<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14.7px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">*** Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CfP ***</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Times; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); min-height: 14px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14.7px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">We cordially invite you to submit your short papers/long papers/workshops and special sessions proposals for the IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG2020), <a href="http://www.fg2020.org" class="">http://www.fg2020.org</a>.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Times; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); min-height: 14px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14.7px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">The 15th IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG 2020) will be held in Buenos Aires, Argentina, 18-22 May 2020. The IEEE conference series on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition is the premier international forum for research in image and video-based face, gesture, and body movement recognition. Its</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14.7px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">broad scope includes: advances in fundamental computer vision, pattern recognition and computer graphics; machine learning techniques relevant to face, gesture, and body motion; interdisciplinary research on behavioral analysis; new algorithms and applications. Topics of interest include but are not limited to:</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Times; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); min-height: 14px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14.7px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">- Face recognition & biometrics</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14.7px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">- Face analysis and synthesis</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14.7px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">- Body action and activity recognition</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14.7px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">- Gesture recognition, analysis and synthesis</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14.7px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">- Affective computing and multi-modal interaction</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14.7px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">- Psychological and behavioral analysis</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14.7px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">- Perceptual and cognitive aspects of non-verbal interaction</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14.7px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">- Databases and tools for FG</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14.7px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">- Technologies and applications related to FG</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Times; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); min-height: 14px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14.7px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">IMPORTANT DATES</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Times; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); min-height: 14px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14.7px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><b class="">Paper submission deadline [extended]: 11 October 2019</b></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14.7px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Workshops, tutorials and Challenges: 18 and 22 May 2020</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14.7px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Main Conference: 19 to 21 May 2020</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Times; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); min-height: 14px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14.7px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">SPECIAL ISSUE</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14.7px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">A special issue ‘The Best of FG2020’ will be published by IEEE Transactions on Biometrics, Behavior, and Identity Science (T-BIOM). Authors of selected FG papers will be invited to submit suitably extended versions to this special issue in early March 2020, with first decisions planned to arrive in September 2020.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Times; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); min-height: 14px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14.7px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">FULL DATES</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Times; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); min-height: 14px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14.7px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Competition track proposal deadline: September 15th, 2019</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14.7px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Competition proposal – decisions to the organizers: September 30th, 2019</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14.7px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Regular paper submission deadline: 11 October 2019</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14.7px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Workshop proposals: 27 September 2019</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14.7px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Workshop – decisions to the organizers: 11 October 2019</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14.7px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Regular paper – rebuttal period: 14-20 December 2019</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14.7px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Special session proposals are due on the 1st of September</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14.7px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Special session proposal notification: 13th of September</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14.7px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Special Session papers submission deadline: 10 January 2020 – midnight PST</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14.7px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Regular paper – notification deadline: 24 January 2020</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14.7px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Tutorial proposals: 24 January 2020</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14.7px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Tutorial proposals – decision to organizers: 7 February 2020</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14.7px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Workshop paper notification deadline: 14 February 2020</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14.7px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Final camera-ready papers (regular): 28 February 2020</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14.7px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Doctoral Consortium application deadline: 15 February 2020</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14.7px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Demo and Exhibition Sessions submission: 2 March 2020</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14.7px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Demo and Exhibition Sessions submission – camera ready abstract: 13 March 2020</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14.7px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Invitations to T-BIOM Special Issue ‘The Best of FG 2020’: 6 March 2020</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14.7px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Final camera-ready papers (special, competition, workshops): 13 March 2020</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14.7px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Workshops, Tutorials and Competitions: 18 and 22 May 2020</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14.7px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Main Conference: 19 to 21 May 2020</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14.7px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">T-BIOM Special Issue submission deadline: 7 June 2020</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14.7px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">T-BIOM Special Issue ‘The Best of FG 2020’ first decisions: Early September 2020</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Times; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); min-height: 14px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Times; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); min-height: 14px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14.7px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">ORGANIZATION</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Times; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); min-height: 14px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14.7px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">General Chairs</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14.7px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Juan Wachs, Purdue University</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14.7px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Sergio Escalera, Universitat de Barcelona</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14.7px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Jeffrey Cohn, University of Pittsburgh</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Times; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); min-height: 14px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14.7px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Program Chairs</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14.7px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Thomas B. Moeslund, Aalborg University</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14.7px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Albert Ali Salah, Utrecht University</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14.7px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Maja Pantic, Imperial College London</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14.7px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Arun Ross, Michigan State University</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14.7px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Antonis Argyros, University of Crete</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Times; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Times; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); min-height: 14px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span></div></body></html>