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ting deep models, which, in itself, could yield greater insights about these all so familiar black boxes. With the frontier moving forward at rates incomparable to any spurt of the past, challenges such as high variations in illuminations, pose, age, etc., now confront us. However, state-of-the-art deep learning models often fail when faced with such challenges owed to the difficulties in modeling structured data and visual dynamics. </span></font></div><font color="#444444" style="font-weight:300"><br style="text-align:justify;word-spacing:0.2px"></font><div style="font-weight:300;text-align:left"><span style="text-align:justify;word-spacing:0.2px"><font color="#444444">Alongside the effort spent on conventional face recognition is the research is done across modality learning, such as face and voice, gestures in imagery and motion in videos, along with several other tasks. This line of work has attracted attention from industry and academic researchers from all sorts of domains. Additionally, and in some cases with this, there has been a push to advance these technologies for social media based applications. Regardless of the exact domain and purpose, the following capabilities must be satisfied: face and body tracking (e.g., facial expression analysis, face detection, gesture recognition), lip reading and voice understanding, face and body characterization (e.g., behavioral understanding, emotion recognition), face, body and gesture characteristic analysis (e.g., gait, age, gender, ethnicity recognition), group understanding via social cues (e.g., kinship, non-blood relationships, personality), and visual sentiment analysis (e.g., temperament, arrangement). Thus, needing to be able to create effective models for visual certainty has significant value in both the scientific communities and the commercial market, with applications that span topics of human-computer interaction, social media analytics, video indexing, visual surveillance, and internet vision. Currently, researchers have made significant progress addressing the many of these problems, and especially when considering off-the-shelf and cost-efficient vision HW products available these days, e.g. Intel RealSense, Magic Leap, SHORE, and Affdex. Nonetheless, serious challenges still remain, which only amplifies when considering the unconstrained imaging conditions captured by different sources focused on non-cooperative subjects. It is these latter challenges that especially grabs our interest, as we sought out to bring together the cutting-edge techniques and recent advances of deep learning to solve the challenges in the wild. </font></span></div><font color="#444444" style="font-weight:300"><br style="text-align:justify;word-spacing:0.2px"></font><div style="font-weight:300;text-align:left"><span style="text-align:justify;word-spacing:0.2px"><font color="#444444">This one-day serial workshop (i.e., AMFG2019) provides a forum for researchers to review the recent progress of recognition, analysis, and modeling of face, body, and gesture, while embracing the most advanced deep learning systems available for face and gesture analysis, particularly, under an unconstrained environment like social media and across modalities like face to voice. The workshop includes up to 3 keynotes and peer-reviewed papers (oral and poster). Original high-quality contributions are solicited on the following topics:</font></span></div><p style="font-weight:300"></p><ul style="font-weight:300;padding:0px 0px 0px 3em;border:0px;text-align:justify;word-spacing:0.2px;margin:5px 0px;list-style-position:outside"><li style="text-align:left;padding:0px 0px 0px 5px;border:0px;margin:3px 0px 0px;list-style:disc outside"><font color="#444444">Deep learning methodology, theory, as applied to social media analytics;</font></li><li style="text-align:left;padding:0px 0px 0px 5px;border:0px;margin:3px 0px 0px;list-style:disc outside"><font color="#444444">Data-driven or physics-based generative models for faces, poses, and gestures; Deep learning for internet-scale soft biometrics and profiling: age, gender, ethnicity, personality, kinship, occupation, beauty ranking, and fashion classification by facial or body descriptor;</font></li><li style="text-align:left;padding:0px 0px 0px 5px;border:0px;margin:3px 0px 0px;list-style:disc outside"><font color="#444444">Novel deep model, deep learning survey, or comparative study for face/gesture recognition;</font></li><li style="text-align:left;padding:0px 0px 0px 5px;border:0px;margin:3px 0px 0px;list-style:disc