CFP: Workshop on Workshop on Unmasking (Truly) Deepfakes located with IEEE CAI 2025: May 5-7, 2025 in Santa Clara, California, USA

IEEE Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IEEE CAI)

The IEEE Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IEEE CAI) is an international conference and exhibition with an emphasis on the applications of AI and key AI verticals that impact industrial technology applications and innovations. You’ll learn about new research and breakthroughs in the industry, gain insight into new start-ups and leading AI companies, grow your network, and get inspired by the brightest minds working in multi-faceted fields. Plan now to attend this highly anticipated spectacular event, taking place May 5-7, 2025, in Santa Clara, CA.

==== Workshop ====

CAI is a highly selective annual international conference that is organizing a workshop on the topic of deepfake detection. This is the first workshop in the field that aims to target deepfake of every possible modality, including text, audio, image, video, and document. We invite submissions for the workshop to explore, extend, and consolidate the interdisciplinary boundaries of this cutting-edge research direction.


==== Scope and Topics ====

The primary list of topics of interest includes, but not limited to:


  • Image/Video Deepfake Detection

  • Audio Deepfake Detection

  • Text Deepfake Detection

  • Document Deepfake Detection

  • Uni-Modal and Multi-Modal Approaches to Deepfake Generation and Detection

  • Document Liveness Detection

  • Novel and Fair Deepfake Datasets

  • Human Analysis in Detecting the Deepfakes

  • Fairness and Bias in Deepfake Detection

==== Submissions ====

Authors are invited to submit original and unpublished papers of six pages. Submissions are in the IEEE conference template provided by the IEEE CAI. Submission will be selected for either oral or poster presentation based on the reviews. Accepted and presented regular six-page paper submissions will be included in the conference proceedings published by IEEE Xplore after the conference.


DEADLINES AND WEBSITE:


Submission: March 10, 2025

Notification: March 25, 2025

Camera-Ready: March 31, 2025


Submission Link: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=cai2025 (Select the workshop for the submission)


For more information about submissions, visit the workshop webpage under 

https://sites.google.com/iiserb.ac.in/cai-udf/home 

https://idiap.ch/~kkotwal/cai.html 

==== Organizing committee ====


Dr. Akshay Agarwal (akagarwal@iiserb.ac.in)

Dr. Ketan Kotwal (ketank1@gmail.com)

Mr. Kartik Thakral (thakral.1@iitj.ac.in)

Extended deadline: Call for participation to the 22nd Int.l Summer School on Biometrics – June 2-6 2025

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22nd Int.l Summer School for Advanced Studies on
Biometrics in the Generative AI Era


Alghero, Italy  –  June 2 – 6 2025

http://biometrics.uniss.it
 

Contact: tista@uniss.it

Extended application deadline: MARCH 2nd 2025
(download the application form at: http://biometrics.uniss.it)

For the past 20 years this international Summer School provided and active and dynamic forum to closely follow the most recent developments in science and technology to offer a cutting edge, intensive training course, always up to date with the current state-of-the-art. This year's main topic will be the impact of generative AI on the development and deployment of biometrics in different application domains.

Machine learning, Image understanding, Signal analysis, Neuroscience, Robotics, Forensic science, Digital forensics and other disciplines, converged in a truly multidisciplinary effort to devise and build advanced systems to facilitate the interpretation of signals recorded from individuals acting in a given environment.

This is what we simply call today “Biometrics”.


Over the last decade the advent of Deep Learning and, more recently, Generative AI, strongly impacted both research and application of automatic biometric data analysis and recognition. However, other issues and concerns, not directly related to the computational performance, arise including the fairness, reliability and trustfulness of current biometric systems.

This edition of the school will address these issues trying to answer some compelling questions, such as: How to mitigate bias in biometric systems? How to design privacy-preserving and “ethical” biometric devices? What can we learn from human perception? How to better deploy current AI approaches? How to cope for adversarial attacks in biometric recognition? What is the scalability and real potential for biometric systems? What is the potential impact of biometrics in forensic investigation and crime prevention?


This school follows the successful track of the International Summer Schools on Biometrics held since 2003and it will provide a clear and in-depth picture on the state-of-the-art in biometric verification/identification technology, both under the theoretical and scientific point of view as well as in diverse application domains. The lectures will be given by 18 outstanding experts in the field, from both academia and industry.

