The 7th International IEEE Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition Conference

As part of the 7th International IEEE Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition Conference this April 10-12 in Southampton, UK there will be a workshop organised by Frank Pollick and James Haxby on the psychology of face and gesture recognition. The date of the workshop is 11 April 2006. Details can be found at: www.fg2006.ecs.soton.ac.uk/workshop.html

The list of speakers and topics includes:

• Michael Beauchamp, University of Texas Medical School at Houston, See me, Hear me, Touch Me: Multisensory Aspects of Face and Gesture Perception
• Andy Calder, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Adaptation of Eye Gaze Perception
• Ruth Campbell, University College London, Cortical dissociations and associations for the perception of mouth and hand actions in and out of sign language.
• Antonio Camurri, University of Genova, Computational models and techniques for multimodal analysis of expressive gesture
• Yiannis Demiris, Imperial College London, Motor theories of perception: computational models, robotic implementations and open challenges
• Tamar Flash, Weizmann Institute, Motor primitives and laws of motion in action perception and production
• Alan Johnston UCL, Recognition of facial movement across changes in pose
• Aina Puce, West Virginia University, Neural and hemodynamic responses to facial gestures generated by real and synthetic faces
• Edmund Rolls, Oxford University, Neurophysiology of face perception and gesture, and a new computational mechanism for the invariant recognition of gesture.
• Thomas Shipley, Temple University, When action meets word: Event parsing, representation, and verb learning
• Rufin Vogels, KU Leuven Medical School, Neural mechanisms of action recognition in macaque temporal cortex