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<b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif,serif,"EmojiFont";color:black;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%">VIBE</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif,serif,"EmojiFont";color:black;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%"> (Vision for Interaction and Behaviour understanding) is a half-day workshop organized in conjunction with <b>BMVC 2018</b> to be held in Newcastle (UK) on <b>September 6, 2018</b>.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif,serif,"EmojiFont";color:black;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%">Workshop website: </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif,serif,"EmojiFont";color:black"><a href="http://cvip.computing.dundee.ac.uk/vibe2018bmvc/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" id="gmail-LPlnk275855"><span style="color:rgb(41,128,185)">http://cvip.computing.dundee.ac.uk/vibe2018bmvc/</span></a></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"">Important dates</span></b></p>
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<li class="gmail-x_MsoNormal" style="color:black;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%"><b>Paper submission deadline:    </b><b><span style="color:windowtext">7 July 2018 </span></b><b><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont""></span></b></li><li class="gmail-x_MsoNormal" style="color:black;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%">Author notification:                 <span style="color:windowtext">20 July  2018 </span><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont""></span></li><li class="gmail-x_MsoNormal" style="color:black;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%">Camera-ready submission:     <span style="color:windowtext">27 July 2018  </span><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont""></span></li><li class="gmail-x_MsoNormal" style="color:black;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%"><b>Workshop date:                        6 September 2018 </b><b><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont""></span></b></li></ul>
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<b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"">Invited Speakers</span></b></p>
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<li class="gmail-x_MsoNormal" style="color:black;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%">Stefanos P. Zafeiriou (Imperial College London, UK)</li><li class="gmail-x_MsoNormal" style="color:black;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%">Speaker 2: TBC</li></ul>
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<b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"">Aims and Scope</span></b></p>
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<span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif,serif,"EmojiFont";color:black;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%">Some
 of the major questions related to Social Behaviour Understanding are 
how to capture the diversity and complexity of social life from 
image/video data, which image/video analysis and pattern recognition 
technologies are effective and how to design novel techniques in this 
domain? VIBE aims at gathering research progress around such problems 
that require, in addition to performing an effective visual analysis of 
social and behavioural cues, building deeper understanding for bridging 
the research gaps in this domain.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif,serif,"EmojiFont";color:black">We
 encourage submissions in the area of computer vision for social 
interaction and behaviour understanding. Topics of interest include, but
 are not limited to:</span><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont";color:black"></span></p>
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<li class="gmail-x_MsoNormal" style="color:black;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%">Social relation recognition<span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont""></span></li><li class="gmail-x_MsoNormal" style="color:black;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%">Face to face and group interactions<span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont""></span></li><li class="gmail-x_MsoNormal" style="color:black;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%">Social signal processing<span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont""></span></li><li class="gmail-x_MsoNormal" style="color:black;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%">Multimodal approaches for social interaction and behaviour analysis<span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont""></span></li><li class="gmail-x_MsoNormal" style="color:black;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%">Affective computing<span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont""></span></li><li class="gmail-x_MsoNormal" style="color:black;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%">Facial and gestural social and emotional cues<span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont""></span></li><li class="gmail-x_MsoNormal" style="color:black;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%">Egocentric vision for social interactions<span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont""></span></li><li class="gmail-x_MsoNormal" style="color:black;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%">Context-dependent human-behaviour models<span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont""></span></li><li class="gmail-x_MsoNormal" style="color:black;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%">Social data gathering and ethical concerns<span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont""></span></li><li class="gmail-x_MsoNormal" style="color:black;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%">Social robotics<span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont""></span></li><li class="gmail-x_MsoNormal" style="color:black;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%">Applications in health and wellbeing, rehabilitation technology, assistive communication<span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont""></span></li><li class="gmail-x_MsoNormal" style="color:black;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%">Applications in social media data analysis, lifelogging, human activity monitoring<span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont""></span></li></ul>
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<b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"">Submission Guidelines</span></b></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"">Organizing committee</span></b></p>
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<li class="gmail-x_MsoNormal" style="color:black;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%"><span class="gmail-currentHitHighlight" id="gmail-0.2821949256915701" name="searchHitInReadingPane">Stephen</span> <span class="gmail-highlight" id="gmail-0.47903915990958323" name="searchHitInReadingPane">McKenna</span>, (<a href="mailto:stephen@computing.dundee.ac.uk" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color:rgb(41,128,185)"><span class="gmail-highlight" id="gmail-0.12344874623892232" name="searchHitInReadingPane">stephen</span>@computing.dundee.ac.uk</span></a>), University of Dundee, UK<span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont""></span></li><li class="gmail-x_MsoNormal" style="color:black;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%">Fernando de la Torre, (<a href="mailto:ftorre@fb.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">ftorre@fb.com</a>), Facebook AI Research, USA<span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont""></span></li><li class="gmail-x_MsoNormal" style="color:black;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%">Mariella Dimiccoli, (<a href="mailto:mariella.dimiccoli@cvc.uab.es" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">mariella.dimiccoli@cvc.uab.es</a>), University of Barcelona, Spain<span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont""></span></li><li class="gmail-x_MsoNormal" style="color:black;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%">Sophia Bano, (<a href="mailto:s.bano@dundee.ac.uk" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color:rgb(41,128,185)">s.bano@dundee.ac.uk</span></a>), University of Dundee, UK<span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont""></span></li></ul>
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