CALL for Summer / Fall 2023 AIDA course proposals

July 11th, 2023 Daniela Lopez de Luise

Dear ICT 48 project Partner, distinguished scientist,

 

in the framework of the AI4Media EU project funded under the European Union’s Horizon 2020, together with the ICT48 projects ELISE, VISION, HumanE AI NET and TAILOR, we have organized the AI Doctoral Academy (AIDA) aiming to become a reference initiative for AI education in Europe and implement mechanisms for inter-university sharing of AI educational assets at PhD-level. As part of the program, AIDA offers a series of courses on Artificial Intelligence and related fields given by distinguished lecturers.

 

We invite you to contribute to this initiative for the definition of the AIDA Summer/Fall semester program.

 

You can participate in the AIDA program by offering new or opening-up existing courses targeted to AIDA students* or other students worldwide according to the participation terms of your own organization. Short/Very Short course formats (5-16 hours) are typically encouraged, while semester courses, or asynchronous mode web courses will be considered as well. Accepted courses will be listed on AIDA website (https://www.i-aida.org/) and will be advertised for free with the support of AIDA dissemination channels. Proposals for courses for the AIDA Summer/Fall semester program should be sent to: Prof. Alberto del Bimbo alberto.delbimbo@unifi.it, Prof. Stefano Berretti stefano.berretti@unifi.it, and Ms. Ioanna Koroni koroniioanna@csd.auth.gr no later than May 31, 2023 and will be evaluated by the AIDA Committee by June 10, 2023.

 

Proposals for AIDA Courses should include (pls, fill in the attached document):

·  Course title:

·  Lecturer name & affiliation:

·  Host Institution:

·  Content and organization: Course details about the content. 1 paragraph

·  Level: (Undergraduate/Postgraduate)

·  Course Duration: Hours

·  Course Type: (Short/Semester/Lecture series/Seasonal School)

·  Participation terms: Registration fee policy for external (non-AIDA) students, e.g., free of charge or fee of ??? Euros. Special terms for AIDA students, e.g., discount 50% or free for X number of AIDA students. Add text for a) non-AIDA student registration and AIDA student registration/enrollment, as in (6) below.

·  Lectures plan: Days/time

·  Proposed schedule: Start date – End date

·  Language: English/Other

·  Modality: Online/in person

·  Notes: Are there exams? Details on how to successfully complete the course. 1-2 sentences.

·  Course Link: 

*AIDA students may be PhD students, post-doc researchers, possibly qualified MSc students or professionals of AIDA Members


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RTIS 2023 – Springer Lecture Notes- Physical or Online Presentation

July 11th, 2023 Daniela Lopez de Luise

REDUCED REGISTRATION FEES FOR MOROCCO AUTHORS

CALL FOR PAPERS

Fifth International Conference on Real-Time Intelligent Systems (RTIS 2023)
October 09-11, 2023
University of Bedfordshire, Luton. UK
(Hybrid mode- Physical/Virtual) 
www.socio.org.uk/rtis

Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems by Springer
https://www.springer.com/series/15179

Earlier conferences took place in Taipei, Taiwan (2018); Casablanca, Morocco (2017); Beijing, China (2016). The 5th RTIS will take place at the University of Bedfordshire, UK.

Over the last few years, real-time intelligent computing has radically transformed the human lifestyle. Research on real-time intelligent systems is multi-disciplinary, exploiting concepts from diverse areas such as big data processing, computational intelligence, location-based services, recommendation systems, and multimedia processing. In today’s highly dynamic environment, analysing data in real-time is a must to understand how systems process data, reason the outputs, and anticipate trends in intelligent computing. To this end, this conference will serve as a platform to manifest the ongoing research in the field. Thus, RTIS welcomes theoretically grounded, methodologically sound papers that address aspects related to topics, such as:

Artificial Intelligence Techniques

Artificial Intelligence and Data mining
Streaming data, streaming engines
Trace-based intelligent real-time services
Adaptive vision algorithms
Location-based services
Intelligent Robotic Systems
Collaborative Intelligence
Processing Intelligent Databases

Data capture in real-time
Data quality and cleansing
Intelligent Data Analysis
Intelligent Database Systems
Big Data systems and applications for high-velocity data
Intelligent Information Systems
Privacy and Security in Intelligence
Software Engineering Solutions

