<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="text-align:center;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">AMFG 2017 - 7th IEEE International Workshop on Analysis and Modeling of Faces and Gestures (AMFG)</div><div class="gmail_default" style="text-align:center;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><div class="gmail_default" style="text-align:center;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">28 October 2017</div><div class="gmail_default" style="text-align:center;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Venice, Italy</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Embracing Face and Gesture Analysis in Social Media with Deep Learning</b></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">This one-day serial workshop (AMFG2017) will provide a forum for researchers to review the recent progress of recognition, analysis and modeling of face, gesture, and body, and embrace the most advanced deep learning system to address face and gesture analysis particularly under unconstrained environment such as social media. The workshop will consist of one to two invited talks; one from industry, together with peer-reviewed regular papers (oral and poster). Original high-quality contributions are solicited on the following topics:</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">1. Deep learning methodology, theory, and its applications to social media analytics;</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">2. Novel deep learning model, deep learning survey, or comparative study for face/gesture recognition;</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">3. Deep learning for internet-scale soft biometrics and profiling: age, gender, ethnicity, personality, kinship, occupation, beauty, and fashion classification by facial and/or body descriptor;</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">4. Face, gait, and action recognition in low-quality (blurred for instance), or low-resolution video from fixed or mobile cameras;</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">5. Novel mathematical modeling and algorithms, sensors and modalities for face & body gesture/action representation, analysis and recognition for cross-domain social media;</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">6. Deep learning for detection and recognition of face and body in the wild with large 3D rotation, illumination change, partial occlusion, unknown/changing background, and aging; especially large 3D rotation robust face and gesture recognition;</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">7. Motion analysis, tracking and extraction of face and body models from image sequences captured by mobile devices;</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">8. Face, gait, and action recognition in low-quality (blurred for instance), or low-resolution video from fixed or mobile cameras;</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">9. Novel mathematical modeling and algorithms, sensors and modalities for face & body gesture/action representation, analysis, and recognition for cross-domain social media;</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">10. Social/Psychological studies that can assist in understanding computational modeling and building better automated face and gesture systems for interaction purposes;</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">11. Novel social applications based on the robust detection, tracking and recognition of face, body, and action;</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">12. Face and gesture analysis for sentiment analysis in social media;</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">13. Other applications of face and gesture analysis in social media content understanding.</font></div></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div></div><div class="gmail_default"><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">****Submission****</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="https://web.northeastern.edu/smilelab/AMFG2017/submission.html">https://web.northeastern.edu/smilelab/AMFG2017/submission.html</a></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">****Important Dates****</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Submission Deadline: Jul. 31, 2017 [Extended]</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Notification: Aug. 15, 2017</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Camera Ready: Aug. 20, 2017</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Workshop Date: Oct. 28, 2017 (Full day)</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">****Invited Speakers****</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Lei Zhang, Microsoft Research</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Tim K. Marks, MERL</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Xiaoming Liu, MSU</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">****Honorary General Chair****</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Thomas S. Huang, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">****General Chairs****</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Dimitris N. Metaxas, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, USA</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Yun Raymond Fu, Northeastern University, Boston, USA</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">****Workshop Co-Chairs****</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Mohammad Soleymani, Swiss Center for Affective Sciences, Switzerland</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Ming Shao, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, USA</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Zhangyang (Atlas) Wang, Texas A&M University, USA</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><div class="gmail_default">****Web and Publicity Co-Chairs****</div><div class="gmail_default">Zhengming Ding, Northeastern University, Boston, USA</div><div class="gmail_default">Sheng Li, Northeastern University, Boston, USA</div></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br clear="all"></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:12.8px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Best,</font></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Ming Shao (Ph. D.)<br></font></div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Email: s</span><a href="mailto:haoming533@gmail.com" target="_blank">haoming533@gmail.com</a></font><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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