We hope you can join us on Thursday, May 4th at 12:30pm CET for our next 1-hour webinar with Leonardo Chiariglione, Roberto Iacoviello, and Chuanmin Jia on “MPAI: AI-based End-to-End and AI-Enhanced Video Coding.”
[6:30 a.m. New-York] – [12:30 p.m. Paris] – [6:30 p.m. Beijing]
To join the webinar, please register to receive more details on how to connect. The registration form can be found at: https://forms.gle/9JCc6NBgM1x2kZK6A
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Title: MPAI: AI-based End-to-End and AI-Enhanced Video Coding
Speakers: L. Chiariglione, R. Lacoviello and C. Jia
Abstract:
MPAI-General (L. Chiariglione): Moving Picture, Audio, and Data Coding by Artificial Intelligence is the Standards Developing Organisation whose mission is Data Coding by Artificial Intelligence. Founded in September 2020, it has developed and published 12 technical documents on audio enhancement, human-machine conversation, execution of AI applications, company performance prediction, neural network watermarking, and metaverse model. The talk on MPAI will briefly describe the mission, the organisation, and the scope of activities.
MPAI (http://mpai.community/)
MPAI-EVC talk (R. Lacoviello): Video internet traffic has grown rapidly, leading to increased strain on infrastructure, slower speeds, and higher costs. Video compression can alleviate this problem; deep learning-based coding tools have shown great potential to reduce bitrate and improve quality. MPAI is working to standardize these tools. In particular, MPAI-EVC is working to improve an existing video codec by 25% in terms of encoding gain by exploiting deep learning.
MPAI-EEV talk (C. Jia): Recently, neural network for video coding has been an active research topic, receiving attention from both academic society and industry entity. The end-to-end video coding (EEV) of MPAI exploits AI-based data coding technologies in an end-to-end fashion, namely fully neural network based video codec. MPAI-EEV is at the level of Functional Requirements. The essential use cases and related reference model are under construction. This talk elaborates recent advances in EEV and reports the model design, which outperforms the latest H.266/VVC standard in terms of MS-SSIM.
Bios:
Leonardo Chiariglione, MSc at the Polytechnic of Torino and PhD at the University of Tokyo, is the initiator and leader of international groups such as MPEG which have shaped media technology and business. He currently leads MPAI, the standards body for artificial intelligence-based data coding.
Roberto Iacoviello is a Lead Research Engineer who graduated from the Politecnico di Torino and has been employed at Rai R&D since 2007. His research is currently concentrated on developing artificial intelligence applications in video compression and point clouds, next-generation television services such as virtual production for broadcast television.He leads two groups at the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) , namely the Video Evaluation group and the Computer Graphics Animation group. Additionally, he is involved in two EC-funded projects, namely AI4MEDIA and XRECO.
Chuanmin Jia is currently an Assistant Professor with the Wangxuan Institute of Computer Technology, Peking University, Beijing, China. His research interests include video compression and processing. He has published over 20 journal/conference papers in related venue, received 3 best paper awards.
Webinar videos are available online at https://vimeo.com/showcase/8005816.
10th International Conference on Behavioural and Social Computing (BESC 2023): Third Call for Papers
April 27th, 2023 
Daniela Lopez de Luise |
*** Third Call for Papers ***
10th International Conference on Behavioural and Social Computing (BESC 2023)
October 30 – November 1, 2023, 5* Golden Bay Beach Hotel, Larnaca, Cyprus
The International Conference on Behavioural and Social Computing (BESC) is a major
international forum that brings together academic researchers and industry practitioners from
artificial intelligence, computational social sciences, natural language processing, business
and marketing, and behavioural and psychological sciences to present updated research
efforts and progresses on foundational and emerging interdisciplinary topics of BESC,
exchange new ideas and identify future research directions.
The BESC series of conferences are technically sponsored by IEEE SMC (Systems, Man and
Cybernetics) Society as well as IEEE CIS (Computational Intelligence Society) and the
proceedings are published by IEEE
BESC 2023 invites submissions of original, high-quality research papers addressing
cutting-edge developments from all areas of behavioural and social computing. The
conference aims to bring together researchers and practitioners from academia and industry to
share their knowledge, experience, and perspectives on the latest trends, challenges, and
opportunities in this rapidly evolving field. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
Social Computing, Computational Social Science and Applications
• Computational models of social phenomena
• Social behaviour
• Social network analysis
• Semantic web
• Collective intelligence
• Security, privacy, trust in social contexts
• Social recommendation
• Social influence and social contagions
• Quantifying offline phenomena through online data
• Forecasting of social phenomena
• Science and technology studies approaches to computational social science
• Social media and health behaviours
• Social psychology and personality
• New theories, methods, and objectives in computational social science
Digital Humanities
• Digital media
• Digital humanities
• Digital games and learning
• Digital footprints and privacy
• Crowd dynamics
• Digital arts
• Digital healthcare
• Activity streams and experience design
• Virtual communities (e.g., open-source, multiplayer gaming, etc.)
