Conferences: CASA 2025 Call for Papers

March 4th, 2025 Daniela Lopez de Luise
 

CASA 2025    Call for Papers (Hybrid conference)

https://casa2025.sciencesconf.org/

 

The 38th International Conference on Computer Animation and Social Agents (CASA 2025) will be held on June 4-6, 2025, in Strasbourg, France. The conference is organized by the University of Strasbourg and the ICube laboratory. Founded in Geneva in 1988 under the name of Computer Animation (CA) by the Computer Graphics Society (CGS), CASA is the oldest international conference in computer animation and social agents in the world.

 

In the past few years, CASA has been held in Europe, Asia, North America, and Australia. CASA 2025 will provide a great opportunity to interact with leading experts, share your own work, and educate yourself through exposure to the research of your peers from around the world.

 

This year, the conference will be in HYBRID format. Authors will have the option to present their paper either in person or online.

 

IMPORTANT DATES

* Submission deadline: March 8, 2025

* Preliminary Notification to Authors: April 15, 2025

* Revised papers submission deadline for CAVW journal: May 5, 2025

* Final Notification of CAVW Journal: May 15, 2025

* Author Registration: May 18 (final deadline)

 

PAPER SUBMISSION

We invite submissions of research papers on a broad range of topics, including but not limited to Computer Animation, Embodied Agents, Social Agents, Virtual and Augmented Reality, and Visualization (see below for a detailed list). This year, we particularly welcome papers in the following domains: AI image generation, AI video generation, AI music generation, AI storytelling, and AI applications in VR.

 

Submitted papers will be reviewed by the program committee and papers of high quality will be referred for publication in the Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds (CAVW, Impact Factor: 0.9) journal published by Wiley. The papers accepted as is or with minor revisions will be in a special issue. Those requiring major revision will be given a chance to resubmit and reviewed again by the conference PC for acceptance in a subsequent issue of CAVW. The rest will be either rejected or recommended for publication in conference proceedings. Authors will have to register and present the papers at the conference either onsite or online.

 

SCOPE AND LIST OF TOPICS

CASA invites submissions on a broad range of topics, including but not limited to:

 

Computer Animation

  *   Motion Control

  *   Motion Capture & Retargeting

  *   Path Planning

  *   Physics-based Animation

  *   Vision-based Techniques for Animation

  *   Behavioral Animation

  *   Deformation

  *   Facial Animation

  *   Image-based Animation

  *   AI Storytelling

  *   AI Visual Generator

  *   Group and Crowd Simulation

  *   Modeling Natural Phenomena

  *   Deep Learning based Animation

  *   Fluid Animation

  *   Multi-scale Models

  *   Animation Compression & Transmission

  *   Machine Learning for Animation

  *   Advanced Multimodal Models

  *   Game-based Learning

 

Virtual Worlds

  *   Virtual Heritage

  *   Humanoid and Social Robots

  *   User Studies on AI or Robots Acceptance

  *   Machine Learning for VR and AR

  *   Artificial Agents in Virtual Reality

  *   Mixed and Augmented Reality

  *   Population Generation for Virtual Worlds

  *   Virtual Cities

  *   Virtual Humans and Avatars

  *   Anthropometric Virtual Human Models

  *   Digital Clones

  *   VR Health Applications

  *   Shared Virtual Environments

  *   Semantics & Ontologies for Animation in VR

  *   AI applications in VR and AR experiences

  *   Anthropometric Virtual Human Models

  *   Metaverse

  *   3D Telepresence

  *   Haptics

  *   Locomotion and Navigation

  *   Presence and Immersion

  *   Cultural Heritage Applications

  *   Social Agents

 

WEBSITE: https://casa2025.sciencesconf.org/ 

 

CONFERENCE CO-CHAIRS

  *   Frederic Cordier (University of Haute-Alsace, France)

  *   Kun Zhou (Zhejiang University, China)

  *   Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann (MIRALab–University of Geneva, Switzerland)

 

PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS

  *   Christos Mousas (Purdue University, United States)

  *   Hyewon Seo (CNRS–University of Strasbourg, France)

  *   Daniel Thalmann (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland)

 

INTERNATIONAL COORDINATOR

  *   Bin Sheng (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)

 

PUBLICITY CHAIR

  *   Xiaosong Yang  (Bournemouth University, UK)

 

ORGANIZATION CHAIR

  *   Hadrien Courtecuisse  (CNRS–University of Strasbourg, France)


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Call for participation SISAP 2025 Indexing Challenge

