The 7th International Conference Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition, FG2006 will be held at Southampton University, UK, April 10-12 2006. The conference is in association with the BMVA and the IEEE Computer Society TC PAMI, and will cover research into Tracking and gesture recognition. On 30th of October, a huge fire destroyed the Mountbatten building where the conference was to be held. The submission website was knocked off-line.