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RFIW 2020 : Recognizing Families In the Wild

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Link: https://web.northeastern.edu/smilelab/rfiw2020/
 
When Nov 4, 2019 - May 20, 2020
Where Buenos Aire, Argentina
Submission Deadline Feb 1, 2020
Notification Due Feb 7, 2020
Final Version Due Feb 26, 2020
Categories    face understanding   machine learning   deep learning
 

Call For Papers

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, authors will be expected to join workshop during 2020 AMFG conference on 18-22 May in Buenos Aire, Argentina .


What is new for RFIW-2020?

There has been a surge of researchers attracted to problems of visual kinship recognition lately. Along with the 528 teams that successfully submitted results on Kaggle and, thus, are listed on the leader board, many others reached out for raw data for various tasks and goals. Therefore, we do not want to limit ideas and original work, but encourage it through general paper submission track. We also call for Brave New Ideas-- different ways of exploring, learning, and interrupting FIW data and visual kinship recognition problem as a whole. Along with the traditional verification task, RFIW2020 will support two new tracks, tri-subject verification and large-scale search-and-retrieval. Tri-subject is a natural extension of the verification task (i.e., when comparing 2 faces, one of father and the other a son, it is practical to assume the perspective mother is known, as the wife of the father subject is likely accessible). Thus, this paradigm follows a 2-to-1 verification protocol (all rules mimic that of verification, with the difference being one item from each pair consisting of a man and woman, and the question then is “are these the parents,” or ’are these two siblings children of this single parent, etc.). Large-scale search-and-retrieval will mimic that of template-based, open-sets protocols provided by benchmarks like IJB-B. A gallery will have millions of distractors, and the task is then to rank faces based on scores representing whether or not a family member (i.e., blood relative). Such a paradigm closely mimics the real-world application of missing children (i.e., a child is found online, exploited by the unknown, and it is unlikely the child’s face is in any database; however, a family member likely is– identify a family member, determine the identity of the unknown child). Additionally, the paradigm can be used to reunite families split as part of the modern-day refugee crisis (i.e., provided technology to recognize family members via visual media, we could then match families together from different camps at the cost of a low-cost security video-feed). More information to come.

Specifically, the new components parts will be a part of RFIW2020:
Two additional tracks, along with the return of kinship verification (i.e., three tracks in total).
General call for papers in work in automatic kinship recognition.
A Brave New Idea track that calls for innovative ways of viewing the problem.


Call for papers!

In addition to the three organized task evaluations, we will also add this piece to RFIW2020 (i.e., papers that use FIW in novel ways). The main reason we added this is to ignite the creativity of the community outside the controlled experiments of the task evaluations– we found the assessments to be great for structuring existing problems such that us researchers and practitioners can make fair comparisons of algorithms; however, this limits the scope of the problems of automatic kinship recognition. From this, we expect the light to 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.



Challenge!

In addition to the two tasks included in previous RFIW (i.e., Kinship Verification and Family Classification), there will be a new track, Tri-Subject Verification, supported during the proposed RFIW2020 challenge. Tri-Subject Verification focuses on a slightly different view of kinship verification– the goal is to decide whether a child is related to a pair of parents. Tri-subject is a more realistic assumption, as knowing one parent typically means information of the other is accessible. Following this notion, we propose adding this track, but with additional tri-subject pair types (e.g., given a couple of known siblings, determine if an unknown subject is also a sibling). Plus, at scales far much higher than ever before possible. Unlike RFIW-2017 , RFIW-2018 , and RFIW-2019 , where we used CodaLab to handle registration, provide data downloads, and automate scoring, we will continue to do so. Of course, the organization of each task is done so by well-defined protocols and data- splits. Participants will be allowed to partake in one or all challenge tracks, as we will handle each submission independently. Benchmarks using conventional methods, along with results of prior RFIW, will be provided; also, source code to reproduce and demonstrate each task end-to-end will be made available. Thus, enabling newcomers while challenging the experts. We will also call for general paper submissions of new work to expand the types of problems and the use-case of the FIW dataset.

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