3rd WORKSHOP ON COMPUTER VISION FOR WINTER SPORTS (CV4WS)

November 20th, 2024 Daniela Lopez de Luise
3nd WORKSHOP ON COMPUTER VISION FOR WINTER SPORTS (CV4WS) 
in conjunction with the
IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV) 2025 (https://wacv2025.thecvf.com/)
WORKSHOP WEBSITE 

TOPICS
We invite submissions to our WACV 2025 workshop on computer vision in winter and mountain sports, including disciplines like skiing, bobsleigh, climbing, and downhill biking. These sports capture massive viewership and participation globally, yet pose unique challenges for computer vision due to fast motion, harsh environments, and real-time processing demands.
Our workshop aims to advance visual analysis and enhance spectator experiences through cutting-edge research. Topics of interest include athlete pose estimation, performance analysis, injury prevention, augmented reality for fan engagement, and robust methods for challenging weather conditions. We welcome contributions on algorithmic approaches, fusion of visual data with other sensors, and new datasets/benchmarks in these domains.

Research papers are solicited in, but not limited to, the following topic areas:
  • Machine learning solutions for video understanding or activity recognition regarding winter and mountain sports
  • Pose estimation of athletes
  • Evaluation and measurement of athlete performance
  • Performance forecasting
  • Detection/evaluation/prevention of injuries in winter sports with computer vision
  • Crowd and spectators monitoring
  • Augmented/virtual reality for winter sports and fan engagement
  • Applications of computer vision/AI to winter sports (skiing, ice-hockey, ice-skating, biathlon, bobsleigh, luge, curling, etc.)
  • Image/video understanding in winter/harsh weather conditions
  • Camera pose estimation in broadcast videos
  • Video-based trajectory reconstruction and analysis
  • Winter scene reconstruction from images/videos
  • Snow/ice measurements and analysis with computer vision
  • Real-time processing algorithms
  • Fusion of image/video data and other sensor data
  • Datasets, benchmarks and annotations of winter sport data

SUBMISSIONS
There are two submission tracks: FULL PAPERS and EXTENDED ABSTRACTS.

Full paper submissions should propose comprehensive and well-validated solutions, and adhere to the guidelines of standard WACV 2025 submissions (max 8 pages + references). Accepted full papers will be published under the WACV 2025 workshop proceedings and included in IEEE Xplore.

Extended abstracts should be max 4 pages in length (including tables, figures and references) and can describe novel but not extensively validated ideas, ongoing works, or be recaps of recently published papers (either journal or conference). The accepted abstracts will be published under an arXiv compendium.

All submissions should be compiled for double-blind review, adopt the standard WACV 2025 template (Overleaf template, ZIP Archive), and be submitted via the workshop's CMT platform:

We plan to invite a selection of authors, along with a summary paper featuring submissions to the SkiTB challenge, to contribute to a special issue in a prestigious journal. This special issue will encompass broader topics in sports science and technology.
THE SKITB CHALLENGE
The team at the University of Udine has recently unveiled SkiTB, a large dataset for computer vision research in skiing. For the workshop, such a dataset will be exploited to organize a visual tracking challenge through a dedicated research competition platform (e.g. CodaLab).
 Challenge participants will be required to submit a report presenting their solution. A collection of the best reports will be included in a future special issue. 
The best performing teams will be invited to present their solutions to the workshop's attendees. 
  • Opening challenge date: 01 December 2024
  • Deadline for submissions: 31 January 2025
  • Technical report submission: 07 February 2025

Challenge page:
IMPORTANT DATES
Important dates for full paper submissions:
  • 22 November 2024, 2022 23:59 PST: full paper submission due
  • December 18, 2024: notification to authors of full paper submissions
  • January 10, 2025 23:59 PST: full paper camera-ready papers due
Important dates for extended abstract submissions:
  • December 20, 2024 23:59 PST: extended abstract due
  • January 10, 2025: notification to authors of extended abstract submissions
  • January 31, 2025 23:59 PST: extended abstract camera-ready papers due 
Workshop date:
  • February 28 or March 3 or 4, 2025

ORGANIZERS
Dr. Niccolò Bisagno, University of Trento, Italy
Dr. Matteo Dunnhofer, University of Udine, Italy
Dr. Katja Ludwig, University of Augsburg, Germany
Prof. Hideki Koike, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Prof. Christian Micheloni, University of Udine, Italy

Prof. Nicola Conci, University of Trento, Italy
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 Participate in a HCI research project with Autonomous University of Madrid (Spain) and win tablets, smartphones and more!

