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<h3 dir="ltr" style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Call for Papers – Special Session SMILE (FG 2026)</span></h3>
<p style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b>SMILE: Silent Motion Interpretation and Lip-based Evaluation</b></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Silent Motion Interpretation and Lip-based Evaluation (SMILE) is a Special Session at the</span><span style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 600;"> 20th
IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition </span><span style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">dedicated to the analysis, modeling, and evaluation of
<b>lip-centric and silent visual communication</b>.<br>
The session aims to bring together researchers working on visual speech, silent interaction, lip-motion-based biometrics, and related human-centered AI technologies, with a strong focus on
<b>audio-free or lip-dominant modalities</b>.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">SMILE welcomes original research contributions addressing theoretical advances, methodological innovations,
evaluation protocols, and real-world applications related to silent motion understanding and lip-based analysis.</span></p>
<h4 style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Topics of Interest (include, but are not limited to):</span></h4>
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<p role="presentation">Silent and audio-visual lip reading</p>
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<p role="presentation">Visual speech recognition and lip-based expression analysis</p>
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<p role="presentation">Lip-motion-based biometric identification and authentication</p>
</li><li style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
<p role="presentation">Sign language recognition enriched with lip-motion cues</p>
</li><li style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
<p role="presentation">Evaluation methodologies, benchmarks, and dataset bias analysis</p>
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<p role="presentation">Generative, self-supervised, and cross-modal learning for lip features</p>
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<p role="presentation">Robust lip reading under occlusion, pose, and illumination variations</p>
</li><li style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
<p role="presentation">Human-centered, assistive, and accessibility-oriented AI systems</p>
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<p role="presentation">Deepfake generation and detection based on lip motion and facial dynamics</p>
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<p role="presentation">3D modeling and reconstruction of lip, face, and head motion</p>
</li></ul>
<h4 style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Important Dates:</span></h4>
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<p role="presentation"><b>Abstract submission deadline:</b> <b>January 9, 2026</b></p>
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<p role="presentation"><b>Paper submission deadline:</b> <b>January 15, 2026</b></p>
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<p style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Accepted papers will be published in the
<b>IEEE FG 2026 proceedings (IEEE Xplore)</b>.<br>
The session is closely aligned with the Silent Lipreading research community and related benchmarking initiatives.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">For further information, please refer to the SMILE Special Session description
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https://fg2026.ieee-biometrics.org</a></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">We apologize for any duplicate messages you may receive through different mailing lists.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Organizers: </span></p>
<p style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Georgia Fargetta, University of Catania</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Giulia Orrù, University of Cagliari</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Massimo Orazio Spata, University of Catania</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Alessandro Ortis, University of Catania</span></p>
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