CALL FOR PAPERS

                                                             AIMSA 2020

The 19th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence: Methodology, Systems, Applications

                                      Golden Sands resort, Varna, Bulgaria, 7-9th September, 2020

                                                             www.aimsaconference.org

Initiated in 1984, the biennial Artificial Intelligence: Methodology, Systems, Applications (AIMSA) conference is a premier single-track forum for exchanging information and research results on theory and principles of artificial intelligence (AI) along with real-world applications of intelligent system technology. The conference traditionally brings together researchers and practitioners in all areas of AI from both the academia and industry to meet and share their ideas and experiences and learn about the recent trends and developments in contemporary AI. 

The 19th edition of AIMSA will be held in the beautiful Golden Sands resort near Varna, Bulgaria. With its mild climate and excellent opportunities for outdoor activities, water sports and gastronomy, Golden Sands promise to be a wonderful venue for a memorable conference.

TOPICS

The conference welcomes submissions of original, high quality papers in all areas of Artificial Intelligence, including (but not limited to) traditional topics such as the algorithms, implementations and (or) real-world applications of knowledge discovery, data mining, machine learning, evolutionary computing, pattern recognition, search, reasoning, planning, natural language processing, intelligent agents, multiagent systems, robotics and sensing, etc.

PROCEEDINGS

The proceedings of AIMSA 2020 conference series will be published by Springer in their Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence subline of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series.

Extended versions of AIMSA 2020 selected papers will be published by MDPI, Switzerland, in a special issue of "Information" (ISSN 2078-2489) – an Open Access Journal of Information Science (SJR: 0.222).

 SUBMISSION DETAILS

Papers have to be submitted electronically (in PDF format) via the submission system: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aimsa2020.  Papers should be written in English, formatted according to the Springer LNCS format and should be specified either as full (12 – 15 pages) or short (6-8 pages). Accepted papers of both formats will be included in the conference program for oral presentation. A limited number of poster papers (4 pages) – to be presented in the poster session – will also be accepted and included in the conference proceedings.

All submissions will be subject to a single-blind academic peer review by at least three members of the program committee. Selection criteria include accuracy and originality of ideas, clarity and significance of results, and quality of presentation. For each accepted paper, at least one author is required to register and attend the conference to present the paper. The author(s) of the best paper (which will be selected based on the votes of the attendees) of the conference will receive the Best Paper Award during the conference.

KEYNOTES TALKS

Explainable-by-Design Highly Efficient Deep Learning. Plamen Angelov (School of Computing and Communications, Lancaster University, UK)

Towards Practical Robot Intelligence for Manipulation and Locomotion.  Peter Kormushev (Robot Intelligence Lab, Imperial College London, UK)

IMPORTANT DATES

Submission deadline:        May 17, 2020

Notification of acceptance:  June 14, 2020

Deadline for camera-ready:  July 26, 2020

Conference:                September 7-9 2020

 LANGUAGE

The official language of the conference is English.

LOCATION

Golden Sands is a modern resort with traditions, and history going back 50 years. A unique blend of lovely nature park, warm sea, and fine golden sand! Golden Sands is the winner of a "Blue Flag" – a prestigious international award for environmentally clean resorts. 

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE CHAIR

Ivan Tanev  – Department of Information Systems Design Faculty of Engineering, Doshisha University, Japan

E-mail: itanev@mail.doshisha.ac.jp Website: http://isd-si.doshisha.ac.jp/itanev/

 LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE CHAIR

Gennady Agre  – Institute of Information and Communication Technologies Bulgarian Academy of Sciences

Acad. G. Bonchev 2, 1113 Sofia, Bulgaria

E-mail: agre@iinf.bas.bg

Phone: +359 28700118

Fax: +359 28707273

ORGANISERS

Bulgarian Artificial Intelligence Association

Institute of Information and Communication Technologies at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (IICT – BAS)

EPIC@CVPR2020 – Call for Extended Abstracts

You are invited to submit abstracts on published and ongoing work to the sixth edition of the International Workshop on Egocentric Perception Interaction and Computing (EPIC) at CVPR 2020:

http://eyewear-computing.org

Submission Extended Abstracts: May 1st, 2020

Notification of Acceptance: May 15th, 2020

Camera-Ready Paper Due (on ArXiv): June 8th, 2020

Workshop: June 15th

Aims and Scope

This EPIC@X series of workshops aims to bring together the various communities that are relevant to egocentric perception including Computer Vision, Multimedia, HCI and the Visual Sciences and the series is held alongside the major conferences in these fields. This follows five previous successful workshops: EPIC@ECCV2016, EPIC@ICCV2017, EPIC@ECCV2018, EPIC@CVPR2019 and EPIC@ICCV2019.

EPIC@CVPR2020 will accept Extended Abstracts for ongoing or already published work, for presentation at the workshop. Both research and application works related to Egocentric Perception, Interaction and Computing are encouraged, including those that can be demonstrated or are in the prototype stages.

Egocentric perception introduces a series of challenging questions for computer vision as motion, real-time responsiveness, and generally uncontrolled interactions in the wild are more frequently required or encountered. Questions such as what to interpret as well as what to ignore, how to efficiently represent egocentric actions, and how captured information can be turned into useful data for guidance or log summaries become central.

Submissions are expected to deal with human-centric perception including, but not limited to:

– Egocentric vision for human action analysis 

– Egocentric vision for object/event recognition 

– Egocentric vision for summarization 

– Egocentric vision for social interaction and human behavior understanding 

– Egocentric vision for anticipating human behavior 

– Egocentric vision for children and education 

– Egocentric vision for health 

– Head-mounted eye tracking and gaze estimation 

– Computational visual behavior analysis 

– Attention modelling and next fixation prediction 

– Eye-based human-computer interaction 

– Human and wearable devices interaction 

– Symbiotic human-machine vision systems 

– Affective computing with respect to wearable devices 

– Eyewear devices for egocentric perception and computation 

– Eyewear devices for acquisition and visualization 

– Interactive AR/VR and Egocentric perception 

– Egocentric vision in human and computer 

– Daily life and activity monitoring 

– Augmented human performance 

– Benchmarking and quantitative evaluation with human subject experiments 

Invited Speakers:

Yoichi Sato, University of Tokyo, Japan

Kristen Grauman, University of Texas at Austin and Facebook AI Research, USA

Submission Details:

http://www.eyewear-computing.org/EPIC_CVPR20/submission.html

EPIC@CVPR2020 Organisers:

Walterio Mayol Cuevas, University of Bristol, UK and Amazon, USA 

Hazel Doughty, University of Bristol, UK

Dima Damen, University of Bristol, UK

Antonino Furnari, University of Catania, Italy

David Crandall, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA 

Giovanni Maria Farinella, University of Catania, Italy 

Kristen Grauman, University of Texas at Austin and Facebook AI Research, USA