2013 Multi-modal Gesture Recognition Workshop ICMI

Dec. 9, 2013, 9 a.m. Opening

Opening: Presentation of the workshop

Dec. 9, 2013, 9:15 a.m. Invited speaker I: Leonid Sigal, Disney Research

Invited speaker I: Leonid Sigal, Disney Research.
Title: Action Recognition and Understanding: Latest Challenges and Opportunities.

Dec. 9, 2013, 10 a.m. Challenge results presentation

Multi-modal Gesture Recognition Challenge 2013: Dataset and Results
Sergio Escalera, Jordi Gonzàlez, Xavier Baró, Miguel Reyes, Oscar Lopes, Isabelle Guyon, Vassilis Athistos, Hugo J.Escalante

Dec. 9, 2013, 10:30 a.m. Coffee break I

Dec. 9, 2013, 11 a.m. Invited speaker II: Cristian Sminchisescu, Lund University

Invited speaker II: Cristian Sminchisescu, Lund University

Title: Human Actions and 3D Pose in the Eye: From Perceptual Evidence to Accurate Computational Models

Dec. 9, 2013, 11:45 a.m. Presentations I: MMGR Challenge I and award ceremony

Presentations I: Multi-modal Gesture Recognition Challenge I and award ceremony

Fusing Multi-modal Features for Gesture Recognition (1st Prize)
Jiaxiang Wu, Jian Cheng, Chaoyang Zhao and Hanqing Lu

Dec. 9, 2013, 12:30 p.m. Lunch break

Lunch break (included and sponsored by National ICT Australia)

Dec. 9, 2013, 1:30 p.m. Invited speaker III: Antonis Argyros, Univ. of Crete, Institute of Computer Science

Invited speaker III: Antonis Argyros, Univ. of Crete, Institute of Computer Science
Title: Tracking the articulated motion of human hands

Dec. 9, 2013, 2:15 p.m. Presentations II: MMGR Challenge II

Presentations II: Multi-modal Gesture Recognition Challenge II
Online RGB-D Gesture Recognition with Extreme Learning Machines
Xi Chen and Markus Koskela

Dec. 9, 2013, 3:15 p.m. Invited speaker IV: Richard Bowden, University of Surrey

Invited speaker IV: Richard Bowden, University of Surrey
Title: Recognising spatio-temporal events in video

Dec. 9, 2013, 4 p.m. Coffee break II

Dec. 9, 2013, 4:30 p.m. Presentations III: Challenge for MMAGR for close HCI

Presentations III: Challenge for Multimodal Mid-Air Gesture Recognition for close HCI
ChAirGest - A Challenge for Multimodal Mid-Air Gesture Recognition for close HCI
Simon Ruffieux, Denis Lalanne and Elena Mugellini

Dec. 9, 2013, 5:30 p.m. Presentations IV: MGR Applications

Presentations IV: Multimodal Gesture Recognition Applications
Multi-modal Social Signal Analysis for Predicting Agreement in Conversation Settings
Víctor Ponce-López, Sergio Escalera, and Xavier Baró

Dec. 9, 2013, 6:15 p.m. Closing

Closing: Conclusions the workshop.