CALL FOR PAPERS

Second International Workshop on
Recognition, Analysis and Tracking of Faces and Gestures in Real-time Systems
(RATFG-RTS 2001)

In conjunction with ICCV 2001, Vancouver, Canada 13th July 2001. (Workshop 9)

The workshop is over. Thank you to all who attended or contributed to making it a successful workshop. We look forward to seeing you again at the next RATFG workshop. This will probably with ICCV 2003 in Beijing.

Summary

Many applications such as human-computer interaction, surveillance or video indexing require the accurate, detection and tracking of faces and hands, as well as recognition and interpretation of their gestures and recognition of the faces. Common to all these application fields is that they have to meet relatively fixed real-time demands. The workshop is intended to expand the scope of the ICCV conference to novel approaches in the area of face and hand gesture tracking and recognition, and the visual monitoring of human activity. The workshop will stress techniques and systems which tackle problems in real-time. A major goal of the workshop is to highlight and discuss the relevance of recent developments to industrial applications. We therefore encourage the participation of representatives from industry.

Programme

8:45	Welcome
9:00	Invited talk by Dr. Hans Peter Graf Sample-based Synthesis of Talking Heads
9:50	A. Tal Reconstruction of Movies of Facial Expressions S.-H.Lai An Integrated Approach to 3D Face Model Reconstruction from Video
10:40	Break
11:00	Invited talk by Prof. Rama Chellappa Tracking with Attributes Using Probabilistic Techniques
11:50	N. Shimada Real-time 3-D Hand Posture Estimation based on 2-D Appearance Retrieval Using Monocular Camera Y. Li Video-based online face recognition using identity surfaces
12:40	Lunch
14:00	Invited talk by Prof. Matthew Turk Why Eigenfaces (don't) Work
14:50	F. de la Torre Automatic Learning of Appearance Face Models S. Li Nonlinear Mapping of Multi-View Face Patterns Into a Zero Mean Gaussian Distribution in a Low Dimensional Space
15:40	Break
16:00	Luo Ruijiang Real-Time Stereo Tracking of Multiple Moving Heads F. Kjeldsen Facial Gestures J. Ahlberg Using the Active Appearance Algorithm for Face and Facial Feature Tracking
17:15	Poster & Demo introduction talks (2min each), poster session & demos.
18:30	Buffet.(posters and demos continue)

Posters:

Head and Hands 3D Tracking in Real Time by the EM Algorithm
O. Bernier, D. Collobert
Dynamic Time Warping for Off-line Recognition of a Small Gesture Vocabulary
A. Corradini
Signer-Independent Sign Language Recognition Based on SOFM/HMM
G. Fang, W. Gao, J. Ma
Boosting for Fast Face Recognition
G.-D. Guo, H.-J. Zhang
A Vision-based Microphone Switch for Speech Intent Detection
G. Iyengar, C. Neti
Face Detection Utilizing Audio and Video Cues
B. Kapralos, M. Jenkin, E. Milios, J.K. Tsotsos
Efficient Real-Time Face Tracking in Wavelet Subspace
R.S. Feris, R.M. Cesar Jr., V. Kruger
GMM Hand Color Classication and Mean Shift Tracking
T. Kurata, T. Okuma, M. Kourogi, K. Sakaue
Independent View-Subspace Analysis of Multi-View Face Patterns
S. Z. Li, X.-G. Lv, H.-J. Zhang
Fast Hand Gesture Recognition for Real-Time Teleconferencing Applications
W. J. MacLean, R. Herpers, C.Pantofaru, L. Wood, K. Derpanis, D.Topalovic, J. Tsotsos
Learning Visual Models of Social Engagement
B. A. Singletary, T.E. Starner
Hybrid Face Recognition Systems for Profile Views Using The MUGSHOT Database
F. Wallhoff, S. Muller, G.Rigoll
Auto Clustering for Unsupervised Learning of Atomic Gesture Components
M. Walter, A. Psarrou, S. Gong
Facial Expression Recognition Using Continuous Dynamic Programming
H. Zhang, Y. Guo
Robust Facial Feature Point Detection Under Nonlinear Illuminations
J.-H. Lai, P.C. Yuen, W.S. Chen, S. Lao M. Kawade
A Stabilized Adaptive Appearance Changes Model for 3D Head Tracking
Z. Zivkovic, F. Van der Heijden

