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 (link to be announced, see https://aixvr.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/).

Authors are expected to present their papers on-site at AIxVR.

Important dates:

·         Paper submission: September 10, 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

ROME, ITALY, DECEMBER 2-5, 2024

https://wifs2024.uniroma3.it

EXTENDED PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE (JULY 15, 2024)

AIMS AND SCOPE

The IEEE International Workshop on Information Forensics and Security (WIFS) 2024 will be the 16th edition of the major annual event organized by the IEEE Information Forensics and Security Technical Committee (IFS-TC) of the IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS). The major goal of WIFS is to bring together researchers working in the different areas of information forensics and security to discuss challenges, exchange ideas, and share state-of-the-art results and technical expertise, with the aim of building a community capable of providing adequate tools and solutions to face the challenges of tomorrow.

WIFS 2024 will be held in Rome, Italy, from December 2 to December 5, hosted by Roma Tre University, and it will see the participation of researchers from all over the world, who will allow to have a high-level technical program, also thanks to the expertise of the program committee involved, and who will have the opportunity to exploit an interesting social program taking advantage of the charm of the Eternal City.

CALL FOR PAPERS (DEADLINE JULY 15, 2024)

Prospective authors are invited to submit research papers be up to 6 double-column pages, including references and figures, presenting original works and addressing Information Forensics and Security aspects in a broad sense. The review process will be single-blind (author’s names can be reported in the submitted papers). Accepted and presented papers will be submitted for inclusion into IEEE Xplore. It is planned to organize a special issue with invitations for a selection of the best presented papers.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the use or advances of the following areas:

•         Anonymization and Data Privacy

•         Applied Cryptography

•         Biometrics

•         Communication and Physical-Layer Security

•         Cybersecurity

•         Forensic Analysis

•         Hardware Security

•         Multimedia Content Hash

•         Network Security

•         Surveillance

•         Usability and Human Factors

•         Watermarking and Data Hiding

•         Adversarial Machine Learning

•         Steganography and Covert Communications

•         Information Theoretic Security

•         Security of Large Networked Systems

IMPORTANT DATES

•         Paper submission: July 15, 2024

•         Reviews notification: September 6, 2024

•         Rebuttal/Challenge paper deadline: September 13, 2024

•         Acceptance notification: September 18, 2024

•         IEEE T-IFS/SPL paper presentqtion: September 22, 2024

•         Camera-ready submission: September 27, 2024

•         Early registration: October 4, 2024

•         Workshop: December 2 – 5, 2024

CONTACTS

For further information, please visit https://wifs2024.uniroma3.it or send an email to wifs2024.contacts@uniroma3.it.

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Emanuele Maiorana Ph.D.
Roma Tre University,
Via Vito Volterra 62, 00146 Roma, Italy
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