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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center" align="center"><b><span
style="font-size:24.0pt;font-family:Calibri;color:#06400C"> <u>Special
Session</u>: Challenges in Modeling and Representation of
Gestures in Human Interactions</span></b><span
style="font-family:Calibri;color:black"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center" align="center"><b><span
style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Calibri;color:black;background:white">IEEE
FG2020 </span></b><b><span
style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Calibri;color:black">@
Buenos Aires, Argentina</span></b><span
style="font-family:Calibri;color:black"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span
style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Calibri;color:black">FG
2020 Call for Papers - Deadline: 10 January 2020!!</span></b><span
style="font-family:Calibri;color:black"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:black">We
cordially invite you to submit your work at our special
session, "<a
href="https://fg2020.org/challenges-in-modeling-and-representation-of-gestures-in-human-interactions/"
title="https://fg2020.org/challenges-in-modeling-and-representation-of-gestures-in-human-interactions/"
moz-do-not-send="true">Challenges in Modeling and
Representation of Gestures in Human Interactions</a>" to be
held in conjunction with IEEE International Conference on
Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG 2020 - May 18-22,
2020). The accepted papers will be published in the
proceedings of the main conference.<span
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:black">This
special session will focus on fundamental challenges related
to how to model and represent gestures. Understanding the
pragmatical, semantical and morphological attributes of
gestures could lead to novel approaches to tackle standard
gesture recognition problems. Some approaches that tackle
these problems include paradigms such as zero-shot and
representation learning to recognize the semantic or
high-level characteristics of gestures.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:black">The
challenges to be tackled in this special session include, but
are not limited to:</span></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal"
style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l3
level1 lfo1"> <span style="font-family:Calibri">Approaches to
represent the gestures’ morphology (shape, movement)</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"
style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l3
level1 lfo1"> <span style="font-family:Calibri">Machine
learning techniques to learn from a few gestures (zero-shot
or few-shot learning)</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"
style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l3
level1 lfo1"> <span style="font-family:Calibri">Cognitive
aspects of gestures (e.g. gestures as enablers of
understanding and learning)</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"
style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l3
level1 lfo1"> <span style="font-family:Calibri">Affective
properties of gestures (can hand gestures convey emotions in
a similar way to action units?)</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"
style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l3
level1 lfo1"> <span style="font-family:Calibri">Approaches to
represent the gestures’ semantics (the meaning of the
gesture)</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"
style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l3
level1 lfo1"> <span style="font-family:Calibri">Representing
gesture pragmatics (the context in which they were
generated)</span></li>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span
style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:Calibri;color:black">Important
dates</span></b><span
style="font-family:Calibri;color:black"></span></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal"
style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0
level1 lfo2"> <b><span
style="font-family:Calibri;color:#C82613">Paper submission
deadline:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>10
January 2020.</span></b><span style="font-family:Calibri"></span></li>
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style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0
level1 lfo2"> <span style="font-family:Calibri">Acceptance
notification: 24 January 2020.</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"
style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0
level1 lfo2"> <span style="font-family:Calibri">Camera-ready
paper deadline: 28 February 2020.</span></li>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span
style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:Calibri;color:black">Submissions</span></b><span
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<li class="MsoNormal"
style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l2
level1 lfo3"> <span style="font-family:Calibri">Accepted
papers will be published within IEEE FG 2020 proceedings.</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"
style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l2
level1 lfo3"> <span style="font-family:Calibri">Manuscripts
must follow the same FG submission<span
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href="https://fg2020.org/instructions-of-paper-submission-for-review/"
title="https://fg2020.org/instructions-of-paper-submission-for-review/"
moz-do-not-send="true">instructions</a>.</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"
style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l2
level1 lfo3"> <span style="font-family:Calibri">Submit your
manuscript via this<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a
href="https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/FG2020/Submission/Index"
title="https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/FG2020/Submission/Index"
moz-do-not-send="true">link</a>.</span></li>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span
style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:Calibri;color:black">Organizers</span></b><span
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<li class="MsoNormal"
style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1
level1 lfo4"> <span style="font-family:Calibri">Juan P. Wachs
(Purdue University, United States)</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"
style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1
level1 lfo4"> <span style="font-family:Calibri">Edgar J.
Rojas-Muñoz (Purdue University, United States)</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"
style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1
level1 lfo4"> <span style="font-family:Calibri">Naveen Madapana
(Purdue University, United States)</span></li>
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