[visionlist] [Foundation, Multimodal Large Language and Generative Models for Face and Gesture]: Call for Paper - held in conjunction with IEEE FG 2025

[Vitomir Štruc]

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1st International Workshop on Foundation, Multimodal Large Language and 
Generative Models for Face and Gesture Recognition
Held in the scope of IEEE FG 2025
26 or May 30 (TBD), Clearwater, Florida, USA
https://sites.google.com/view/fmllmgm-fg25

Paper submission : 9 April 2025, 11:59pm PST
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*** Call for Papers ***
The field of face and gesture recognition has recently experienced a 
transformative shift with the rise of foundation models, generative 
models, and multimodal large language models (LLMs), which offer 
unprecedented capabilities to process and integrate multimodal data 
(e.g., text, images, video, and audio) in a unified framework. This 
workshop aims to explore the implications and potential uses of these 
models specifically for face and gesture recognition tasks. Foundation 
models (such as CLIP, GPT, etc.) enable robust feature extraction and 
transfer learning. In addition, generative models allow synthetic data 
generation, privacy-preserving learning, and advanced data augmentation 
techniques. As LLMs increasingly support multimodal functionalities, 
they provide a promising avenue to advance the field beyond traditional 
techniques, facilitating richer, contextually aware, and potentially 
more accurate recognition systems, among other key aspects in the field 
such as explainability.

This workshop will foster collaboration among researchers interested in 
advancing foundation, multimodal LLMs and generative models for face and 
gesture recognition, encouraging interdisciplinary insights, and new 
research that leverages these models for tasks such as real-time emotion 
recognition, social behavior analysis, and advanced biometrics.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
+ Adapting foundation models for face and gesture recognition
+ Zero-shot and few-shot learning for gestures and facial analyses using 
LLMs
+ Contextual reasoning and interpretation of gestures and expressions 
via LLMs
+ Ethical, privacy, and robustness challenges in LLM-driven biometric 
systems
+ Biometric system components (beyond recognition) based on foundation 
models and LLMs
+ Generating synthetic datasets for face, body, and gesture analysis

*** Paper format and submission ***

*** Format ***
Submitted papers may not be accepted or under review elsewhere. 
Submissions may be up to 8 pages (+ an unlimited number of references) 
in the same format as the main IEEE FG 2025 papers. Accepted papers will 
be submitted for inclusion into IEEE Xplore and published as part of the 
same proceedings as the main FG conference papers.

*** Submission ***
Paper submissions are accepted through 
https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/FG2025

*** Dates ***
Workshops will be held on May 26th and May 30th, 2025. The final date of 
the workshop will decided at a later date.

*** Important Dates ***
Paper submission: April 9, 2025 (11:59pm Pacific)
Notifications to authors: April 25, 2025
Camera-Ready Submission: May 2, 2025

For more information, visit: https://sites.google.com/view/fmllmgm-fg25

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Prof. Vitomir Struc, PhD
Laboratory for Machine Intelligence
Faculty of Electrical Engineering
University of Ljubljana, Slovenija
URL: https://lmi.fe.uni-lj.si/en/vitomir-struc/

VP Technical Activities, IEEE Biometrics Council
Supervisory Board Member: European Association for Biometrics (EAB)
Vice-chair of IAPR Technical Committee on Biometrics (TC4)

General Co-Chair: CVF/IEEE Winter Conference on Applications in Computer Vision (WACV 2026)
Program Co-Chair: IEEE/IAPR International Joint Conference on Biometrics (IJCB 2025), https://ijcb2025.ieee-biometrics.org/