Intelligent Soft Computing
Real-time multiprocessor systems
Internet of Things
Architectures for Intelligence
Real-time distributed coding
Smart services and platforms
Real-time modelling user information needs
Wireless Communication

Real-time intelligent communication
Real-time intelligent network solutions
Mobile Smart Systems
Broadband Intelligence
Cloud Computing and Intelligence
Collaborative Intelligence
Analysis in domains such as energy, sensors, Expert Systems
Smart Life Systems

Decision support systems in real time
Multi-agent Intelligent Systems
Multilingual information access
Recommendation systems
Real-time intelligent, alert systems
Real-time remote access systems
Intelligent Transportation Systems
Critical Real-Time Applications
Hybrid Intelligent Systems

Real-time noise removal systems
Event-driven analytics
Intelligent Fuzzy Systems
Machine translation in real time
OLAP for real-time decision support
Crowdsourcing and crowd intelligence
Submission, proceedings

Papers must be submitted online through OpenConf (https://www.socio.org.uk/rtis/paper-submission/). Author instructions and LaTex2e (preferred) and Word macro files are available on the submission page. Submitted papers should be within 14 pages (long papers) and eight pages (short ones), including figures, tables, and references. Authors of accepted papers are required to transfer their copyrights. For a paper to appear in the proceedings, at least one of the authors MUST register for the conference by the camera-ready submission deadline with full registration.

Springer will publish The proceedings in Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems.

Extended versions of the conference papers will be considered for publication in the below journals.

Journal of Computational Methods in Sciences and Engineering (JCMSE)
Future Internet
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/futureinternet
Data
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/data
(For Data and Future Internet, the discounted APC is applicable, which is 50%) 
Journal of Digital Information Management
Journal of Intelligent Computing

Venue

The venue is the University of Bedfordshire, UK.

Plenary speakers

Professor Eric Atwell, Professor of Artificial Intelligence for Language
School of Computing, University of LEEDS, UK

Professor Wang
Department of Electrical and Software Engineering
University of Calgary, Canada

Important Dates

Full Paper Submission: July 20, 2023
Notification of Acceptance/Rejection: August 15, 2023
Registration Due:  September  15, 2023
Camera Ready Due: September 15, 2023
Workshops/Tutorials/Demos:  October  08, 2023
Main conference: October 09-11, 2023
Post-conference proceedings:  October  25, 2023

General Chairs

Ricardo Rodriguez-Jorge,  Jan Evangelista Purkyně University ,  Czech Republic  
Martín LÓPEZ-NORES, University of Vigo, Spain

Program Chairs

Yao-Liang Chung, National Taiwan Ocean University, Taiwan
Pit Pichappan, Digital Information Research Labs, India

Workshop/Special Issues Chair

Ezendu Ariwa, University of Warwick, UK

www.socio.org.uk/rtis 
Contact: stm@socio.org.uk

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Call for papers for special session on 2nd Recent Advances in Detecting Manipulation Attacks on Biometric Systems (ADMA-2023)

July 11th, 2023 Daniela Lopez de Luise

Recent Advances in Detecting Manipulation Attacks on Biometric Systems (ADMA-2023) IJCB 2023 – Special Session

 

Manipulated attacks in biometrics via modified images/videos and other material-based techniques such as presentation attacks and deep fakes have become a tremendous threat to the security world owing to increasingly realistic spoofing methods. Hence, such manipulations have triggered the need for research attention towards robust and reliable methods for detecting biometric manipulation attacks. The recent inclusion of manipulation/generation methods such as auto-encoder and generative adversarial network approaches combined with accurate localisation and perceptual learning objectives added an extra challenge to such manipulation detection tasks. Due to this, the performance of existing state-of-the-art manipulation detection methods significantly degrades in unknown scenarios. Apart from this, real-time processing, manipulation on low-quality medium, limited availability of data, and inclusion of these manipulation detection techniques for forensic investigation are yet to be widely explored. Hence, this special session aims to profile recent developments and push the border of the digital manipulation detection technique on biometric systems.

 

We invite practitioners, researchers and engineers from biometrics, signal processing, material science, mathematics, computer vision and machine learning to contribute their expertise to underpin the highlighted challenges. Further, this special session promotes cross-disciplinary research by inviting the partitioner in the field of psychology where one can perform the human observer (or super-recogniser) analysis to detect attacks.