March 4th, 2025 Daniela Lopez de Luise
The SISAP Indexing Challenge 2025 invites researchers and practitioners to participate in exciting tasks to advance the state of the art in similarity search and indexing. The challenge provides a platform for presenting innovative solutions and pushing the boundaries of efficiency and effectiveness in large-scale similarity search indexes. This year, we are opening two challenging tasks.
Datasets can be found at https://huggingface.co/datasets/sadit/SISAP2025/tree/main; you can clone the full repository or download each file.
This task challenges participants to develop memory-efficient indexing solutions with reranking capabilities. Each solution will be run in a Linux container with limited memory and storage resources.
  • Container specifications: 8 virtual CPUs, 16 GB of RAM, the dataset will be mounted read-only into the container.
  • Wall clock time for the entire task: 12 hours.
  • Minimum average recall to be considered in the final ranking: 0.7.
  • Dataset: PUBMED23 (23 million vectors (384 dimensions) with out-of-distribution queries).
  • The goal is to evaluate k=30 nearest neighbors for a large set of query objects, as follows:
    • The final score of each team is measured as the best throughput evaluated on up to 16 different search hyperparameters.
    • Teams are provided with a public set of 11,000 query objects for development purposes.
    • A private set of 10,000 new queries will be used for the final evaluation.
In this task, participants are asked to develop memory-efficient indexing solutions that will be used to compute an approximation of the k-nearest neighbor graph for k=15. Each solution will be run in a Linux container with limited memory and storage resources.
  • Container specifications: 8 virtual CPUs, 16 GB of RAM, the dataset will be mounted read-only into the container.
  • Wall clock time for the entire task: 12 hours.
  • Minimum average recall to be considered in the final ranking: 0.8.
  • Dataset: GOOAQ (3 million vectors (384 dimensions) ).
  • The goal is to compute the k-nearest neighbor graph (without self-references), i.e., find the k-nearest neighbors using all objects in the dataset as queries.
    • We will measure graph’s quality as the recall against a provided gold standard and the full computation time (i.e., including preprocessing, indexing, and search, and postprocessing)
    • We provide a development dataset; the evaluation phase will use an undisclosed dataset of similar size computed with the same neural model.
For data description, hardware specifications, registration and participation instructions, please, refer to https://sisap-challenges.github.io/2025/index.html
All participants will be considered for paper submissions. We aim to accommodate all accepted papers within the conference program. Papers should be short, focusing on the presentation and poster.
We look forward to your participation and innovative solutions in the SISAP Indexing Challenge 2025! Let's push the frontiers of similarity search and indexing together.
Any transformation of the dataset to load, index, and solve nearest neighbor queries is allowed. Transformations include but are not limited to, packing into different data types, dimensional reduction, locality-sensitive hashing, product quantization, or transforming into binary sketches. Reproducibility and open science are primary goals of the challenge, so we accept only public GitHub repositories with working GitHub Actions as submissions. Indexing algorithms may be already published or original contributions.
You can find more detailed information, data access, and registration at the SISAP Indexing Challenge website https://sisap-challenges.github.io/2025/
  • June 6th. Submission of solution implementations deadline.
  • June 13th. Short paper descriptions deadline.
  • July 1st. Final ranking announcement.
  • July 11th. Paper notification.
  • July 31st. Participant (short paper) camera ready.

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xAI25 Conference Special Track: Explainable and Interactive Hybrid Decision Making (July 9-11 2025, Istanbul, Turkey)

March 4th, 2025 Daniela Lopez de Luise

The 7th International Symposium on Blockchain Applications and Theory (BCAT 2025), Tampa, Florida, USA. May 19-22, 2025

March 4th, 2025 Daniela Lopez de Luise
 

The 7th International Symposium on Blockchain Applications and Theory (BCAT 2025)

 

https://icsc-conference.org/2025/Workshops/BCAT2025/

Hybrid Event

Tampa, Florida, USA. May 19-22, 2025

Co-located with

 

The Fifth IEEE Intelligent Cybersecurity Conference (ICSC2025)

Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE Florida West Coast Section

BCAT 2025 CFP:

A blockchain is a distributed ledger for recording transactions and/or data in a meaningful order, maintained by many connected nodes without a trusted central authority. Blockchain has a great potential to create new foundations for most distributed systems by efficiently establishing trust among nodes, especially in emerging networks. Such a fundamental technology to enable decentralization play an important role in a wide spectrum of topics such as Internet of Things (IoT), Cyber Physical Systems (CPS), edge computing, cloud computing, fog, mobile computing, social networking, wireless communication, vehicular network, and even more other fields.
At the same time, there is a lack of fundamental study on the limitation of blockchain such as scalability, security, privacy, efficiency, availability and dependability. Hence, the development and deployment of blockchain-based systems and applications will likely exhibit new requirements and complicated challenges, which brings more open issues and exciting directions for research communities.  The aim of BCAT is to bring together researchers and practitioners working in cloud computing, distributed systems, cryptography, security, and networking, from academia and industry, who are interested in the applications and theory of blockchains and related protocols. Researchers are encouraged to submit original research contributions in all major areas, which include, but not limited to:

  • Theories of blockchain and distributed ledger technology
  • Distributed data store for blockchain
  • Distributed transaction for blockchain
  • Blockchain in cloud computing
  • Blockchain in mobile and edge computing
  • Blockchain in Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS)
  • Blockchain and Financial Networks
  • Blockchain in vehicular network
  • Blockchain in the Internet of things (IoT)
  • Blockchain Systems for Cyber Security
  • Blockchain in Cyber Physical Systems (CPS)
  • Blockchain in social networking

  Submissions Guidelines and Proceedings

Manuscripts should be prepared in 10-point font using the IEEE 8.5″ x 11″ two-column format. All papers should be in PDF format, and submitted electronically at Paper Submission Link. A full paper can be up to 6 pages (including all figures, tables and references). Submitted papers must present original unpublished research that is not currently under review for any other conference or journal. Papers not following these guidelines may be rejected without review. Also submissions received after the due date, exceeding length limit, or not appropriately structured may also not be considered. Authors may contact the Program Chair for further information or clarification. All submissions are peer-reviewed by at least three reviewers. Accepted papers will appear in the ICSC Proceeding, and be published by the IEEE Computer Society Conference Publishing Services and be submitted to IEEE Xplore for inclusion.

