2020 RFIW: Recognizing Families In the Wild |
Website | https://web.northeastern.edu/smilelab/rfiw2020/ |
Challenge Begins | November 8, 2019 |
Submission deadline | January 28, 2020 |
Author notifications (i.e., oral or poster) | February 5, 2020 |
Camera Ready due | February 26, 2020 |
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Project Page
Updates
All three challenges are live as codalab competitions. Portals open for paper registration and submission: calling for general papers and papers on Brave New Ideas.
- 2019-12-11 Konica Minolta donated to award the best paper. Thank you, and welcome to our first sponsor!
- 2019-12-10 Competition portal for track 3 now open! (Codalab (T3))
- Search & Retrieval of Missing Children (many-to-many)
- Can you generate a ranked list of predicted relatives provided a gallery of faces for different subjects?
- 2019-12-10 Test date pushed back! Phase 3 for all tracks scheduled for 13-20 January 2020.
- 2019-12-04 Competition portal for track 2 now open! (Codalab (T2))
- Verify Tri-subjects (two-to-one, i.e., parents-child)
- Father/Mother-Son; Father/Mother-Daughter.
- 2019-11-14 Competition portal for track 1 now open! (Codalab (T1))
- Verify Kinship (e.g., grandfather-to-granddaughter)
- 11 different pairwise types and largest set of pairs yet
- 2019-11-03 Call for Papers (submission link)
Overview
We are pleased to announce the fourth large-scale kinship recognition data competition, Recognizing Families In the Wild (RFIW), in conjunction with the 2020 FG. RFIW has been made possible with the release of the largest and most comprehensive image database for automatic kinship recognition, Families in the Wild (FIW) dataset.
All submissions (i.e., challenge papers, general paper submissions, and Brave New Ideas) will be peer-reviewed for publication as part of RFIW2020 in the IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (2020 AMFG) proceedings. Also, paper presentations, either oral and or poster, along with special guest keynote speakers, are in store for the workshop and award ceremony agenda at the 2020 AMFG conference on 18-22 May in Buenos Aire, Argentina.
Call For Papers
Call for general papers and Brave New Ideas on original work in automatic kinship and or match the interest of the AMFG community. We added this to ignite the creativity of the community outside the controlled settings of evaluations-- where assessments are great for structuring problems such that researchers and practitioners have a testbed for fair comparisons of algorithms and reproducible experiments/analysis. However, this alone limits the scope of use-cases and studies on kinship, as seen in the visual domain, and beyond. Especially with the data made available with the latest version of FIW. We hope to see light shed on one or more of the following ways:
- To advance the state-of-the-art for kinship verification and family classification.
- To benchmark new tasks for FIW, like fine-grain classification, large-scale search, and retrieval, tri-subject verification.
- To propose generative models for family photos, relative faces, photo albums, such.
- To explore and understand multimodal uses of text captions accompanying the family photos of FIW.
- To pitch cluster, multi-view, and various types of problems.
- To treat kinship as a soft attribute for higher-level tasks (e.g., facial recognition, group understanding, social media analysis).
- Much more.
Previous RFIW Workshops
Ever since the first RFIW Challenge Workshop as part of the 2017 ACM MM in Mountain View, CA, USA, we have seen great progress. After three successful RFIWs (along with a recent Kaggle competition) and great research strides from the community, we aim for great leaps for this 4th edition. Let's continue to close the gap between research-and-reality for the highly applicable technology of automatic kinship recognition.
Taking a look back, here are the homepages of previous RFIW are listed as follows:
RFIW2018: https://web.northeastern.edu/smilelab/RFIW2018/
RFIW2019: https://web.northeastern.edu/smilelab/RFIW2019/
Important Dates
1st CFP: 3 Nov 2019 Challenge begins: 8 Nov Challenge ends: 13 Jan 2020 Papers due: 20 Jan Author notifications (i.e., oral or poster): 5 Feb Camera Ready due: 26 Feb Paper presentations & awards, 2020 FG Conference: May 18-22 |
Organizers
- Rama Chellappa, University of Maryland
- Matthew A. Turk, Toyota Technical Institute of Chicago (TTIC)
- Yun Fu, Northeastern University, USA
- Joseph P. Robinson, Northeastern University, USA
- Ming Shao, University of Massachusetts (Dartmouth)
- Siyu Xia, Southeast University (China)
- Mike Stopa, Konica Minolta
- Samson Timoner, ISMConnect
- Yu Yin, Northeastern University, USA
- Zaid Khan, Northeastern University, USA
Author Guidelines
Submissions made via CMT:
Following the guidelines of IEEE FG:
- long: 8 pages (including references); short: 4 pages (+1 for references)
- Anonymous
- Using FG template [ Latex, Word ]
Contact
For general inquiries, such as requests, ideas, and concerns, please email the following correspondents:
Joseph Robinson (robinson.jo@husky.neu.edu)
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA
Ming Shao (mshao@umassd.edu)
Computer and Information Science, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, Dartmouth, MA, USA