28th August 2020

In conjunction with ECCV 2020 - European Conference on Computer Vision

 Web: https://iplab.dmi.unict.it/acvr2020/ Contact: ACVR.workshop@gmail.com

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 IMPORTANT UPDATE: due to COVID-19 outbreak ACVR2020 is going 100% ON LINE

 The general idea for implementing this is to follow the same format as the main conference:

 • All papers, oral or poster, will have a pre-recorded video presentation, made available together with the paper to the attendees about a week before the workshop day; 

 • The workshop will have some scheduled individual interaction time during the workshop day; 

 • This  time will be split in two parts to allow attendees from all over the world to attend in good conditions.

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IMPORTANT DATES  

 Full Paper Submission: July 17th, 2020

Notification of Acceptance: August 3rd, 2020

Camera-Ready Paper Due: September 8th, 2020

  CALL FOR PAPERS

The last decade has witnessed the significant impact of Computer Vision and Robotics on real-world products. This has been possible thanks to the results of traditional Computer Vision and Robotics problems such as tracking, 3D reconstruction, detection, recognition, odometry, navigation, and ultimately, thanks to deep learning. However, most of these results have focused on constrained application scenarios that do not involve the integration of feedback from the user. Since these applications do not consider the user's intentions and goals, they tend to be of limited use when it is necessary to provide assistance to humans. 

 With the pervasive successes of Computer Vision and Robotics and the advent of industry 4.0, it has become paramount to design systems that can truly assist humans and augment their abilities to tackle both physical and intellectual tasks. We broadly refer to such systems as "assistive technologies". Examples of these technologies include approaches to assist visually impaired people to navigate and perceive the world, wearable devices which make use of artificial intelligence, mixed and augmented reality to improve perception and bring computation directly to the user, and systems designed to aid industrial processes and improve the safety of workers. These technologies need to consider an operational paradigm in which the user is central and can both influence and be influenced by the system. Despite some examples of this approach exist (e.g., OrCam, HoloLens), implementing applications according to this "human-in-the-loop" scenario still requires a lot of effort to reach an adequate level of reliability and introduces challenging satellite issues related to usability, privacy, and acceptability. 

The main scope of ACVR 2020 is to bring together researchers from the diverse fields of engineering, computer science, social and biomedical sciences who work in the context of technologies involving Computer Vision and Robotics related to real-time continuous assistance and support of humans while performing any task. The scope goes beyond that of the previous editions. The workshop was conceived (in 2013) for pure assistive topics (mainly related to the field of health). However, the rapid increase in the demand for tools to support daily life and industrial processes has pushed the interest of the research community also towards those application fields.  

This widening of the interests of the workshop contributors and audience will enable researchers working on similar technologies but in different application fields to compare their studies and to discuss new ideas. To this aim, besides the technologies used, emphasis will be given to the precise definition of problems, the available benchmark databases, and to the need for evaluation protocols. 

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

- Symbiotic Human-Machine Systems;

- Computer Vision to aid Industrial Processes;

- Augmented and Mixed Reality;

- Computer Vision to Improve the safety of workers; 

- Human-Robot Interaction; 

- Home Healthcare; 

- Technology for Cognition;

- Automatic Emotional Hearing and Understanding;

- Activity Monitoring Systems; 

- Manipulation Aids; 

- Smart Environments;

- Safety and Security;

- Ambient Assistive Living;

- Privacy-preserving systems; 

- Robot assistants;

- Quality of Life Technologies; 

- Navigation Systems;

- Mobile and Wearable Systems;

- Applications for the Visually Impaired; 

- Sign language recognition and applications for hearing impaired;

- Applications for the Ageing Society;

- Personalized Monitoring

- Egocentric and First-Person Vision;

- Applications to improve the health and wellbeing of children and elderly;

- Autonomous Driving;

- Driver Assistance Systems;

- Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCI) for Assistive Systems; 

- Multi-modal Human-Centered Systems.

INVITED SPEAKERS

- Dhruv Batra, Georgia Tech, USA 

- Walterio Mayol-Cuevas, University of Bristol, UK

- Marc Pollefeys, ETH Zurich, CH 

- Jim Regh, Georgia Tech, USA 

SUBMISSION AND REVISION

All submissions will be handled electronically via the conference’s CMT Website: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/ACVR2020.

The format for paper submission is the same as the ECCV 2020 main conference. Please refer to ECCV 2020 author guidelines

See the instructions and guidelines at the following page: http://iplab.dmi.unict.it/acvr2020/submission 

ACVR reviewing will be double-blind. Each submission will be reviewed by at least three reviewers for originality, significance, clarity, soundness, relevance and technical contents.

The paper length should match that intended for final publication. Papers are limited to 14 pages (excluding references), including figures and tables. Additional pages must contain only cited references.

Papers that are not blind, or do not use the template, or have more than 14 pages (excluding references) will be rejected without review.

Authors may optionally submit additional material that could not be included in the main paper due to constraints of format (e.g., a video), space (e.g., a proof of a theorem or an extra figure or table) or anonymity.

Submission Deadline: July 17th, 2020 

PROCEEDING AND JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUE 

Accepted papers will be published in the (post-conference) proceedings of the workshops. 

Authors may be invited to submit an extended version (at least 40% more than the seminar versions) of their work to a special issue (currently still in the planning stage) in one of the most highly rated journals in the field of computer vision or of robotic research. 

WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS

Giovanni Maria Farinella, University of Catania, IT

Antonino Furnari,  University of Catania, IT

Marco Leo, CNR-Institute of Applied Sciences and Intelligent Systems, IT 

Gerard G. Medioni, University of Southern California, US

Mohan Trivedi, University of California San Diego, US 

ENDORSERS

CVPL - Associazione Italiana in Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition andMachine Learning  

http://www.cvpl.it/ 

CONTACTS 

Email: ACVR.workshop@gmail.com 

Website: https://iplab.dmi.unict.it/acvr2020/