HANDS 2015 - CFP: Workshop on Observing and Understanding Hands in Action - Submission Deadline: March 15, 2015

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First International Workshop on
Observing and Understanding Hands in Action
HANDS 2015
http://vision.ics.uci.edu/HANDS-2015
Boston, USA - June 12, 2015
in conjunction with IEEE CVPR 2015
Submission Deadline: March 15, 2015
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CALL FOR PAPERS
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Development of RGB-D sensors (Kinect, Asus, Intel Creative, Leap Motion
etc) and camera miniaturization (wearable cameras, smart phones,
ubiquitous computing) have opened the door to a whole new range of
technologies and applications which require detecting hands and
recognizing hand poses in a variety of scenarios.
Our program will feature several high-quality invited talks, oral and
poster presentations, and a panel discussion to identify key research
questions and highlight future research directions. We invite submissions
of theoretical and applied papers in all areas covered by the workshop,
including, but not limited to:
- Hand detection
- Hand pose and gesture recognition
- 3D articulated hand tracking
- Hand modelling and rendering
- Grasping and object manipulation
- Hand activity recognition
- Gesture interfaces
- Egocentric vision systems
- Structured prediction
- Applications of hand pose estimation in AR/VR
- Applications of hand pose estimation in robotics and haptics
- Driver hand activity analysis
In the spirit of Chalearn "looking at people" for body pose estimation or
Pascal VOC Challenge for object recognition, we organize a challenge
associated with this workshop. We aim at comparing new and established
methods for hand detection and pose estimation on a standard and varied
data set covering multiple scenarios and settings. We released such
dataset and encourage participants to use it for evaluation and to
participate in the challenge.
In addition to regular papers, we also invite extended abstracts of
ongoing or published work, and invite authors of previous and ongoing work
to submit empirical results to our challenge.
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IMPORTANT DATES
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Submission deadline: March 15th
Notification of acceptance: April 20th
Camera ready deadline: April 25th
Workshop: June 12th
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WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS
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Tae-Kyun Kim, Imperial College London, UK
Gregory Rogez, University of California, Irvine, USA
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STEERING COMMITTEE
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Antonis Argyros, FORTH, Greece
Deva Ramanan, University of California, Irvine, USA
Jamie Shotton, Microsoft Research, UK
Mohan Trivedi, University of California, SAN DIEGO, USA
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WEBSITE AND CHALLENGE COMMITTEE
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Eshed Ohn-Bar, University of California, SAN DIEGO, USA
James S. Supancic III, University of California, Irvine, USA
Dan-Hang Tang, Imperial College London, UK
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TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE
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Bjorn Stenger, Toshiba Research, UK
Chi Xu, AStar, Singapore
Iason Oikonomidis, FORTH, Greece
Javier Romero, MPI-IS, Germany
Jonathan Tompson, NYU, USA
Kris Kitani, CMU, USA
Leonid Sigal, Disney Lab, USA
Murphy Stein, Google, USA
Nikolaos Kyriazis, FORTH, Greece
Richard Stebbing, Oxford, UK
Robert Wang, MIT/3Gears, USA
Ross Girshick, Microsoft Research, USA
Srinath Sridhar, MPII, Germany
Taejin Ha, KAIST, Korea
Wanli Ouyang, CUHK, Hong Kong
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INVITED SPEAKERS
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Jürgen Gall, University of Bonn, Germany
Cheng Li, AStar, Singapore
S. Melax, L. Keselman & S. Orsten, Intel
Christian Theobalt, MPII, Germany
Yichen Wei, Microsoft Research, Asia
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CONTACT
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cvpr.hands.2015-AT-gmail.com