Scope

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

Localization and tracking of faces and hands
Face recognition
Localization and recognition of facial features and action units. Facial expression detection and interpretation.
Dynamics and learning for gesture interpretation
Applications of face and hand gesture recognition
Applications in the area of teleconferencing and distance learning
Retrieval of faces in video sequences
Video compression of facial and body movements, particularly in MPEG4 encoders.
Tracking of people, surveillance and visual interpretation of human movements.

Instructions to authors

Oral presentations are assigned 25 minutes. Authors should allow some time for questions.
An LCD projector will be available for those presenters bringing their own computer.
An overhead transparency projector will also be available.

Poster presentations will be on the same boards as used for ICCV posters
The display space for each poster will be 6 feet (1.8 meters) wide by 4 feet (1.2 meters) high. The display boards will be made of cork and we will provide push pins to attach your posters (no tape allowed).
Poster presenters will have the opportunity to give an overview of their work in a two minute oral presentation, using a maximum of two or three foils (no laptop projections).

Invited speakers

The workshop will include invited talks from the following:

Hans Peter Graf	AT&T Labs Research
Matthew Turk	University of California, Santa Barbara
Rama Chellappa	University of Maryland

The following spoke at RATFG-RTS 1999:

Bill Freeman MERL, USA;
James Crowley INRIA, France;
Dimitris Metaxas, University of Pennsylvania;
Thomas Vetter, MPI Fuer Biol. Kybernetik, Germany.

Proceedings

Proceedings will be published by the IEEE, and camera-ready papers will have to meet their guidelines. Electronic submission of final papers will be necessary.

Important dates

Papers due	6 February 2001.
Notification of acceptance	22 March 2001.
Camera ready copy due to aws(AT)watson.ibm.com	18 April 2001.
Workshop	13 July 2001.

Demonstrations

We will have a number of demonstrations of face and gesture systems. Please contact The demonstration chair: Markus Michaelis if you would like to bring a demonstration of your system.

Organizing committee

Andrew Senior.	IBM Research, USA.
Rainer Herpers	Fachhochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg, Germany.
Markus Michaelis	Plettac Electronics & INRIA Rhone-Alpes.
W. James MacLean	University of Toronto, Canada.

Sponsorship

We are very pleased to receive very generous sponsorship from

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and administrative support from

Programme committee

H.P. Graf	AT&T Labs Research
S. Gong	Queen Mary & Westfield College, London.
J. Crowley	I.N.P. Grenoble, General Chair FG 2000
D.N. Metaxas	Vision, Analysis and Simulation Technologies Laboratory, University of Pennsylvania
S. Kollias	National Technical University of Athens
F. Kjeldsen	IBM Research
J. Ferryman	Reading University, UK.
G. Sommer	University of Kiel.
A. Stoschek	Infineon Technologies, Corporate Research.
M. Turk	University of California, Santa Barbara.
J. J. Atick/P.Griffin	C.E.O./C.T.O, Visionics Corporation.
S. Clippingdale	NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation) Science & Technology Research Labs.
G. Iyengar	IBM Research
F. Weber	Cognitec AG
A. Hampapur	IBM Research
C.Wren	MERL Cambridge, USA

Web page

The workshop web page is at http://www.research.ibm.com/people/a/aws/ratfg/ and is being updated regularly. Please check back here for more information.

Note: All email addresses are mangled. substitute `@' for (AT)

Andrew Senior aws(AT)watson.ibm.com

Last modified: Thu Aug 9 12:11:27 EDT 2001

Bill Freeman	MERL, USA;
James Crowley	INRIA, France;
Dimitris Metaxas,	University of Pennsylvania;
Thomas Vetter,	MPI Fuer Biol. Kybernetik, Germany.