June 22nd, 2020 
Daniela Lopez de Luise The recent focus of AI and Pattern Recognition communities on the supervised learning
approaches, and particularly to Deep Learning / AI, resulted in considerable increase of
performance of Pattern Recognition and AI systems,
but also raised the question of the trustfulness and explainability of their predictions
for decision-making.
Instead of developing and using Deep NNs as black boxes and adapting known architectures
to variety of problems, the goal of explainable Deep Learning / AI is to propose methods
to “understand” and “explain” how the these systems produce their decisions.
The goals of the workshop are to bring together research community which is working on
the question of improving explainability of AI and Pattern Recognition algorithms and systems.
The topics of the workshop cover but are not limited to:
• “Sensing” or “salient features” of Neural Networks and AI systems – explanation of
which features for a given configuration yield predictions both in spatial (images) and
temporal (time-series, video) data;
• Attention mechanisms in Deep Neural Networks and their explanation;
• For temporal data, the explanation of which features and at what time are the most
prominent for the prediction and what are the time intervals when the contribution
of each data is important;
• How the explanation can help on making Deep learning architectures more sparse
(pruning) and light-weight;
• When using multimodal data how the prediction in data streams are correlated and
explain each other;
• Automatic generation of explanations / justifications of algorithms and systems’
decisions;
• Decisional uncertainly and explicability
• Evaluation of the explanations generated by Deep Learning and other AI systems.
*** Pannel:
“Toward more explainable Deep Learning and AI systems”, Chair: Dragutin Petcovic(SFSU,USA)
Moderator will ask invited speakers to briefly present their opinions and ideas on
the topic of the panel and then the audience will be invited to a discussion
*** Important Dates:
Submission deadline : October 10th 2020
Workshop author notification: November 10th 2020
Camera-ready submission: November 15th 2020
Finalized workshop program: December 1st 2020
*** Paper Submission:
The Proceedings of the EDL-AI 2020 workshop will be published in the Springer
Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. Papers will be selected by a single blind
(reviewers are anonymous) review process. Submissions must be formatted in accordance
with the Springer’s Computer Science Proceedings guidelines. Two types of contribution
will be considered:
Full paper (12-15 pages)
Short papers (6-8 pages)
*** Submission site: will be open in September
Program Committee:
Christophe Garcia (LIRIS, France)
Hugues Talbot (EC, France)
Dragutin Petkovic (SFSU,USA)
Alexandre Benoît( LISTIC,France)
Mark T. Keane (UCD, Ireland)
Georges Quenot(LIG, France)
Stefanos Kolias (NTUA, Grece)
Jenny Benois-Pineau(LABRI, France)
Hervé Le Borgne (LIST, France)
Noel O’Connor (DCU, Ireland)
Nicolas Thome(CNAM, France)
Jenny Benois-Pineau, Georges Quenot
Workshop Organizers
Jenny Benois-Pineau,
Professeure en Informatique,
Chargée de mission aux relations Internationales
Collège Sciences et Technologies,
Université de Bordeaux
Jenny Benois-Pineau, PhD, HDR,
Professor of Computer Science,
Chair of International relations
Faculty of Sciences and Technologies
University of Bordeaux
