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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=FR link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>---------------------------------------------------------<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Apologies for multiples copies<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>---------------------------------------------------------<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-right:28.2pt;text-align:justify'><b><span lang=EN-US>New Dates!</span></b><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Submission of regular papers: <s>September 15, 2019</s> <b>September 29, 2019</b><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Notification of acceptance/rejection: <s>November 10, 2019</s> <b>November 24, 2019</b> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Camera-ready copies of accepted papers: <s>November 25, 2019</s> <b>December 9, 2019</b> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>SAC Conference: March 30-April 3, 2020<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:70.8pt;text-indent:35.4pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'>Call for Papers<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:14.0pt'>Video Processing for Human Behavioral Analysis (VP-HBA) Track<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:35.4pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'><a href="https://sites.google.com/view/vp-hba-sac-2020">https://sites.google.com/view/vp-hba-sac-2020</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-right:28.2pt;text-align:justify'><b><span lang=EN-US>Motivations and topics<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>The ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC) has been a primary gathering forum for applied computer scientists, computer engineers, software engineers, and application developers from around the world. SAC 2020 is sponsored by the ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing (SIGAPP), and will be held in Brno, Czech Republic. The technical track on Video Processing for Human Behavioral Analysis (VP-HBA) will be organized for the first time in SAC 2020.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Actions, but also personality behavior recognition is starting to be explored in the computer vision research field. Tools for effectively analyzing these sort of behaviors have a major impact into everyone's life, with applications in health, security, human computer/machine/robot interaction and entertainment. This track intend to focus in all aspects of computer vision and pattern recognition devoted to the automatic analysis of human behavior by applying recent or new video processing techniques.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>The scope of VP-HBA includes, but is not limited to, the following topics:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>• Human behavior analysis from visual and multimodal information<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>• Human action recognition<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>• Information fusion for the analysis of human behavior<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>• Crowds analysis in videos<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>• Articulated body posture estimation<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>• Interactions engagement modeling and detection<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>• (Multi-Modal) Learning from Videos <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>• Object Detection and Tracking<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>• Elderly person monitoring systems<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>• Gesture and Gait Analysis <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>• Expression and emotion Recognition<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>• Affective Computing<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>• Applications of behavior analysis methods, e.g., medicine, sports, well-being, security, environment<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>• Multimodal non-verbal signals analysis<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>• Spatio-temporal concept detection and recognition (trajectory analysis, etc.)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-right:28.2pt;text-align:justify'><b><span lang=EN-US>Submission Guidelines<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-right:28.2pt;text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US>Authors are invited to submit original and unpublished papers of research and applications for this track. <i>The author(s) name(s) and address(es) must not appear in the body of the paper, and self-reference should be in the third person. This is to facilitate <b>double-blind review</b></i>. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-right:28.2pt;text-align:justify'><i><span lang=EN-US>Please, visit the website for more information about submission<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-right:28.2pt;text-align:justify'><i><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-right:28.2pt;text-align:justify'><b><span lang=EN-US>SAC No-Show Policy <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-right:28.2pt;text-align:justify'><u><span lang=EN-US>Paper registration is required</span></u><span lang=EN-US>, allowing the inclusion of the paper/poster in the conference proceedings. <u>An author or a proxy attending SAC MUST present the paper</u>. This is a requirement for the paper/poster to be included in the ACM digital library. No-show of registered papers and posters will result in excluding them from the ACM digital library.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=IT>Donatello Conte<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=IT>Jean-Yves Ramel<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=IT>Raffaella Lanzarotti<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>(General chairs)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>