The Computational Face – Automatic Face Analysis and Synthesis

One Day BMVA symposium in London, UK on Wednesday 14th October, 2015

Chairs: Brais Martinez, Yorgos Tzimiropoulos and Michel Valstar

Keynote speakers:  Tim Cootes (University of Manchester), Darren Cosker (University of Bath),  Maja Pantic (Imperial College London), Richard Bowden (University of Surrey)

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Programme:

In this meeting, we hope to seek the opinions of speakers from the most interesting companies and academic labs with an interest in the computational face on the future of Face Analysis and Synthesis. What academic challenges remain? What elements are ready for adoption by industry? What are the key factors blocking progress? What new application opportunities can be envisaged?

09:30 Registration + Coffee
10:00 Keynote 1: Maja Pantic (Imperial College London) - Automatic Analysis of Facial Expressions
10:40 Evangelos Sariyanidi (Queen Mary University London) - Probabilistic Subpixel Temporal Registration for Facial Expression Analysis
11:00 Anastasios Roussos (Imperial College London) - Dense variational 3D modelling and reconstruction of faces
11:20 Coffee Break
11:40 Keynote 2: Darren Cosker (University of Bath) - Dynamic Facial Processing and Capture in Academia and Industry
12:20 Will Smith (University of York) - An example-based approach to face analysis and synthesis
12:40 Patrik Huber (Uni of Surrey) - Landmark Detection and 3D Face Reconstruction using Modern C++
13:00 Lunch Inc Posters:
Alessio Dore (Wirewax) - Face Detection, Tracking and Recognition for Interactive Videos
Ali Bukar (University of Bradford) - Nonlinear AAMs for age estimation and synthesis
Georgia Rajamanoharan (University of Manchester)- Multi-View Constrained Local Models for Large Head Angle Facial Tracking
Joanna Olszewska (University of Gloucestershire) - Automated Face Detection: Challenges and Solutions

14:00 Keynote 3: Tim Cootes (University of Manchester) - Facial Feature Detection and Tracking using Statistical Shape Models
14:40 Ioannis Patras (Queen Mary University London) - Facial alignment in the wild - what does the mirror image tell us about the alignment error?
15:00 Thomas Heseltine (Aurora Computer Services) - Deep Learning for Biometrics in Real World Applications
15:20 Coffee Break 2
15:40 Keynote 4: Richard Bowden (University of Surrey) - Faces in Communicationet
16:20 Timothy Hospedales (Queen Mary University London) - Cross-Modal Face Matching: Beyond Viewed Sketches
16:40 Charlie Frowd (University of Winchester) - Facial synthesis from human memory
17:00 End of meeting