<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=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="gmail-templateContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; max-width: 600px;"><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td valign="top" id="gmail-templateHeader" style="border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px" class=""><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="gmail-mcnTextBlock" style="border-collapse:collapse;min-width:100%"><tbody class="gmail-mcnTextBlockOuter"><tr class=""><td valign="top" class="gmail-mcnTextBlockInner" style="padding-top:9px"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="gmail-mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse:collapse;max-width:100%;min-width:100%"><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td valign="top" class="gmail-mcnTextContent" style="word-break:break-word;color:rgb(32,32,32);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:16px;line-height:24px;padding:0px 18px 9px"><h1 style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:26px;line-height:32.5px" class="">Call for Tutorials @FG2020</h1></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr class=""><td valign="top" id="gmail-templateBody" style="border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px" class=""><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="gmail-mcnTextBlock" style="border-collapse:collapse;min-width:100%"><tbody class="gmail-mcnTextBlockOuter"><tr class=""><td valign="top" class="gmail-mcnTextBlockInner" style="padding-top:9px"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="gmail-mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse:collapse;max-width:100%;min-width:100%"><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td valign="top" class="gmail-mcnTextContent" style="word-break:break-word;color:rgb(32,32,32);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:16px;line-height:24px;padding:0px 18px 9px"><p style="margin:10px 0px;padding:0px;line-height:24px" 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.</p><p style="margin:10px 0px;padding:0px;line-height:24px" 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).</p><p style="margin:10px 0px;padding:0px;line-height:24px" 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.</p><p style="margin:10px 0px;padding:0px;line-height:24px" class=""><strong class="">A tutorial proposal should include:</strong></p><ul class=""><li class="">Tutorial title</li><li class="">Proposer’s contact information and short CV</li><li class="">Names of any additional lecturers and short CV</li><li class="">Tutorial description and description of the relevance to the FG community</li><li class="">References and experience of the instructors with respect to the proposed tutorial topic</li><li class="">Preferred length (half day or full day)</li><li class="">List of relevant tutorials recently presented in other conferences</li><li class="">Requirements (e.g., facilities, Internet access, etc.)</li><li class="">Other useful information (e.g., estimated attendance, slides/notes available, etc.). </li></ul><p style="margin:10px 0px;padding:0px;line-height:24px" 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" style="color:rgb(0,124,137)" class="">workshops@fg2020.org</a>.</p><p style="margin:10px 0px;padding:0px;line-height:24px" class="">For your reference, below is a list of tutorials held in conjunction with FG2019:</p><ul class=""><li class=""><a href="http://fg2019.org/participate/workshops-and-tutorials/3d-human-pose-understanding/" class="">3D Human pose understanding</a> – Guido Borghi, Simone Calderara, Rita Cucchiara, Roberto Vezzani</li><li class=""><a href="http://fg2019.org/participate/workshops-and-tutorials/face-recognition-from-academia-to-industry-past-present-and-future/" class="">Face Recognition from Academia to Industry: Past, Present, and Future</a> – Guosheng Hu, Yandong Guo, Lei Zhang</li><li class=""><a href="http://fg2019.org/participate/workshops-and-tutorials/introduction-to-deep-learning-for-facial-and-gesture-understanding/" class="">Introduction to Deep Learning for Facial and Gesture Understanding</a> – Raymond W. Ptucha</li><li class=""><a href="http://fg2019.org/participate/workshops-and-tutorials/visual-recognition-of-families-in-the-wild/" class="">Visual Recognition of Families In the Wild</a> – Joseph P Robinson, Ming Shao, Siyu Xia, Yun Fu</li><li class=""><a href="http://fg2019.org/participate/workshops-and-tutorials/adversarial-learning-in-face-recognition-two-sides-of-the-security-coin/" class="">Adversarial Learning in Face Recognition – Two Sides of the Security Coin</a> – Mayank Vatsa </li></ul><p style="margin:10px 0px;padding:0px;line-height:24px" class=""><strong class="">Review process</strong></p><p style="margin:10px 0px;padding:0px;line-height:24px" 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.</p><div style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 24px;" class=""> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p style="margin:10px 0px;padding:0px;line-height:24px" class=""><strong class="">Submission process</strong></p><p style="margin:10px 0px;padding:0px;line-height:24px" class="">Tutorial proposals must be sent in PDF format to the FG2020 Workshop and Tutorial Co-chairs at <a href="mailto:workshops@fg2020.org" style="color:rgb(0,124,137)" class="">workshops@fg2020.org</a> with email subject “FG2020 Tutorial Proposal: [title of your tutorial]”.</p><div style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 24px;" class=""> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p style="margin:10px 0px;padding:0px;line-height:24px" class=""><strong class="">Important Dates:</strong></p><ul class=""><li class="">Tutorial proposals due (<strong class="">extended!</strong>):<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><span style="color:rgb(255,0,0)" class="">February 14th, 2020</span></li><li class="">Notification of acceptance: February 24, 2020</li><li class="">Workshops and tutorials: May 18 and May 22, 2020</li></ul><p style="margin:10px 0px;padding:0px;line-height:24px" class=""><strong class=""> </strong></p><p style="margin:10px 0px;padding:0px;line-height:24px" class=""><strong class="">Contact</strong></p><p style="margin:10px 0px;padding:0px;line-height:24px" class="">For further questions, please contact the Workshops and Tutorials Chairs (<a href="mailto:workshops@fg2020.org" class="">workshops@fg2020.org</a>):</p><ul class=""><li class="">Àgata Lapedriza, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya and MIT.</li><li class="">Carlos Busso, University of Texas at Dallas.</li></ul></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></div>
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