[Imageworld] Extended Call for Papers: SGA 2011 at ICMI 2011

This is the second call for papers for the 2nd Workshop on Sign,
Gesture and Activity to be held at ICMI 2011.

Important News:

Submission deadline has been extended: Now _August 21_

Invited speaker:
Prof. Carol Neidle (Boston University)

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Call for papers SGA2011.

The second international workshop on Sign, Gesture and Activity
(SGA2011) will be held as a half-day satellite workshop of ICMI 2011.

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):
# continuous sign language recognition and analysis
# spatio-temporal features
# non-manual features
# human torso tracking and modelling
# hand shape classification
# gesture recognition
# activity and action recognition
# facial expression analysis
# lip reading
# fusion methods for recognition
# non verbal communication
# affective computing
# hand and face tracking
# corpora for training and testing
# semi-automatic corpora annotation tools

Important Dates:

Paper Submission : August 21 2011 24:00 CEST (GMT +2)
Author Notification : September 25 2011
Camera Ready Submission : October 10 2011

Workshop half-day November 18 2011, afternoon, Alicante, Spain
http://www.signspeak.eu/sga2011/ <http://www.signspeak.eu/sga2011/>

The organizing comittee:
Richard Bowden (University of Surrey), Hermann Ney (RWTH Aachen
University), Justus Piater (University of Innsbruck), Jens Forster
(RWTH Aachen University), Petros Maragos (NTUA), Philippe Dreuw (RWTH
Aachen University), Gregorio Martinez (CRIC)
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