. Demonstration of face recognition in outdoor environments.
9. Dynamics and learning for gesture, activity, and behavior interpretation.
10. Fusion of multi-modalities such as face and gesture.

IMPORTANT DATES

Paper submission: May 27, 2007, Pacific Time 11:59pm  (Sunday)
Reviews due: July 20, 2007 (Friday)
Paper acceptance: August 3, 2007 (Friday)
Camera ready: August 10, 2007 (Friday)
Workshop date: October 20, 2007 (Saturday)

ORGANIZATION

Workshop Co-Chairs

• S. Kevin Zhou, Siemens Corporate Research
• Wen-Yi Zhao, Intuitive Surgical, Inc.
• Xiaoou Tang, Microsoft Research
• Shaogang Gong, Queen Mary, University of London

Advisory Committee

• Rama Chellappa, University of Maryland
• Thomas Huang, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• Anil Jain, Michigan State University

Program Committee