<div dir="ltr"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%" style="width:1316px"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="background:rgb(216,240,239);padding:0.75pt"><div align="center"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%" style="width:1310px"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="background:white;padding:0.75pt"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%" style="width:1304px"><tbody><tr><td style="background:rgb(86,191,181);padding:0.75pt"><p align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="color:white">IEEE international workshop on in conjunction with 2020 FG</span><u></u><u></u></p><p align="center" style="text-align:center"><strong><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:white">4th Data Challenge Workshop on Recognizing Families In the Wild (RFIW)</span></strong><u></u><u></u></p><p align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="color:white">-- </span><span style="color:rgb(236,240,241)">Automatic Modeling and Analysis of Kinship</span><u></u><u></u></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr></tbody></table><pre style="white-space:pre-wrap;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Courier New""><span style="color:black"><a href="http://web.northeastern.edu/smilelab/rfiw2020/" target="_blank">Project Page</a><u></u><u></u></span></pre><h2 align="center" style="margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;font-size:18pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;text-align:center"><span style="font-family:-webkit-standard;color:black">Overview<u></u><u></u></span></h2><p><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:-webkit-standard;color:rgb(42,42,42)">We are pleased to announce the fourth large-scale kinship recognition data competition, <a href="https://web.northeastern.edu/smilelab/rfiw2020/" target="_blank">Recognizing Families In the Wild (RFIW)</a>, in conjunction with the 2020 FG. RFIW has been made possible with the release of the </span><strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">largest</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:-webkit-standard;color:rgb(42,42,42)"> and </span><strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">most comprehensive</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:-webkit-standard;color:rgb(42,42,42)"> image database for automatic kinship recognition, Families in the Wild (</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:-webkit-standard;color:black"><a href="https://web.northeastern.edu/smilelab/fiw/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(52,152,219);letter-spacing:0.25pt">FIW</span></a></span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:-webkit-standard;color:rgb(42,42,42)">) dataset.<br><br>All submissions (i.e., challenge papers, general paper submissions, and </span><em><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(42,42,42)">Brave New Ideas</span></em><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:-webkit-standard;color:rgb(42,42,42)">) will be peer-reviewed for publication as part of RFIW2020 in the IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:-webkit-standard;color:black"><a href="http://fg2020.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(52,152,219)">2020 AMFG</span></a></span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:-webkit-standard;color:rgb(42,42,42)">) proceedings. Also, paper presentations, either oral and or poster, along with special guest keynote speakers, are in store for the workshop and award ceremony agenda at the 2020 AMFG conference on 18-22 May in </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:-webkit-standard;color:black"><a href="https://www.lonelyplanet.com/argentina/buenos-aires" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(52,152,219)">Buenos Aire, Argentina</span></a></span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:-webkit-standard;color:rgb(42,42,42)">.</span><span style="font-family:-webkit-standard;color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p><h2 align="center" style="margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;font-size:18pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;text-align:center"><span style="font-family:-webkit-standard;color:red">Updates</span><span style="font-family:-webkit-standard;color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></h2><p><b><u><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:-webkit-standard;color:black">All three challenges are live on codalab</span></u></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:-webkit-standard;color:black">! CMT open for paper registration and submission: papers on novel work in automatic kinship recognition and </span><em><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">Brave New Ideas</span></em><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:-webkit-standard;color:black">. </span><span style="font-family:-webkit-standard;color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:47.25pt"><u></u><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">  </span></span><u></u><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:-webkit-standard;color:black">2019-12-11 </span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:-webkit-standard;color:black">Konica Minolta donated to award the best paper. Thank you, and welcome to our first sponsor!</span><span style="font-family:-webkit-standard;color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:47.25pt"><u></u><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">  </span></span><u></u><strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">2019-12-11</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:-webkit-standard;color:black"> Competition portal for track 3 now open! (<a href="https://competitions.codalab.org/competitions/22152" target="_blank">Codalab (T3)</a>)</span><span style="font-family:-webkit-standard;color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:83.25pt"><u></u><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black">o<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman""> </span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:-webkit-standard;color:black">Search & Retrieval of Missing Children (many-to-many)</span><span style="font-family:-webkit-standard;color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:83.25pt"><u></u><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black">o<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman""> </span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:-webkit-standard;color:black">Can you generate a ranked list of predicted relatives provided a gallery of faces for different subjects?