EarthVision Workshop at CVPR 2024
January 18th, 2024 
Daniela Lopez de Luise CALL FOR PAPERS
EarthVision 2024 – Large Scale Computer Vision for Remote Sensing Imagery Workshop
in conjunction with CVPR 2024, June 2024, Seattle, USA.
Website: https://www.grss-ieee.org/events/earthvision-2024/
AIMS AND SCOPE
Earth Observation (EO) and remote sensing are fast growing fields of investigation where computer vision, machine learning, and signal/image processing meet. The general objective of EO is to provide large-scale and consistent information about processes occurring at the surface of the Earth by exploiting data collected by airborne and spaceborne sensors. EO covers a broad range of tasks, from detection to registration, data mining, and multi-sensor, multi-resolution, multi-temporal, multi-modal fusion and regression, to name just a few. It serves numerous applications such as location-based services, online mapping, large-scale surveillance, 3D urban modeling, navigation systems, natural hazard forecast and response, climate change monitoring, virtual habitat modeling, food security, etc. The sheer amount of data calls for highly automated scene interpretation workflows.
The Earthvision workshop, held for its seventh edition at the CVPR 2023, aims at fostering collaboration between the computer vision, machine learning, and the remote sensing communities to boost automated analysis of EO data. EarthVision will strive to build cooperation within the CVPR community for this highly challenging and quickly evolving field with a significant impact on society, economy, industry, and the environment.
We invite contributions in the fields of (not exhaustive list):
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Super-resolution in the spectral and spatial domain
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Hyperspectral and multispectral image processing
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Reconstruction and segmentation of optical and LiDAR 3D point clouds
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Feature extraction and learning from spatio-temporal data
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Analysis of UAV / aerial and satellite images and videos
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Deep learning tailored for large-scale Earth Observation
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Domain adaptation, concept drift, and the detection of out-of-distribution data
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Data-centric machine learning
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Evaluating models using unlabeled data
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Self-, weakly, and unsupervised approaches for learning with spatial data
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Foundation models and representation learning in the context of EO
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Human-in-the-loop and active learning
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Multi-resolution, multi-temporal, multi-sensor, multi-modal processing
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Fusion of machine learning and physical models
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Explainable and interpretable machine learning in Earth Observation applications
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Uncertainty quantification of machine-learning based prediction from EO data
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Applications for climate change, sustainable development goals, and geoscience
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Public benchmark datasets: training data standards, testing & evaluation metrics, as well as open source research and development.
IMPORTANT DATES
Full paper submission: March 8, 2024
Notification of acceptance: April 5, 2024
Camera-ready paper: April 12, 2024
Workshop (full day): June 17/18, 2024
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
A complete paper should be submitted using the EarthVision templates provided on the workshop website. The paper length must not exceed 8 pages (excluding references) and formatting follows CVPR 2024 instructions. All manuscripts will be subject to a double-blind review process, i.e. authors must not identify themselves on the submitted papers. The reviewing process is single-stage, meaning that there will not be rebuttals to reviewers.
Papers are to be submitted using the dedicated submission platform on the workshop website. By submitting a manuscript, the authors guarantee that it has not been previously published or accepted for publication in substantially similar form. CVPR rules regarding plagiarism, double submission, etc. apply.
WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS
Ronny Hänsch, German Aerospace Center, Germany
Devis Tuia, EPFL, Switzerland
Jan Dirk Wegner, University of Zurich & ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Bertrand Le Saux, ESA/ESRIN, Italy
Loïc Landrieu, IGN, France
Charlotte Pelletier, UBS Vannes, France
Hannah Kerner, Arizona State University, USA
SPONSORING
The event is co-organized by the Image Analysis and Data Fusion Technical Committee of the IEEE-GRSS, and it is sponsored by Exolabs. If your organization is interested to co-sponsor the event, please don’t hesitate to reach out.
