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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
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    <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
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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
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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>
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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
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        <li class="MsoNormal"
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          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>
        <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">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
              class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a
              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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    <i><span
style="font-family:"-webkit-standard","serif";color:black">Follow
        FG2020 on Twitter with the hashtag #IEEEFG2020</span></i>
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