Information Management and Information Systems (IS)
• Decision analytics
• E-Business
• Decision analytics
• Computational finance
• Societal impacts of IS
• Human behaviour and IS
• IS in healthcare
• IS security and privacy
• IS strategy, structure and organizational impacts
• Service science and IS
Natural Language Processing
• Web mining and its social interpretations
• Sentiment Analysis, Stylistic Analysis, and Argument Mining
• Opinion mining and social media analytics
• Credibility of online content
• Computational Linguistics
• Mining big social data
• Cognitive Modelling and Psycholinguistics
Behaviour and User Modelling, Privacy, and Ethics
• Behaviour change
• Positive technology
• Personalization for individuals, groups and populations
• Large scale personalization, adaptation and recommendation
• Web dynamics and personalization
• Privacy, perceived security and trust
• Technology and Wellbeing
• Ethics of computational research on human behaviour
Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL)
• E-Learning and M-Learning
• Open and Distance Learning
• User modeling and personalization in TEL
• TEL in secondary and in higher education
• New tools for TEL
BESC 2023 will also host the following Special Sessions. Papers accepted in any of the Special
Sessions will be included in the same IEEE conference proceedings with the papers accepted
for the general technical program.
● Computational Social Psychology in Post Covid-19 Period
● Artificial Intelligence for Mental Health, Mental Illness, Psychiatic Diagnosis, and
Prediction
● Intelligent E-Learning at Post Covid-19 Era
● Big Data and AI-Powered Decision Support Systems in Business
● Understanding the Citizen's Behavior in Cognitive Cities
● Nudges and Behavioural Computing Models for a Sustainable and Equitable
Development
SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS
The paper submission system is using Easy Chair and the submission link is:
All papers will be reviewed by the Program Committee on the basis of technical quality,
relevance to BESC 2023, originality, significance and clarity.
Please note:
• All submissions should use IEEE two-column style. Templates are available here:
• All papers must be submitted electronically through the paper submission system in PDF
format only. BESC 2023 accepts research papers (6 pages), special session papers (6 pages)
and Doctoral Symposium papers (4 pages).
• The page count above excludes the references (but includes any appendices).
• Paper review will be double-blind, and submissions not properly anonymized will be
desk-rejected without review.
• Submitted papers must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or
that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings.
• Papers must be clearly submitted in English and will be selected based on their originality,
timeliness, significance, relevance, and clarity of presentation.
• Submission of a paper should be regarded as a commitment that, should the paper be
accepted, at least one of the authors will register and attend the conference to present the
work.
• The use of artificial intelligence (AI)–generated text in an article shall be disclosed in the
acknowledgements section of any paper submitted to an IEEE Conference or Periodical. The
sections of the paper that use AI-generated text shall have a citation to the AI system used to
generate the text.
• All accepted papers will be included in IEEE Xplore and indexed by EI. Top quality papers
after presented in the conference will be selected for extension and publication in several
special issues of international journals, e.g., World Wide Web Journal (Springer), Web
Intelligence (IOS Press), and Social Network Analysis and Mining (Springer), Human-Centric
Intelligent Systems (Springer), Information Discovery and Delivery (Emerald Publishing).
IMPORTANT DATES
• Submission of all papers: 15 July 2023
• Notification of acceptance for submitted papers: 15 September 2023
• Camera-Ready Submission: 1 October 2023
• Author Registration: 1 October 2023
ORGANISATION
Steering Committee Chair
• Guandong Xu, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
General Chair
• George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
Program Chairs
• Georgia Kapitsaki, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
• Ji Zhang, University of Southern Queensland, Australia
Special Session Chairs
• Taotao Cai, University of Southern Queensland, Australia
• Ting Yu, Zhejiang Lab, China
Doctoral Symposium Chair
• Barbara Caci, University of Palermo, Italy
Panel and Tutorial Chair
• Philippe Fournier-Viger, Shenzhen University, China
Proceedings Chair
• Md Rafiqul Islam, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
Publicity Chairs
• Chandan Gautam, Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R), A*STAR, Singapore
• Thanveer Shaik, University of Southern Queensland, Australia
• Sanjay Sonbhadra, ITER, Siksha 'O' Anusandhan, India
Webmaster
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CALL FOR SOLUTIONS –> DATA MINING COMPETITION –> 1000 USD –> Web of Science Publication –> June 2 deadline
April 27th, 2023 Daniela Lopez de Luise FedCSIS 2023 Challenge: Cybersecurity Threat Detection in the Behavior
of IoT Devices is the 9th data science competition in the series. This
year, the task is related to cybersecurity – participants will construct
scoring models to detect anomalous operating system behavior of IoT
devices under attack. The challenge is sponsored by Łukasiewicz Research
Network – Institute of Innovative Technologies EMAG and EFIGO sp. z o.o.
companies.
