CFP: ECCV10 Workshop: Sign Gesture & Activity

International Workshop on Sign Gesture and Activity 2010

Saturday September 11, 2010, Hersonissos, Heraklion, Crete, Greece in conjunction with ECCV 2010.

www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Personal/R.Bowden/SGA2010

Topic: The workshop will bring together researchers from vision, learning and related areas to present and discuss the recognition of spatio-

temporal motion of people across a broad range of application areas ranging from sign language recognition through to gesture and activity.

Important Dates:

Submission deadlines: Wed, 16th June 2010

Acceptance decisions: Thurs, 8th July 2010

Camera-ready papers: Tue, 13th July 2010

The list of topics will include (but are not limited to):

• Continuous Sign Language Recognition & analysis

• Non-Manual Features and Facial expression recognition

• Feature Extraction for recognition

• Human torso tracking and modelling

• Hand Shape Classification

• Gesture Recognition

• Activity and Action Recognition

• Facial expression analysis

• Lip Reading

• Fusion methods for Recognition

• Multimodal human behaviour analysis

• Non Verbal Communication

• Affective Computing

• Hand and Face Tracking

• Corpora for training and testing

• Semi-automatic corpora annotation tools

• Probabilistic sequence modelling

Invited Speakers: Ivan Laptev, INRIA, France, Dimitris Metaxas, Rutgers, USA

Workshop organisers: Richard Bowden, Uni of Surrey, UK < r.bowden@surrey.ac.uk>

Philippe Dreuw, RWTH Aachen Uni, DE

Petros Maragos, NTUA, Greece,

Justus Piater, Uni of Liège, Belgium,

Submission site: https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/SGA2010

Workshop site: http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Personal/R.Bowden/SGA2010

Main Conference site: http://www.ics.forth.gr/eccv2010/intro.php