</span><span style="font-family:-webkit-standard;color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:47.25pt"><u></u><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">  </span></span><u></u><strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">2019-12-11</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:-webkit-standard;color:black"> Test date pushed back! Phase 3 for all tracks scheduled for 13-20 January 2020.</span><span style="font-family:-webkit-standard;color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:47.25pt"><u></u><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">  </span></span><u></u><strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">2019-12-04</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:-webkit-standard;color:black"> Competition portal for </span><strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">track 2 now open</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:-webkit-standard;color:black">! (<a href="https://competitions.codalab.org/competitions/22117" target="_blank">Codalab (T2)</a>)</span><span style="font-family:-webkit-standard;color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:83.25pt"><u></u><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black">o<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman""> </span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:-webkit-standard;color:black">Verify Tri-subjects (two-to-one, i.e., parents-child)</span><span style="font-family:-webkit-standard;color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:83.25pt"><u></u><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black">o<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman""> </span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:-webkit-standard;color:black">Father/Mother-Son; Father/Mother-Daughter.</span><span style="font-family:-webkit-standard;color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:47.25pt"><u></u><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">  </span></span><u></u><strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">2019-11-14</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:-webkit-standard;color:black"> Competition portal for </span><strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">track 1 now open</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:-webkit-standard;color:black">! (<a href="https://competitions.codalab.org/competitions/21843" target="_blank">Codalab (T1)</a>)</span><span style="font-family:-webkit-standard;color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:83.25pt"><u></u><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black">o<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman""> </span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:-webkit-standard;color:black">Verify Kinship (e.g., grandfather-to-granddaughter)</span><span style="font-family:-webkit-standard;color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:83.25pt"><u></u><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black">o<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman""> </span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:-webkit-standard;color:black">11 different pairwise types and largest set of pairs yet </span><span style="font-family:-webkit-standard;color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:47.25pt"><u></u><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">  </span></span><u></u><strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">2019-11-03</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:-webkit-standard;color:black"> Call for Papers (<a href="https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/RFIW2020/Submission/Index" target="_blank">submission link</a>)</span><span style="font-family:-webkit-standard;color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p><h2 align="center" style="margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;font-size:18pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;text-align:center"><span style="font-family:-webkit-standard;color:black">Call For Papers<u></u><u></u></span></h2><p><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:-webkit-standard;color:rgb(42,42,42)">Call for <b><i>general papers</i></b> and <b><i>Brave New Ideas</i></b> on original work in automatic kinship and or match the interest of the AMFG community. We added this to ignite the creativity of the community outside the controlled settings of evaluations-- where assessments are great for structuring problems such that researchers and practitioners have a testbed for fair comparisons of algorithms and reproducible experiments/analysis. However, this alone limits the scope of use-cases and studies on kinship, as seen in the visual domain, and beyond. Especially with the data made available with the latest version of FIW. We hope to see light shed on one or more of the following ways:</span><span style="font-family:-webkit-standard;color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:47.25pt"><u></u><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">  </span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:-webkit-standard;color:black">To advance the state-of-the-art for kinship verification and family classification.</span><span style="font-family:-webkit-standard;color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:47.25pt"><u></u><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">  </span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:-webkit-standard;color:black">To benchmark new tasks for FIW, like fine-grain classification, large-scale search, and retrieval, tri-subject verification.</span><span style="font-family:-webkit-standard;color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:47.25pt"><u></u><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">  </span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:-webkit-standard;color:black">To propose generative models for family photos, relative faces, photo albums, such.</span><span style="font-family:-webkit-standard;color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:47.25pt"><u></u><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">  </span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:-webkit-standard;color:black">To explore and understand multimodal uses of text captions accompanying the family photos of FIW.