BMVA Technical Meeting: The Computational Face – Automatic Face Analysis and Synthesis
Call for Papers
One Day BMVA symposium in London, UK on Wednesday 14th October, 2015
Chairs: Brais Martinez, Yorgos Tzimiropoulos and Michel Valstar
Keynote speakers: Tim Cootes (University of Manchester), Darren Cosker
(University of Bath), Maja Pantic (Imperial College London),
Richard Bowden (University of Surrey), Gregor Hofer (Speech
Graphics Ltd, TBC)
www.bmva.org/meetings
Call for contributions:
The programme will feature a number of invited speakers, and a number of
talks by interested parties. In addition there will be a poster session
for interested parties. If you would like to give a talk or bring a
poster, please contact Brais Martinez ([log in to unmask])
by the 1st July.
Topic
The face is one of the most important means of social interaction for
the human species, and it is therefore no surprise that Automatic Face
Analysis and Synthesis are increasingly active topics in computer vision
and graphics. Face analysis encompasses AI tasks such as the automatic
detection of face presence and location, face alignment, facial
expression recognition, face recognition, age and gender estimation, and
even determination of perceived beauty. Work on face synthesis includes
the realistic rendering of faces, blending one face into another, face
animation (either markerless or driven by tracked markers), and aspects
such as expression transfer. Together, Automatic Face Analysis and
Synthesis can be thought of as the Computational Face.
In this meeting we hope to seek the opinions of speakers from the most
interesting companies and academic labs with an interest in the
computational face on the future of Face Analysis and Synthesis. What
academic challenges remain? What elements are ready for adoption by
industry? What are the key factors blocking progress? What new
application opportunities can be envisaged?
Areas of interest covered by this meeting include:
• 2D/3D Facial Expression Analysis and Expression Transfer
• Face Biometrics
• Face and Facial Point Detection/Tracking
• Avatar Face Animation
• Demographics estimation from the Face
• Real-time Face Rendering
• 3D Face Reconstruction
• Visual Speech Synthesis
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