<div dir="ltr"><font size="2"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span style="font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">Call For Participation:<br><br></span></span></span></font><div style="font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><font size="2"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">1st 3D facial tracking in-the-wild challenge<br></span></span></font></div><div style="font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><font size="2"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span class="gmail-m_-2756257777764588756gmail-m_2249076982023619678gmail-m_-2023216814026742075gmail-il"><span>in conjunction with ICCV 2017<br></span></span><a target="_blank" href="http://bit.ly/2szZTCb">http://bit.ly/2szZTCb</a> <br></span></span></font></div><div style="font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><font size="2"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Contact: <a href="mailto:menpo.3d.challenge@gmail.com">menpo.3d.challenge@gmail.com</a> <br></span></span></font></div><div style="font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><font size="2"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></span></span></font></div><div style="font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><font size="2"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">______________________________</span></span></font><wbr><font size="2"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">_______________________</span></span></font></div><div style="font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><font size="2"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></span></span></font></div><div style="font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><div class="gmail-m_-2756257777764588756gmail-m_2249076982023619678gmail-m_7711756207376506834gmail_msg"><font size="2"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">We are pleased to announce the first 3D facial tracking challenge, in conjunction with ICCV 2017.</span></span></font></div><div class="gmail-m_-2756257777764588756gmail-m_2249076982023619678gmail-m_7711756207376506834gmail_msg"><font size="2"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br class="gmail-m_-2756257777764588756gmail-m_2249076982023619678gmail-m_7711756207376506834gmail_msg"></span></span></font></div><div class="gmail-m_-2756257777764588756gmail-m_2249076982023619678gmail-m_7711756207376506834gmail_msg"><font size="2"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Currently comprehensive benchmarks exist for facial landmark localisation and tracking (e.g. <a href="https://ibug.doc.ic.ac.uk/resources/300-W/" target="_blank">300W</a>, <a href="https://ibug.doc.ic.ac.uk/resources/300-VW/" target="_blank">300VW</a>, <a href="https://ibug.doc.ic.ac.uk/resources/2nd-facial-landmark-tracking-competition-menpo-ben/" target="_blank">Menpo Benchmark</a>).
 Nevertheless, there exists no benchmark for 3D facial landmark tracking
 in long in-the-wild videos. In ICCV'17 we present a new 
benchmark for 3D landmark localization in videos. <br></span></span></font></div><div class="gmail-m_-2756257777764588756gmail-m_2249076982023619678gmail-m_7711756207376506834gmail_msg"><font size="2"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></span></span></font></div><div class="gmail-m_-2756257777764588756gmail-m_2249076982023619678gmail-m_7711756207376506834gmail_msg"><font size="2"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">All researchers with interest in the subject are encouraged to participate.<br><br></span></span></font><div><font size="2"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">_______________________</span></span></font></div><div><font size="2"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">IMPORTANT DATES:</span></span></font></div><div><font size="2"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">_______________________</span></span></font></div><div><ul><li style="margin-left:15px"><font size="2"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span>17 June:     Release of training data.</span></span></span></font></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><font size="2"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span>30 July:      Release of test videos.</span></span></span></font></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><font size="2"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span>9 August:   Deadline for returning the results.</span></span></span></font></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><font size="2"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span>16 August: Deadline for paper submissions.</span></span></span></font></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><font size="2"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span>25 August: Submission of the camera ready.</span></span></span></font></li></ul></div><font size="2"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></span></span></font></div><div class="gmail-m_-2756257777764588756gmail-m_2249076982023619678gmail-m_7711756207376506834gmail_msg"><font size="2"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br class="gmail-m_-2756257777764588756gmail-m_2249076982023619678gmail-m_7711756207376506834gmail_msg"></span></span></font></div><div class="gmail-m_-2756257777764588756gmail-m_2249076982023619678gmail-m_7711756207376506834gmail_msg"><font size="2"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">You can find further details about the challenge at </span></span></font></div><div class="gmail-m_-2756257777764588756gmail-m_2249076982023619678gmail-m_7711756207376506834gmail_msg"><font size="2"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br class="gmail-m_-2756257777764588756gmail-m_2249076982023619678gmail-m_7711756207376506834gmail_msg"></span></span></font></div><div class="gmail-m_-2756257777764588756gmail-m_2249076982023619678gmail-m_7711756207376506834gmail_msg"><font size="2"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">>  <a target="_blank" href="http://bit.ly/2szZTCb">http://bit.ly/2szZTCb</a></span></span></font></div><div class="gmail-m_-2756257777764588756gmail-m_2249076982023619678gmail-m_7711756207376506834gmail_msg"><font size="2"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></span></span></font></div><div class="gmail-m_-2756257777764588756gmail-m_2249076982023619678gmail-m_7711756207376506834gmail_msg"><font size="2"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br class="gmail-m_-2756257777764588756gmail-m_2249076982023619678gmail-m_7711756207376506834gmail_msg"><b id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-30bf0b90-cef2-f07f-874e-630bbb8db643" style="font-weight:normal"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">You can also subscribe in the form for future announcements about new competitions here: </span><a style="text-decoration:none" href="https://goo.gl/forms/Xfp0hHH5oXJAbN2S2"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://goo.gl/forms/Xfp0hHH5oXJAbN2S2</span></a><span style="background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> .<br><br></span></b></span></span></font></div><div class="gmail-m_-2756257777764588756gmail-m_2249076982023619678gmail-m_7711756207376506834gmail_msg"><font size="2"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">We are looking forward for your submission!</span></span></font></div><div class="gmail-m_-2756257777764588756gmail-m_2249076982023619678gmail-m_7711756207376506834gmail_msg"><font size="2"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br class="gmail-m_-2756257777764588756gmail-m_2249076982023619678gmail-m_7711756207376506834gmail_msg"></span></span></font></div><div class="gmail-m_-2756257777764588756gmail-m_2249076982023619678gmail-m_7711756207376506834gmail_msg"><font size="2"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Best,</span></span></font></div><div class="gmail-m_-2756257777764588756gmail-m_2249076982023619678gmail-m_7711756207376506834gmail_msg"><font size="2"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">The Organisers</span></span></font></div><div class="gmail-m_-2756257777764588756gmail-m_2249076982023619678gmail-m_7711756207376506834gmail_msg"><font size="2"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">The 'Menpo 3D challenge' organisers<br></span></span></font></div></div></div>