</span><span style="font-family:-webkit-standard;color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:47.25pt"><u></u><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">  </span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:-webkit-standard;color:black">To pitch cluster, multi-view, and various types of problems.</span><span style="font-family:-webkit-standard;color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:47.25pt"><u></u><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">  </span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:-webkit-standard;color:black">To treat kinship as a soft attribute for higher-level tasks (e.g., facial recognition, group understanding, social media analysis).</span><span style="font-family:-webkit-standard;color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:47.25pt"><u></u><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">  </span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:-webkit-standard;color:black">Much more.</span><span style="font-family:-webkit-standard;color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p><h2 align="center" style="margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;font-size:18pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;text-align:center"><span style="font-family:-webkit-standard;color:black">Previous RFIW Workshops<u></u><u></u></span></h2><p><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:-webkit-standard;color:black">Ever since the first RFIW Challenge Workshop as part of the</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Roboto,serif;color:black"> 2017 ACM MM in Mountain View, CA, USA, we have seen great progress. After three successful RFIWs (along with a recent Kaggle competition) and great research strides from the community, we aim for great leaps for this 4th edition. Let's continue to close the gap between research-and-reality for the highly applicable technology of automatic kinship recognition.</span><span style="font-family:-webkit-standard;color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Roboto,serif;color:black">Taking a look back, here are the homepages of previous RFIW are listed as follows: </span><span style="font-family:-webkit-standard;color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:-webkit-standard;color:black">RFIW2017: <a href="https://web.northeastern.edu/smilelab/RFIW2017/" target="_blank">https://web.northeastern.edu/smilelab/RFIW2017/</a> <br>RFIW2018: <a href="https://web.northeastern.edu/smilelab/RFIW2018/" target="_blank">https://web.northeastern.edu/smilelab/RFIW2018/</a> <br>RFIW2019:</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:-webkit-standard;color:rgb(42,42,42)"> </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:-webkit-standard;color:black"><a href="https://web.northeastern.edu/smilelab/RFIW2019/" target="_blank">https://web.northeastern.edu/smilelab/RFIW2019/</a></span><span style="font-family:-webkit-standard;color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:-webkit-standard;color:black">FIW on Kaggle, <a href="https://www.kaggle.com/c/Recognizing-Faces-in-the-Wild" target="_blank">https://www.kaggle.com/c/Recognizing-Faces-in-the-Wild</a></span><span style="font-family:-webkit-standard;color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p><h2 align="center" style="margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;font-size:18pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;text-align:center"><span style="font-family:-webkit-standard;color:black">Important Dates<u></u><u></u></span></h2><table border="0" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="0" width="500" style="width:375pt"><tbody><tr><td style="padding:0.75pt"></td><td style="padding:0.75pt"><p><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:-webkit-standard">Challenge ends: </span><strong><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">20</span></strong><strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> Jan 2020</span></strong><span style="font-family:-webkit-standard"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:-webkit-standard">Papers due:</span><strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> 28 Jan</span></strong><span style="font-family:-webkit-standard"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:-webkit-standard">Author notifications (i.e., oral or poster):</span><strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> 5 Feb </span></strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:-webkit-standard"> </span><span style="font-family:-webkit-standard"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:-webkit-standard">Camera Ready due:</span><strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> 26 Feb </span></strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:-webkit-standard"> </span><span style="font-family:-webkit-standard"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:-webkit-standard">Paper presentations & awards, 2020 FG Conference:</span><strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> May 18-22</span></strong><span style="font-family:-webkit-standard"><u></u><u></u></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table><h2 align="center" style="margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;font-size:18pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;text-align:center"><span style="font-family:-webkit-standard;color:black">People<u></u><u></u></span></h2><p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">Honorary Chairs</span></strong><span style="font-family:-webkit-standard;color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:47.25pt"><u></u><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">  </span></span><u></u><span class="gmail-m_1594726293962592459MsoHyperlink" style="color:rgb(5,99,193);text-decoration-line:underline"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:rgb(52,152,219)"><a href="http://users.umiacs.umd.edu/~rama/index.html" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:rgb(52,152,219)">Rama Chellappa</span></b></a></span></span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:-webkit-standard;color:black">, University of Maryland</span><span style="font-family:-webkit-standard;color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:47.25pt"><u></u><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">  </span></span><u></u><span class="gmail-m_1594726293962592459MsoHyperlink" style="color:rgb(5,99,193);text-decoration-line:underline"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:rgb(52,152,219)"><a href="https://www.ttic.edu/mturk" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:rgb(52,152,219)">Matthew A. Turk</span></b></a></span></span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:-webkit-standard;color:black">, Toyota Technical Institute of Chicago (TTIC)</span><span style="font-family:-webkit-standard;color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">General Chair</span></strong><span style="font-family:-webkit-standard;color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:47.25pt"><u></u><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">  </span></span><u></u><strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black"><a href="http://www1.ece.neu.edu/~yunfu/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:rgb(52,152,219)">Yun F</span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:rgb(52,152,219)">u</span></a></span></strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black">, Northeastern University, USA</span><span style="font-family:-webkit-standard;color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">Workshop Chairs</span></strong><span style="font-family:-webkit-standard;color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:47.25pt"><u></u><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">  </span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:-webkit-standard;color:black"><a href="http://www.jrobsvision.com/" target="_blank"><strong><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:rgb(52,152,219)">Joseph P. Robinson</span></strong></a></span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black">, Northeastern University, USA</span><span style="font-family:-webkit-standard;color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:47.25pt"><u></u><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">  </span></span><u></u><strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black"><a href="http://www.cis.umassd.edu/~mshao/" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(52,152,219)">Ming Shao</span></a></span></strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black">, University of Massachusetts (Dartmouth)</span><span style="font-family:-webkit-standard;color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:47.25pt"><u></u><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">  </span></span><u></u><span class="gmail-m_1594726293962592459MsoHyperlink" style="color:rgb(5,99,193);text-decoration-line:underline"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:rgb(52,152,219)"><a href="https://www.siyuxia.com/" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:rgb(52,152,219)">Siyu Xia</span></b></a></span></span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:-webkit-standard;color:black">, Southeast University (China)</span><span style="font-family:-webkit-standard;color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:47.25pt"><u></u><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">  </span></span><u></u><strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black">Mike Stopa</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black">, Konica Minolta</span><span style="font-family:-webkit-standard;color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:47.25pt"><u></u><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">  </span></span><u></u><strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black">Samson Timoner</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black">, ISMConnect</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:-webkit-standard;color:black"> </span><span style="font-family:-webkit-standard;color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:47.25pt"><u></u><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">  </span></span><u></u><strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black">Yu Yin</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black">, Northeastern University, USA</span><span style="font-family:-webkit-standard;color:black"> <u></u><u></u></span></p><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="1316" style="width:987pt"><tbody><tr><td style="padding:0.75pt"></td></tr></tbody></table><p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">Web and Publicity Co-Chair</span></strong><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:-webkit-standard;color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:47.25pt"><u></u><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">  </span></span><u></u><strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">Zaid Khan</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:-webkit-standard;color:black">, Northeastern University, USA</span><span style="font-family:-webkit-standard;color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p><h2 align="center" style="margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;font-size:18pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;text-align:center"><span style="font-family:-webkit-standard;color:bl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"font-family:-webkit-standard;color:black"><a href="mailto:robinson.jo@husky.neu.edu" title="mailto:robinson.jo@husky.neu.edu" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">robinson.jo@husky.neu.edu</span></a></span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(80,0,80)"><br></span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">Website: </span><span style="font-family:-webkit-standard;color:black"><a href="http://www.jrobsvision.com/" title="http://www.jrobsvision.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">www.jrobsvision.com</span></a></span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(80,0,80)"><br></span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">Cell: (978) 918-2701</span><span style="font-family:-webkit-standard;color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"> </span><span style="font-family:-webkit-standard;color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">Follow me on </span><span style="font-family:-webkit-standard;color:black"><a href="https://medium.com/@jvision" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(5,99,193)">Medium</span></a>!</span></p></div>