CRUM@UMAP 2023: Deadline Prolonged to 03 May + Final Call For Papers

April 30th, 2024 Daniela Lopez de Luise

This is a deadline prolongation notification and the final call for papers (CfP) of the second edition of the workshop on Context Representation in User Modelling (CRUM) co-located with the ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation, and Personalisation (UMAP), which is taking place on 1st July 2024 in Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy. The deadline has been extended to 03 May 2024.

Website: https://crum-workshop.github.io/

Submission deadline: 03 May 2024 AoE (extended from 24 April 2024)

Submission: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=umap24 – select the track “UMAP 24 Workshop CRUM”

For further information: crum.workshop@gmail.com

*** Abstract ***

The evolving landscapes of user modelling, adaptation, and personalisation necessitate a nuanced exploration of context and its impact on human-computer interaction. This evolution represents a paradigm shift towards placing the user at the centre of context representation, acknowledging the multifaceted nature of context as it intertwines with user needs, environmental changes, and technological advancements. The second edition of the Context Representation in User Modeling (CRUM) workshop, themed “Human-Centric Context,” seeks to foster a comprehensive understanding of context by focusing on the dynamic interplay between subjective and objective contexts in enhancing user experience. We welcome submissions that explore the nuances of human-centric context across various domains, aiming to standardise context modelling practices that enhance user engagement, privacy, and trust in multi-stakeholder environments.

** Topics ***

Evolving from last year's workshop, CRUM 2024 invites multiple submission types. We welcome regular papers (up to 7 pages) and provocation/position papers (up to 2 pages). All details on the content expectation for both submission types are given here.

Topics considered relevant to the theme of this workshop include, but are not limited to:

  • Capturing and storing contextual information;
  • Situation-aware user modelling and adaptive system;
  • Algorithmic relevance of situational, temporal, location, and hypermedia context;
  • Context representation for personalisation;
  • Adaptation of user models based on spatial, temporal, or situational context;
  • Capturing and ranking application-specific context in hypermedia user applications;
  • Context as relevance of static and dynamic external characteristics within recommendation systems;
  • Contextualising proactive behaviour;
  • Context-aware personalised pervasive computing;
  • The role of context for user modelling in recommender systems;
  • Evaluation frameworks for capturing, representing, and using contextual information in agent decision-making;
  • Role of context and context representation within explainable adaptation;
  • Scrutability of contextual representation in personalised systems; and

Additionally, topics considered relevant to the theme of this workshop include, but are not limited to:

  • Representing human-specific context information;
  • Examining human- and domain-specific context, including similarities and differences in how it is captured, stored, or represented;
  • Privacy and context;
  • User control and management of context-aware systems;
  • Evaluation frameworks for human-centred context;
  • Impact on performance, efficiency, and usability based on context; and
  • Role of context information in natural language processing, information retrieval, human-agent interaction, and robotics.

** Submission, presentation, and publication ***

CRUM 2024 accepts two types of submissions – regular papers (up to 7 pages excluding references and appendices) and provocation/position papers (up to 2 pages excluding references and appendices).

All submissions to the workshop should use the same ACM template (single-column format) and formatting adopted by the main UMAP conference. The templates and instructions are available here.

We encourage authors to submit works in progress, negative results, insights, position papers, and case studies on context and its role in user modelling and adaptive systems.

CRUM follows a rigorous double-blind peer review policy. Please ensure that all workshop submissions are anonymised.

At least one author is expected to personally attend the conference and present the paper for it to be published. In line with the UMAP 2024 policy, hybrid activities cannot be supported.

ACM publishes accepted papers in the UMAP adjunct proceedings.

*** Organisation ***

The workshop is co-chaired by:

  • Owen Conlan, ADAPT Centre, Trinity College Dublin, owen.conlan@tcd.ie
  • Judy Kay, University of Sydney

The workshop is co-organised by Dipto Barman (barmand@tcd.ie), Jovan Jeromela, Alok Debnath, Anouk Van Kasteren and Marloes Vredenborg.