CFP LAD’24: International Workshop on LLM-Aided Design
January 18th, 2024 Daniela Lopez de Luise CALL FOR PAPERS – LAD’24
1st IEEE International Workshop on LLM-Aided Design
June 28-29 2024, Almaden, CA
This new international workshop will focus on how to use LLM (Large Language Model) as a methodology to help design circuits, software, and computing systems with improved quality, productivity, robustness, and cost. It is the first of its kind international workshop in the community that will focus on discussing results that leverage the significant advancement and innovation captured by the generative AI and LLM technology to offer new methods and solutions for design automation targeting various applications. The workshop will be a timely venue that will host leading researchers and thought leaders in this fast-growing area and will provide a forum for researchers and practitioners to present their latest results, contribute open-source LLM models, datasets, tool flows, and offer benchmarking, testing and validation methods and solutions. Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS
The workshop invites 4-page regular papers in the IEEE Conference format. Page limits do not include references. Papers should be anonymized for double-blind peer review. We strongly encourage papers with a commitment to open and reproducible research, including datasets and methods. Papers with open-source implementations will be highlighted at the workshop. All papers will be published on IEEEXplore. Papers can be submitted via OpenReview (https://openreview.net/group?id=IEEE.org/LAD/2024) starting March 1st, 2024. See the workshop website (https://www.islad.org/) for more details.
IMPORTANT DATES
Full paper submission: April 1st, 2024 (Submission website opens March 1st, 2024)
Notification of acceptance: May 1st, 2024
Camera ready paper due: May 15th, 2024
PAPER FORMATTING
Authors should follow the recommended IEEE Conference format for their submissions (https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html) to ensure compatibility with IEEEXplore. Manuscripts should be blinded so as to not disclose author identities. LAD’24 encourages open-source and reproducible research. Authors can provide anonymized URLs to their datasets and methods in the paper, or commit to open release on paper acceptance. However, this is not mandatory.
POLICY ON SUBMISSIONS TO OTHER VENUES
LAD’24 expects previously unpublished papers describing original research. Accepted LAD’24 papers will appear on IEEEXplore and count as formal, archival publications. LAD’24 papers can be enhanced and submitted for publication in other conferences or journals; the enhancements should be significant and consistent with the policies of these venues.
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
General Chairs Ruchir Puri (IBM), Deming Chen (UIUC)
Program Chairs Siddharth Garg (NYU), Haoxing (Mark) Ren (NVidia)
Finance Chair Callie Hao (GaTech)
Special Sessions Chair Azalia Mirhoseini (Stanford)
Industrial Liaison Yong Liu (Cadence)
Open Community Chair Yingyan (Celine) Lin (GaTech)
Publicity Chair Jeff Goeders (BYU)
Local Arrangements Ehsan Degan (IBM)
Webmaster Kaiwen Cao (UIUC)
WIFS 2024 Calls for Special Sessions, Demos, Challenges, Tutorials, Papers
January 18th, 2024 Daniela Lopez de Luise 16th IEEE INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON INFORMATION FORENSICS AND SECURITY (WIFS) 2024
ROME, ITALY, DECEMBER 2-5, 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 TUTORIALS
The organizing committee invites proposals for Tutorials on relevant and emerging topics in the areas of Information Forensics and Security. Tutorials will be given during the first day of the conference, on Monday December 2, 2024.
CALL FOR SPECIAL SESSIONS
The organizing committee invites proposals for innovative and high-quality special sessions on emerging topics, which complement the regular program of the conference. Special sessions should both provide an overview of the state of the art in the proposed field, and highlight the most promising research directions, trends and issues. Special session proposals will be evaluated based on the proposed topic, the expected impact, the expected quality of the contributed papers, and the session organizers and contributing authors. Special session paper submissions will be reviewed via the same process used for the regular program, and papers are expected to meet the same quality standards. Accepted and presented papers will be submitted for inclusion into IEEE Xplore.
CALL FOR DEMOS
The organizing committee invites proposals for demonstrations of applications in information forensics and security topics. Demos are intended as real, practical, and interactive proof of the presenters' research ideas and scientific or engineering contributions, with the goal of providing researchers and practitioners with the opportunity to discuss working systems, applications, prototypes, or proof-of-concepts. Accepted and presented demos will be described in short papers that will be submitted for inclusion into IEEE Xplore.
CALL FOR CHALLENGES
The organizing committee invites proposals for challenges addressing problems that will engage and excite the information forensics and security research community. Organizers should design challenges to make the results replicable by others, thus requiring a formal benchmark (which may include a test set). Organizers will have to evaluate the submitted results/models, and will be asked to summarize the outcomes in a paper to be presented at the workshop and submitted for inclusion into IEEE Xplore.
