Call for Submission: NeuroDesign in HRI Student Showcase Competition at ICRA 2024 (USD $1000 in cash)

April 30th, 2024 Daniela Lopez de Luise

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Call for Submission

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NeuroDesign EXPO in HRI Student Showcase Competition  ($1000 USD for your participation)

2nd Workshop on NeuroDesign in Human-Robot Interaction: The making of engaging HRI technology your brain can’t resist

IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2024)

Yokohama, Japan

May 17, 2024

https://neurodesign-in-hri.webflow.io/ 

Dear Colleagues,

Are you working on a human-interactive robot project that already has prototypes or some initial research findings? Perhaps you're pondering how to evolve these into more human-centric, real-world applications with a seamless, intuitive “brain”-centered experience, aiming to connect robots more deeply with our bodies, minds, and souls.

Worry not! We're excited to announce the NeuroDesign EXPO in HRI Showcase Competition at ICRA 2024, in conjunction with the NeuroDesign in HRI workshop (https://neurodesign-in-hri.webflow.io/). This event will feature a panel of world-renowned experts from diverse fields such as Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), Artificial Intelligence (AI), Cognitive Neuroscience, Social and Behavioral Psychology, Art & Design, RoboEthics, and the Startup community. These professionals will offer live, integrated-perspective feedback and recommendations to help refine your projects into more impactful research and commercial products.

We invite students at the BSc, MSc, and PhD levels to submit your projects. Submissions can fall into, but are not limited to, the following categories:

  • Affective Computing

  • Social and Service Robot

  • Industrial Collaborative Robot

  • Wearable Robot/ Device

  • Brain-Machine/Computer Interface

  • Haptics and Tele-operation

  • Soft Robotics

  • VR/AR & Metaverse

  • Cyborg and Bionic System

  • Healthcare Robotics

  • Exoskeleton and Rehabilitation Robot

  • LLM and Foundation Model for Human Robot Interaction

  • Brain Dynamics and Psychology for Cognitive and Physical HRI (cHRI/pHRI)

  • Human-Drone/AutoVehicle Interaction

  • Assistive Technology

  • Intelligence Augmentation and Human 2.0 Technologies

  • Supernumerary Limbs

  • Biometric Information Processing

  • Pervasive-Ubiquitous/Spatial Computing

  • Smart Home/Internet of Things (IoTs)

  • Edge-Fog-Cloud Computing

  • Speech/Gesture Recognition or Image/Audio Processing

  • Big Data, AI & Machine Learning for Multimodal Interaction

  • Smart Tutoring/Chatbot System

  • RoboEthics

  • RoboFashion, Clothing and Robot Skin

  • Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI) for HRI Technologies  

Participation Procedure:

Our selection process is on a rolling basis, and we aim to choose 10 projects for the final on-stage pitch presentation. We especially encourage those who have already submitted their work as posters or papers to ICRA 2024 or have publications elsewhere to participate in our event. This competition offers a fantastic opportunity to increase the visibility of your research globally.

Submission Options:

Submissions can be made in one of three formats:

1. A concise 100-word abstract and a 1-2 minute video, offering a brief yet engaging overview.

2. A 100-word abstract accompanied by 5 detailed slides for a short but thorough presentation.

3. A 2-page extended abstract (Please follow IEEE ICRA format: https://ras.papercept.net/conferences/support/word.php), for a more in-depth submission.

*4. Participants are also welcome to submit using any combination of the above formats.

Final Round and Presentation:

The selected 10 projects will each have a 5-minute pitch presentation on stage during the final round. If the final project team is unable to attend in person in Japan, we will provide a Zoom link for virtual presentation. Alternatively, you may submit a polished, pre-recorded 5-minute video presentation, which we will play on stage.

Exhibition and Virtual Participation:

All submitted projects will receive a dedicated booth for poster and prototype demonstrations. For participants unable to travel to Japan, we will print your posters and display them on the bulletin boards at our venue.

The event is designed to be “Hybrid” to ensure that everyone has the opportunity to participate, regardless of their ability to travel to Japan. A Zoom link will be provided for your virtual participation.