outside"><font color="#444444">Deep learning for detection and recognition of faces and bodies with large 3D rotation, illumination change, partial occlusion, unknown/changing background, and aging (i.e., in the wild); especially large 3D rotation robust face and gesture recognition;</font></li><li style="text-align:left;padding:0px 0px 0px 5px;border:0px;margin:3px 0px 0px;list-style:disc outside"><font color="#444444">Motion analysis, tracking, and extraction of face and body models captured from several non-overlapping views;</font></li><li style="text-align:left;padding:0px 0px 0px 5px;border:0px;margin:3px 0px 0px;list-style:disc outside"><font color="#444444">Face, gait, and action recognition in low-quality (e.g., blurred), or low-resolution video from fixed or mobile device cameras;</font></li><li style="text-align:left;padding:0px 0px 0px 5px;border:0px;margin:3px 0px 0px;list-style:disc outside"><font color="#444444">AutoML for face and gesture analysis;</font></li><li style="text-align:left;padding:0px 0px 0px 5px;border:0px;margin:3px 0px 0px;list-style:disc outside"><font color="#444444">Mathematical models and algorithms, sensors and modalities for face & body gesture and action representation, analysis, and recognition for cross-domain social media;</font></li><li style="text-align:left;padding:0px 0px 0px 5px;border:0px;margin:3px 0px 0px;list-style:disc outside"><font color="#444444">Social/psychological based studies that aids in understanding computational modeling and building better-automated face and gesture systems with interactive features;</font></li><li style="text-align:left;padding:0px 0px 0px 5px;border:0px;margin:3px 0px 0px;list-style:disc outside"><font color="#444444">Multimedia learning models involving faces and gestures (e.g., voice, wearable IMUs, and face);</font></li><li style="text-align:left;padding:0px 0px 0px 5px;border:0px;margin:3px 0px 0px;list-style:disc outside"><font color="#444444">Social applications involving detection, tracking & recognition of face, body, and action;</font></li><li style="text-align:left;padding:0px 0px 0px 5px;border:0px;margin:3px 0px 0px;list-style:disc outside"><font color="#444444">Face and gesture analysis for sentiment analysis in the social context;</font></li><li style="text-align:left;padding:0px 0px 0px 5px;border:0px;margin:3px 0px 0px;list-style:disc outside"><font style="" color="#444444">Other applications involving face and gesture analysis in social media content.</font></li></ul><p style="font-weight:300;text-align:left;font-size:inherit;color:rgb(136,136,136)"><span style="font-size:inherit"><br></span></p><p style="font-weight:300;text-align:left;font-size:inherit;color:rgb(136,136,136)"><span style="font-size:inherit">Sincerely,</span><br></p>
<p style="font-weight:300;text-align:left;font-size:inherit;color:rgb(136,136,136)">Joe</p><p style="font-weight:300;color:rgb(136,136,136)"></p><div style="text-align:left"><strong style="color:rgb(153,153,153);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">Joseph P Robinson </strong><span style="color:rgb(153,153,153);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">                                    </span></div><span style="color:rgb(153,153,153);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><div style="text-align:left">Ph.D. Candidate-- <a href="https://web.northeastern.edu/smilelab/" target="_blank" title="https://web.northeastern.edu/smilelab/" style="word-break:break-word;color:rgb(16,129,247)">SMILE Lab</a>                                         </div><div style="text-align:left">Northeastern University  </div></span><span style="color:rgb(153,153,153);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><div style="text-align:left">Email: <a href="mailto:jrobins1@coe.neu.edu" target="_blank" title="mailto:jrobins1@coe.neu.edu" style="word-break:break-word;color:rgb(16,129,247)">jrobins1@coe.neu.edu</a>                                    </div></span><span style="color:rgb(153,153,153);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><div style="text-align:left">Website: <a href="http://www.jrobsvision.com" target="_blank" title="http://www.jrobsvision.com" style="word-break:break-word;color:rgb(16,129,247)">www.jrobsvision.com</a>                                              </div><div style="text-align:left">Cell: <a href="tel:(978)%20918-2701" value="+19789182701" target="_blank" title="tel:(978)%20918-2701" style="word-break:break-word;color:rgb(16,129,247)">(978) 918-2701</a></div></span><p></p> </span> </font></td>
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