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                                    <td class="m_2503044375651191387gmail-column_cell m_2503044375651191387gmail-font_default" style="padding:8px 16px;vertical-align:top;text-align:left">(Apologies for multiple postings)<br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px"><p style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;line-height:23px;margin-top:16px;margin-bottom:24px;color:rgb(76,76,76)"><font size="2">(Apologies for multiple postings)</font></p><p style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;line-height:23px;margin-top:16px;margin-bottom:24px;color:rgb(76,76,76)"><font size="2">------------------------------<wbr>-----------------------                                                                        2018 RFIW Challenge                                                                                                    IEEE Conference Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition                               Submission Deadline: February 10, 2018                                                                             -----------------------------<wbr>-------------------------            </font></p><p style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;line-height:23px;margin-top:16px;margin-bottom:24px;color:rgb(76,76,76)"><font size="2">This is a last call for the <a href="https://fg2018.cse.sc.edu/" target="_blank">IEEE FG</a> Challenge <a href="https://web.northeastern.edu/smilelab/RFIW2018/" target="_blank">RFIW 2018</a>. This is the 2nd Large-Scale Kinship Recognition Challenge. After a successful and exciting <span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">After a successful and exciting</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"> </span><a href="https://web.northeastern.edu/smilelab/RFIW2017/" target="_blank">RFIW 2017</a>, we hope to keep the momentum going with those involved, while attracting more of the community to get involved!</font></p><p style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;line-height:23px;margin-top:16px;margin-bottom:24px;color:rgb(76,76,76)"><font size="2">RFIW 2018 supports to tracks, kinship verification (T1) and family classification (T2). Registration, data downloads, information on protocols, and submissions are handled through Codalab: See <a href="https://competitions.codalab.org/competitions/17685" target="_blank">https://competitions.codalab.<wbr>org/competitions/17685</a> (T1) and <a href="https://competitions.codalab.org/competitions/17973" target="_blank">https://competitions.<wbr>codalab.org/competitions/17973</a><wbr> (T2). </font></p><p style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;line-height:23px;margin-top:16px;margin-bottom:24px;color:rgb(76,76,76)"><font size="2">Note the data has been updated since RFIW 2017, so be sure to download via Codalab upon registering. We are still using the <a href="http://smile-fiw.weebly.com/" target="_blank">Families In the Wild (FIW)</a> dataset, just the latest and greatest version (i.e., extended and cleaned up).</font></p><p style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;line-height:23px;margin-top:16px;margin-bottom:24px;color:rgb(76,76,76)"><font size="2">Of course, sharing of this message is both welcome and appreciated!</font></p><p style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;line-height:23px;margin-top:16px;margin-bottom:24px;color:rgb(76,76,76)"><font size="2">Thank you very much, and do let us know if you have any questions.</font></p><p style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;line-height:23px;margin-top:16px;margin-bottom:24px"><font color="#444444" size="2"><b><span style="font-family:Helvetica">Important dates:</span><br style="font-family:Helvetica"></b><span style="font-family:Helvetica">Submissions due:                                       February 10, 2018</span><br style="font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-family:Helvetica">Notebook papers due:                                February 25, 2018</span><br style="font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-family:Helvetica">Winners are announced:                            March 1, 2018</span><br style="font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-family:Helvetica">FG main coference (Xi'an China):              May 15-19, 2018</span></font></p><p style="line-height:23px;margin-top:16px;margin-bottom:24px"><br><font size="2"><span style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(76,76,76)">Sincerely,        </span></font></p><p style="line-height:23px;margin-top:16px;margin-bottom:24px"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(76,76,76)"></span><font color="#4c4c4c" face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><br></font><span style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(76,76,76)">RFIW 2018 Organizing Committee         </span></font></p><p style="line-height:23px;margin-top:16px;margin-bottom:24px"><font size="2"><a href="https://web.northeastern.edu/smilelab/RFIW2018/" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif" target="_blank">https://web.northeastern.edu/<wbr>smilelab/RFIW2018/</a></font></p>
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