Call for Papers – GREEN-PR Workshop @ ICPR 2026

February 5th, 2026 Daniela Lopez de Luise
Dear colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the workshop
GREEN-PR: Sustainable Pattern Recognition & Pattern Recognition for Environment,
which will be held in conjunction with the 26th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR 2026) in Lyon, France.

Website


Workshop Scope

The GREEN-PR workshop aims to bring together researchers and practitioners working on sustainable approaches to pattern recognition as well as pattern recognition techniques applied to environmental challenges.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:


Sustainable Pattern Recognition

  • Energy-efficient and low-carbon pattern recognition methods
  • Green AI and sustainable machine learning for pattern recognition
  • Model compression, pruning, quantization, and efficient architectures
  • Resource-aware learning (computation, memory, energy)
  • Life-cycle assessment of pattern recognition and AI systems
  • Benchmarking and metrics for sustainability in pattern recognition
  • Sustainable data acquisition, annotation, and management
  • Federated, distributed, and edge learning for sustainable PR
  • Responsible and environmentally conscious AI methodologies

Pattern Recognition for Environment

  • Pattern recognition for environmental monitoring and protection
  • Remote sensing, satellite and aerial imagery analysis
  • Biodiversity monitoring and species recognition
  • Climate, weather, and environmental data analysis
  • Pattern recognition for pollution detection and assessment
  • Earth observation and geospatial data analysis
  • Environmental change detection and long-term monitoring
  • Pattern recognition for natural hazards and disaster management
  • AI for agriculture, forestry, and ecosystem management

Cross-Cutting Topics

  • Sustainability-aware benchmarks and datasets
  • Explainable and trustworthy pattern recognition for environmental applications
  • Ethical, societal, and policy aspects of sustainable PR
  • Case studies and real-world deployments
  • Interdisciplinary approaches combining pattern recognition, environmental science, and sustainability

Important Dates

  • Paper submission deadline: May 3rd 2026
  • Notification of acceptance: June 20th 2026
  • Camera-ready papers due: July 31st 2026
  • Workshop date: August 21st 2026

(All reviewing and final decisions will be completed before the university summer closure.)

We warmly encourage you to submit your work and to share this call with interested colleagues.

Best regards,

Noémie Debroux
Laure Tougne Rodet
Antoine Vacavant
On behalf of the GREEN-PR Organizing Committee

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AVSS2026 – Call for Workshop Proposals

February 5th, 2026 Daniela Lopez de Luise

AVSS 2026: 22nd International Conference on Advanced Visual and Signal-Based Systems
Workshop Day: August 31, 2026 | Lecce, Italy

Workshop Proposal Submission Deadline: March 30, 2026

Notification of Acceptance: Rolling basis (evaluated upon arrival, notification within a few days)

Workshop Camera-Ready Paper Deadline: July 1, 2026

Workshop Day: August 31, 2026


The organizers of the 2026 International Conference on Advanced Visual and Signal-Based Systems (AVSS) are pleased to invite proposals for workshops to be held on August 31, 2026, in Lecce, Italy. Workshops will precede the main conference (September 1-3) and are designed to explore specific challenges and emerging topics in the field, fostering dynamic discussion and community building.

We encourage submissions on new, interdisciplinary, or application-oriented topics that bridge advances in multimedia and signal-based systems with other research areas.

Scope and Topics


Workshop proposals on all topics related to visual and signal-based systems are welcome. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to:

Sensor-Centric: Smart Cameras, Deep Learning at the Edge, Multi-modal Sensors, IoT for Surveillance.

Processing-Centric: Action & Activity Recognition, Anomaly Detection, Person & Object Re-identification, Multi-target Tracking, Biometrics.

System-Centric: UAV-based Systems, Autonomous Systems, Large-Scale Monitoring, Crowd Analysis, Privacy-Enhancing Technologies, AI Ethics.

Application-Centric: Urban Mobility & Traffic Management, Security and Public Safety, Behavioral Analysis, Industrial Surveillance.

Submission Guidelines


Proposals should be submitted as a single PDF file (max 4 pages) and must include the following sections:

  1. Title and Acronym
  2. Abstract (up to 200 words)
  3. Topics and Relevance
  4. Workshop Format (full/half day, tentative schedule)
  5. Organizing Committee (names, affiliations, bios, relevant experience)
  6. Tentative Program Committee
  7. Publicity Plan
  8. Past History (if applicable)
  9. Anticipated Attendance
  10. Special Requirements (any logistical/technical needs)


Organizer Responsibilities & Conference Support


AVSS 2026 will provide: logistical support, registration management, and meeting space.

Workshop organizers are responsible for: setting up a workshop website, issuing their own call for papers, managing the review process, and creating the final program.

To be published by IEEE, organizers must ensure all accepted papers meet quality standards and adhere to the publication schedule.

Submission and Contact


Please submit your proposal and direct any inquiries to the AVSS 2026 Workshop Co-Chairs:

Giovanni Maria Farinella, University of Catania: giovanni.farinella@unict.it

Marco Leo, National Research Council of Italy: marco.leo@cnr.it

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Conferences: CV4Edu@CVPR CfP

February 5th, 2026 Daniela Lopez de Luise
Hi all,

We are excited to invite submissions to CV4Edu, an interdisciplinary workshop at CVPR 2026 in Denver, bringing together researchers in AI in education, computer vision, and human-centered AI.

