<html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <style type="text/css" style="display:none;"> P {margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;} </style> </head> <body dir="ltr"> <div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> <span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Dear Colleagues,</span><br> </div> <div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> <br> </div> <div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> <span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Please find below the invitation to contribute to: </span></div> <div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> <br> </div> <div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> <span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">(1) the Affective Behavior Analysis in-the-wild Competition-Challenge</span></div> <div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> <span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">and/or</span></div> <div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> <span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">(2) the Affect Recognition in-the-wild: Uni/Multi-Modal Analysis Workshop,</span></div> <div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br> </span></div> <div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">to be held in conjunction with the IEEE Automatic Face and </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Gesture Recognition (FG) Conference 2020 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, 18-22 May 2020.</span><br> </div> <div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> <span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></div> <div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> <span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important;">(1): </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The Competition is split into three Challenges-Tracks, which are based, for the first time, on the same database, Aff-Wild2, which is </span><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">the first comprehensive benchmark for the three affect recognition tasks in-the-wild: </span></span></span></span></div> <div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">i) </span></span></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"> dimensional affect recognition (valence and arousal estimation), </span></div> <div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;">ii) categorical affect classification (seven basic expression classification) </span></div> <div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;">and </span></div> <div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;">iii) facial action unit detection</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font face="Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Aff-Wild2 is an audiovisual database of 564 videos of around 2.8M frames. </span></font></div> <div style="text-align: justify; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font face="Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br> </span></font></div> <div style="text-align: justify; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font face="Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: start"> <span style="margin: 0px; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important">Participants are invited to participate in one or more of these C</span><span style="margin: 0px; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important">hallenges. </span></div> </span></font></div> <div style="text-align: justify; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">There will be one winner per Challenge-Track; the winners are expected to contribute a paper describing their approach, methodology and results; the accepted winning papers will be part of the</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> IEEE FG 2020 proceedings; all other <span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important"><span style="margin: 0px; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important">teams will be able to able to submit a paper </span></span><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">describing their solutions and final results to the Workshop that we are also organizing entitled '</span><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)"><span style="margin: 0px">Affect Recognition in-the-wild: Uni/Multi-Modal Analysis</span></span><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">'.</span></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br> </span></div> <div style="text-align: justify; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">For the purpose of the Challenges and to facilitate training, especially for people that do not have access to face detectors/tracking algorithms, we provide the cropped images and the cropped & aligned ones.</span></span></div> <div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> <br> </div> <div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For more information about the challenge, see </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://ibug.doc.ic.ac.uk/resources/fg-2020-competition-affective-behavior-analysis/" id="LPlnk414103"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">https://ibug.doc.ic.ac.uk/resources/fg-2020-competition-affective-behavior-analysis/</span></a></span><br> </div> <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font face="Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif"><br> </font></div> <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font face="Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="color: rgb(32, 31, 30); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important;">To participate, you need to register your team. For this, please send us an email to:</span></font></div> <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12pt;"><a href="mailto:dimitrios.kollias15@imperial.ac.uk" title="mailto:dimitrios.kollias15@imperial.ac.uk" style="font-family: -webkit-standard; font-weight: normal; orphans: auto; widows: auto"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">dimitrios.kollias15@imperial.ac.uk</span></a></span><br> </div> <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(32, 31, 30); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">with the title "</span><span style="color: rgb(32, 31, 30); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important; font-size: 12pt;">Affective Behavior Analysis in-the-wild Competition: </span></span><span style="color: rgb(32, 31, 30); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Team Registration". In this email include the following information:</span></div> <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font face="Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="color: rgb(32, 31, 30); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important;">Team Name</span><br style="color: rgb(32, 31, 30); font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, system-ui, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)"> <span style="color: rgb(32, 31, 30); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important;">Team Members</span><br style="color: rgb(32, 31, 30); font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, system-ui, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)"> <span style="color: rgb(32, 31, 30); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important;">Affiliation</span><br style="color: rgb(32, 31, 30); font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, system-ui, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)"> <br style="color: rgb(32, 31, 30); font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, system-ui, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)"> <span style="color: rgb(32, 31, 30); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important;">There is no maximum number of participants in each team. </span></font></div> <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font face="Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="color: rgb(32, 31, 30); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important;">As a reply, you will receive </span><span style="color: rgb(32, 31, 30); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important;">the access to the dataset's videos, annotations, cropped/cropped-aligned images and other important information</span><span style="color: rgb(32, 31, 30); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important;">.