Important Dates:

  • Paper submission deadline: March 23rd 2025 (Firm and Final)
  • Notification of acceptance: April 7th, 2025
  • Camera-ready Submission: April 21st, 2025

 

Contact:

 

Please send any inquiry on ICSC to Fahed Alkhabbas at: fahed.alkhabbas@mau.se

 

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IEEE BHI 2025 – “Precision Health: AI Tailored to Individuals”

March 4th, 2025 Daniela Lopez de Luise
IEEE BHI 2025: Precision Health: AI Tailored to Individuals

 

https://bhi.embs.org/2025/

 

The IEEE-EMBS International Conference on Biomedical and Health Informatics (BHI), sponsored by the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (IEEE EMBS), is EMBS’s primary technical conference on informatics and computing in healthcare and life sciences. BHI 2025 will take place in Atlanta, Georgia, USA from October 26 – 29, 2025. It will provide a unique forum to showcase basic and translational research on big data analytics and machine learning that address challenges in the acquisition, transmission, processing, security, visualization, and interpretation of vast volumes of multi-modal biomedical data, as well as related social, behavioral, environmental, and geographical data. It will also demonstrate the deployment of BHI informatics solutions that integrate key technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, mHealth, e-Health, human-computer interface, telemedicine, bioinformatics, sensors, imaging, and public health monitoring, to achieve patient-centric and outcome-driven effective health care.

 

Important Information

  • IEEE JBHI format: 8-page J-BHI format papers will be evaluated by JBHI with accepted papers published in JBHI Special Issue and featured by an oral presentation at the conference.
  • Opportunities for regular conference papers (4-7 pages) and 1-page abstracts.
  • Open Access: BHI 2025 proudly features Open-Access publishing for accepted regular papers.
  • Accepted regular conference papers for publishing in IEEE Xplore.
  • Open Double-Blind Review for high quality: BHI 2025 will use OpenReview for establishing open review processes.
  • Best paper awards for recognizing innovative and excellent research
  • 1-page extended abstracts for poster presentations and rapid fire sessions
  • Continuing Medical Education (CME) credits for clinicians
  • Travel Awards: for undergraduate and graduate students from US Institutions
  • Data competition and awards for students 

The topical areas of interest include but are not limited to the following:

The BHI2025 scope covers multimodality data collection by novel sensors, imaging, omics, public and global health surveillance, robots, drug discovery, immunotherapy, and multiple other biomedical technologies; data transmission (security, encryption); data visualization; data analysis by signal processing and machine learning; advanced AI such as Generative AI and Cognitive AI for large range of biomedical and health technologies and applications, including Metaverse, Digital Health, Bioinformatics, Electronic Health Records, Human-Computer Interaction, Telemedicine, Public Health, Aging, Infectious Diseases, Chronic Conditions, and so on under the six big categories of informatics:

  • Biomedical Sensor Informatics
  • Bioinformatics
  • Imaging Informatics
  • Clinical Informatics
  • Public Health Informatics
  • Theoretical Biomedical Informatics

The detailed categories include but are not limited to:

  • AI Implementation Science in Medicine
  • AI in Precision and Predictive Health
  • AI in Wellness and Preventative Care
  • Biomarker Discovery and Drug Design
  • Causal Inference for Biomedicine
  • Cognitive Automation in Health and Medicine
  • Cybersecurity and Privacy Preservation
  • Data Harmonization and Quality Control
  • Digital Twins / Personalized AI Models
  • Ethical and Regulatory Issues in Biomedical AI
  • Explainable AI for Decision Support
  • Generative AI and Foundational Models for Biomedicine
  • Metaverse, Augmented and Intelligent Reality
  • Multimodality Data Analysis
  • Pervasive Computing for Wearables
  • Robotic Surgery and Interventions
  • Single-cell and spatial genomics
  • Biomedical digital twins

Important Dates

Paper Submission (JBHI & Reg. Conf. papers)

May 23, 2025

Special Session, Workshop & Tutorial

June 13, 2025

1st Round of Paper Review Notifications

July 7, 2025

2nd Round Paper Review Submission

July 25, 2025

Final Paper Acceptance Notification

August 15, 2025

Final Camera Ready Paper

September 1, 2025

1-page Abstract Submission Window

May 1 – October 1, 2025

1-page Abstract Acceptance Notification

decisions released every two weeks

 

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