<div dir="ltr"><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,EmojiFont,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji",NotoColorEmoji,"Segoe UI Symbol","Android Emoji",EmojiSymbols;font-size:16px">Deadline extended: <b>11 July 2018</b></p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,EmojiFont,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji",NotoColorEmoji,"Segoe UI Symbol","Android Emoji",EmojiSymbols;font-size:16px"><b>--------------------------------------------</b></p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,EmojiFont,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji",NotoColorEmoji,"Segoe UI Symbol","Android Emoji",EmojiSymbols;font-size:16px"><br></p><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,EmojiFont,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji",NotoColorEmoji,"Segoe UI Symbol","Android Emoji",EmojiSymbols;font-size:16px"><div dir="ltr"><div id="gmail-x_divtagdefaultwrapper" dir="ltr" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif"><div id="gmail-x_divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr"><div id="gmail-x_x_divtagdefaultwrapper" dir="ltr" style="font-size:12pt"><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"></p><p class="gmail-x_x_x_MsoNormal" style="margin:0px 0cm 3pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif,serif,EmojiFont;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:initial;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">VIBE</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif,serif,EmojiFont;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:initial;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"> (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><p class="gmail-x_x_x_MsoNormal" style="margin:0px 0cm 3pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont"> </span></p><p class="gmail-x_x_x_MsoNormal" style="margin:0px 0cm 3pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif,serif,EmojiFont;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:initial;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Workshop website: </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif,serif,EmojiFont"><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><p class="gmail-x_x_x_MsoNormal" style="margin:0px 0cm 3pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont"> </span></p><p class="gmail-x_x_x_MsoNormal" style="margin:0px 0cm 6pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont">Important dates</span></b></p><ul type="disc"><li class="gmail-x_x_x_MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><b><span style="color:rgb(255,0,0)">Paper submission deadline:    </span></b><b><span style="color:rgb(255,0,0)">11 July 2018 (extended)</span></b><b><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont"></span></b></li><li class="gmail-x_x_x_MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">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_x_x_MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">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_x_x_MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><b>Workshop date:                        6 September 2018 </b><b><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont"></span></b></li></ul><p class="gmail-x_x_x_MsoNormal" style="margin:0px 0cm 6pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont">Invited Speakers</span></b></p><ul type="disc"><li class="gmail-x_x_x_MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Stefanos P. Zafeiriou (Imperial College London, UK)</li><li class="gmail-x_x_x_MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Speaker 2: TBC</li></ul><p class="gmail-x_x_x_MsoNormal" style="margin:0px 0cm 6pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont">Aims and Scope</span></b></p><p class="gmail-x_x_x_MsoNormal" style="margin:0px 0cm 3pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif,serif,EmojiFont;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:initial;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">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><p class="gmail-x_x_x_MsoNormal" style="margin:0px 0cm 3pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif,serif,EmojiFont;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:initial;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"> </span></p><p class="gmail-x_x_x_MsoNormal" style="margin:0px 0cm 3pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif,serif,EmojiFont">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"></span></p><ul type="disc"><li class="gmail-x_x_x_MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Social relation recognition<span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont"></span></li><li class="gmail-x_x_x_MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Face to face and group interactions<span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont"></span></li><li class="gmail-x_x_x_MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Social signal processing<span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont"></span></li><li class="gmail-x_x_x_MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Multimodal approaches for social interaction and behaviour analysis<span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont"></span></li><li class="gmail-x_x_x_MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Affective computing<span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont"></span></li><li class="gmail-x_x_x_MsoNormal" style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