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<font face="times new roman, serif"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;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">Apologies for cross-postings</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;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"><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;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"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;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 challenge participation</span></font><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;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 face="times new roman, serif"><br></font></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;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 face="times new roman, serif">Sixth Emotion Recognition in the Wild (<span class="gmail-m_1738237429837091400gmail-m_-6350603321451902288gmail-il"><span class="gmail-m_1738237429837091400gmail-il"><span class="gmail-il">EmotiW</span></span></span>) Challenge <span class="gmail-m_1738237429837091400gmail-m_-6350603321451902288gmail-il">2018</span><br style="">

<a href="https://sites.google.com/view/emotiw2018" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(5,99,193);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-align:justify"><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">https://sites.google.com/view/emotiw2018</span></a><span style="font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;text-align:justify;color:black"> </span> </font></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;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 face="times new roman, serif"> 
<br style="">@ ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction <span class="gmail-m_1738237429837091400gmail-m_-6350603321451902288gmail-il">2018, Boulder, Colarado.</span><br style="">------------------------------<wbr>------------------------------<wbr>---------</font></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;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"><span style="color:black;text-align:justify"><font face="times new roman, serif"><br></font></span></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;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 face="times new roman, serif"><span style="color:black;text-align:justify">The sixth Emotion
Recognition in the Wild </span><span style="color:black;text-align:justify;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">(EmotiW)</span><span style="color:black;text-align:justify"> 2018 Grand
Challenge consists of an all-day event with a focus on affective sensing in
unconstrained conditions. There are three sub-challenges: engagement in the
wild prediction sub-challenge, audio-video based emotion classification
sub-challenge and image based group emotion recognition sub-challenge.</span></font></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;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"><b style="text-align:justify"><span style="color:rgb(0,51,123);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm"><font face="times new roman, serif"><br></font></span></b></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;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 face="times new roman, serif"><b style="text-align:justify"><span style="color:rgb(0,51,123);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">Challenge website</span></b><span style="text-align:justify;color:black">: </span><a href="https://sites.google.com/view/emotiw2018" target="_blank" style="text-align:justify;color:rgb(5,99,193)"><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">https://sites.google.com/view/emotiw2018</span></a><span style="text-align:justify;color:black">  </span></font></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;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"><b style="text-align:justify"><span style="color:rgb(0,51,123);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm"><font face="times new roman, serif"><br></font></span></b></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;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 face="times new roman, serif"><b style="text-align:justify"><span style="color:rgb(0,51,123);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">Contact email</span></b><span style="text-align:justify;color:black">: </span><span style="text-align:justify">emotiw2014[AT]<a href="http://gmail.com">gmail.com</a></span></font></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;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"><b style="text-align:justify"><span style="color:rgb(0,51,123);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm"><font face="times new roman, serif"><br></font></span></b></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;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"><b style="text-align:justify"><span style="color:rgb(0,51,123);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm"><font face="times new roman, serif">Timeline</font></span></b></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;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"><span style="text-indent:35.45pt"><font face="times new roman, serif">Challenge
website  - January 2018</font></span></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;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"><span style="text-indent:35.45pt"><font face="times new roman, serif">Train and
validate data available - March 2018</font></span></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;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"><span style="text-indent:35.45pt"><font face="times new roman, serif">Test data
available - 8 June 2018</font></span></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;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"><span style="text-indent:35.45pt"><font face="times new roman, serif">Last date
for uploading the results - 23 June 2018</font></span></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;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"><span style="text-indent:35.45pt"><font face="times new roman, serif">Paper
submission deadline - 1 July 2018</font></span></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;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"><span style="text-indent:35.45pt"><font face="times new roman, serif">Paper notification
- 30 July 2018</font></span></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;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"><span style="text-indent:35.45pt"><font face="times new roman, serif">Camera-ready
papers - 8 August 2018</font></span></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;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"><b style="text-align:justify"><span style="color:rgb(0,51,123);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm"><font face="times new roman, serif"><br></font></span></b></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;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"><b style="text-align:justify"><span style="color:rgb(0,51,123);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm"><font face="times new roman, serif">Organizers</font></span></b></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;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 face="times new roman, serif"><span style="color:black;text-align:justify">Abhinav Dhall </span><span style="color:black;text-align:justify;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">(Indian Institute of Technology Ropar, India)</span></font></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;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 face="times new roman, serif"><span style="color:black;text-align:justify">Roland Goecke </span><span style="color:black;text-align:justify;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">(University of Canberra, Australia)</span></font></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;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"><span style="color:black;text-align:justify"><font face="times new roman, serif">Jyoti Joshi</font></span></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;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 face="times new roman, serif"><span style="color:black;text-align:justify">Tom Gedeon </span><span style="color:black;text-align:justify;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">(Australian National University, Australia)</span></font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%"><span><font face="times new roman, serif"> </font></span></p><font face="times new roman, serif"><br></font></div>

<font face="times new roman, serif"><br clear="all"></font><div><font face="times new roman, serif"><br></font></div><font face="times new roman, serif">-- <br></font><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div style=""><font face="times new roman, serif">Abhinav Dhall, PhD</font><div><font face="times new roman, serif">Assistant Professor,</font></div><div><font face="times new roman, serif">Indian Institute of Technology, Ropar</font></div></div><div style=""><font face="times new roman, serif"><span style="color:rgb(68,68,68)">Webpage: <a href="https://goo.gl/5LrRB7" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">https://goo.gl/5LrRB7</a> </span><br></font></div><div style=""><font face="times new roman, serif" style=""><span style="color:rgb(68,68,68)">Google Scholar: </span><span style="color:rgb(68,68,68)"><a href="https://goo.gl/iDwNTx" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">https://goo.gl/iDwNTx</a> </span></font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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