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Please find below the invitation to contribute to the <span style="color: blue;">
<b><u><a href="https://affective-behavior-analysis-in-the-wild.github.io/8th/" id="OWA5f4614dc-444f-b2bc-e5bb-d9db6e153193" class="x_OWAAutoLink" title="https://affective-behavior-analysis-in-the-wild.github.io/8th/" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="1" style="color: blue; margin: 0px;">8th Workshop
and Competition on Affective & Behavior Analysis in-the-wild (ABAW)</a></u></b></span> to be held in conjunction with the
<u>IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference (CVPR), 2025</u>.</div>
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(1): The <b><i>Competition</i></b> is split into the below <b>six Challenges</b>:</div>
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<u>Valence-Arousal Estimation Challenge</u></div>
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<span style="font-weight: 500;"><u>Ambivalence/Hesitancy (AH) Recognition </u></span><u>Challenge</u></div>
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<i>The first 3 Challenges are based on an augmented version of the Aff-Wild2 database, which is an A/V in-the-wild database of 594 videos of 584 subjects of around 3M frames; it contains annotations in terms of valence-arousal, expressions and action units.</i></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 12pt;"><i>The 4<sup>th</sup> Challenge is based on C-EXPR-DB, which
</i></span><span style="font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; background-color: white;"><i>is an A/V in-the-wild database and in total consists of 400 video</i></span><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 12pt; background-color: white;"><i>s
of around 200K frames; each frame is annotated in terms of compound expressions. </i></span></p>
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<i>The 5<sup>th</sup> Challenge is based on the </i><span style="background-color: white; line-height: normal;"><i>Hume-Vidmimic2</i> <i>dataset</i></span><span style="line-height: normal;"><i>, which is a
</i></span><i>multimodal dataset of about 75 hours of video recordings of 2222 subjects; it contains continuous annotations for the intensity of 7 emotional experiences.</i></p>
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<i>The last Challenge is based on the Behavioural Ambivalence/Hesitancy dataset, which is an A/V dataset of 630 videos of 5 hours duration of around 430K frames; it contains annotations in terms of presence and absence of ambivalence/hesitancy.</i></div>
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Participants are invited to participate in at least one of these Challenges.</div>
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<span style="color: black;">There will be one winner per Challenge; t</span><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); line-height: normal;">he top-3 performing teams of each Challenge will have to contribute paper(s) describing their approach, methodology and results
to our Workshop</span><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">; <i>the accepted papers will be part of the CVPR 2025 proceedings;</i> all other teams are also encouraged to submit paper(s) describing their solutions and final results; the accepted papers will
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More information about the Competition can be found <span style="color: blue;"><u><a href="https://affective-behavior-analysis-in-the-wild.github.io/8th/#clients" id="OWAbf505a85-f9ed-aec4-7e58-31ae3200f8fd" class="x_OWAAutoLink" title="https://affective-behavior-analysis-in-the-wild.github.io/8th/#clients" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="2" style="color: blue; margin: 0px;">here</a></u></span>.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 12pt; color: black;">Dimitrios Kollias, Queen Mary University of London, UK </span></p>
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<b>Workshop</b> solicits contributions</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; color: black;"> on cutting-edge advancements in analyzing, generating, modeling, and understanding human affect and behavior
across multiple modalities, including facial expressions, body movements, gestures and speech. A special emphasis is placed on the integration of state-of-the-art systems designed for in-the-wild analysis, enabling research and applications in unconstrained
environments. In parallel, this Workshop will solicit contributions towards building fair, explainable, trustworthy and privacy-aware models that perform well on all subgroups and improve in-the-wild generalisation.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; color: black;">Original high-quality contributions, in terms of databases, surveys, studies, foundation models, techniques and methodologies (either uni-modal or multi-modal;
uni-task or multi-task ones) are solicited on -but are not limited to- the following topics:</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); line-height: normal;"> </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 12pt; color: black;">i) facial expression (basic, compound or other) or micro-expression analysis<br>
ii) facial action unit detection<br>
iii) valence-arousal estimation<br>
iv) physiological-based (e.g.,EEG, EDA) affect analysis<br>
v) face recognition, detection or tracking<br>
vi) body recognition, detection or tracking<br>
vii) gesture recognition or detection<br>
viii) pose estimation or tracking<br>
ix) activity recognition or tracking<br>
x) lip reading and voice understanding<br>
xi) face and body characterization (e.g., behavioral understanding)<br>
xii) characteristic analysis (e.g., gait, age, gender, ethnicity recognition)<br>
xiii) group understanding via social cues (e.g., kinship, non-blood relationships, personality)<br>
xiv) video, action and event understanding<br>
xv) digital human modeling<br>
xvi) characteristic analysis (e.g., gait, age, gender, ethnicity recognition)<br>
xvii) violence detection<br>
xviii) autonomous driving<br>
xix) domain adaptation, domain generalisation, few- or zero-shot learning for the above cases<br>
xx) fairness, explainability, interpretability, trustworthiness, privacy-awareness, bias mitigation and/or subgroup distribution shift analysis for the above cases<br>
xxi) editing, manipulation, image-to-image translation, style mixing, interpolation, inversion and semantic diffusion for all afore mentioned cases</span></p>
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<i>Paper Submission Deadline: </i> 21<i> March, 2025</i></div>
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<i>Review decisions sent to authors; Notification of acceptance: 3 April, 2025</i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 12pt; color: black; line-height: normal;">Eric Granger, École de technologie supérieure, Canada </span></p>
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In case of any queries, please contact <span style="color: blue;"><u><a href="mailto:d.kollias@qmul.ac.uk" id="OWA24094666-bd2e-3774-016e-617f4c4f9f53" class="x_OWAAutoLink" title="mailto:d.kollias@qmul.ac.uk" data-linkindex="3" data-loopstyle="link" data-safelink="true" style="color: blue; margin: 0px;">d.kollias@qmul.ac.uk</a></u></span></div>
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<p style="background-color: white; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">Dr Dimitrios Kollias, PhD,
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: white;">Member of Centre for Multimodal AI </span></p>
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