November 20th, 2024 Daniela Lopez de Luise
🔍 The BiDA Lab group from the Autonomous University of Madrid in Spain (https://bidalab.eps.uam.es/) is launching a project to investigate and develop biometric recognition systems to make the use of your smartphone more secure. 
 
👉🏼 We need your help! We want to collect a large database with as many users as possible for our research project!
🎁 Join us to win amazing prizes such as iPads, smartphones, smartwatches, Bluetooth headsets or hard drives!
To participate, all you need to do is complete all four sessions of the BehavePassUAM app, which will give you two entries into the draw. Plus, you'll get extra entries for every user you share the app with who also completes the sessions – the more people you invite, the more chances you have to win!
 
🎉 The next draw will be on 26 November and we will continue to draw prizes every 3 weeks, so don't miss out!
💡New: If you want to help us grow on social media, you can follow us and share our featured posts (don't forget to tag us). This way, you will get extra entries for the prize draws and you will also be able to participate in an exclusive prize draw that we will be holding on 17 December (even if you can't participate in the app because you have an iPhone).
 
📲Download the app from Google Play (Android only): https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bida.behavepassdbuam
📲Download here the apk of the APP BehavePassUAM in case you can not access Google Play Store: https://github.com/BiDAlab/BehavePassUAM/blob/main/BehavePassUAM.apk
 
🏆Check raffle dates and winners on our website:
 
Follow our social networks profiles: Instagram  Facebook   Twitter/X  LinkedIn
Stay informed about the raffles and other interesting topics we share.
 
Thank you so much in advance! Please participate and share the app!
For any technical issues, you can contact: behavepass@uam.es – bidalabuam@gmail.com
(Lastly, apologies for the spam! If you no longer wish to receive messages like this, please reply to this email and let us know.)
The BiDA Lab Team
Autonomous University of Madrid
Ruben Vera-Rodriguez
Associate Professor
Biometrics and Data Pattern Analytics – BiDA Lab
Escuela Politécnica Superior / School of Engineering
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid – Campus de Cantoblanco
c/ Francisco Tomas y Valiente, 11 – 28049 Madrid (SPAIN)
ruben.vera@uam.es – https://bidalab.eps.uam.es
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SynRDinBAS at WACV 2025

November 20th, 2024 Daniela Lopez de Luise
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Synthetic Realities and Data in Biometric Analysis and Security (SynRDinBAS)
Workshop held at WACV 2025 (IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision) 
February 28 – March 4, 2024, Tucson, Arizona, US
Paper submission: December 12, 2024, 11:59pm PST
Best reviewed workshop papers will be invited for extension and submission to a special issue in Information Fusion (IF: 14.7)
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*** Call for Papers *** 
Recent advancements in generative models like GANs, VAEs, and diffusion models have transformed data-driven tasks in computer vision and AI by enabling the creation of highly realistic synthetic data. These models address data scarcity challenges, offering versatile and ethical alternatives for training and testing machine learning algorithms. However, their realism also raises concerns, as synthetic data's indistinguishability from real data poses risks of misuse, manipulation, and potential harm when used unethically. 
Synthetic Realities and Data in Biometric Analysis and Security (SynRDinBAS) is a workshop that aims to explore the diverse applications of synthetic realities and data in biometric analysis, while also addressing critical security issues such as data privacy and ethical concerns of data manipulation. 
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
  • Novel generative models for synthesis of biometric data,
  • Synthetic realities in immersive media for biometric interaction and analysis,
  • Synthetic realities for behavioral biometric data collection and analysis,
  • Label generation for synthetic data,
  • Information leakage in synthetic data,
  • Data factories for training biometric (detection, landmarking, recognition) models,
  • Synthetic data for data augmentation,
  • Data synthesis for bias mitigation and fairness,
  • Quality assessment for synthetic data,
  • Synthetic data for privacy protection,
  • Novel applications of synthetic data,
  • New synthetic datasets and performance benchmarks,
  • Applications of synthetic data, e.g., deepfakes, virtual try-on, face and gesture editing,
  • Partially or fully synthetically generated attacks on biometric systems for identification and verification,
  • Detection of manipulated and synthetic content,
  • Forensic analysis of synthetic data.
 
