CFP Track Accessible Devices and Technologies (ADT ’25) – ACM SAC 2025 [Firm Deadline]
October 11th, 2024 
Daniela Lopez de Luise Track on Accessible Devices and Technologies (ADT ‘25)
Sicily, Italy, March 31 – April 4, 2025
Part of the 40th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC ‘25)
https://sites.google.com/view/adt-sac-2025
https://www.sigapp.org/sac/sac2025/
Theme and Scope
Modern devices and technologies can represent a digital barrier for users with disabilities, but they can be exploited to become enabling tools for them. Accessibility of devices and technologies is a critical topic to allow inclusion of all users, especially due to the European laws that impose accessibility for new products and the definition of an updated version of WCAG (Web Accessibility Guidelines). This track invites scientists, engineers, and decision-makers from government, industry, and academia to present technical papers on their research and development results in areas of accessibility.
This track can interest many researchers since it would give the chance to face a wide range of topics, i.e., web or mobile technologies, with different points of view, taking into account specific technological constraints and digital barriers. It is well-known that the so-called “curb cut effect” can be applied to any technological and digital context (in terms of devices, content, and services): technologies that were originally meant to benefit people with disabilities can help any other users. Moreover, the history and the evolution of several technologies have been influenced and/or motivated by the special needs of people with disabilities.
We welcome submission on a wide range of topics, including but not limited to:
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Accessible devices/assistive technologies: assistive technologies refer to all the assistive, adaptive, and rehabilitative devices for people with disabilities that enable users to perform tasks they were formerly unable to accomplish. On the one hand, the widespread diffusion of new devices and technologies stimulates researchers to find and apply new solutions to make them accessible to anyone. On the other hand, experiences in accessibility-related fields have been exploited and have provided benefits to users equipped with non-conventional devices when they emerged in the market.
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Accessible solutions for e-learning, e-commerce, e-banking, etc: e-services and content often require specific technologies, being bounded by specific constraints when accessed by people with disabilities equipped with assistive technologies. Specific interaction modalities may affect interactive service access, while richness and quantity of content may affect the users’ ability to process information.
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Accessible content: e-books, accessible TV, accessible broadcasting, etc.
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Accessibility of games.
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AI for Accessibility: AI can be exploited both for personalization (i.e., integrating AI-based personalization to support specific and special needs) and “enabler” (i.e., exploiting LLM to support the creation of accessible applications).
Submission Guidelines
We would like to invite authors to submit papers on research on the Accessibility area, with particular emphasis on assessing the current state of the art and identifying future directions. Original papers addressing any of the listed topics of interest (or related topics) will be considered. Each submitted paper will be fully refereed and undergo a double-blind review process by at least three referees. Accepted papers will be included in the ACM SAC 2025 proceedings and published in the ACM digital library, being indexed by Thomson ISI Web of Knowledge and Scopus.
The track accepts full papers (max 8 pages), posters (max 2 pages), and SRC abstracts (max 2 pages). Submissions should be properly anonymized to facilitate blind reviewing. Papers that will receive high reviews (that is acceptable by reviewer standard) but will not be accepted due to space limitations can be invited for poster session. Authors of accepted papers must be prepared to sign a copyright statement and must pay the registration fee and guarantee that their paper will be presented at the conference. No-show of scheduled papers will result in excluding the papers from the ACM Digital Library.
See the track website https://sites.google.com/view/adt-sac-2025 for more details.
Important Dates
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October 13, 2024: Submission of regular papers and SRC research abstracts [Firm deadline!]
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November 20, 2024: Notification of papers, posters, and SRC research abstracts
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November 29, 2024: Camera-ready copies of accepted papers
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December 6, 2024: Authors registration due
Organization
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Ombretta Gaggi, University of Padua
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Silvia Mirri, University of Bologna
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Mike Paciello, AudioEye, WebABLE
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Catia Prandi, University of Bologna
Submission Portal
Please submit your contribution through our online submission portal available at https://www.sigapp.org/sac/sac2025/submission.php (regular papers) and https://www.sigapp.org/sac/sac2025/submission_src.php (SRC abstracts).
Contact us
For any inquires regarding the call for papers, please contact gaggi@math.unipd.it.
We look forward to your contributions and to seeing you at the ACM SAC 2025 Conference!
CfP: VisionDocs @ WACV, workshop on document analysis
October 11th, 2024 Daniela Lopez de Luise ===================================
CALL FOR PAPERS: VisionDocs – WACV2025
Website: https://ai4ch.uniud.it/visiondocwacv25/
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We are glad to announce VisionDocs: 1st Workshop on Computer Vision Systems for Documents Analysis and Recognition, in conjunction with the “IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV) 2025”.
