HANDS 2017 - Third International Workshop on Observing and Understanding Hands in Action

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Third International Workshop on
Observing and Understanding Hands in Action
HANDS 2017
http://icvl.ee.ic.ac.uk/hands17/
Venice, Italy - October 23, 2017
in conjunction with IEEE ICCV 2017
Submission Deadline: July 31, 2017
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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: July 31st
Notification of acceptance: August 14th
Camera ready deadline: August 24th
Workshop: October 23rd
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WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS
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Tae-Kyun Kim, Imperial College London, UK
Antonis Argyros, U. Crete and FORTH, Greece
G.Garcia-Hernando, Imperial College London, UK
Iason Oikonomidis , U. Crete and FORTH, Greece
Vincent Lepetit, TU Graz, Austria
Mohan Trivedi, UC San Diego, USA
Karthik Ramani, Purdue University, USA
Jamie Shotton, Microsoft Research, UK
Björn Stenger, Rakuten Institute of Tech, Japan
Gregory Rogez, INRIA, France
Danhang Tang, Perceptive IO, USA
Eshed Ohn-Bar, UC San Diego, USA
Shanxin Yuan, Imperial College London, UK
Qi Ye, Imperial College London, UK
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INVITED SPEAKERS
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Vincent Hayward, UPMC, France
Yaser Sheikh, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Kris Kitani, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
TBC, Intel Corporation, USA
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CONTACT
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hands.iccv17-AT-outlook.com