(Call for workshop proposals is now over, but is still available for a reference here)
Heterogeneous Face Recognition (HFR 2017)
Website: https://sites.google.com/site/fghfr17/home
Organizers: Saquib Sarfraz, Rainer Stiefelhagen, Shuowen (Sean) Hu, Ben Riggan, Nathan Short
An emerging topic in face recognition is matching between heterogeneous image modalities. Coined heterogeneous face recognition (HFR), the scenario offers potential solutions to many difficult face recognition applications. Heterogeneous face recognition can involve matching between any two imaging modalities (e.g. infrared to visible, video to still images, 3D to 2D). This workshop is among the first to solicit proposals and provide a platform to bring together the face recognition community in specifically addressing the challenges and applications of heterogeneous face recognition. The workshop will serve as a venue for government & industry representatives and law enforcement agencies to interact with academics on this emerging area of biometrics research.
Keynote Speakers: Dr. Chris Boehnen, Professor Guillermo Sapiro
Deadline for Paper Submission: Feb. 2, 2017
First International Workshop on Adaptive Shot Learning for Gesture Understanding and Production (ASL4GUP 2017)
website: https://engineering.purdue.edu/ASL4GUP/
The schedule for this workshop is available here.
organizers : Juan Wachs, Richard Voyles, Susan Fussell, Isabelle Guyon, Sergio Escalera
In the aim of natural interaction with machines, a framework must be developed to include the adaptability humans portray to understand gestures from context, from a single observation or from multiple observations. This is also referred as adaptive shot learning – the ability to adapt the mechanism of recognition to a barely seen gesture, well-known or entirely unknown. Of particular interest to the community are zero-shot and one-shot learning, given that most work has been done in the N-shot learning scenario. The workshop aims to encourage works that focus on the way in which humans produce gestures – the kinematic and biomechanical characteristics, and the cognitive process involved when perceiving, remembering and replicating them.
Keynotes: Susan Goldin-Meadow, Philippe Schyns, and Aleix Martinez
deadline for paper submission: Feb. 1, 2017 Feb. 8, 2017 Feb 16th, 2017
Biometrics in the Wild (Bwild 2017)
Website: http://luks.fe.uni-lj.si/bwild17
Organizers: Bir Bhanu, Abdenour Hadid, Qiang Ji, Mark Nixon, Vitomir Štruc
Research on biometric recognition has long been focused on recognition from biometric data captured in ideal conditions. With recent advances in computer vision and machine learning the research focus shifted away from controlled laboratory conditions to unconstrained settings, where the variability of the captured biometric data is significantly higher and automatic recognition is a far more challenging task. Due to the countless deployment possibilities in security applications, surveillance, social media, consumer electronics or border control, biometric recognition in unconstrained settings, nowadays often referred to as »biometrics in the wild«, increasingly attracts interest from universities, government agencies as well as private companies, and represents a highly active area of research. The goal of this workshop is to present the most recent and advanced work related to biometric recognition in the wild and bring together researchers and practitioners working on problems related to unconstrained biometrics. Submitted papers should clearly demonstrate improvements over the existing state-of-the-art and use the most challenging datasets available. The workshop is interested in all parts of biometric systems ranging from detection/segmentation, landmark localization, pre-processing, and feature extraction techniques to modeling and classification approaches capable of operating on biometric data captured in the wild.
Keynote speaker: Ioannis A. Kakadiaris
Deadline for paper submission: Jan. 27, 2017 February 6th, 2017.