March 15th, 2022 
Daniela Lopez de Luise GoodBrother Workshop on Visual Intelligence for Active and Assisted Living (GoodBrother-VI4AAL)
As part of the 21st International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing (ICIAP) – https://www.iciap2021.org/
24 May 2022, Lecce, Italy
https://goodbrother.eu/conferences/workshop-iciap/
Paper submission deadline: 15 March 2022
It is a matter of fact that Europe is facing more and more crucial challenges regarding health and social care due to the demographic change and current economic context. The current COVID-19 pandemic is stressing out this situation even further, thus highlighting the need for taking action. Active and Assisted Living (AAL) technologies come as a viable approach to help facing these challenges, thanks to the high potential they have in enabling remote care and support. In this respect, AAL applications based on computer vision, multimedia data processing and understanding, and machine intelligence present several advantages in terms of unobtrusiveness and information richness. Indeed, camera sensors are far less obtrusive with respect to the hindrance that other wearable sensors may cause to people’s activities. In addition to that, a single camera can monitor most of the activities performed in a room, thus replacing many other non-visual sensors. Currently, video-based applications are effective in recognising and monitoring activities, movements, and overall conditions of the assisted individuals as well as to assess their vital parameters (e.g., heart rate, respiratory rate). Nevertheless, as the other side of the coin, cameras are often perceived as the most intrusive technologies from the viewpoint of the privacy of the monitored individuals. This is due to the richness of the information that this technology conveys and the intimate setting where it may be deployed in. Therefore, solutions able to ensure privacy preservation by context and design as well as to ensure high legal and ethical standards are in high demand. This workshop aims to give forum for contributions presenting and discussing image- and video-based AAL applications, projects and research as well as initiatives proposing ethical and privacy-aware solutions.
This workshop is organised by the GoodBrother COST Action (CA19121) on Privacy-Aware Audio- and Video-Based Applications for Active and Assisted Living (https://goodbrother.eu/). The aim of Goodbrother is to increase the awareness on the ethical, legal, and privacy issues associated to audio- and video-based monitoring and to propose privacy-aware working solutions for assisted living, by creating an interdisciplinary community of researchers and industrial partners from different fields (computing, engineering, healthcare, law, sociology) and other stakeholders (users, policy makers, public services), stimulating new research and innovation. Goodbrother will offset the “Big Brother” sense of continuous monitoring by increasing user acceptance, exploiting these new solutions, and improving market reach.
The topics of interest include, but are not limited to, unobtrusive and user-friendly image- and video-based AAL solutions for:
- Lifelogging and self-monitoring
- Remote monitoring of vital signs
- Emotional state recognition
- Food intake monitoring
- Human activity and behaviour recognition
- Personal and daily-life assistance
- Gesture recognition
- Fall detection and prevention
- Mobility assessment and frailty recognition
- Cognitive and motor rehabilitation
Accepted papers will be included in the ICIAP 2021 proceedings, which will be published by Springer as Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series.
Paper submission timetable:
- 15 March 2022 – Paper submission deadline
- 7 April 2022 – Notification of acceptance
- 21 April 2022 – Submission of camera-ready papers
- 24 May 2022 – Workshop date
More information at https://goodbrother.eu/conferences/workshop-iciap/.
Francisco (Paco) Flórez-Revuelta
http://www.dtic.ua.es/~florez/
Associate Professor
Department of Computing Technology, Research Group on Domotics and Ambient Intelligence
University of Alicante
Carretera San Vicente s/n, 03690 San Vicente del Raspeig, Alicante (Spain)
Coordinator of visuAAL Marie Skłodowska-Curie ITN. Chair of the GoodBrother COST Action
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