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Call for Papers
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Second Workshop on  Face Processing in Video (FPiV'05)
 
jointly with

Canadian conferences on Artificial Intelligence / Graphics Interface /
Computer & Robot Vision (AI/GI/CRV'2005).

Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
May 9-12, 2005, 

 
Conference web-site: http://www.visioninterface.net/fpiv05 
  

Important dates:
 
January 21, 2005 - Full Paper Submission  
February 14, 2005 - Notification to acceptance 
March 7th, 2005 - Final camera ready paper (to appear in Proceedings)    
                       


Workshop Organizer and Submission Chair:

Dmitry O. Gorodnichy, IIT-ITI, NRC-CNRC, Canada
Email: fpiv05@visioninterface.net

Program Chair: 

Aleix M. Martinez, Ohio State U., USA
Email: fpiv05.chair@visioninterface.net


Program Committee:

Marian S. Barlett, Institute for Neural Computation, USA
Rama Chellappa, UMD, USA
Ralf Gross, CMU, USA
Thomas Huang, University of Illinois
Laurent Itti, U. of Southern California, USA
Anil Jain, Michigan State University
Stan Z. Li, Microsoft Research, China 
Michael J. Lyons, ATR, Japan 
Marc Parizeau, U. Laval, Canada 
Maximilian Riesenhuber, Georgetown U., USA 
Matthew Turk, UCSB, USA 
Lijun Yin, SUNY at Binghamton, USA 


Aims and Layout:

Following the rapid development of the video-based technologies and the
success of the First Workshop on Face Processing in Video (FPiV'04) which
was held in Washington, DC, jointly with CVPR'04, the Second Workshop on
Face Processing in Video (FpiV'05) will be held in 2005 in Victoria, British
Columbia, Canada. This time it will be held under the umbrella of  CRV'2005
- the Canadian Conference on Computer & Robot Vision (formerly Vision
Interface), which is the oldest international conference on Computer Vision
and Pattern Recognition annually held in Canada. As many of its
predecessors, CRV'05 will be held jointly  with AI 2005 and GI 2005:
(Canadian conferences on Artificial Intelligence / Graphics Interface).  The
FPiV'05 workshop attendees will have therefore opportunity to attend all
three conferences.

The goal of the workshop is to provide a forum for scientists from different
backgrounds: biological vision, computer vision, pattern recognition,
machine learning, computer-human interaction - to share their experiences
and discuss the problems in the area of Face Processing in Video,  and, as a
result, to produce a collection of high-quility papers addressing these
problems.


Workshop proceedings. 
  
The papers accepted for the workshop will be published by IEEE as part of
the CRV'05  Proceedings and will be archived into the IEEE digital
libraries.  


Registration and attendance: 

- Participation in the FPiV'05 workshop without submitting a paper is
welcomed. 
- For a single registration fee, the workshop particants will also be able
to attend the joint conferences.
- Conversely, the FPiV'05 Workshop is open to all AI/GI/CRV'2005 attendees.

Submission: 

Any paper analyzing video for the presence of information about faces is
welcomed for submission. However , the preference will be given to those
papers which clearly indicate in the abstract a) what is a challenging
problem the paper addresses and b) what the paper contributions are.
Application-oriented papers are as much welcome as theoretical papers. 

The suggested research areas are listed below (from theory-driven to
application-driven), but other topics dealing with the face in video
scenario are welcome.

neurobiological and neuro-computational approaches to visual perception and
recognition
synergy between biological and computer vision
face segmentation and detection in video
face tracking and multiple faces tracking
face memorization, classification recognition from video
face biometrics and face modeling, 3d face models
facial features for tracking and recognition
face representation, canonical face models, face in video databases 
face synthesis, mimicking and animation 
facial expression recognition and classification, and representation
fusing different modalities of video information (motion, colour, intensity)
performance evaluation for face in video problems
face detection/tracking/recognition in multi-camera setups including stereo
face detection/tracking/recognition in panoramic video
combining video and audio for speaker face detection/tracking/recognition
face-based multi-media, games, and computer-human interaction 
perceptual face-controlled interfaces
face processing for video-conferencing
face processing for avatars and computer-generated communication programs
face processing for immersive and collaborative environments
face processing for industry for disabled 
face processing for augmented and virtualized reality
face processing for security and surveillance 
face processing for encoding and annotating video 

 

Submission and reviewing procedure:  

Papers should be full size and complete, eight double-column pages maximum.
They should not include any information that would indicate the author's
identity (references to authors' previous work should be left blank). 

Papers should be  formatted using the IEEE paper submission guidelines
described in the Author Instructions page and submitted by email as .pdf
file to the Submissions Chair.

Reviewing will be blind. Each paper will be reviewed by at least three
Program Committee members. The goal is to have as vigorous and fair
reviewing of all papers as possible.


Venue:

Vancouver island where the city of Victoria is situated, is one of the most
spectacular places in Canada, while Victoria itself, one of the oldest
cities in Canada, is considered to be one of the Canadian gems. The workshop
and joint conferences will be held on the campus of the University of
Victoria. 

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