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FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS
            2008 IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition

September 17-19, 2008  Amsterdam, The Netherlands
(FG-2008)   www.fg2008.nl
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The IEEE conference series on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition
is the premier international forum for state of the art image and
video-based biometric gesture and body movement recognition. Each year
the FG conference plays an important role in shaping related
scientific, academic, and higher-education programs.

The 2008 conference will be held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, in De
Rode Hoed, a former Remonstrant church built in 1616 and located in
the heart of Amsterdam's historic district.

This year, we are especially soliciting papers discussing Enabling
Behavioral and Contextual Human-Machine Interfaces in areas including
behavioral and affective computing, multimodal and context-sensitive
interfaces, vision-based human robot interaction, and ambient
intelligence. General conference topics will include:

    * Face Recognition/Analysis (tracking/detection, recognition, expression analysis, 3D analysis)
    * Gesture Recognition/Analysis (gesture interpretation, head tracking, arm/limb and body analysis/tracking)
    * Body Motion Analysis (human motion analysis, gait recognition, 3d movement and gait analysis)
    * Psychological Analysis (face recognition, gesture recognition and variation, face and body movement)
    * Technologies (sensors, feature analysis, fusion of modalities, biometric and surveillance applications)

The program will be single track with posters.

IMPORTANT DATES

March 22, 2008: Deadline for submission of regular papers.

March 22, 2008: Deadline for submission of extended abstracts for demos.

May 31, 2008: Acceptance notification

July 1, 2008: Final camera-ready papers due in electronic form.

 For more information about the conference see the Call of Papers
(http://www.fg2008.nl/pages/cfp-fg2008.pdf) and check www.fg2008.nl

 

Conference Chairs

Jeffrey Cohn, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Thomas S. Huang, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Maja Pantic, Imperial College London, UK / University of Twente, Netherlands
Nicu Sebe, University of Amsterdam, NL

Finance Chair

Emile Hendriks, Delft University of Technology, NL

Special Sessions / Panel Chairs

Vladimir Pavlovic, Rutgers University, USA
Matthew Turk, Univ. of California at Santa Barbara, USA

Demos / Visual Proceedings Chair

Ioannis Patras, Queen Mary University of London, UK

Publicity Chairs

Aleix Martinez, Ohio State University, USA
Fernando de la Torre, Carnegie Mellon University, USA

European Liaisons

Josef Kittler, University of Surrey, UK
Mark Nixon, University of Southampton, UK

Asian Liaisons

Toshi Kato, Chuo University, Tokyo, Japan
Seong-Whan Lee, Korea University, Korea

USA Liaisons

Javier Movellan, Univ. of California in San Diego, USA
Alex Pentland, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

Web Masters / Publication Chairs

Ferdinand Beljaars / Pyrrhos Stathis, Fyper VOF, Delft, NL

Local Arrangements/Social activities

Marianne Dijkmans, SPITZ Congres & Event, The Hague, NL