Topic

The workshop will bring together researchers from vision, learning and related areas to present and discuss the recognition of spatio-temporal motion of people across a broad range of application areas ranging from sign language recognition to gesture and activity.

Sign language recognition has become of increasing interest to the vision community. In terms of its distinction from gesture, it has tightly defined rules and grammar which govern its production. Gesture on the other hand, seeks to operate in the domain of small lexical recognition without the rules of a language. More general activity recognition, which has seen considerable interest of late, often involves the holistic description of body motion and the context in which it occurs. While related, these three areas are distinct in both their individual complexities and the techniques used to tackle them. However, they have one fundamental thing in common. They are all applications of the recognition of spatio-temporal motion, and allow for a multimodal analysis of human behavior, e.g. by simultaneously analyzing audio, multiple vision cues (hands, face, mouth, body, etc.), and external knowledge sources, such as statistical language models used natural language processing.

The list of topics includes (but is not limited to):

Date

November 18 2011, HALF day, afternoon, Alicante, Spain

Workshop organisers:

Primary Contact

Philippe Dreuw
RWTH Aachen University Lehrstuhl für Informatik 6 Ahornstr 55
dreuw@cs.rwth-aachen.de
Phone: +49 (0) 241 80-21613
Fax: +49 (0) 241 80-22219

Mailing list

sga2011@signspeak.eu

History

After the successful organization of the ECCV-SGA workshop in 2010, this workshop seeks again to bring together the communities, to discuss the differences, the similarities and share the knowledge and experience of approaches that could be applicable across domains. Arranging this workshop around ICMI will make it possible to bring together many researchers to discuss the current state-of-the-art, with a special focus on the multimodal aspects.

Authors will be invited to submit full-length, high quality papers in related areas. All papers will be refereed on their originality and quality of evaluation. Reviews will be double-blind by at least two reviewers of the programme committee. Demos will also be welcome.

Paper Submission

The reviewing will be double blind, so submissions should be anonymous: do not include the authors' names or affiliations in the paper or any clearly identifiable information. It is appropriate to cite past work of the authors if these citations are treated like any other (e.g., "Smith [5] approached this problem by....") - omit references only if it would be obviously identifying the authors.

[Note: if a non-anonymous paper has already been submitted, please re-submit with the identifying information removed.]

Submitted papers should conform to the ACM publication format (only pdf format; 4 pages maximum). The results described in the submission must not be under consideration for publication elsewhere. For templates and examples follow the link: http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html

The conference management system is https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/SGA2011

Programme Committee (TBC)

Important Dates

Sponsors