BMVA
British Machine Vision Association and Society for Pattern Recognition
http://www.bmva.org/meetings
Call for Participation
Facial Analysis and Animation
One Day BMVA symposium at the School of Informatics, University of
Edinburgh, UK on June 10th, 2009.
Chairs: Darren Cosker (Uni. of Bath), Michael Berger (Uni. of
Edinburgh), Gregor Hofer (Uni. of Edinburgh), Nataliya Nadtoka (Uni. of
Surrey).
Facial animation is a broad and exciting area of research drawing on
multiple disciplines: computer graphics and animation provide the means
to render and display a face, computer vision can be used to measure,
interpret and decode facial actions, while psychology can help provide
the emotive human element of animation.
However, creating convincing facial animation is an exceptionally
difficult task each one of us is an expert judge in deciding whether
an animation is realistic or not.
In todays world, facial animation has more applications than ever
before: from video game characters to movie actor doubles, from machine
facial displays to psychological research stimuli.
The aim of this meeting is to bring together researchers and
practitioners interested in all aspects of facial animation and related
analysis. Submissions are invited in the following topic areas:
Image-based Acquisition of Facial Shape, motion and Texture
Facial animation using Example Based Synthesis and Motion Graph based
techniques
Performance Driven Animation and Expression Mapping
Visual Speech Synthesis
Animation of Non-Linguistic Behaviors and Vocalisations
Perception of Facial Animation and the "Uncanny Valley"
Photo and Non-Photorealistic Facial Rendering
Please submit an extended summary of about one A4-sized page length (no
longer than 2 pages) in length (PDF preferred). Send contributions by
email attachment (1Mb max please) to Darren Cosker
([log in to unmask]) by 30th April 2009.
A website for the symposium, including information on travel to the
venue and accommodation in Edinburgh, may be found at
http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/faa
Note that the meeting is free to BMVA members, but a charge of 20 GBP is
payable by non-members.
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