ICPR 2020 Workshop on: “Pattern Recognition and Automation in Construction & the Built Environment” (PRAConBE 2020)

https://praconbe2020.iti.gr/ – CfP in PDF: https://praconbe2020.iti.gr/ICPR_PRAConBE_2020_CfP.pdf

The 25^th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR 2020)

10-15 January 2021, Milan, Italy

https://www.micc.unifi.it/icpr2020/

The workshop covers a topic that is rapidly gaining attention in the recent years, with a continually increasing number of research papers, research groups, projects and applications in various subfields of applying pattern recognition-related methods to automating different facets of the construction and renovation process. The architecture, engineering and construction industry, an economic sector of significant importance (annual revenues of approx. US$10 trillion, or about 6% of global GDP), is expected to be radically transformed by digitalizing ever more aspects of the construction model, thereby boosting productivity, managing complexity and enhancing worksite safety and quality. Pattern recognition is central to this process of transformation, with computer vision, signal & image processing, machine learning applications increasingly finding uses of great impact to the field. At the same time, as novel problems arise corresponding to new applications in automating construction, the need for novel models and methods of pattern recognition is becoming ever-more urgent, in a process that is revitalizing and beneficial for both pattern recognition as a research field, as well as the construction industry.

We warmly welcome contributions of papers targeting the workshop scope, which includes the following topics:

• Pattern recognition for construction planning
• Structural asset detection
• Vision and Perception
• Process simulation models
• Defect & Crack detection
• Automated construction progress assessment
• Energy efficiency estimation
• Scan-to-BIM and Scan-vs-BIM
• Augmented & Mixed reality
• Automatic demand response flexibility estimation
• Uses of UAVs and Pattern Recognition in construction
• Decision support systems
• Management of constructed facilities
• Energy efficiency estimation
• Robot vision for construction applications
• Robot path and motion planning in construction sites
• Robot multimodal perception in construction
• Human robot interaction and safety issues in construction sites

Keynote Speaker

Frédéric Bosché, Senior Lecturer in Infrastructure Programme Management, University of Edinburgh,

Speech title: “Recent advances in automation in construction”

Important Dates

Paper Submission Deadline:           October 10, 2020 October 17, 2020

Author Notification:                         November 10, 2020

Final Manuscript Due:                      November 15, 2020

Workshop:                                          January 10, 2021

Workshop Paper Submissions

Conference papers will be submitted electronically through the workshop submission service website
(https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=praconbe2020 ), with PDF format.

For further information on the papers submission process, please visit the workshop website: https://praconbe2020.iti.gr/

Workshop Co-Chairs

Giorgos Sfikas, Visiting Lecturer at the University of Ioannina, sfikas@iti.gr

Athanasios Tsakiris, Senior Research Associate at CERTH/ITI, atsakir@iti.gr
Dimitrios Giakoumis, Senior Researcher, Grade C' at CERTH/ITI, dgiakoum@iti.gr
Dimosthenis Ioannidis, Senior Researcher, Grade C' at CERTH/ITI, djoannid@iti.gr
Dimitrios Tzovaras, Director of Research at CERTH/ITI, Dimitrios.Tzovaras@iti.gr