<div dir="ltr"><a href="http://fg2019.org/participate/competitions/">http://fg2019.org/participate/competitions/</a><br><br>
<p>We invite proposals for the 2019 Faces and Gestures Competition track
in Lille, France. We solicit competition proposals on any topic of
interests to the FG community. We especially encourage competition
proposals from emerging new fields or new application domains related to
FG. Interdisciplinary topics that could attract a significant
cross-section of the community are highly valued. There will be two
kinds of competitions:</p>
<ol>
<li>Standard data science driven competitions, where participants will
compete to obtain the best score on a FG problem of interest to the FG
community based on a problem and data defined and released by the
organizers of the competition.</li>
<li>Live competitions, which will be held in a science-fair manner at
FG. Participants will present live demos at FG which apply methodology
in an application domain defined by the organizers of the Live
competition.</li>
</ol>
<p>Accepted competitions will run as a FG 2019 competition workshop,
where competition results can be discussed and presented. Organizers
will propose a tentative schedule for the presentation of the
competition. The main conference will provide coffee breaks and, if
necessary, poster facilities. For any additional questions please
contact the competition chairs.</p>
<p>Competition organizers can additionally open a call for papers for
contributions relevant to the field of the organized competition. Papers
from top ranked participants and papers contributing to the topics of
the competition can be then considered to be included in FG 2019
workshop proceedings.</p>
<h3>Data science competition proposal submission</h3>
<p>Regular data science driven competition proposal must be mailed to both challenge chairs. Please carefully follow the <a href="http://fg2019.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/fg-2019-competition.zip">LaTeX template</a> for data science competition proposal.</p>
<h3>Live competition proposal submission</h3>
<p>Live competition proposals must be mailed to both challenge chairs. Please carefully follow the <a href="http://fg2019.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/fg-2019-live.zip">available template</a>
to apply for the Live competition. An important requirement for the
Live competition acceptance is the plan for recruiting participants.</p>
<h2>Important dates</h2>
<ul>
<li>Competition proposal submission deadline: July 16th, 2018</li>
<li>Acceptance notification: July 26th, 2018</li>
<li>Competition track: February 15, 2019</li>
</ul>
<h2>Additional comments to competition proposes</h2>
<p>In case your proposal contains a “regular data science” track and a
“Live” track, please submit both available templates for revision. It
may happen that only one of them is accepted. Competition organizers
should propose a timeline for running the competition to ensure
participants to have enough time to contribute with a high quality
solution. Organizers with a competition proposal that requires help or
suggestions regarding the competition platform to run the competition
can contact the competition chairs for advice.</p>
<h2>Competition chairs</h2>
<ul>
<li><a href="mailto:sergio.escalera.guerrero@gmail.com">Sergio Escalera</a>, University of Barcelona, Computer Vision Center, ChaLearn</li>
<li><a href="mailto:s.zafeiriou@imperial.ac.uk">Stefanos Zafeiriou</a>, Imperial College</li>
</ul>
<br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div><font size="1"><span style="color:rgb(68,68,68)"><b><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102)">Dr. Sergio Escalera Guerrero</span><br></b></span><span style="color:rgb(153,153,153)">Head of Human Pose Recovery and Behavior Analysis Lab<br></span></font></div><span style="color:rgb(153,153,153)"><font size="1">Project Manager at the Computer Vision Center<br></font></span></div><span style="color:rgb(153,153,153)"><font size="1">Director of ChaLearn Challenges in Machine Learning<br></font></span><span style="color:rgb(153,153,153)"><font size="1"><span><span><span style="color:rgb(153,153,153)"><font size="1">Associate professor</font></span></span></span> at University of Barcelona / Universitat Oberta de Catalunya / Aalborg Univ. / </font></span><br><span style="color:rgb(153,153,153)"><font size="1">Dalhousie University<br>Phone:+34</font></span><font size="1"><span style="color:rgb(153,153,153)"><font size="1"><span dir="ltr"><span dir="ltr"><span><span>934020853<br></span></span></span></span></font>Email: <a href="mailto:sergio.escalera.guerrero@gmail.com" target="_blank">sergio.escalera.guerrero@gmail.com</a> / Webpage: <a href="http://www.maia.ub.es/~sergio/" target="_blank">http://www.sergioescalera.com/</a></span></font><br><div><span></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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