Fwd: [CVML] [Conferences] RSS 2020 (Virtual) Workshop on Self-Supervised Robot Learning
April 14th, 2020 
Daniela Lopez de Luise UPDATE CONCERNING COVID-19
The RSS 2020 SSRL organizing committee hopes that you are safe and well. Due to the pandemic and the uncertainty regarding travel to the US, the RSS 2020 SSRL workshop will take place VIRTUALLY on the original date of July 13th. The submission deadline and notification dates remain the same. We expect to share more details regarding the online program by the end of April.
Call for Papers
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RSS 2020 (Virtual) Workshop on Self-Supervised Robot Learning
Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS)
July 13th, 2020
Website: https://www.brainlinks-braintools.uni-freiburg.de/rss20-ssrl
Overview
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Self-supervised learning is a promising direction that aims to learn representations from the data itself without explicit and potentially even manual supervision. One of the major benefits of self-supervised learning is the ability to scale to large amounts of unlabelled data in a lifelong learning manner and to improve performance by reducing the effect of dataset bias. Recent development in self-supervised learning has resulted in achieving comparable or better performance than fully-supervised models. However, many of these methods are developed in domain-specific communities such as robotics, computer vision or reinforcement learning. The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers from different communities to discuss opportunities, challenges and explore new directions.
Topics
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The focus topics of our workshop include, but are not restricted to:
-Self-supervised learning for robotics, robot vision, reinforcement learning….
-Self-supervised domain adaptation
-Meta-learning of self-supervised tasks
-Large-scale self-supervised learning
-Learning of generalizable pretext-tasks
-Loss functions for self-supervised learning
-Learning from auxiliary/multiple tasks
-Multimodal and cross-modal learning
Submission Instructions
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We encourage participants to submit their research in the form of a single PDF. Submissions may be up to 4 pages in length, including figures, excluding references and any supplementary material. Please use the RSS conference template. Accepted papers will be presented in a poster session and selected awards papers as spotlight talks. All submitted contributions will go through a single blind review process. The contributed papers will be made available on the workshop’s website and selected papers will be invited for a special issue of a major robotics journal.
Submission Website: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ssrl20
LaTeX Template: https://roboticsconference.org/docs/paper-template-latex.tar.gz
In order to make acceptance decisions early, we request interested researchers to submit a single page extended abstract by 19th April as an expression of interest. The authors would then have time 2nd July to include new results and submit the full 4 page paper. We also welcome submissions that have already been accepted to RSS or other major conferences and journal papers that have not been discussed in a conference.
Important Dates
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– One page submission deadline: April 19th, 2020 AoE
– Notification of acceptance: April 24th, 2020
– Full paper submission: July 2nd, 2020 AoE
– Virtual Workshop date: July 13th, 2020
Invited Speakers
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– Pieter Abbeel (UC Berkeley & Covariant.AI)
– Dieter Fox (University of Washington & NVIDIA)
– Abhinav Gupta (CMU & Facebook AI Research)
– Roberto Calandra (Facebook AI Research)
– Chelsea Finn (Stanford University)
– Pierre Sermanet (Google Brain)
– Andy Zeng (Google Brain)
Organizing Committee
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– Abhinav Valada, University of Freiburg
– Anelia Angelova, Google Research/Google Brain
– Joschka Boedecker, University of Freiburg
– Oier Mees, University of Freiburg
– Wolfram Burgard, University of Freiburg
For further information please contact us at <rss20-ssrl@googlegroups.com>.
Best,
Abhinav, Anelia, Joschka, Oier, Wolfram
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April 14th, 2020 Daniela Lopez de Luise CFP: DeLTA 2020
April 14th, 2020 Daniela Lopez de Luise Dear colleagues,
allow me to point your interest to an event
DeLTA 2020 (1st International Conference on Deep Learning Theory and Applications), Lieusaint – Paris, France, July 08 – 10, 2020.
Best regards
Martin Stepnicka
CFPDELTA2020.pdfCall for Papers to Be Published by Springer Nature with Extended Submission Deadline of April 25, 2020: 22nd International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, USA, July 27-30, 2020
April 14th, 2020 Daniela Lopez de Luise CALL FOR PAPERS (Topics: Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Computing, …)
ALL ACCEPTED PAPERS WILL BE PUBLISHED BY SPRINGER NATURE in BOOK SERIES:
Transactions on Computational Science & Computational Intelligence
https://www.springer.com/series/11769
Paper Submission Deadline (EXTENDED): April 25, 2020
ICAI 2020:
22nd International Conference on ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
https://americancse.org/events/csce2020/conferences/icai20
ACC 2020:
4th International Conference on APPLIED COGNITIVE COMPUTING
https://americancse.org/events/csce2020/conferences/acc20
Co-Located: July 27-30, 2020, Luxor (MGM), Las Vegas, USA In case of hesitation by some authors/speakers to travel during Year 2020 (due to Coronavirus), the CSCE Steering Committee has developed a policy for Non-Attendance. In summary, for Year 2020, the non-attendance by any registered author would not negatively impact the publication of his/her paper. Having said the above, based on a survey conducted recently, we anticipate that all (or the vast majority) of speakers/authors to physically attend the CSCE 2020 Congress in late July.