Workshop Overview:
This workshop aims to encourage the development of new strategies to address the limitations of current document analysis systems, such as handling low-data environments, adapting to document classes with highly heterogeneous visual characteristics, and integrating multi-modal inputs for improved performance.
Call for papers:
Research papers are solicited in, but not limited to, the following topic areas:
· Document image processing
· Physical and logical layout analysis
· Text and symbol recognition
· Handwriting recognition
· Document analysis systems
· Document layout analysis
· Document classification
· Indexing and retrieval of documents
· Document synthesis
· Extracting document semantics
· Graphics Recognition
· Structured document generation
· Multimedia document analysis
· Recognition of tables and formulas
· Historical document analysis
· Document summarization and translation
· Document forensics and provenance
· Medical document analysis
· Document analysis for social good
· Document analysis for literature search
· Datasets and benchmarks of document analysis
· Data-efficient Document Analysis
· Multi-modal Document Analysis
Important Dates
- Paper submissions: 22 November, 2024 23:59 PST
- Author Notification: 19 December, 2024 23:59 PST
- Camera-ready: 10 January, 2025 23:59 PST
- Workshop dates: 28 February or 4 March 2025
For any additional information, please visit the website: https://ai4ch.uniud.it/visiondocwacv25/
Organizers:
Silvia Zottin, zottin.silvia@spes.uniud.it
Axel De Nardin, axel.denardin@uniud.it
Claudio Piciarelli, claudio.piciarelli@uniud.it
Gian Luca Foresti, gianluca.foresti@uniud.it
AI4CH – Artificial Intelligence for Cultural Heritage Lab, University of Udine. https://ai4ch.uniud.it/
TCSVT CFP Special Issue on Large Language Models (LLMs) for Video Understanding
October 11th, 2024 Daniela Lopez de Luise Dear Colleagues,
I would like to bring your attention to the special issue on IEEE T-CSVT. You can find the Call for Papers at the following link: https://ieee-cas.org/files/ieeecass/2024-10/TCSVT%20SI%20CFP.pdf.
The submission deadline is December 1, 2024.
Best regards,
Jungong Han
CfP: Creating and Updating Digital Twins for Enabling XR Applications (Special Session at IEEE AIxVR) – Final deadline extended to Oct. 31st
October 11th, 2024 Daniela Lopez de Luise Call for Papers: Creating and Updating Digital Twins for Enabling XR Applications
Special Session at IEEE AIxVR 2025
January 27-29, 2025, Lisbon, Portugal
Conference: https://aixvr.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/
Special session: https://didymos-xr.eu/news/creating-and-updating-digital-twins-for-enabling-xr-applications/
Digital twins of city spaces, landmarks or industrial environments are important enablers of VR and AR applications in domains such as city planning and maintenance, tourism, media, manufacturing and logistics. Creating high fidelity representations of the real world, and in particular keeping them up-to-date, is still a costly process. Leveraging data that can be captured at low cost, e.g. from vehicles driving through the space to be captured, from robots navigating in the environment, or from consumer media, could significantly reduce the costs and allow for the detection of changes and more frequent updates of digital twins. AI-based methods for 3D reconstruction and scene understanding are enablers for this process.
Topics of interest for this Special Session include, but are not limited to:
· 3D reconstruction from “in the wild data”
· Improvement of 2D/3D data representation (e.g., superresolution) in order to update the quality of the resulting digital twin
· Multimedia analysis for understanding scene semantics and dynamicity
· Multimodal datasets for digital twin creation and scene understanding
· Generative AI and foundation models for digital twin creation and/or synthetic data generation
· Combining synthetic and real data for improving scene understanding
· Optimized multimedia content analysis for real-time and low-latency XR applications
· Human interfacing and interaction optimization
· Privacy and security aspects and mitigations for captured content used for digital twin creation/update
The submissions to this session can be:
· Long papers describing novel methods or their adaptation to specific applications or
· Short papers describing emerging work or open challenges.
The review process and the paper lengths and formatting follows the rules of the main conference. The papers will be published in the main conference proceedings, published by IEEE.
Submission is done via the main conference submission system (https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=ieeeaixvr2025).
Authors are expected to present their papers on-site at AIxVR.
Important dates:
· Paper submission: EXTENDED TO October 31, 2024
· Notification: November 26, 2024
· Camera ready paper: December 15, 2024
· Conference: January 27-29, 2025
Session organisers:
· Werner Bailer, JOANNEUM RESEARCH, Austria
· Gerasimos Arvanitis, University of Patras, Greece
· Imad H. Ehajj, American University of Beirut, Lebanon
· Panos K. Papadopoulos, CERTH, Greece
· Tariqul Islam, DigitalTwin Technology, Germany