CALL FOR PAPERS
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
• Special Session proposal: March 18, 2024
• Special Session notification: March 29, 2024
• Challenge proposal: April 15, 2024
• Challenge notification: April 19, 2024
• Tutorial proposal: June 2, 2024
• Tutorial notification: June 7, 2024
• Paper submission: June 30, 2024
• Reviews notification: September 2, 2024
• Rebuttal/Challenge paper deadline: September 6, 2024
• Acceptance notification: September 13, 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
Ph. +39 0657337365
Lab URL http://biomedia4n6.uniroma3.it
Personal http://biomedia4n6.uniroma3.it/maiorana.html
ICUAS 2024 Invited Session on “Aerial Robotics in Inspection and Maintenance Operations – From Design to Deployment”
January 18th, 2024 Daniela Lopez de Luise We would like to remind you that the submission deadline for the Invited Session Proposal titled “Aerial Robotics in Inspection and Maintenance Operations – From Design to Deployment,” to be presented at ICUAS24 in Chania, Crete, is drawing near and is set for January 19th, 2024.
Important Dates
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Interested authors looking to submit a paper for the upcoming conference and session should prepare a document containing:
– List of authors, proposed paper title, and a brief abstract, and send it by January 19th, 2024, through the email address icuas24session@googlegroups.com.
Authors will be notified about the decision and provided with further submission instructions by January 31st, 2024.
Abstract and Scope
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Aerial robots are becoming increasingly vital in inspection and maintenance operations, demonstrating advanced maneuverability for complex airborne tasks. These include visually examining electrical power line components, searching for cracks in pipelines at oil and gas facilities, and inspecting leading-edge erosion in wind turbine maintenance operations. Aerial robot technologies are revolutionizing high-altitude inspections and maintenance by utilizing onboard AI systems for detailed visual analysis and defect identification. They play a crucial role in high-risk environments, monitoring personnel safety with advanced sensors and enabling safe contactless interactions between humans and drones. Additionally, these robots are capable of performing direct physical tasks, such as delivering tools and conducting automated replacement operations. Despite their numerous advantages, they encounter challenges in development and control, necessitating precise navigation and operation within tight, unstructured spaces. A key focus is on ensuring safety, reliability, and autonomy, with designs that enable independent control of position and orientation in hard-to-access areas.
This special session is dedicated to highlighting state-of-the-art research in the field of aerial robotics, particularly as it pertains to inspection and maintenance operations. We are seeking contributions that explore a wide range of topics within this domain. Key areas of interest include innovative design, advanced control systems, autonomous navigation, direct physical interaction, safety monitoring in high-risk environments, and human-robot interaction, among others.
Topics
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The primary list of topics of interest includes, but is not limited to:
* Innovative Design and Engineering of Aerial Robots
* Advanced Dynamics and Control Systems
* Autonomous Navigation and Path Planning
* AI and Machine Learning in Aerial Robotics
* Sensor Fusion and Data Processing
* Human-Robot Interaction and Collaboration
* Physical Interaction and Aerial Manipulation
* Energy Efficiency and Sustainability
General Information
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Authors should follow the submission guidelines for regular papers at the 2024 Internal Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS2024). The deadline for paper submission is the same as for regular papers. Papers submitted to special sessions will undergo the same review process as the regular papers and will appear in the main conference proceedings. At least 4 papers are expected for the Special Session. In the case fewer papers are received for a Special Session, they will be moved to the main track and the Special Session will be canceled. If the amount of accepted papers is more than 8, multiple session slots will be organized.
Papers must be submitted electronically for peer review through PaperCept by February 4, 2024: https://ras.papercept.net/conferences/scripts/start.pl.
Please note that the deadline for submitting a contribution may be subject to extension. Since this website is not directly linked with the portal, always refer to the dates listed on PaperCept or the conference website at https://uasconferences.com/2024_icuas/ for the most accurate and current information.
In PaperCept, click on the ICUAS 2024 link “Submit a Contribution to ICUAS 2024”, then under “Type of Submission” choose “Special Session paper”. Finally, enter the code provided by the organizers in the “Code” field. All papers must be written in English and should describe original work. For the initial submission, a manuscript can be 6-8 pages including references. For the final submission, a manuscript should be of 6 pages, With 2 additional pages allowed with an extra charge (TBA). All papers are reviewed using a single-blind review process.
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The conference is under the auspices of the Technical University of Crete (TUC), and it is technically co-sponsored by, the IEEE Control Systems Society, the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society, and the Mediterranean Control Association. The conference is financially supported and sponsored by the ICUAS Association, Inc., a non-profit organization.
Organizing Committee
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* Chiara Gabellieri, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands, https://www.ram.eemcs.utwente.nl/about-us/staff/chiara-gabellieri.
* Giuseppe Silano, Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic, https://giuseppesilano.net
* Mario Selvaggio, University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy, http://wpage.unina.it/mario.selvaggio/.