Awards:

We are thrilled to present two distinguished award categories at the competition. The “Best Innovation in HRI NeuroDesign Award” will be awarded to 3 outstanding projects, as recognized by our panel of speakers and committee members. The First Prize will be awarded for USD 1000 USD and the 2nd Prize will be awarded 800 hundred for the prototyping. These projects will exemplify groundbreaking innovation within Human-Robot Interaction NeuroDesign. Additionally, the “Most Popular Project in HRI NeuroDesign Award” will be given to 2 projects, for which the First Prize will be awarded for “Full Waiver” for the submission to Journal of Frontiers in Robotics and AI in that capture the hearts of our workshop attendees and audience, determined through a popular vote. Winners in both categories will receive certificates acknowledging their achievements.

Timeline:

– Submission Deadline: Your entries must be submitted by April 27, 2024. Please note that our selection process is rolling, so early submissions are encouraged.

– Announcement of Final Project Teams: The teams selected for the final round will be announced on May 1, 2024.

– Competition Date: The competition will take place on May 17, 2024, where finalists will present their projects to the panel and attendees.

Submission Website:

https://forms.gle/fQMxJtkXb8JEU2WR6 

If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to reach out. We're looking forward to seeing you at ICRA 2024!

Best regards,

Organizing Committee

2nd Workshop on NeuroDesign in Human-Robot Interaction: The making of engaging HRI technology your brain can’t resist

https://neurodesign-in-hri.webflow.io/ 

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Hard Submission Deadline May 1: 3rd Benchmark for Autonomous Robot Navigation (BARN) Challenge — ICRA 2024 Competition

April 30th, 2024 Daniela Lopez de Luise
Hard submission deadline is approaching! Submit by May 1 to be invited to participate in The 3rd BARN Challenge at ICRA 2024 in Japan! 

Submission Form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfZLMVluXE-HWnV9lNP00LuBi3e9HFOeLi30p9tsHUViWpqrA/viewform?usp=sf_link

Competition Website: https://cs.gmu.edu/~xiao/Research/BARN_Challenge/BARN_Challenge24.html

Participation Instructions: https://github.com/Daffan/nav-competition-icra2022

Lessons Learned from The BARN Challenge 2023: https://cs.gmu.edu/~xiao/papers/barn23_report.pdf 

Lessons Learned from The BARN Challenge 2022: https://cs.gmu.edu/~xiao/papers/barn22_report.pdf 

Dear roboticists,

are you interested in agile robot navigation in highly constrained spaces with a lot of obstacles around, e.g., cluttered households or after-disaster scenarios? Do you think mobile robot navigation is mostly a solved problem? Are you looking for a hands-on project for your robotics class, but may not have (sufficient) robot platforms for your students?

If your answer is yes to any of the above questions, we sincerely invite you to participate in our (3rd) ICRA 2024 BARN Challenge (https://cs.gmu.edu/~xiao/Research/BARN_Challenge/BARN_Challenge24.html)! The BARN Challenge aims at evaluating state-of-the-art autonomous navigation systems to move robots through highly constrained environments in a safe and efficient manner. The task is to navigate a standardized Clearpath Jackal robot from a predefined start to a goal location as quickly as possible without any collision. The challenge will take place both in the simulated BARN dataset and in physical obstacle courses at ICRA2024.

1. The competition task is designing ground navigation systems to navigate through all 300 BARN environments (https://cs.gmu.edu/~xiao/Research/BARN/BARN.html) and physical obstacle courses constructed at ICRA2024 as fast as possible without collision.

2. The 300 BARN environments can be the training set for learning-based methods, or to design classical approaches in. During the simulation competition, we will generate another 50 unseen environments unavailable to the participants before the competition.

3. We will standardize a Jackal robot in the Gazebo simulation, including a Hokuyo 2D LiDAR, motor controller of 2m/s max speed, etc.

4. Participants can use any approaches to tackle the navigation problem,  such as using classical sampling-based or optimization-based planners, end-to-end learning, or hybrid approaches. We will provide baselines for reference. 

5. A standardized scoring system is provided on the website.

6. We will invite the top teams in simulation to compete in the real world. The team who achieves the fastest collision-free navigation in the physical obstacle courses wins.