The workshop focuses on multimodal perception in classrooms and the challenges of building interpretable, reliable, and privacy-aware AI systems for modeling engagement, self-regulation, and collaboration in real learning environments. 

We welcome work on multimodal modeling, behavioral forecasting, cognitive state inference, privacy-aware benchmarks, real-world deployments, multimodal learning, CV “in the wild”, etc. — as long as the paper makes a clear link to education or learning environments (even if that’s primarily in the discussion), e.g., by indicating applicability beyond benchmark datasets/tasks and explaining potential relevance in noisy educational settings.


Formats: Full, short, or position papers (archival/non-archival in CVPR Style) 

Submission deadline: March 12, 2026

Website: https://cv4edu.github.io/

We hope you’ll join us.

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Webinar by: Henning Wachsmuth (Leibniz University Hannover)

February 5th, 2026 Daniela Lopez de Luise
Dear colleague,

We are happy to announce the next webinar in the Language Technology webinar series organized by The HiTZ Chair of Artificial Intelligence and Language Technology (https://hitz.eus/katedra). We are organizing one seminar every month.

Next webinar:

Speaker: Henning Wachsmuth (Leibniz University Hannover)
Title: Toward Argumentative Large Language Models
Date: Thursday, February 5, 2026 – 15:00

Summary: Today's large language models (LLMs) are optimized toward giving helpful answers in response to prompts. In many situations, however, it may be preferable for an LLM to foster critical thinking rather than just following an instruction. While recent LLMs are said to 'reason', they barely build on established reasoning concepts known from argumentation theory. In this talk, I will give insights into recent efforts of my group in making LLMs more argumentative. Starting from basics of LLM training processes, I will present how to specialize LLMs for argumentation tasks via instruction fine-tuning as well as how to align the arguments they generate using reinforcement learning. From there, I will give an outlook on how to improve the actual reasoning capabilities of LLMs.

Bio: Henning Wachsmuth leads the Natural Language Processing Group at the Institute of Artificial Intelligence of Leibniz University Hannover. After receiving his PhD from Paderborn University in 2015, he worked as a PostDoc at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar and as a junior professor in Paderborn, before he became a full professor in Hannover in 2022. His group does basic research on large language models for computational argumentation, social bias detection and mitigation, as well as explainable and educational NLP. Henning's main research interests include the generation of audience-aware text, the assessment of pragmatic text quality, and the modeling of bias and framing.

Registration: https://www.hitz.eus/webinar_izenematea

Upcoming webinars:

  • José Andrés González-López (March 5)
  • Ranjay Krishna (April 16)
  • Barbara Plank (May 7)

You can view the videos of previous webinars and the schedule for upcoming webinars here: http://www.hitz.eus/webinars

If you cannot attend this seminar, but you want to be informed of the following HiTZ webinars, please complete this registration form instead: http://www.hitz.eus/webinar_info

Best wishes,

The HiTZ Chair of Artificial Intelligence and Language Technology

P.S: HiTZ will not grant any type of certificate for attendance at these webinars.

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1rst call for contributions to the PhD Forum of the 24th International Symposium on Intelligent Data Analysis (IDA)

February 5th, 2026 Daniela Lopez de Luise
IDA 2026 PhD Forum

Call for papers
Leiden (Netherlands) April 22-24, 2026 (Wednesday – Friday)

https://ida2026.liacs.nl/

IDA is organizing the 2026 edition of the PhD Forum, aimed at PhD students.

This mentoring program aims to connect PhD students with senior scientists who share their experience to help advance the students’ research and academic careers. Meetings will be arranged during the conference to allow discussion between the students and mentors.

Objectives

The objectives of the PhD Forum are:

  • to provide doctoral researchers with the opportunity to present their ongoing work and receive constructive feedback from experienced researchers (e.g., IDA Senior Program Committee members),

  • to facilitate the establishment of contacts with research teams working in related areas,

  • to provide insights into current research trends related to the students' research topics, thereby expanding the scope of their knowledge.

Submission

The PhD Forum welcomes original research in the field of Intelligent Data Analysis conducted by early-career researchers. Papers will be evaluated based on their relevance to the conference themes and the ability of the student to present:

  • the research problem and why it is important to address it,

  • the research objectives and questions,

  • the planned approach and methods to tackle the problem,

  • an outline of the current state of knowledge on the research problem,

  • the expected outcomes of the research, such as overviews, algorithms, improved understanding of a concept, a pilot study, a model, or a system.

Short papers (2 pages, including references) must follow the general template provided by the IDA conference (https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines).

Submissions will be handled through CMT:  https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/IDA2026/

(Authors are requested to ensure that they select the IDA2026-PhDTrack).

The authors of accepted presentations will be required to prepare a poster and a presentation. The poster will serve as a basis for discussions during the conference, while the presentation will be used in the mentorship program. Authors of accepted presentations must register in order to participate in the mentorship program. All presentations and interactions will take place in person.

Reduced registration fees are available for students:

Early registration (Deadline: March 16): 249.00 € / Late registration: 399.00 €

The registration fees include:

  • All sessions

  • Coffee breaks

  • Lunches

  • Social events: opening reception, traditional social event.

Important dates

  • Two-page paper submission deadline: February 23, 2026 AOE (Monday)

  • Notification to authors: March 2, 2026 (Monday)

  • Registration (for accepted submissions): March 16, 2026 (Monday)

  • Conference dates:  April 22-24 2026

Contact

Christine Sinoquet – IDA 2026 PhD Forum Chair

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