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Workshop Program


Opening and Welcome (8:50 - 9:05)

NSF - CISE Programs on Gesture and Dialog (9:05 - 9:15) Tanya Korelsky

Keynote 1 (9:15 - 9:45) Susan Goldin-Meadow: From action to abstraction: Gesture as a mechanism of change

Session 1: 0/1/N shot gesture learning

(9:45 - 10:00) Paper 1: Supervised learning of gesture-action associations for human-robot collaboration. D. Shukla, O. Erkent and J. Piater.


Coffee break and Poster Session (10:00 - 10:45)


Keynote 2 (10:45 - 11:15) Aleix Martinez: Imitating your way to expertise

Session 2: 0/1/N shot gesture learning

(11:15 - 11:30) Paper 2: One-Shot Gesture Recognition: One Step Towards Adaptive Learning. M. E Cabrera, N. Sanchez-Tamayo, R. Voyles and J. Wachs

(11:30 - 11:45) Paper 3: Spatio-Temporal Facial Expression Recognition Using Convolutional Neural Networks and Conditional Random Fields. B. Hasani and M. Mahoor.

(11:45 - 12:00) Paper 4: A Semantical & Analytical Approach for Zero Shot Gesture Learning. N. Madapana and J. Wachs


Keynote 3 (12:00 - 12:30) Philippe Schyns: Using the Human Receiver to Understand the Face as a Tool for Social Communication

(12:30 - 12:45) Paper 5: A simple geometric-based descriptor for facial expression recognition.. D. Acevedo, P. Negri, ME. Buemi, FG. Fernandez, M. Mejail.


Lunch (12:45-14:00) (Individual)

News and Updates


  • Deadline Submission: February 16th, 2017 (EXTENDED)

  • Travel Grant Competition available for students. More information in Travel Grant tab.

  • Travel Grant submission through EasyChair : proposal + letter in single PDF file.

  • Travel Grant application accepted through May 15th, 2017

  • Workshop Proceedings available as PDF on the Proceedings tab

  • The Workshop starts this coming Tuesday (May 30th) at 8:50am . Recommended to be there at 8:30am for registration.