The competition is held at the KnowledgePit online platform managed by
QED Software – the company which is specialized in the development and
deployment of innovative AI / ML / Big Data products and solutions.
Submit your solution: https://knowledgepit.ai/fedcsis-2023-challenge/
AWARDS:
Authors of the top-ranked solutions (based on the final evaluation
scores) will be awarded prizes funded by the Sponsors:
+ 1000 USD for the winning solution + 600 EUR for one FedCSIS 2023
registration
+ 500 USD for the 2nd place solution + 600 EUR for one FedCSIS 2023
registration
+ 250 USD for the 3rd place solution + 600 EUR for one FedCSIS 2023
registration
SCHEDULE:
– June 2, 2023 (23:59 GMT): deadline for submitting the predictions
– June 4, 2023 (23:59 GMT): deadline for sending the reports, end of
the competition
– June 09, 2023: online publication of the final results, sending
invitations for submitting short papers for the special session at
FedCSIS'23
– July 09, 2023: deadline for submitting invited papers
– July 16, 2023: notification of paper acceptance
– July 28, 2023: camera-ready of accepted papers, and registration
for the conference are due
CONTEXT:
Competition is organized within the scope of the 18th Conference on
Computer Science and Intelligence Systems (FedCSIS 2023; IEEE #57573)
Warsaw, Poland, 17–20 September, 2023
https://www.fedcsis.org/
AAMTM/DSD 2023 – 3rd Call for Papers
April 27th, 2023 Daniela Lopez de Luise Applications, Architectures, Methods and Tools for Machine – and Deep Learning is a Special Sessions at the 26th Euromicro Conference Digital System Design (DSD) conference.
Most important issues (more details below).
- scope: advanced applications, architectures, design methods and tools, and system software for artificial intelligence, machine learning and deep learning
- submission deadline: May 15th, 2023
- conference: Sept. 6th – Sept. 8th, 2023, Durres, Albania
- contact: Tomasz Kryjak (tomasz.kryjak@agh.edu.pl), Niki Martinel (niki.martinel@uniud.it), Ercan Kalali (e.kalali@tue.nl)
Applications, Architectures, Methods and Tools for Machine – and Deep Learning (AAMTM) – https://dsd-seaa2023.com/aamtm/
Machine learning has numerous important applications in intelligent systems within many areas, like automotive, avionics, robotics, health-care, well-being, and security. The recent progress in Artificial Intelligence (AI), and particularly in Deep Learning (DL) / Machine Learning (ML), has dramatically improved the state-of-the-art in object detection, classification and recognition, natural language processing, games, medical imaging, etc. However, the complexity of DL-networks for many practical applications can be huge, and their processing may demand a high computing effort and excessive energy consumption. This can become a gigantic challenge when considering embedded inference implementation for Smart Cyber Physical Systems (like autonomous vehicles and robotics) and Internet-of-Things (like healthcare-IoT and predictive maintenance for Industry 4.0). Moreover, even training of such complex DL-networks over massive data sets is triggering new avenues in training accelerator design. In DSD 2023, we plan to organize several oral sessions on embedded deep learning/AI and related research, as well as to have invited speeches, and a poster session.
Special Session Scope
We welcome submissions related to advanced applications, architectures, design methods and tools, and system software for AI, ML and DL, especially related (but not limited) to the following topics:
- Architectures for ML and DL, with emphasis on energy reduction, computation efficiency and/or computation flexibility, both for inference and/or for learning
- Neuromorphic architectures, Spiking and brain-inspired neural networks and their implementation
- Efficient Edge Computing for ML and DL
- Efficient mapping of ML and DL applications to target architectures, including many-core, GPGPU, SIMD, FPGA, and HW accelerators
- New learning approaches for ML and DL, with emphasis on e.g. faster and more efficient learning, online learning, and quality of learning, training accelerators, etc.
