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Overview
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The 3rd large-scale kinship recognition data competition Recognizing Families In the Wild (RFIW 2019) is being held as a challenge workshop in conjunction with the 14th IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG 2019) will be held in Lille, France, 14 -18 May 2019. More information here.

After a successful and exciting After a successful and exciting RFIW 2017 and RFIW 2018, we hope to keep the momentum going with those involved, while attracting more of the community to get involved! This year's RFIW will consist of both the challenge and conference workshop. Thus, participants will have the opportunity to compete, publish their work in workshop proceedings, and present during workshop at the upcoming 2019 FG conference. Awards will be given for top performers and best papers!

This is made possible with the release of the largest and most comprehensive image database for automatic kinship recognition, Families in the Wild (FIW).

RFIW 2019 will support multiple tasks. Registration and data downloads (Phase 1) is currently open for 2 tasks:
• Kinship verification (T1), https://competitions.codalab.org/my/competition/20180/
• Family classification (T2), https://competitions.codalab.org/competitions/20196/

The data has been updated, so be sure to download latest-and-greatest available in the Codalab portal.
Source code for FIW to explore, reproduce benchmarks, and more is available on GitHub, https://github.com/visionjo/FIW_KRT.

Of course, forwarding this Call to others is both welcome and appreciated!

Thank you very much and do let us know if you have any questions.


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Important Dates
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15 Sep 2018 Registration opens. Training data (labels); Val data (no labels); scoring server open. (Phase 1)
01 Nov 2018 Labels for Validation (Phase 2)
01 Jan 2019 Test set released, scoring server open for test submissions (Phase 3)
13 Jan 2019 Challenge submissions due (i.e., scoring server closed)
30 Jan 2019 Challenge papers due
10 Feb 2019 Author notifications (i.e., oral or poster)
25 Feb 2019 Camera Ready due
2019 FG Oral and poster presentations challenge workshop; Winners will be announced


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List of Topics
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• Computer Vision
• Deep Learning
• Kinship Recognition
• Machine Learning
• Big Data
• Evaluation
• Data Challenge Workshop


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Organizers
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• Joseph Robinson, https://www.jrobsvision.com/
• Ming Shao, http://www.cis.umassd.edu/~mshao/
• Yun Fu, https://www.ece.neu.edu/people/fu-yun/


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Venue
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The 14th IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG 2019) will be held in Lille, France, 14 -18 May 2019. The FG2019 conference venue is Lille Grand Palais. It is in the heart of the city.


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Related Links
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• 2019 RFIW Challenge: web.northeastern.edu/smilelab/RFIW2019/
• 2019 FG: http://fg2019.org/
• Families In the Wild Project Site: https://web.northeastern.edu/smilelab/fiw/


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Contact
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Joseph Robinson, Ming Shao, Yun Fu
jrobins1@coe.neu.edu
https://web.northeastern.edu/smilelab/