Call for Competition on text line segmentation: FEST @ ICDAR 2025

January 14th, 2025 Daniela Lopez de Luise
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CALL FOR COMPETITION: FEST @ ICDAR 2025

Competition on few-shot text line segmentation

https://ai4ch.uniud.it/FESTcompICDAR25/

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We are glad to announce FEST: Competition on FEw-Shot Text line segmentation of ancient handwritten documents (FEST), in conjunction with the 19th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition ICDAR 2025.

 

Competition Overview:

Text line segmentation is a crucial component of Document Image Analysis, particularly for ancient handwritten documents. It directly influences subsequent tasks like optical character recognition, layout analysis, and information extraction.

This competition challenges participants to develop systems capable of segmenting text lines using only three annotated images per manuscript for training. The dataset features a diverse collection of ancient manuscripts with varying layouts, levels of degradation, and non-standard formatting, reflecting real-world complexities. By focusing on few-shot learning, this competition aims to encourage the development of methods that can be readily applied by humanities scholars without the need for extensive manual annotation, fostering broader adoption of automated document analysis tools.

 

Competition Tasks:

We challenge the participants to perform the task of textline segmentation on the proposed dataset, U-DIADS-TL, in a few-shot setting, providing only three images, with their corresponding ground truths, as the training set for each of the three manuscripts comprising it.

 

Important Dates:

•        Registration Open: 10 December, 2024

•        Test set release to participants: 7 April, 2025

•        Deadline of the Competition: 20 April, 2025

•        Winner announcement: 30 June, 2025

 

 

For any additional information, please visit the website: https://ai4ch.uniud.it/FESTcompICDAR25/

 

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CRNS Talk Series – Live Talk by Prof. Yukie Nagai – University of Tokyo – Japan

January 14th, 2025 Daniela Lopez de Luise
The Center for Robotics and Neural Systems (CRNS) is pleased to announce the talk of Prof. Yukie Nagai from the University of Tokyo – Japan on Wednesday, January 22nd from 11:00 AM to 12:30 PM  (London time) over Zoom. Thank you for forwarding the invitation to any of your colleagues who might be interested.
>> Events: The CRNS talk series will cover a wide range of topics including Social and Cognitive Robotics, Computational Neuroscience, Developmental Psychology, Computational Linguistics, Cognitive Vision, AI and Machine Learning, and healthcare. More details are available here:
>> Link for the next event (No Registration is Required): 
Join Zoom Meeting

>> Title of the talk:  Embodied Predictive Processing: New Horizons in Cognitive Developmental Robotics
Abstract:
Cognitive developmental robotics seeks to uncover the mechanisms of human cognitive development by replicating these processes in robots. Since 2020, the field has made significant progress, demonstrating human-like cognitive behaviors in robots. One compelling advancement is the growing focus on predictive processing, a neuroscience theory posited as a unified principle of the brain. This theory offers a clear framework for understanding perception and action through minimizing prediction errors. Our research extends this concept to embodied predictive processing, explaining both continuity and diversity in cognitive development. We propose that the brain minimizes prediction errors through multimodal sensorimotor experiences in a social environment, with a robot's physical embodiment playing a crucial role. In this talk, I will highlight our latest findings, showcasing predictive processing as a unified theory of cognitive development and its implications for the future of cognitive developmental robotics.

>> If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me, 
Regards

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Conferences: CASA 2025 Call for Papers

January 14th, 2025 Daniela Lopez de Luise
CASA 2025    Call for Papers

 

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.

 

IMPORTANT DATES

  *   Submission: February 8, 2025

  *   Notification of acceptance: April 10, 2025

  *   Camera ready:  April 30, 2025 (23:59 GMT)

  *   Author registration: May 8, 2025

  *   Conference: June 2-4, 2025

 

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) 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.

 

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

  *   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)

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ICL-GNSS 2025 call for Special Sessions

January 14th, 2025 Daniela Lopez de Luise
You may be interested in proposing a Special Session in ICL-GNSS 2025 to be held in Rome, Italy on June 10-12, 2025.
See the instructions at https://events.tuni.fi/icl-gnss/special-sessions/. The deadline is January 31.
 The paper submission deadline for the IEEE copyrighted papers is on February 23, 2025. Work-in-Progress papers
(open access) can be submitted till April. See the call for papers on the conference web page.
 Regards,
Prof. Jari Nurmi (TAU)
ICL-GNSS General Chair
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Announcement of ISCMI25 (Rio de Janeiro)

January 14th, 2025 Daniela Lopez de Luise
Hello friends and esteemed colleagues, 

Warmest New Year greetings. Hope all of you had a great festive season.

Am pleased to announce 2025 12th ISCMI, the annual flagship event of IICCI, to be held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil  with technical co sponsorships of IEEE Brazil Council and IEEE Rio de Janeiro Section https://www.iscmi.us/index.html

Since 2017, this event is being organized in memory of life and work of Prof. Lotfi Zadeh.

The list of all the colleagues who had delivered the Prof. Lotfi Zadeh Memorial speech so far and the upcoming one can be seen by visiting  http://www.iicci.in/speakers.html

I solicit your help in promoting the event among your peers and doctoral students and motivate them to submit manuscripts and participate at ISCMI25. 

Thanks and best regards,

 

Suash Deb

General Chair, ISCMI25


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