- High-level programming language support for ML and DL
- Advanced applications exploiting ML or DL
- ML and DL for design automation
- Tools, frameworks, and system software for ML and DL
- Using of approximate computing to decrease the energy demands of ML and DL
- Security and Reliability issues for ML and DL, for both inference and training
Submission Guidelines
Authors are encouraged to submit their manuscripts via EasyChair web service at web page https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dsd2023. Each manuscript should include the complete paper text, all illustrations, and references. The manuscript should conform to the IEEE format: single-spaced, double column, US letter page size, 10-point size Times Roman font, up to 8 pages. In order to conduct a blind review, no indication of the authors’ names should appear in the manuscript, references included.
Special Session Chairs
- Tomasz Kryjak (AGH University of Science and Technology in Krakow, Poland)
- Niki Martinel (University Udine, Italy)
- Ercan Kalali (TU Eindhoven, The Netherlands)
Special Session Program Committee
- José L. Abellán (Universidad de Murcia, Spain)
- Ihsen Alouani (IEMN-DOAE/UMR CNRS Polytechnic University Hauts-de-France, France)
- Jani Boutellier (University of Vaasa, Finland)
- José Cano (University of Glasgow, United Kingdom)
- Alessandro Capotondi (University of Modena and Reggio-Emilia, Italy)
- Antonio Carlos Schneider Beck (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil)
- Miguel Chavarrías (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain)
- Karol Desnos (University Rennes, INSA Rennes, France)
- Tiago Dias (Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Lisboa, Portugal)
- Miguel Figueroa (Universidad de Concepcion, Chile)
- Ghayoor Gillani (University of Twente, The Netherlands)
- Muhammad Abdullah Hanif (New York University Abu Dhabi)
- Mateusz Komorkiewicz (IEEE: VTS Chapter, Poland)
- Pierre Langlois (Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, Canada)
- Alberto Marchisio (Vienna University of Technology, Austria)
- Maurizio Martina (Politecnico di Torino, Italy)
- Vojtech Mrazek (Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic)
- Anuj Pathania (Universiteit van Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
- Satwik Patnaik (Texas A&M University, USA)
- Christian Pilato (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
- Sai Manoj Pudukotai Dinakarrao (George Mason University, USA)
- Alfonso Rodriguez (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain)
- Emanuele Torti (University of Pavia, Italy)
- Georgios Zervakis (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany)
- Wei Zhang (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong)
Contact Information
- Tomasz Kryjak – tomasz.kryjak@agh.edu.pl
- Niki Martinel – niki.martinel@uniud.it
- Ercan Kalali – e.kalali@tue.nl
CALL FOR PAPERS — FedCSIS 2023 — CORE Rank B, IEEE: #54150
April 27th, 2023 Daniela Lopez de Luise 18th Conference on Computer Science and Intelligence Systems (FedCSIS 2023)
Warsaw, Poland, 17-20 September, 2023
(IEEE: #57573, 70 MEiN points)
Strict submission deadline: May 23, 2023, 23:59:59 AOE (no extensions)
Please feel free to forward this announcement to your colleagues and
associates who could be interested in it.
KEY FACTS: Proceedings: submitted to IEEE Digital Library; indexing:
DBLP, Scopus and Web of Science; 20 Technical Sessions in 5 Tracks;
Doctoral Symposium; Data Mining Competition.
********************* Statement concerning LLMs *********************
Recognizing the developing issue that affects all academic
disciplines, we would like to state that, in principle, papers that
include unedited text generated from large language models (LLMs) are
prohibited, unless the produced text is used within the experimental
part of the work and is clearly marked as generated.
*********************************************************************
FedCSIS is an annual international conference, this year organized
jointly by the Polish Information Processing Society (PTI), IEEE
Poland Section Computer Society Chapter, and Department of Mathematics
and Information Sciences, Warsaw University of Technology. It is
technically sponsored by a number of IEEE units and other professional
organizations (for the full list, see the conference site). The
mission of the FedCSIS Conference Series is to provide a highly
acclaimed forum in computer science and intelligence systems. We
invite researchers from around the world to contribute their research
results and participate in Technical Sessions, focused on their
scientific and professional interests in computer science and
intelligence systems.
Since November 2021, FedCSIS is worth 70 parametric points to Polish
researchers.