*** Important Dates ***

Submission deadline: 03 May 2024 (extended from 24 April 2024)

Notification: 10 May 2024

Camera-Ready (TAPS System): 18 May 2024

Workshop date: 1 July 2024 (Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy)

Best,
CRUM Organisers.
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Call for Demonstrations for the 21st International Conference on Content-based Multimedia Indexing (CBMI)

April 30th, 2024 Daniela Lopez de Luise

Call for Demonstrations for the 21st International Conference on Content-based Multimedia Indexing (CBMI)

September 18 – 20, 2024 in Reykjavík, Iceland

Conference website: https://cbmi2024.org/

The 21st International Conference on Content-based Multimedia Indexing (CBMI) welcomes the submission of demonstration papers. We invite authors to report on and showcase novel and compelling demonstrations (software, methods and experiences) in all topic areas relevant to CBMI. 

Submission Guidelines

The length of the papers should be up to 4 pages, in IEEE conference format, plus 1 page for references. One or two additional page(s) should be appended to illustrate what the demo involves and how it will be conducted on-site. This additional content will not be published in the conference proceedings, should the submission be accepted!  If possible, we also invite you to include a URL linking to a short video (max. 3 min) that shows the demonstration in action. 

Demonstration papers are subject to peer review in a single-blind process according to criteria such as novelty, interestingness, applications of or enhancements to state-of-the-art, and potential impact.

Submission Deadline

The extended submission deadline is May 6th, 2024 (AoIE). To submit your paper, follow the instructions in the submission guidelines. 

Infrastructure on Site

The conference will provide a table, power outlet, screen, wireless (shared) internet and a poster board. Presenters are expected to bring the necessary equipment (computers, etc.) themselves. If you have special needs (e.g., more space), please include a related note in the appendix of your submission (“Special Needs” section).

Should you have any questions regarding submissions, please contact the chairs at demo-chairs@cbmi2024.org. 

We are looking forward to your contributions!

On behalf of the CBMI 2024 organisers,

Ralph Gasser, University of Basel, Switzerland

Omar Shahbaz Khan, Reykjavík University, Iceland

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ICIP2024 – 2nd 3DCVP workshop – Call for Papers

April 30th, 2024 Daniela Lopez de Luise

 


CALL FOR PAPERS

ICIP 2024 2nd Workshop on 3D Computer Vision and Photogrammetry (3DCVP 2024)

The 31st International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP 2024)
27-30 October 2024, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

Photogrammetry and Computer Vision are two major fields with a significant overlap with Image Processing. We plan to invite presentations of high-quality works on topics that will include novel developments over classic Photogrammetric Computer Vision problems such as Structure from motion and SLAM, as well as papers with a focus on novel learning techniques over 3D geometric data. Topics of interest will include feature extraction, description and matching, multispectral and hyperspectral image processing and fusion, Multi-View Reconstruction and Surface Reconstruction, 3D point cloud analysis and processing, scene understanding, robot vision and perception, path and motion planning.

We warmly welcome contributions of papers targeting the workshop scope, which includes the following topics:

    Structure from Motion
    Simultaneous Localization and Mapping
    Keypoint Detection, Description and Matching
    Multispectral Image Processing
    Hyperspectral Image processing
    Stereo and Multi-View Reconstruction
    Surface Reconstruction
    3D point cloud analysis and processing
    Shape description
    Scene analysis and understanding
    Segmentation and classification
    Robot vision and perception
    Path and motion planning 

Important Dates

Paper Submission Deadline:            May 9th, 2024

Author Notification:                         June 6th, 2024

Final Manuscript Due:                     June 19th, 2024

Workshop:                                        October 27th, 2024

 

Workshop Paper Submissions

Conference papers will be submitted electronically through the workshop submission service website 

(https://2024.ieeeicip.org/publishing-and-paper-presentation-options/)

For further information on the paper submission process, please also visit the workshop website: https://3dcvp.uniwa.gr/

 

Workshop Co-Chairs


Lazaros Grammatikopoulos, Associate Professor at the University of West Attica (lazaros@uniwa.gr)

Elli Petsa, Professor at the University of West Attica (petsa@uniwa.gr)
Giorgos Sfikas, Assistant Professor at the University of West Attica (gsfikas@uniwa.gr)
George Retsinas, Postdoc Researcher at the National Technical University of Athens (gretsinas@central.ntua.gr)
Andreas El Saer, PhD Candidate at the University of West Attica (elsaer@uniwa.gr)
Christophoros Nikou, Professor at the University of Ioannina (cnikou@cse.uoi.gr)

Panagiotis Dimitrakopoulos, PhD Candidate at the University of Ioannina (p.dimitrakopoulos@uoi.gr)
            

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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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