CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

REACT 2024 Challenge: Multiple Appropriate Facial Reaction Generation in Dyadic Interactions (REACT2024 at FG’24)

The second “Multiple Appropriate Facial Reaction Generation in Dyadic Interactions” challenge (REACT2024) to be held in conjunction with the Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG) 2024 in Istanbul, Turkey, is calling for contributions in the form of papers and competition in the challenge. The competition will be using the NoXI, and RECOLA datasets which contain audio-video clip data of participants engaged in dyadic video-conference settings. The challenge consists of two main tasks:

• Task 1 – Offline Appropriate Facial Reaction Generation
• Task 2 – Online Appropriate Facial Reaction Generation

Participants are invited to participate in one or both sub-challenges. For more information about the challenge, check our website https://sites.google.com/cam.ac.uk/react2024/home. 

To register and access the challenge data, please fill the registration form you will find on the website and feel free to contact us by email: reactmultimodalchallenge@gmail.com . 

For each task, training and validation data will be made available to participants. At the end of the competition, participants will be required to submit their trained models (in the form of working code) via email. All submissions will be evaluated on a held-out test dataset to ensure a fair comparison. Participants will also be encouraged to submit a conference-style paper describing their proposed approach for tackling the challenge task(s) as well as the results obtained. 

Challenge timeline is as follows:

• Launching Challenge website and call for participation poster: November 2, 2023
• Registration open: November 5, 2023
• Training and validation sets released: November 14, 2023
• Baseline paper and code released: December 31, 2023
• Final result and model submission: March 15, 2024
• Paper submission deadline: March 29, 2024
• Paper acceptance notification: April 5, 2024
• Camera ready paper submission deadline: April 15, 2024

The Organisers

§ Dr Siyang Song*, University of Leicester & University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

§ Dr Micol Spitale*, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

§ Cheng Luo,  Monash University, Australia

§ Cristina Palmero, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

§ German Barquero, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

§ Prof Sergio Escalera, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

§ Prof Michel Valstar, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom

§ Dr Tobias Baur, University of Augsburg, Augsburg, Germany

§ Dr Fabien Ringeval, Université Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France

§ Prof Elisabeth Andrè, University of Augsburg, Augsburg, Germany

§ Prof Hatice Gunes, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Contact us via email: reactmultimodalchallenge@gmail.com