For more information see: the NON-ATTENDANCE POLICY:
https://americancse.org/events/csce2020/non_attendance_policy
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All accepted papers will be published by Springer Nature in book series:
Transactions on Computational Science & Computational Intelligence.
The books will be widely disseminated (to over 1,000 libraries and to 1,000's of individuals). It should be noted that publication of papers in research books would permit each paper to be quite comprehensive (if need be) and so the publication value would be comparable to journal publications; and so would be listed as such in the list of research contribution. Our set of previous published books by Springer received the top 25% downloads in their respective topics with many papers receiving over 100 citations (some received over 700 citations).
Book Title:
Advances in Artificial Intelligence & Applied Cognitive Computing
Indexation: Subject to Springer science indexation which includes:
link.springer.com; Scopus, www.info.scopus.com; SCI Compendex;
EI, Compendex, www.ei.org; EMBASE; Web of Science; Inspec; ACM
digital library; Google Scholar; EBSCO, and others.
KEYNOTE LECTURES AND TUTORIALS:
There will be between 10 and 15 Keynote lectures and Invited Talks;
speakers include world-renowned scientists and educators. Featured
Keynote Speakers in recent years have included:
– Prof. John Koza (known as Father of Genetic Programming; Stanford U.)
– Prof. John H. Holland (known as Father of Genetic Algorithms;
U. of Michigan)
– Prof. Lotfi A. Zadeh (Father of Fuzzy Logic, UC Berkeley)
– Dr. Jose L. Munoz (NSF Program Director and CTO of NSF Office of
Cyber-infrastructure)
– Prof. Haym Hirsh (Dean, Cornell University & former NSF admin)
– Prof. David A. Patterson (pioneer, architecture, UC Berkeley)
– Prof. Ian Foster (known as Father of Grid Computing; U. of Chicago & ANL)
– Prof. Barry Vercoe (Founding member of MIT Media Lab, MIT)
– Dr. Firouz Naderi (former Head of NASA Mars Exploration Program;
former Administrator and/or Director of Jet Propulsion Lab,
CalTech/NASA; NASA's JPL Solar System Exploration
– Prof. Ruzena Bajcsy (pioneer, VR, UC Berkeley)
– Prof. David Lorge Parnas (pioneer of software engineering)
– Prof. Eugene H. Spafford (Executive Director, CERIAS and Professor,
Purdue University)
– Prof. H. J. Siegel (Abell Endowed Chair Distinguished Professor of ECE
and Professor of CS; Director, CSU Information Science and Technology
Center (ISTeC), Colorado State University, Colorado, USA)
– Prof. Amit Sheth (LexisNexis Eminent Scholar; Founder/Executive Director,
Ohio Center of Excellence in Knowledge-enabled Computing (Kno.e.sis))
– Dr. Leonid I. Perlovsky (Harvard University and CEO LP Information Tech)
– Dr. James A. Crowder (Chief Engineer, Raytheon Intelligence)
– Prof. Diego Galar (Director & Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Lulea University of
Technology, Sweden)
– and over 200 other distinguished speakers.
The Congress is among the top five largest international annual
gathering of researchers in computer science, computer engineering and
applied computing. We anticipate to have attendees from about 75
countries and territories. To get a feeling about the conferences'
atmosphere, see some delegates photos available at (over 2,000 photos):
https://photos.ucmss.com/
https://americancse.org/photo-gallery/index-html
INTRODUCTION:
In order to leverage synergy between various CS & CE fields, the program
committees of ICAI and ACC conferences have their 2020 events held at
one venue (same location and dates). This joint research event is
composed of a number of tracks (joint-conferences, tutorials, sessions,
workshops, poster and panel discussions); all will be held simultaneously,
same location and dates: July 27-30, 2020. For the complete list of joint
conferences, refer to: https://www.americancse.org/events/csce2020
We anticipate having between 1,000 and 2,000 participants in the
Congress. The congress includes 20 major tracks
( https://www.americancse.org/events/csce2020 ) composed of: 122
technical, research, and panel sessions as well as a number of
keynote lectures and tutorials; all will be held simultaneously,
same location and dates: July 27-30, 2020. Last year, the Congress
had attracted speakers/authors and participants affiliated with over
158 different universities (including many from the top 50 ranked
institutions), major IT corporations (including: Microsoft, Google,
Apple, SAP, Facebook, Oracle, Amazon, Yahoo, Samsung, IBM, Ebay, GE,
Siemens, Philips, Ericsson, BAE Systems, Hitachi, NTT, Twitter, Uber
Technologies, …), major corporations (including: Exxon Mobil,
Johnson & Johnson, JPMorgan Chase, PetroChina, GlaxoSmithKline, HSBC,
Airbus, Boeing, Hyundai, Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank, …), government
research agencies (NSF, NIH, DoE, US Air Force, NSA National Security
Agency, Central Intelligence Agency, …), US national laboratories
(including, NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration, ANL
Argonne National Lab, Sandia National Lab, ORNL Oak Ridge National Lab,
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Lawrence Livermore National Lab,
Los Alamos National Lab, Pacific Northwest National Lab, …), and a
number of Venture Capitalists as well as distinguished speakers
discussing Intellectual Property issues. Last year, 54% of attendees
were from academia, 25% from industry; 20% from government and funding
agencies; and 1% unknown. About half of the attendees were from outside
USA; from 69 nations.