If you are interested in participating, please submit your navigation system at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfZLMVluXE-HWnV9lNP00LuBi3e9HFOeLi30p9tsHUViWpqrA/viewform?usp=sf_link

Co-Organizers:
Xuesu Xiao (George Mason University)
Zifan Xu (UT Austin)
Garrett Warnell (US Army Research Lab / UT Austin)
Peter Stone (UT Austin / Sony AI)

Sponsor:
Clearpath Robotics, https://clearpathrobotics.com/

Thanks
Xuesu

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ACM MMSports’24

April 30th, 2024 Daniela Lopez de Luise
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7th International Workshop on Multimedia Content Analysis in Sports (MMSports'24) @ ACM Multimedia, Oct 28 – Nov 1, 2024, Melbourne, Australia

 

We'd like to invite you to submit your paper proposals for the 7th International Workshop on Multimedia Content Analysis in Sports to be held in Melbourne, Australia together with ACM Multimedia 2024. The ambition of this workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners from many different disciplines to share ideas and methods on current multimedia/multimodal content analysis research in sports. We welcome multimodal-based research contributions as well as best-practice contributions focusing on the following (and similar, but not limited to) topics:

– annotation and indexing in sports 

– tracking people/ athlete and objects in sports

– activity recognition, classification, and evaluation in sports

– 3D scene and motion reconstruction in sports

– event detection and indexing in sports

– performance assessment in sports

– injury analysis and prevention in sports

– data driven analysis in sports

– graphical augmentation and visualization in sports

– automated training assistance in sports

– camera pose and motion tracking in sports

– brave new ideas / extraordinary multimodal solutions in sports

– personal virtual (home) trainers/coaches in sports

– datasets in sports

– graphical effects in sports

– alternative sensing in sports (beyond the visible spectrum)

– multimodal perception in sports

– exploiting physical knowledge in learning systems for sports

– sports knowledge discovery

– narrative generation and narrative analysis in sports

– mobile sports application

– multimedia in sports beyond video, including 3D data and sensor data

 

Submissions can be of varying length from 4 to 8 pages, plus additional pages for the reference pages. There is no distinction between long and short papers, but the authors may themselves decide on the appropriate length of their paper. All papers will undergo the same review process and review period.

 

Please refer to the workshop website for further information: 

http://mmsports.multimedia-computing.de/mmsports2024/index.html

 

IMPORTANT DATES

Submission Due:                           19 July 2024 

Acceptance Notification:             5 August 2024

Camera Ready Submission:         19 August 2024 

Workshop Date:                            TBA; either Oct 28 or Nov 1, 2024

 

ACM MMSports’24 Chairs: Thomas Moeslund, Rainer Lienhart and Hideo Sai

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Int. Conf. on Evolutionary Multi-criterion Optimization, March 2025, Canberra, Australia – Submissions now open!

April 30th, 2024 Daniela Lopez de Luise

 

On behalf of the organizers, I hereby send the call for submissions of full papers or abstracts.

 

With best regards, Kaisa Miettinen

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Livestream Seminars in May

April 30th, 2024 Daniela Lopez de Luise
Statistical Horizons will host the below seminars:
  • Advanced Learning with R, taught by Ross Jacobucci, May 1-2, will provide you with the core knowledge needed to apply and evaluate advanced machine learning algorithms. 
  • Applied Deep Learning with Python, taught by Ross Jacobucci, May 8-9, focuses on applying deep learning algorithms to text and image data, along with insight into how deep learning methodologies can shape the design of studies. For a $200 total discount when registering for both of Dr. Jacobucci's seminars, please email us.
  • Design and Analysis of Simulation Studies, taught by Ashley Naimi, May 20-23, is a practical introduction to Monte Carlo simulation studies. Through theory and hands-on practice, you'll deepen your statistical intuition and gain the skills necessary to plan, conduct, and interpret simulation studies.
  • Ordinal Regression, taught by Frank Harrell, May 29, will discuss the most popular types of ordinal regression models, the proportional odds model and the proportional hazards model. This seminar is part of the Distinguished Speaker Series, a series of 3-hour virtual seminars taught by some of the most prominent and innovative scholars in the field.
These livestream seminars will be held via Zoom, but you can also join asynchronously by viewing the recorded videos of each session.


Please share this information with anyone who may be interested. Email ashley@statisticalhorizons.com with any questions.

Thanks,
Ashley

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