</span><br style="color: rgb(32, 31, 30); font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, system-ui, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)"> </font><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br> </span></div> <div style=""><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">At the end of the Challenges, each team </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important;">will have to send us: i) their predictions on the test set, ii) a link to a Github repository where their solution/source code will be stored, and iii)</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important; font-size: 14.6667px;"><font color="#201f1e"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></font></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important; font-size: 12pt;">a link to an ArXiv paper with 2-6 pages describing their proposed methodology, data used and results. After that, the winner of each Challenge will be announced and all (non-winning) teams will be able to submit a paper </span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">describing their solutions and final results to the Workshop that we are also organizing entitled '</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Affect Recognition in-the-wild: Uni/Multi-Modal Analysis</span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">'.</span></div> <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br> </div> <div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> <br> </div> <div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> <span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important;">Submission deadlines are as follows:</span><br style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)"> <br style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)"> <span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important;">• 18 November 2019 - Call for participation announced, team registration begins, data available</span><br style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)"> <br style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)"> <span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important;">• 4 </span><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important; font-size: 12pt;">February</span></span><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important;"> 2020 - Final submission deadline (Results, Code and ArXiv paper)</span><br style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)"> <br style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)"> <span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important;">• 5 </span><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important; font-size: 12pt;">February</span></span><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important;"> 2020 - Winners Announcement</span><br style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)"> <br style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)"> <span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important;">• 14 February 2020 - Final paper submission deadline</span><br style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)"> <br style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)"> <span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important;">• 21 February 2020 - </span><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important; font-size: 12pt;"> Review decisions sent to authors;</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important; font-size: 12pt;"> Notification of acceptance</span></span></span><br style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)"> <br style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)"> <span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important;">• 28 February 2020 - Camera ready version deadline</span><br style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)"> <br> <br style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)"> <span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important;">Chairs: </span></div> <div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> <span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important;"> <h3 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.2em; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1em; list-style: none; text-align: left; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> <br> </h3> <p style="margin: 0px 0px 5px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; list-style: none; text-align: justify"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Stefanos Zafeiriou, Imperial College London, UK </span></p> <p style="margin: 0px 0px 5px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; list-style: none; text-align: justify"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dimitrios Kollias, Imperial College London, UK</span></p> <p style="margin: 0px 0px 5px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; list-style: none; text-align: justify"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Attila Schulc, Realeyes - Emotional Intelligence</span></p> <p style="margin: 0px 0px 5px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; list-style: none; text-align: justify"> <span style="color: rgb(50, 49, 48); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: start; line-height: normal;">Elnar Hajiyev, Realeyes</span><span style="color: rgb(50, 49, 48); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: start;"><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;">- Emotional Intelligence</span></span></p> <br> </span></div> <div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> <br style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)"> <br> <span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">(2): </span><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: justify; display: inline !important;">The workshop aims at advancing the state-of-the-art in the problem of analysis of human affective behavior in-the-wild. At first, non-winning papers describing their solutions/methodologies to the three afore-mentioned Challenges will be invited for publication to the Workshop.</span></div> <div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> <span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: justify;">In addition, the Workshop does not only focus on the three Challenges. It will solicit any original paper on databases, benchmarks and technical contributions related to affect recognition, using audio, visual or other modalities (e.g., EEG), in unconstrained conditions. Either uni-modal, or multi-modal approaches will be considered. It would be of particular interest to see methodologies that study detection of action units based on audio data.