SUBMISSION OF PAPERS: https://american-cse.org/
Publisher: Springer Nature – Book Series:
Transactions on Computational Science & Computational Intelligence
https://www.springer.com/series/11769
Book Title:
Advances in Artificial Intelligence & Applied Cognitive Computing
Indexation: Subject to Springer science indexation which includes:
online Springer Link (link.springer.com/), Scopus
(www.info.scopus.com), SCI Compendex, EI Compendex (www.ei.org),
EMBASE, Web of Science, Inspec, ACM digital library, Google
Scholar, EBSCO, and others.
Prospective authors are invited to submit their papers by uploading
them to the evaluation web site at: https://american-cse.org/
Submissions must be uploaded by the due date (see IMPORTANT DATES) and
must be in either MS doc or pdf formats (maximum of 10 pages for Regular
Research Papers; maximum of 6 pages for Short Research Papers; and
maximum of 3 pages for Extended Abstract/Poster Papers – the number of
pages includes all figures, tables, and references). ALL REASONABLE
TYPESETTING FORMATS ARE ACCEPTABLE (many authors use Springer's
one-column style format for their submissions or IEEE style format:
later, the authors of accepted papers will be asked to follow a
particular typesetting format to prepare their final papers for
publication). Papers must not have been previously published or currently
submitted for publication elsewhere.
The first page of the paper should include the followings:
– Title of the paper
– Name, affiliation, postal address, and email address of each
author (identify the name of the Contact Author)
– Abstract (between 100 and 120 words)
– A maximum of 5 topical keywords that would best represent the
work described in the paper
– Write the type of the submission as "Regular Research Paper",
"Short Research Paper", or "Extended Abstract/Poster Paper".
– The actual text of the paper can start from the first page
(space permitting).
Submissions are to be uploaded to the submission/evaluation web site
portal at https://american-cse.org/
Type of Submissions/Papers:
– Full/Regular Research Papers (maximum of 10 pages):
Regular Research Papers should provide detail original research
contributions. They must report new research results that
represent a contribution to the field; sufficient details and
support for the results and conclusions should also be provided.
The work presented in regular papers are expected to be at a
stage of maturity that with some additional work can be published
as journal papers.
– Short Research Papers (maximum of 6 pages):
Short Research Papers report on ongoing research projects. They
should provide overall research methodologies with some results.
The work presented in short papers are expected to be at a stage
of maturity that with some additional work can be published as
regular papers.
– Extended Abstract/Poster Papers (maximum of 3 pages):
Poster papers report on ongoing research projects that are still
in their infancy (i.e., at very early stages). Such papers tend
to provide research methodologies without yet concrete results.
Each paper will be peer-reviewed by two experts in the field for
originality, significance, clarity, impact, and soundness. In cases
of contradictory recommendations, a member of the conference program
committee would be charged to make the final decision (accept/reject);
often, this would involve seeking help from additional referees.
Papers whose authors include a member of the conference program
committee will be evaluated using the double-blinded review process.
(Essay/philosophical papers will not be refereed but may be considered
for discussion/panels).
IMPORTANT DATES:
April 25: 2020: Submission of papers: https://american-cse.org/
– Full/Regular Research Papers (maximum of 10 pages);
– Short Research Papers (maximum of 6 pages);
– Abstract/Poster Papers (maximum of 3 pages)
May 08, 2020: Notification of acceptance (+/- two days)
May 22, 2020: Final papers + Copyright + Registration
July 27-30, 2020: ICAI 2020: The 22nd International Conference on
Artificial Intelligence +
ACC 2020: The 4th International Conference on Applied
Cognitive Computing
https://www.americancse.org/events/csce2020
CONTACT:
Questions and inquiries should be sent to:
Conference Secretariat: cs@american-cse.org