The 2007 IEEE International Workshop on Analysis and Modeling of Faces and
Gestures (AMFG) is the third workshop of its type organized in conjunction with
ICCV, this time in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Our primary goal is to bring together
researchers and research groups to review the status of recognition, analysis and
modeling of face, gesture, activity, and behavior; to discuss the challenges that
we are facing; and to explore future directions.
This year we received 55 submissions. Each paper was reviewed by three
program committee members. The whole reviewing process was double blind.
However, due to size limit, we were only able to accommodate 22 papers, among
which 8 are orals and 14 are posters. The topics covered by these accepted
papers include feature representation, 3D face, robust recognition under pose
and illumination variations, video-based face recognition, learning, facial motion
analysis, body pose estimation, and sign recognition.
A special word of thanks goes to Dr. Feng Zhao, our organizing chair, for his
dedication and great efforts in maintaining both the online submission system
and workshop website and in handling most of the author contacts. We are
indebted to the advisory committee members for their valuable suggestions and
to the program committee members for their hard work and timely reviews.
Finally, we thank Cognitec System GmbH and Siemens Corporate Research for
their sponsorship.