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Please find below the invitation to contribute to the <a href="https://affective-behavior-analysis-in-the-wild.github.io/9th/" id="LPlnk772083" class="OWAAutoLink" title="https://affective-behavior-analysis-in-the-wild.github.io/9th/" data-auth="NotApplicable">
9th Workshop and Competition on Affective & Behavior Analysis in-the-wild (ABAW</a>) to be held in conjunction with the
<u>International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2025</u>.</div>
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(1): The <b><i>Competition</i></b> is split into the below <b>three Challenges</b>:</div>
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<u>Valence-Arousal Estimation Challenge</u></div>
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<u>Compound Expression Recognition Challenge</u></div>
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<u>Fine-Grained Violence Detection Challenge</u></div>
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The first Challenge is based on an augmented version of the Aff-Wild2 database; the 2nd Challenge is based on the C-EXPR-DB database; and the 3rd Challenge is based on the DVD Database. More details can be found
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All accepted papers from the Competition will be part of the ICCV 2025 proceedings.</div>
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<b>Important Dates</b>:</div>
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<span style="line-height: 1em;"><u>Call for Participation Announced, Team Registration Begins, Data Available:</u> 3 June, 2025</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 1em;"><u>Final Submission Deadline:</u> 3 July, 2025</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 1em;"><u>Winners Announcement:</u> 5 July, 2025</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 1em;"><u>Final Paper Submission Deadline:</u> 8 July, 2025</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 1em;"><u>Review Decisions Sent to Authors / Notification of Acceptance:</u> 12 August, 2025</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 1em;"><u>Camera-Ready Version Deadline:</u> 18 August, 2025</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 12pt; color: black;">(2): The
<b>Workshop</b> is a premier platform highlighting the latest advancements in multimodal analysis, generation, modeling, and understanding of human affect and behavior in real-world, unconstrained environments.<br>
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></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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<b>Important Dates</b>:</div>
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<span style="line-height: 1em;"><u>Paper Submission Deadline:</u> 8 July, 2025</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 1em;"><u>Review Decisions Sent to Authors / Notification of Acceptance:</u> 12 August, 2025</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 1em;"><u>Camera-Ready Version Deadline:</u> 18 August, 2025</span></div>
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<b>Program Chairs:<br>
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Irene Kotsia (Cogitat Ltd)<br>
Greg Slabaugh (Queen Mary University London)<br>
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In case of any queries about the Competition or the Workshop, please contact <span style="color: blue;">
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<p style="direction: ltr; 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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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: white;">Member of Queen Mary Computer Vision Group </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: white;">Associate Member of Centre for Advanced Robotics <br>
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