Open sessions will be organised with questions and answers moderated by the leading experts in the field.


Participant application

To attend the school classes, physical presence of the participants will be required. In exceptional cases of travel limitations remote participation with videoconference facilities, will be also allowed.

The expected school fees will be in the order of 1,800 € (400 € in videoconference) for students and 2,400 € (800 € in videoconference) for others, including full board accommodation, all courses and handling material.
A limited number of scholarships
offered by the school sponsors, partially covering the fees, will be awarded to Ms/Phd students, selected on the basis of their scientific background and on-going research work.
The scholarship request form can be downloaded from the school web site http://biometrics.uniss.it

Poster boards will be also available to all participants to display their current research or professional activities.


Send a filled application form (download from http://biometrics.uniss.it) together with a short resume to:     

Prof. Massimo Tistarelli – e-mail: biometricsummerschool@gmail.com

  • Submission of March 2nd, 2025
  • Notification of acceptance: March 15th, 2025
  • Registration: April 15th, 2025

Advance pre-registration is strictly required by March 2nd 2025
 

School location

 

The school will be hosted by Hotel Dei Pini (https://www.hoteldeipini.com/ ) in the Capo Caccia bay, near Alghero, Sardinia. This is one of the most beautiful resorts in the Mediterranean Sea. The structure is beautifully immersed into the Capo Caccia bay. The hotel Dei Pini has a recently renovated conference centre, fully equipped for scientific events. The school venue, as well as the surroundings, proved to be a perfect environment for the school activities.

The organisers and all lecturers are fully committed to make this year's school as successful, instructing and inspiring as in the past years.


School Committee: 


Massimo Tistarelli
Computer Vision Laboratory – University of Sassari, Italy

Josef Bigun
Department of Computer Science – Halmstad University, Sweden

Enrico Grosso
Computer Vision Laboratory – University of Sassari, Italy

Anil K. Jain
Biometrics laboratory – Michigan State University, USA


Distinguished lecturers from past school editions

Josef Bigun

Halmstad University – Sweden

David Meuwly

Netherlands Forensic Institute – NL

Thirimachos Bourlai

West Virginia University – USA

Emilio Mordini MD

Responsible Technologies – Italy

Vincent Bouatou

Safran Morpho – France

Mark Nixon

University of Southampton – UK

Kevin Bowyer

University of Notre Dame – USA

Alice O’Toole

University of Texas – USA

Deepak Chandra

Google Inc. – USA

Maja Pantic

Imperial College – UK

Rama Chellappa

University of Maryland – USA

Johnathon Phillips

NIST – USA

John Daugman

University of Cambridge – UK

Tomaso Poggio

MIT – USA

Farzin Deravi

University of Kent – UK

Nalini Ratha

IBM – USA

James Haxby

Dartmouth University – USA

Arun Ross

Michigan State University – USA

Anil K. Jain

Michigan State University – USA

Tieniu Tan

CASIA-NLPR – China

Joseph Kittler

University of Surrey – UK

Massimo Tistarelli

Università di Sassari – Italy

Davide Maltoni

Università di Bologna – Italy

Alessandro Verri

Università di Genova – Italy

John Mason

Swansea University – UK

James Wayman

University of San Josè – USA

Aldo Mattei

Arma dei Carabinieri – Italy

Lior Wolf

Tel Aviv University – Israel


Workshop on Human-Centred Machine Learning: Bridging Design, Development, and Social Impact (March 6-7, 2025, Lugano – Switzerland)

Special Session on AI in Surgery

Special Session on AI in Surgery
Hosted at the 29th Conference on Medical Image Understanding and Analysis, MIUA 2025,
15 – 17 July 2025,
Leeds, UK.
 
Dear colleagues
We invite submissions to the special session on AI in Surgery hosted at MIUA 2025 – the UK premier conference on Medical Image Understanding and Analysis. 
MIUA Proceedings are published by Springer LNCS.
 
