[vslist] CFR: IEEE Workshop on Face Processing in Video - June 26, 2004

[Gorodnichy, Dmitry]

Can you please add the following workshop item to your conference list.
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Dr. Dmitry O. Gorodnichy
               Tél. | Tel. (613) 998-5298 
               Télécopieur | Facsimile (613) 952-0215 
               Courriel | e-mail: Dmitry.Gorodnichy at nrc.gc.ca 
               http://www.cv.iit.nrc.ca/~dmitry 
Agent de recherche | Research Officer 
Groupe vidéo informatique | Computational Video Group 
Institut de technologie de l'information | Institute for Information
Technology 
Conseil national de recherches Canada | National Research Council Canada 
Ottawa, Ontario,  CANADA K1A 0R6 
Gouvernement du Canada | Government of Canada 
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Call for Papers
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First IEEE Workshop on Face Processing in Video 
(FPIV'04)
 
in conjunction with

IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 
(CVPR'04)
 
Washington, D.C.
June 26- June 27, 2004

 
Conference web-site: http://www.visioninterface.net/fpiv04 
  
 
Aims and scope
 
Face processing is an area of research dedicated to the extraction and 
manipulation of information about human faces. It deals with such problems
as 
face detection, tracking, recognition, coding, etc. as well as their 
applications.
 
Video is becoming ubiquitous and very affordable, and there is growing
demand on 
vision-based human-oriented applications, ranging from security and industry
for 
disabled to computer-human interaction and video annotation. Therefore, more
and 
more research effort is being put on face processing in video, which is very

different from face processing in still imaginary in terms of the nature of
data 
processed. 
 
On one hand, because of real-time, bandwidth and environmental constraints, 
video images are of rather modest resolution and quality, as compared to 
photo-images. On the other hand, such a seeming deficiency of video is 
compensated by the abundance of images due to the dynamic nature of video.
Video 
processing and understanding also has many parallels with biological vision,

which provides additional insights and solutions to the problem.
 
Therefore, it is important to develop approaches other than those developed
for 
still imagery which would make use of the advantages of video for face 
processing. With this goal in mind, the FPIV'04 workshop is aimed at
providing a 
forum for scientists from different backgrounds: biological vision, computer

vision, pattern recognition, machine learning, HCI, etc. - to share their 
experiences and discuss the problems, solutions and applications of Face 
Processing in Video.
 
The workshop will consist of one day of oral presentations and a talk from
an 
invited speaker on a synergy of biological and computer vision.
 
 
Paper submission
 
Although any paper analyzing video for the presence of information about
faces 
may be submitted, the preference will be given to those papers which clearly

indicate in the abstract a) the research areas of the paper and b) what the 
paper contributions are. Application-oriented papers are as much welcome as 
theoretical papers.
 
The suggested research areas are listed below, but other topics dealing with
the 
face in video scenario are welcome.
 
            neurobiological and neurocomputational approaches to visual
perception and recognition
            synergy between biological and computer vision
            face segmentation and detection in video
            face tracking and multiple faces tracking
            face memorization, classification recognition from video
            face biometrics and face modeling, 3d face models
            facial features for tracking and recognition
            face representation, canonical face models, face in video
databases 
            face synthesis and mimicking 
            facial expression recognition and classification, and
representation
            fusing different modalities of video information (motion,
colour, intensity)
            performance evaluation for face in video problems
            face detection/tracking/recognition in multicamera setups
including stereo
            face detection/tracking/recognition in panoramic video
            combining video and audio for speaker face
detection/tracking/recognition
            face-based multi-media, games, and computer-human interaction 
            perceptual face-controlled interfaces
            face processing for video-conferencing
            face processing for avatars and computer-generated communication
programs
            face processing for immersive and collaborative environments
            face processing for industry for disabled 
            face processing for augmented and virtualized reality
            face processing for security and surveillance 
            face processing for encoding and annotating video 
 
Papers should not exceed 6 double-column pages. Only original manuscripts
will 
be considered. Dual submission with CVPR is not permitted.  Instead, if a 
relevant paper on object tracking, recognition etc has been submitted to
CVPR, a 
related, but focused on the face as of an object of interest and video as of
a 
media can be submitted to the workshop.  This policy is intended to
encourage 
participation from authors whose papers are accepted in CVPR as well as
those 
that are not.
 
Reviewing will be blind circular.  By submitting a paper, each author agrees
to 
review at least 3 other submissions.  This procedure has produced quality, 
useful reviews in previous CVPR workshops.  As reviewers, authors must
comply 
with the reviewing schedule below.  In addition, each paper will be reviewed
by 
the program committee.  Given the exploratory nature of the workshop,
reviews 
will emphasize the novelty of the ideas and clarity of presentation.
 
The paper must not include any information that would indicate the author's 
identity (references to authors' previous work should be left blank).
Papers 
must be submitted in the same format as for CVPR and submitted as pdf files,
by 
emailing to the Program Chair.  
In an email accompanying the paper, authors should supply 
1) the title of the paper
2) keywords relating to the paper, 
3) the names and affiliations of the authors 
4) (!) areas of expertise of the authors (for circular reviewing), and
5) the name of the contact author
 
 
Important dates:
 
Full Paper Submission :                         January 17, 2004 
Papers Distributed for Review:                  January 20, 2004 
Reviews due:                                    February 25, 2004           
                       
Notification to acceptance :                    March 2, 2004
camera ready copy:                              April 4,  2004
 
 
Program Organizer: 
 
Dmitry O. Gorodnichy, NRC-CNRC, Canada
Email: fpiv04 AT visioninterface.net (dmitry.gorodnichy AT nrc-cnrc.gc.ca)
 
 
Program Comittee: 
 
Bernhard Fröba, Fraunhofer-Institut, Germany  
Laurent Itti, U. of Southern California, USA
Takeo Kanade, CMU, USA
Josef Kittler, University of Surrey, UK
Ernst Kussul, U. Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico
Stan Z. Li, Microsoft Research, China 
Michael J. Lyons,  ATR Media Information Science Labs, Japan
Marc Parizeau,  U. Laval, Canada 
Maximilian Riesenhuber, Georgetown U., USA
Gerhard Roth, NRC-CNRC, Canada
Chris Solomon, University of Kent at Canterbury, UK
Jean-Christophe Terrillon,  Softopia Japan Foundation, Japan
Matthew Turk,  UCSB, USA
Lijun Yin, Binghamton University, USA