*** Submission *** 
 
*** Important Dates *** 
 
Full Paper Submission: December 12, 2024, 11:59pm PST 
Acceptance Notice: January 6, 2025, 11:59pm PST 
 
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VisionDocs @ WACV, workshop on document analysis – deadline extended

November 20th, 2024 Daniela Lopez de Luise
 

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CALL FOR PAPERS: VisionDocs – WACV2025  (deadline extended)

Website: https://ai4ch.uniud.it/visiondocwacv25/

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We are glad to announce VisionDocs: 1st Workshop on Computer Vision Systems for Documents Analysis and Recognition, in conjunction with the “IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV) 2025”.

 

Workshop Overview:

This workshop aims to encourage the development of new strategies to address the limitations of current document analysis systems, such as handling low-data environments, adapting to document classes with highly heterogeneous visual characteristics, and integrating multi-modal inputs for improved performance.

 

Call for papers:

Research papers are solicited in, but not limited to, the following topic areas:

·        Document image processing

·        Physical and logical layout analysis

·        Text and symbol recognition

·        Handwriting recognition

·        Document analysis systems

·        Document layout analysis

·        Document classification

·        Indexing and retrieval of documents

·        Document synthesis

·        Extracting document semantics

·        Graphics Recognition

·        Structured document generation

·        Multimedia document analysis

·        Recognition of tables and formulas

·        Historical document analysis

·        Document summarization and translation

·        Document forensics and provenance

·        Medical document analysis

·        Document analysis for social good

·        Document analysis for literature search

·        Datasets and benchmarks of document analysis

·        Data-efficient Document Analysis

·        Multi-modal Document Analysis

Important Dates

·                 Paper submissions: 6 December, 2024 23:59 PST   (deadline extended!)

·                 Author Notification: 19 December, 2024 23:59 PST

·                 Camera-ready: 10 January, 2025 23:59 PST

·                 Workshop dates: 28 February or 4 March 2025

 

For any additional information, please visit the website: https://ai4ch.uniud.it/visiondocwacv25/

 

Organizers:

Silvia Zottin, zottin.silvia@spes.uniud.it” target=”_blank”>zottin.silvia@spes.uniud.it

Axel De Nardin, axel.denardin@uniud.it” target=”_blank”>axel.denardin@uniud.it 

Claudio Piciarelli, claudio.piciarelli@uniud.it” target=”_blank”>claudio.piciarelli@uniud.it

Gian Luca Foresti, gianluca.foresti@uniud.it” target=”_blank”>gianluca.foresti@uniud.it

AI4CH – Artificial Intelligence for Cultural Heritage Lab, University of Udine. https://ai4ch.uniud.it/

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Invitación a las Sesiones del I Congreso Internacional de Educación, Comunicación y Humanidades Digitales – 22 y 23 de Noviembre 2024

November 20th, 2024 Daniela Lopez de Luise

 

Invitación al I Congreso Internacional de Educación, Comunicación y Humanidades Digitales
Estimados Colegas, Nos complace invitarlos a participar en las sesiones del I Congreso Internacional de Educación, Comunicación y Humanidades Digitales, que se llevarán a cabo los días 22 y 23 de noviembre de 2024. Este evento reunirá a académicos, investigadores y profesionales para compartir conocimientos, experiencias e innovaciones en los campos de la educación digital y la comunicación.   El congreso tendrá lugar en un formato virtual accesible a todos, y será una oportunidad única para debatir temas críticos como el futuro de las ciencias de la comunicación y los posibles destinos de la educación en la era digital. 
Revisen la agenda completa del congreso en nuestro sitio web para obtener más detalles sobre las actividades y horarios. No se pierdan la oportunidad de contribuir a estas discusiones enriquecedoras y conectar con destacados colegas de todo el mundo.
Canal de YouTube de Entropía Educativa.
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