Topics of interests include:
Data and Model Development
  • Curating high-fidelity, open-access surgical datasets for AI training and validation.
  • Innovative methods for self-supervised and semi-supervised learning in surgical AI applications.
  • Development and application of foundation models for surgery.
  • Data augmentation techniques tailored for surgical scenarios.
Preoperative, Intraoperative, and Postoperative AI Applications
  • AI-powered decision support systems for preoperative planning and risk assessment.
  • Real-time AI for intraoperative surgical guidance and navigation.
  • AI in postoperative monitoring and outcome prediction.
Emerging Technologies and Innovations
  • Surgical Patient Digital Twins for personalized simulation and planning.
  • AI for robotic-assisted surgery, including teleoperated and autonomous systems.
  • Multimodal data fusion for enhanced surgical decision-making.
  • Advancements in AI-driven surgical simulation and training.
Surgical Video and Image Analysis
  • Sustainable AI solutions for surgical video processing and annotation.
  • AI for surgical skill assessment using video analytics.
  • Real-time segmentation and object detection in surgical images.
Collaboration and Integration
  • Human-AI collaboration in surgery to enhance collective intelligence.
  • Strategies for engaging clinicians in co-creating AI applications.
  • Challenges and solutions for integrating AI into clinical workflows.
Security, Ethics, and Trust
  • Secure and robust AI systems for surgical care.
  • Addressing ethical considerations and building trust in AI for surgery.
  • Ensuring regulatory compliance for AI-based surgical tools.
Evaluation and Validation
  • Benchmarking AI performance in surgical environments.
  • Clinical trials and real-world validation of AI tools.
  • Metrics and methodologies for evaluating AI in surgery.
 
 
Important dates:
Submission deadline: 20 March 2025
Author Notification (Regular Papers): Friday 2 May 2025 
Conference: Tuesday 15 – Thursday 17 July 2025
 
Organizers:
Dr. Hazrat Ali, University of Stirling.
Professor Muhammad Bilal, Birmingham City University.
Professor Shazad Ashraf, NHS.
Sincerely,
Hazrat

Second MetaFood Workshop at CVPR 2025

We are pleased to announce the call for papers for “The Second MetaFood Workshop” at CVPR 2025.
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The MetaFood Workshop is a premier venue for research that addresses the pressing challenges of applying state-of-the-art computer vision algorithms to food-related data. While modern computer vision models excel on well-curated datasets, they struggle when confronted with food data in natural, uncontrolled environments—often called “data in the wild”. This difficulty arises from the inherent complexities of food imagery, such as noisy, watermarked, and low-resolution data commonly found online.

The MetaFood Workshop aims to bridge this gap by showcasing groundbreaking research and fostering discussions on innovative methods for analyzing and digitizing food data. We invite the computer vision community to tackle these challenges and contribute solutions that can drive forward the fields of food computing and AI-driven food analysis.

Our program will feature technical paper presentations and invited talks from leading experts. 

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Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
  •     Multi-modal food data analysis covering images, video, audio, structured and/or unstructured text data
  •     Reasoning, in-context learning, and retrieval-augmented generation with Large-Language Models (LLMs)/ Vision-Language Models (VLMs) for food
  •     Food ontologies and LLM-based models for food data analysis
  •     Visual question answering with VLMs for food
  •     Food data analysis and uncertainty modeling
  •     Learning with noisy food labels
  •     Continual, self-supervised, semi-supervised, and unsupervised learning for food
  •     Food classification/detection/segmentation with 2D/3D bias
  •     Food 3D model reconstruction, Novel View Synthesis for food objects
  •     Food portion/nutrition value estimation
  •     Food manipulation understanding, robotic perception systems for food manipulation
  •     Food image quality analysis/inspection
  •     Food image/video generation and Generative AI
  •     Food video analysis and action (eating, cooking, etc.) recognition
  •     Fine-grained dietary monitoring and nutrition assessment
We welcome original research that presents novel applications, innovative algorithms, or critical analyses addressing these challenges. Submissions focusing exclusively on algorithm development without application to food data are better suited for the main CVPR conference.

Join us at the MetaFood Workshop to explore how computer vision can revolutionize food understanding and contribute to solving real-world challenges in food computing.
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Important Dates:

  •     Paper submission deadline: 4th March 2025 (11:59 pm AOE)
  •     Supplementary material deadline: 6th March 2025 (11:59 pm AOE)
  •     Notification to authors: 1st April 2025
  •     Camera-ready deadline: 7th April 2025 (11:59 pm AOE)

Website: https://sites.google.com/view/cvpr-metafood-2025/

We look forward to your contributions.

Regards,
Second MetaFood Workshop – Organizing Team

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