Call for Paper Conference

IEEE International Workshop on

Analysis and Modeling of Faces and Gestures (AMFG2010), in conjunction with CVPR 2010

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IEEE International Workshop on Analysis and Modeling of Faces and Gestures (AMFG2010)

--- Towards Large-Scale Data from Real-World Environments

Website: http://www.lv-nus.org/AMFG2010/

During the last 30 years, human-centered perceptual understanding tasks such as face/body detection/ tracking, facial characteristic analysis (e.g., age, gender, ethnicity, and expression), face/gait based human identification, and from understanding simple hand gesture to complex human body language, activity and behaviour, have attracted researchers from both computational and psychological communities. To be able to build tractable models has significant scientific and practical values. For example, human-computer interaction, video indexing, visual surveillance, and Internet vision are active application areas. To that end, researchers have made substantial progress. However, significant challenges still remain.

This one-day workshop (AMFG2010) will provide a focused international forum to bring together researchers and research groups to review the status of recognition, analysis and modeling of face, gesture, and body, to discuss the challenges that we are facing, and to explore future directions. A particular interest and focus of this workshop will be placed upon large-scale data from real-world environments. The workshop will consist of two to three invited talks together with peer-reviewed regular papers (oral and poster). Original high-quality papers are solicited on a wide range of topics including:

• Face and body language recognition in real-world environments with unknown/changing background, e.g., Internet image search, or Facebook, or crowded public spaces.

• Soft biometrics and profiling: age, gender, and ethnicity classification by facial and/or body descriptions.

• Novel mathematical modelling and algorithms, sensors and modalities for face & body gesture/action representation, analysis and recognition.

• Novel applications based on robust detection, tracking and recognition of face, body and action.

• Psychological studies that can assist in understanding computational modelling and building better automated computer vision systems.

• Motion analysis, tracking and extraction of face and body models from image sequences captured by a single or multiple cameras from either a fixed or mobile platform.

• Detection and recognition of face and body under large 3D rotation, illumination change, partial occlusion, and aging.

• Face, gait and action recognition in low-quality, low-resolution video from fixed or mobile cameras.

• Dynamics and learning for gesture, activity, and body behavior interpretation.

Important Dates:

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1. Paper Submission: Mar 10, 2010

2. Notification of Acceptance: Apr 07, 2010

3. Camera-ready Version: Apr 14, 2010

4. Workshop Date: Jun 14, 2010

Workshop Co-Chairs:

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• Wen-Yi Zhao, Intuitive Surgical, Inc.

• Xiaoou Tang, Chinese University of Hong Kong

• Shaogang Gong, Queen Mary University of London

• Shuicheng Yan, National University of Singapore

WCCM / APCOM2010 - 9th World Congress on Computational Mechanics &
4th Asian Pacific Congress on Computational Mechanics in 2010
19-23 July, 2010, Sydney, Australia
http://wccm2010.com

We would appreciate if you could distribute this information by your
colleagues and co-workers.

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Dear Colleague,

Within the WCCM / APCOM2010 - 9th World Congress on Computational Mechanics
and 4th Asian Pacific Congress on Computational Mechanics in 2010
(http://wccm2010.com), to be held in Sydney, Australia, on 19-23 July, 2010,
we are organizing the Mini-Symposium on “Computational Methods in Image
Processing and Analysis - MS9031”.
Due to your research activities in the related fields, we would like to
invite you to submit an invited abstract to our mini-symposium. Your
contribution is mostly welcomed, and we would be honoured if you could
accept this invitation.

TOPICS OF INTEREST (not restricted to):

- Image Processing and Analysis;
- Image Restoration, Compression, Segmentation and Description;
- Object Modelling, Tracking, Matching, Recognition and Reconstruction;
- Visual Inspection;
- 3D Vision;
- Medical Imaging;
- Simulation and Animation;
- Software Development for Image Processing and Analysis;
- High Performance Computing in Image Processing and Analysis;
- Applications of Image Processing and Analysis.

IMPORTANT DATES:

Deadline for one page abstracts: December 15, 2009;
Acceptance of abstracts: January 30, 2010;
Deadline for draft papers for review: February 28, 2010;
Deadline for final papers: March 31, 2010.

ABSTRACT SUBMISSION:

Please go to the abstract submission page (http://wccm2010.com/authors.htm)
and select the Mini-Symposium on “Computational Methods in Image Processing
and Analysis - MS9031”.

With kind regards,

João Manuel R. S. Tavares, University of Porto, Portugal, tavares@fe.up.pt
Renato Natal Jorge, University of Porto, Portugal, rnatal@fe.up.pt
Yongjie Zhang, Carnegie Mellon University, USA, jessicaz@andrew.cmu.edu
Dinggang Shen, UNC-CH School of Medicine, USA, dgshen@med.unc.edu
(Organizers of the Mini-Symposium on “Computational Methods in Image
Processing and Analysis - MS9031”)

24-25 September 2009, Toledo - Spain
http://www.ifi.uio.no/flacos09


The ability to negotiate contracts for a wide range of aspects and to provide services conforming to them is a most pressing need in service-oriented architectures. High-level models of contracts are making their way into service-oriented architectures, but application developers are still left to their own devices when it comes to writing code that will comply with a contract concluded just before service provisioning. At the programming language level, contracts appear as separate concerns that cut across application logic, while analysis requires that contracts are abstracted from applications to become amenable to formal reasoning using formal language techniques. The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners working on language-based solutions to the above issues through formalization of contracts, design of appropriate abstraction mechanisms, and formal analysis of contract languages and software.

The workshop will consist mainly of a number of presentations by invited speakers. A small number of additional sessions will be reserved for other researchers in the field who are encouraged to submit a short abstract of their work as an expression of interest in participating in the workshop by 8 June 2009. The number of participants in the workshop is strictly limited.

The previous editions of the workshop were held in Oslo in 2007 (FLACOS'07) and Malta in 2008 (FLACOS'08). The FLACOS workshops are partially supported by Nordunet3, under the project COSoDIS.


IMPORTANT DATES

Paper Submission Deadline: 8 June 2009
Notification of Acceptance: 15 June 2009
Registration Closes: 15 August 2009
WORKSHOP: 24-25 September 2009


SCOPE

Topics of the workshop include (but are not limited to):

• Formal languages for contracts
• Contract-oriented software development
• Formal analysis of contracts, including static analysis, run-time verification, and model checking techniques
• Contract synthesis
• Contract transformation and contract refinement
• Contract negotiation, discovery and monitoring

INVITED PARTICIPANTS

• Gilles Barthe, IMDEA Software, Spain
• Antonio Maña, University of Málaga, Spain
• Ugo Montanari, Universita' di Pisa, Italy
  
• Wolfgang Reisig, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlina, Germany
• Alfonso Ríos, Maat G Knowledge, Spain
• Kaisa Sere, Åbo Akademi University, Finland
• Martin Wirsing, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany
• More to be announced...

SUBMISSIONS

Authors wishing to give a talk at the workshop are invited to submit an extended abstract of their work (3-8 pages, in PDF format, one column, without page numbers, and printable on A4 paper) to flacos-09@dsi.uclm.es by 8 June 2009. Submission of work submitted for formal publication elsewhere and work in progress is permitted.

The abstracts of the accepted contributions will be available at the workshop. After the workshop, selected papers will be published in a special issue of the Journal of Logic and Algebraic Programming (Elsevier), following the standard reviewing process of the journal.


REGISTRATION INFORMATION

• More information to follow.