<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(83, 83, 83);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Proposals are solicited for tutorials to be organized in conjunction with the 2020 IEEE Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG2020), which will be held from May 18 to May 22, 2020 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The tutorials should complement and enhance the scientific program of FG2020 by providing authoritative and comprehensive overviews of growing themes that are of sufficient relevance with respect to the state-of-the-art and the conference topics.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(83, 83, 83);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Accepted tutorials will be held on either May 18 or May 22, 2020, in the same venue as the FG2020 main conference. The tutorials are half-day events (3 to 4 hours including breaks).</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(83, 83, 83);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">We solicit proposals on any topic of interest to the FG community. Interdisciplinary topics that could attract a significant cross-section of the community are highly encouraged. We particularly welcome tutorials which address advances in emerging areas not previously covered in an FG related tutorial.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(83, 83, 83);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(83, 83, 83);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><b class="">A tutorial proposal should include:</b></span></div>
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<li style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(83, 83, 83);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Tutorial title</span></li>
<li style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(83, 83, 83);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Proposer’s contact information and short CV</span></li>
<li style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(83, 83, 83);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Names of any additional lecturers and short CV</span></li>
<li style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(83, 83, 83);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Tutorial description and description of the relevance to the FG community</span></li>
<li style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(83, 83, 83);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">References and experience of the instructors with respect to the proposed tutorial topic</span></li>
<li style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(83, 83, 83);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Preferred length (half day or full day)</span></li>
<li style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(83, 83, 83);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">List of relevant tutorials recently presented in other conferences</span></li>
<li style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(83, 83, 83);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Requirements (e.g., facilities, Internet access, etc.)</span></li>
<li style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(83, 83, 83);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Other useful information (e.g., estimated attendance, slides/notes available, etc.). </span></li>
</ul><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(83, 83, 83);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">The main conference will provide rooms, equipment, and coffee breaks for the tutorials. For any additional questions please contact FG2020 Workshops Chairs at <a href="mailto:workshops@fg2020.org" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #2965a8" class="">workshops@fg2020.org</span></a>.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(83, 83, 83);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">For your reference, below is a list of tutorials held in conjunction with FG2019:</span></div>
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<li style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(83, 83, 83);" class=""><span style="color: #2965a8" class=""><a href="http://fg2019.org/participate/workshops-and-tutorials/3d-human-pose-understanding/" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">3D Human pose understanding</span></a></span><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""> – Guido Borghi, Simone Calderara, Rita Cucchiara, Roberto Vezzani</span></li>
<li style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(41, 101, 168);" class=""><a href="http://fg2019.org/participate/workshops-and-tutorials/face-recognition-from-academia-to-industry-past-present-and-future/" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Face Recognition from Academia to Industry: Past, Present, and Future</span></a><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #535353" class=""> – Guosheng Hu, Yandong Guo, Lei Zhang</span></li>
<li style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(41, 101, 168);" class=""><a href="http://fg2019.org/participate/workshops-and-tutorials/introduction-to-deep-learning-for-facial-and-gesture-understanding/" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Introduction to Deep Learning for Facial and Gesture Understanding</span></a><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #535353" class=""> – Raymond W. Ptucha</span></li>
<li style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(83, 83, 83);" class=""><span style="color: #2965a8" class=""><a href="http://fg2019.org/participate/workshops-and-tutorials/visual-recognition-of-families-in-the-wild/" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Visual Recognition of Families In the Wild</span></a></span><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""> – Joseph P Robinson, Ming Shao, Siyu Xia, Yun Fu</span></li>
<li style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(41, 101, 168);" class=""><a href="http://fg2019.org/participate/workshops-and-tutorials/adversarial-learning-in-face-recognition-two-sides-of-the-security-coin/" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Adversarial Learning in Face Recognition – Two Sides of the Security Coin</span></a><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #535353" class=""> – Mayank Vatsa</span><span style="font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; -webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(44, 44, 44);" class=""> </span></li>
</ul><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(44, 44, 44);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><b class="">Review process</b></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(83, 83, 83);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Tutorial proposals will be evaluated on the basis of their estimated benefit for the community and their fit within the tutorials program as a whole. Factors to be considered include: relevance, timeliness, importance, and audience appeal; suitability for presentation in a half or full day format; past experience and qualifications of the instructors. Selection will also be based on the overall distribution of topics, expected attendance, and specialties of the intended audiences.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(69, 60, 204); min-height: 14px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(44, 44, 44);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><b class="">Submission process</b></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(83, 83, 83);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Tutorial proposals must be sent in PDF format to the FG2020 Workshop and Tutorial Co-chairs at <a href="mailto:workshops@fg2020.org" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #2965a8" class="">workshops@fg2020.org</span></a> with email subject “FG2020 Tutorial Proposal: [title of your tutorial]”.</span></div><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(83, 83, 83);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""> </span></p><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(44, 44, 44);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><b class="">Important Dates:</b></span></div>
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<li style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(83, 83, 83);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Tutorial proposals due: January 24th, 2020</span></li>
<li style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(83, 83, 83);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Notification of acceptance: February 7, 2020</span></li>
<li style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(83, 83, 83);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Workshops and tutorials: May 18 and May 22, 2020</span></li>
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<li style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(83, 83, 83);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Àgata Lapedriza, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya and MIT.</span></li>
<li style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(83, 83, 83);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Carlos Busso, University of Texas at Dallas.</span></li>
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