</span></div> <div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> <span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important"><br> </span></span></div> <div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> <span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important;">The scope of the</span><span style="font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">workshop</span><span style="font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important;">includes but is not limited to: </span></span></div> <div style=""> <div style="text-align: justify;"><font color="#222222" face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; display: inline !important"> <ul style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1em; list-style: none; text-align: left"> <li style="margin: 0px 0px 5px 15px; font-size: 1em; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.5em; list-style: inside square"> <span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;"> the 3 Challenges on:</span><br style="margin: 0px; line-height: 1em; list-style: none"> <span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;"> i) Valence-Arousal estimation,</span><br style="margin: 0px; line-height: 1em; list-style: none"> <span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;"> ii) Action Unit detection and</span><br style="margin: 0px; line-height: 1em; list-style: none"> <span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;"> iii) 7 Basic Expression classification;</span><br> </li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 5px 15px; font-size: 1em; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.5em; list-style: inside square"> <span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;">contributions in the following topics:</span><br style="margin: 0px; line-height: 1em; list-style: none"> <span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;"> (a) databases for spontaneous and naturalistic:</span><br style="margin: 0px; line-height: 1em; list-style: none"> <span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;"> i) facial expression or micro-expression analysis, or</span><br style="margin: 0px; line-height: 1em; list-style: none"> <span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;"> ii) facial action unit detection, or</span><br style="margin: 0px; line-height: 1em; list-style: none"> <span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;"> iii) valence-arousal estimation, ”in the-wild”.</span><br style="margin: 0px; line-height: 1em; list-style: none"> <span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;"> (b) methodologies for:</span><br style="margin: 0px; line-height: 1em; list-style: none"> <span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;"> i) facial expression or micro-expression analysis, or</span><br style="margin: 0px; line-height: 1em; list-style: none"> <span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;"> ii) facial action unit detection, or</span><br style="margin: 0px; line-height: 1em; list-style: none"> <span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;"> iii) valence-arousal estimation, ”in the wild”;</span><br style="margin: 0px; line-height: 1em; list-style: none"> <span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;"> The methodologies can use uni-modal or multi-modal information (e.g., visual, audio data, hand and body gestures, EEG, EDA)</span><br style="margin: 0px; line-height: 1em; list-style: none"> <span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;"> (c) methodologies for action unit prediction from audio (e.g., using Aff-Wild2, which is an audiovisual database)</span><br style="margin: 0px; line-height: 1em; list-style: none"> <span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;"> (d) domain-adaptation techniques for the above described behavior tasks (either using Aff-Wild2, or any other database, or combination of databases).</span></li></ul> <br> </span></span></font></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"><font color="#222222" face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; display: inline !important"><br> </span></span></font></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"><font color="#222222" face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; display: inline !important"><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(32, 31, 30); text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important;">IMPORTANT DATES:</span></span></span></font></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"><font color="#222222"><span style="display: inline !important;"><font face="Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif">-----------------------------</font></span></font></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <div style="text-align: justify;"><font face="Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#222222"><br> </font></div> <font color="#222222"><span style="display: inline !important;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important;">• 14 February 2020 - Paper submission deadline</span><br style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)"> <span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important;">• 21 February 2020 -</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important;"><span style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Review decisions sent to authors; Notification of acceptance</span></span><br style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)"> <span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important;">• 28 February 2020 - Camera ready version deadline</span><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, system-ui, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; color: rgb(32, 31, 30); text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important"></span><br style="color: rgb(32, 31, 30); font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, system-ui, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)"> <br> </span></font></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important;">Accepted workshop papers will appear at IEEE FG 2020 proceedings.</span><br> </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"><font color="#2a2a2a" style="color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Montserrat; font-weight: 300; letter-spacing: 0.32px; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)"><br> </font></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"><font color="#222222" face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; display: inline !important"> <div style="margin: 0px"> <div style="margin: 0px"><span style="margin: 0px"> <div style="margin: 0px"><br> </div> </span></div> <b><u></u></b></div> <div style="margin: 0px; font-weight: 400; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-align: start"> <span style="margin: 0px; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important; font-size: 12pt;">Chairs: </span></div> <div style="margin: 0px; font-weight: 400; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-align: start"> <span style="margin: 0px; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important"> <h3 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.2em; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1em; list-style: none; text-align: left; color: rgb(0, 0, 0)"> <br> </h3> <p style="margin: 0px 0px 5px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; list-style: none; text-align: justify"> <span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif">Stefanos Zafeiriou, Imperial College London, UK </span></p> <p style="margin: 0px 0px 5px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; list-style: none; text-align: justify"> <span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif">Dimitrios Kollias, Imperial College London, UK</span></p> <p style="margin: 0px 0px 5px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; list-style: none; text-align: justify"> <span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif">Attila Schulc, Realeyes - Emotional Intelligence</span></p> <p style="margin: 0px 0px 5px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; list-style: none; text-align: justify"> <br> </p> </span></div> <br> <div style="margin: 0px"> <div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; color: rgb(32, 31, 30); text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)"> <br> </div> <div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; color: rgb(32, 31, 30); text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In case of any queries, please contact </span><span style="margin: 0px; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="mailto:dimitrios.kollias15@imperial.ac.uk" title="mailto:dimitrios.kollias15@imperial.ac.uk" style="margin: 0px; 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font-size: 12pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important;">Kind Regards,</span><br style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)"> <br style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)"> <span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important;">Dimitrios Kollias,</span><br style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)"> <span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important;">on behalf of the organising committee</span><br style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; 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