Proceedings IEEE ICCV Workshop on Recognition, Analysis, and Tracking of Faces and Gestures in Real-Time Systems

The following topics were covered: sample-based synthesis of talking heads; reconstruction of movies of facial expressions; integrated approach to 3D face model reconstruction from video; real-time 3D hand posture estimation based on 2D appearance retrieval using monocular camera; tracking with attributes using probabilistic techniques; automatic learning of appearance face models; video-based online face recognition using identity surfaces; nonlinear mapping of multi-view face patterns to a Gaussian distribution in a low dimensional space; real-time stereo tracking of multiple moving heads; head gestures for computer control; active appearance algorithm for face and facial feature tracking; head and hands 3D tracking; dynamic time warping for off-line recognition of a small gesture vocabulary; signer-independent sign language recognition based on SOFM/HMM; boosting for fast face recognition; vision-based microphone switch for speech intent detection; face detection utilizing audio and video cues; real-time face tracking in wavelet subspace; GMM hand-color classification and mean shift tracking; view-subspace analysis of multi-view face patterns; fast hand gesture recognition for real-time teleconferencing applications; learning visual models of social engagement; hybrid face recognition systems for profile views using the MUGSHOT database; auto clustering for unsupervised learning of atomic gesture components using minimum description length; facial expression recognition using continuous dynamic programming; robust facial feature point detection under nonlinear illuminations; and stabilized adaptive appearance changes model for 3D head tracking