 

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

§             Deepfake manipulation and detection technique

§             Novel generalised PAD to unknown attacks

§             Image manipulation techniques datasets

§             Database in image and video manipulation, and attacks

§             Privacy-preserving techniques in digital manipulation attack detection

§             Image and video synthesis in PAD

§             Image and video manipulation generation and detection

§             Human observer analysis in detecting the manipulated biometric images

§             Novel sensors for detecting manipulated attacks

§             Bias analyses and mitigation in attack detection algorithms

 

Submission Guidelines:

§             Submit your papers at: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/IJCB2023 in a special session track.

§             The paper presented at ADMA-2023 will be published as part of the IJCB2023 and should, therefore, follow the same guideline as the main conference.

§             Page limit: A paper can be up to 8 pages including figures and tables, plus additional pages for references only. 

§             Papers will be double-blind peer-reviewed by at least three reviewers. Please remove author names, affiliations, email addresses, etc. from the paper. Remove personal acknowledgements.

 

Important Dates:

§             Full Paper Submission: July 17, 2023, 23:59:59 PDT

§             Acceptance Notice: August 17, 2023, 23:59:59 PDT

§             Camera-Ready Paper: August 21, 2023, 23:59:59 PDT

 

Organizing Committee:

Abhijit Das, BITS Pilani, India

Raghavendra Ramachandra, NTNU, Norway

Meiling Fang, Fraunhofer IGD, Germany

 

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FINAL DEADLINE EXTENSION : 1st Workshop on Federated Learning in Medical Imaging and Vision

July 11th, 2023 Daniela Lopez de Luise

AAAI 2023 Fall Symposium on “Unifying Representations for Robot Application Development” (UR-RAD)

July 11th, 2023 Daniela Lopez de Luise

We are inviting submissions and participation in the 2023 AAAI Symposium on Unifying Representations for Robot Application Development (UR-RAD). The symposium will take place on October 25-27, 2023, in Arlington, VA, USA.

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Key Information

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Behind any robot task or interaction is a formal representation that should (a) enable sufficient contextualization; (b) support any existing predefined, learned, and/or reusable skills onboard the robot; (c) be verifiable at design time and behave consistently at run-time; and (d) can be tested, executed, and modified for reuse on a variety of different robot morphologies. Representations have long played a pivotal role in robot application development. Examples include behavior trees, finite state machines, hierarchical task networks, and many, many others.

The problem is that there is a lack of consistency and uniformity in how these representations are selected and used by robotics researchers. The goals of the symposium will therefore be to (a) categorize current representational trends for robot application development, (b) discuss best practices for future adoption of languages, formal representations, development frameworks, etc. that integrate advances from the wider AI community, and (c) identify opportunities for collaboration between academia and industry.

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Submission Topics of Interest

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We invite submissions related, but not limited, to the following topics:

  • Existing representations for robot applications

  • Proposals for standardizing representations for robotics

  • Robot end-user development

  • Robot programming paradigms

  • Robot programming interfaces

  • Robot control interfaces and runtime environments

  • Standardized application development for different robot morphologies

  • Application development frameworks for robotics (e.g., ROS)

  • Formal methods in robotics

  • Representations, frameworks, and models for robot learning

  • AI planning for robotics

  • Open-source initiatives in robotics

  • Interfaces for human-robot interaction

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Submission Information

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  • Submissions: August 4th, 2023

  • Acceptance: September 15th, 2023

  • Camera Ready: October 9th, 2023

The submission link can be found on the symposium website. The submission format can be any of the following:

  • Regular Research Papers: (4-6 pages, AAAI double-column format) describing robotics work related to any of the themes above.

  • Artifact Papers: (4-6 pages, AAAI double-column format) describing artifacts (e.g., software tools or libraries) related to any of the themes above.

  • Position Papers: (2-4 pages, AAAI double-column format), directly discussing themes outlined above.

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Organizing Committee

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  • David Porfirio (US Naval Research Laboratory)

  • Ross Mead (Semio)

  • Laura M. Hiatt (US Naval Research Laboratory)

  • Mark Roberts (US Naval Research Laboratory)

  • Amin Atrash (Amazon Lab 126)

  • Nick DePalma (Independent Researcher)

  • Ruchen Wen (University of Maryland, Baltimore County)

  • Laura Stegner (University of Wisconsin–Madison)

Please send any questions about the workshop to urrad.symposium@gmail.com

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