CALL FOR PAPERS

 

2nd IEEE Workshop on Vision for Human Computer Interaction (V4HCI)

In conjunction with IEEE CVPR 2006

 

New York, NY

June 22nd, 2006

 

 

Aims and scope

 

This workshop is aimed towards bringing together computer vision and pattern recognition (CVPR) scientists whose work impacts human computer interaction (HCI).  This workshop grow from earlier workshops on CVPR for HCI that were held in Madison (in 2003) and in Washington DC (in 2004). In 2005, the two earlier workshops were merged together to create V4HCI. Following last year’s success, we seek to attract contributions from a wide range of theoretical and application areas.  In doing so, we hope to facilitate discussions and debates that will identify the opportunities and challenges in applying CVPR to HCI.

 

Relevant topics for the workshop include but are by no means limited to:

 

·      Affective computing

·      Brain-computer interface

·      Database for training and testing

·      Event detection and recognition

·      Facial expression recognition

·      Human motion and gesture recognition

·      Haptic interface

·      Learning

·      Multimodal interface and integration

·      Perceptual user interface

·      Sign language analysis and recognition

·      User, context, and task modeling

 

Papers should not exceed 6 double-column pages. Only original manuscripts will be considered.

 

Papers should be written within the context of HCI, and have direct implications and contributions to a specific HCI problem.  All areas of HCI will be considered subject to the constraint that the submission makes an important contribution to computer vision and/or pattern recognition techniques. In general, papers that solely describe a computer vision or pattern recognition approach with potential applications to HCI or other areas should be submitted to the CVPR general conference. Note that although applications of known pattern recognition and computer vision techniques are welcome, we will give priority to those works that also make theoretical contributions to PR or CV. Papers focusing on applications should justify the PR or CV approach chosen for the problem under consideration. Experimental results should be consistent with such claims. A section with a direct discussion of the results is encouraged.

 

Please use CVPR’s Latex style, available here.

Papers should not identify the authors.

 

Survey papers are welcomed and encouraged. Authors interested in submitting a survey article may want to contact the program co-organizers (v4hci@ece.osu.edu) prior to submission.

 

Double submissions (or articles describing the same approach and similar results) to both the main conference and the workshop are not permissible.

 

 

Workshop Chairs

 

Aleix M. Martinez

Ohio State University, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

 

Larry S. Davis

University of Maryland, Department of Computer Science

 

Program Committee

 

Jake Aggarwal, University of Texas

Chuck Anderson, Colorado State University

Alberto del Bimbo, University of Florence

Rama Chellappa, University of Maryland

Sven Dickinson, University of Toronto

Tom Huang, UIUC

Avi Kak, Purdue University

Branislav Kisacanin, Delphi

Mathias Kölsch, UCSD

Michael Lyons, ATR

Maja Pantic, Imperial College London

Vladimir Pavlovic, Rutgers

James Rehg, Georgia Tech

Stan Sclaroff, Boston University

Lynne A Slivovsky, Cal Poly State University,

Carlo Tomasi, Duke University

Ming-Hsuan Yang, Honda Fundamental Research

Jordi Vitria, CVC, UAB

 

 

Keynote Speakers

 

Sudeep Sarkar, University of South Florida.

Title: Moving Vision for Human Computer Interaction Forward

Abstract: Three fundamental vision problems that are crucial in the context of unaided V4HCI are (a) segmentation, grouping, and tracking of hands, persons, and faces, (b) going beyond single gestures, and (c) integration of faces and gestures. As examples, we will share our ideas and thoughts on these issues using the context of unaided sign language recognition. We will follow this with a proposal to set up a V4HCI Challenge Problem framework. It would include (a) data sets, (b) study and experiment definitions, and (c) baseline algorithms to benchmark minimum expected performance. By drawing parallels from face and gait recognition research we will see how benchmarks and challenge problems can be used to direct and focus research towards eventual transition to operational scenarios.

 

Alex Pentland, MIT.

Title: A Computational Model of Social Signaling

Abstract: I have proposed that unconscious face, hand, and body gestures form a visual motion texture that conveys social signals, and are an important determinant of behavior.  In this talk I will survey the results obtained using this computational model for the perception of social displays.  Results include accurate prediction of dating outcomes, business card trading, persuasiveness of elevator pitches, requests for additional information, ratings of interest, and salary negotiation results.

 

 

Schedule

 

Opening Remarks
8:20 am     Welcome address

Session I: Keynote Speaker
8:30am     Sudeep Sarkar

Moving Vision for Human Computer Interaction Forward


Session II: Human Interaction

9:30am    
Tracking of Multiple Humans in Meetings

B. Wu and R. Nevatia

 

9:50am     wikiTable: finger driven interaction for collaborative knowledge-building workspaces

S. Baraldi, A. Del Bimbo, L. Landucci and A. Valli

 

10:15 am – 10:35 am Coffee Break

 

Session III: Recognition

10:35am   Semi-autonomous Learning of Ojbects

H. Kim, E. Murphy-Chutorian, and J. Triesch

11:55am    Three-dimensional Reconstruction of shape and motion for the analysis of American Sign Language

L. Ding and A.M. Martinez


11:15am   Dynamical Motion Vocabularies for Kinematic Tracking and Activity Recognition

O.C. Jenkins, G. Gonzalez and M.M. Loper

 

11:35am   Open Hand Detection in a Cluttered Single Image using Finger Primitives

M. Baris Caglar and N. da Vitoria Lobo

 

12:00 pm – 1:30 pm       Lunch

Session IV:  Keynote Speaker

1:30pm     Alex Pentland

              A Computational Model of Social Signaling


Session V: Faces

2:30pm     Fully Automatic Facial Action Unit Detection and Temporal Analysis

              M. Valstar and M. Pantic


2:50pm     Facial Action Coding Using Multiple Visual Cues and a Hierarchy of Particle Filters

              J. McCall and M. Trivedi

 

3:15pm – 3:30 pm Coffee break

Session VI: Faces (cont)

3:30pm     Kernel-based Recognition of Human Actions Using Spatiotemporal Salient Points

              A. Oikonomopoulos

 

3:50pm     Robustifying Eye Interaction

              D.W. Hansen


Session VII: Poster Session

 

Starts: 4:15pm

 

A Comprehensive Empirical Study on Linear Subspace Methods for Facial Expression Analysis

C. Shan, S. Gong, and P.W. McOwan

 

Multi-view Appearance-based 3D Hand Pose Estimation

H. Guan, J. Silk Chang, L. Chen, R.S. Feris and M. Turk

 

Robust Online Change-point Detection in Video Sequences

G. Tsechpenakis, D. Metaxas, O. Hadjiliadis, and C. Neidle

 

Performance Evaluation of Vision-Based High DOF Human Movement Tracking: A Survey And Human Computer Interaction Perspective

D. Heckenberg

 

Active Learning in Face Recognition: Using Tracking to Build a Face Model

R. Hewitt and S. Belongie

 

Belief Propagation Driven Method for Facial Gestures Recognition in Presence of Occlusions

W. Liao and I. Cohen

 

Rapid Signer Adaptation for Isolated Sign Language Recognition
U. von Agris, D. Schneider, J. Zieren and K.-F. Kraiss

 

6:00pm     Closing remarks

 

 

Important Dates

 

Workshop:                              June 22, 2006

 

 

Submissions, questions, and requests

 

Please submit your paper by email to v4hci@ece.osu.edu

Papers should not include authors’ information. Include title, authors and contact information in your email.