Since 2012, Proceedings of the FedCSIS conference are indexed in
SCOPUS, DBLP and other indexing services. Information about FedCSIS
indexing / bibliometry / rankings can be found at:
https://fedcsis.org/for_authors/indexation
FedCSIS TRACKS AND TECHNICAL SESSIONS
FedCSIS 2023 consists of five conference Tracks, hosting Technical Sessions:
Track 1: Advanced Artificial Intelligence in Applications (18th
Symposium AAIA 2023)
* AI in Agriculture (1st Workshop AgriAI 2023)
* Challenges for Natural Language Processing (1st Symposium CNLPS 2023)
* Distributed Edge AI – Risks and Challenges (1st Workshop DE-AI 2023)
* Rough Sets: Theory and Applications (5th International
Symposium RSTA 2023)
* Computational Optimization (16th Workshop WCO 2023)
Track 2: Computer Science & Systems (CSS 2023)
* Computer Aspects of Numerical Algorithms (16th Workshop CANA 2023)
* Multimedia Applications and Processing (16th International
Symposium MMAP 2023)
* Scalable Computing (13th Workshop WSC 2023)
Track 3: Network Systems and Applications (NSA 2023)
* Complex Networks – Theory and Application (2nd Workshop CN-TA 2023)
* Internet of Things – Enablers, Challenges and Applications
(7th Workshop IoT-ECAW 2023)
* Cyber Security, Privacy and Trust (4th International Forum
NEMESIS 2023)
Track 4: Information Technology for Business and Society (ITBS 2023)
* International Workshop on AI in Digital Humanities,
Computational Social Sciences and Economics Research (1st Workshop
AI-HuSo 2023)
* Data Science in Health, Ecology and Commerce (5th Workshop DSH 2023)
* Information Systems Management (18th Conference ISM 2023)
* Knowledge Acquisition and Management (29th Conference KAM 2023)
* Meta Environment for Citizens, Business and Entertainment
(1st Conference MECBE 2023)
Track 5: Software, System and Service Engineering (S3E 2023)
* Cyber-Physical Systems (10th Workshop IWCPS-10)
* Practical Aspects of and Solutions for Software Engineering
(24th Conference KKIO 2023)
* Software Engineering (43rd IEEE Workshop SEW-43)
* Advances in Programming Languages (8th Workshop WAPL 2023)
Recent Advances in Information Technology (8th Symposium DS-RAIT 2023)
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS (preliminary list):
* Lipika Dey
Tata Consultancy Services
https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=4E6f01EAAAAJ
Keynote title: Deciphering Clinical Narratives – augmented
intelligence for Decision Making in Health care sector
* Marta Kwiatkowska
University of Oxford
https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=ArcH6PkAAAAJ
Keynote title: When to trust AI…
* Roman Slowinski
Poznan University of Technology
https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=yCX-JrQAAAAJ
Keynote title: Multiple Criteria Decision Aiding by
Constructive Preference Learning
DATA MINING COMPETITION – to be announced (see the conference WWW site)
ZDZISLAW PAWLAK BEST PAPER AWARD
The Professor Zdzislaw Pawlak Awards are given in the following categories:
* Best Paper Award (600 EUR)
* Young Researcher Paper Award (400 EUR)
* Industry Cooperation Award (400 EUR)
* International Cooperation Award (400 EUR)
All papers accepted to FedCSIS 2023 are eligible to be considered as
the award winners.
This award will be granted independently from awards given by
individual FedCSIS events (Tracks and/or Technical Sessions).
Past Award winners can be found here: https://fedcsis.org/zp_award
PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION
+ Papers should be submitted by May 23, 2023 (strict deadline, no
extensions, submission will be done via EasyChair
https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=fedcsis2023).
+ Paper submission system will be opened on March 1, 2023.
+ Preprints of submitted papers will be published online.
+ Only papers presented during the conference will be submitted to the
IEEE for inclusion in the Xplore Digital Library. Furthermore,
proceedings, published in a volume with ISBN, ISSN, and DOI numbers,
will be posted on the conference web portal. Moreover, most Technical
Session organizers arrange quality journals, edited volumes, etc., and
may invite selected extended and revised papers for post-conference
publications (information can be found on the websites of individual
events, or by contacting Chairs of said events).
IMPORTANT DATES
+ Paper submission (strict deadline): May 23, 2023, 23:59:59 (AoE;
there will be no extension)
+ Position paper submission: June 7, 2023
+ Author notification: July 11, 2023
+ Final paper submission and registration: July 31, 2023
+ Payment (early fee deadline): July 26, 2023
+ Conference date: September 17-20, 2023
CHAIRS OF FedCSIS CONFERENCE SERIES
Maria Ganzha, Marcin Paprzycki, Dominik Slezak
CONTACT FedCSIS at: secretariat@fedcsis.org
FedCSIS in Social Media:
FedCSIS on Facebook: https://tinyurl.com/FedCSISFacebook
FedCSIS on LinkedIN: https://tinyurl.com/FedCSISonLinkedIN
FedCSIS on Twitter: https://twitter.com/FedCSIS