The ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications organises a Special Issue on “Realistic Synthetic Data: Generation, Learning, Evaluation”. The Special Issue is endorsed by the AI4Media project and the Guest Editors are members of the AI4Media consortium.
The call for papers can be found below and in the attachment. The submission deadline is March 31st, 2023.
The Topics of Interest include:
- Synthetic data for various modalities, e.g., signals, images, volumes, audio, etc.
- Controllable generation for learning from synthetic data.
- Transfer learning and generalization of models.
- Causality in data generation.
- Addressing bias, limitations, and trustworthiness in data generation.
- Evaluation measures/protocols and benchmarks to assess quality of synthetic content.
- Open synthetic datasets and software tools.
- Ethical aspects of synthetic data.
Please consider submitting your work to this special issue!
Thank you,
Best regards,
CfP-TOMM-SI-RealisticSyntheticData-2023.pdfCFP CAIS 2023 Automated and Intelligent Systems, Oct 2-5, Oklahoma City, USA & Online
January 24th, 2023 
Daniela Lopez de Luise AIDA Short Courses: “Nvidia DLI – Fundamentals of Deep Learning”, 2nd February 2023
January 24th, 2023 Daniela Lopez de Luise Nvidia DLI and University Debrecen organize an online AIDA short course on “Fundamentals of Deep Learning” offered through the International Artificial Intelligence Doctoral Academy (AIDA).
The purpose of this course is to learn how deep learning works through hands-on exercises in computer vision and natural language processing. You’ll also learn to leverage freely available, state-of-the-art pre-trained models to save time and get your deep learning application up and running quickly.
This short course will cover the following topics:
- The Mechanics of Deep Learning (120 mins),
- Pre-trained Models and Recurrent Networks (120 mins),
- Final Project: Object Classification (120 mins).
LECTURER:
– Dr. Andras Hajdu, Full Professor
Nvidia Deep Learning Institute Certified Instructor and Ambassador, email: hajdu.andras@inf.unideb.hu
HOST INSTITUTION/ORGANIZER: Nvidia Deep Learning Institute, Faculty of Informatics, University of Debrecen, Hungary
REGISTRATION: Free of charge for university students and staff
WHEN: February 2, 2023 from 09:00 to 17:00 CET
WHERE: Online
HOW TO REGISTER and ENROLL:
Both AIDA and non-AIDA students are encouraged to participate in this short course.
If you are an AIDA Student* already, please:
Step (a) register in the course by following the Course Link: Nvidia Deep Learning Institute | University of Debrecen (unideb.hu) AND
Step (b) enroll in the same course in the AIDA system using the enrollment button in the AIDA course page Nvidia DLI – Fundamentals of Deep Learning – AIDA – AI Doctoral Academy (i-aida.org), so that this course enter your AIDA Course Attendance Certificate.
If you are not an AIDA Student do only step (a).
*AIDA Students should have been registered in the AIDA system already (they are PhD students or PostDocs that belong only to the AIDA Members listed in this page: https://www.i-aida.org/about/members/)
Dr. Andras Hajdu, Full Professor
Nvidia Deep Learning Institute Certified Instructor and Ambassador
Call for Competition Proposals – IJCB 2023
January 24th, 2023 Daniela Lopez de Luise We invite competition proposals for the 2023 International Joint
Conference on Biometrics (IJCB 2023) in Ljubljana, Slovenia. The main
goal of the competitions is to provide a common ground for benchmarking
of state-of-the art algorithms, to consolidate research and identify
open problems in biometrics-related research areas. We solicit
competition proposals on any topic of interest to the broader biometric
community and strongly encourage proposals focusing on new emerging
fields and open research questions that are able to attract a
significant number of participants. Competition organizers having a
strong track record in the field are especially welcome.
From the proposals received, the strongest will be selected to be held
with IJCB 2023 and eventually invited to submit summary papers to the
conference. The selection process will be based on the novelty of the
proposed competition, the relevance and timeliness of the problem
explored, the importance of the research questions investigated, the
potential to attract a large number of competitors, the impact of the
competition, and the track record of the organizers.
The deadline for submitting competition proposals is Monday, February
6th, 2023. Decisions will be circulated by February 14th, 2023.
*** Competition Proposal Submission ***
Competition proposals should be sent to the IJCB 2023 competition
co-chairs, Clinton Fookes (c.fookes@qut.edu.au) and Ana Filipa Sequeira
(ana.f.sequeira@inesctec.pt), with the email subject »IJCB 2023
Competition Proposal: [title of your competition]«. The proposal should
include the following information to facilitate the decision process:
• Title of the competition.
• Names, affiliations, contact information, and a brief CV of the
competition organizers.
• A list of three most relevant publications related to the competition
for each organizer.
• Justification:
o Motivation for the competition, expected outcomes and anticipated
impact,
o Relevance to IJCB 2023,
o Relationship to previous competitions, if any,
o Description of the novelty of the competition.
• Execution:
o Description of the dataset(s) used for the competition and the
available annotations,
o Details on the experimental protocol and result
generation/submission procedure,
o Information on the platform used (for data sharing, submission,
verification of the results), if any,
o Description of the evaluation criteria (performance metrics) and
available baseline implementations/code (e.g., a starter kit).
• Organization:
o Expected minimum number of external participants (next to the
organizers),
o Plan for promoting the competition and attracting participants,
o Description of the planned coordination activities,
o A detailed timeline for the competition.
• Other relevant information.
*** Schedule ***
The competitions should preferably start in February 2023 and be
completed by the summary-paper submission deadline on May 15th, 2023.
Competition organizers will also be requested to prepare a web page for
the competition, which will be linked from the conference web site. The
web-site should be online before the start of the competition.
*** Proceedings and Presentation ***
Competition organizers will be invited to submit a summary paper
discussing organization, datasets, and results by May 15th, 2023. The
summary papers will be considered for inclusion in the IJCB 2023
conference program and should follow the same formatting and
presentation rules as regular papers. The submissions will undergo the
same review process as regular papers. The presentation format (if
accepted) will be determined based on the quality of the submission and
reviewer feedback received. Accepted summary papers will be included in
the proceedings of IJCB 2023 and send for inclusion in IEEE Xplore.
*** Important Dates ***
Deadline for submitting proposals: February 6th, 2023
Decisions to organizers: February 14th, 2023
Submission of summary papers: May 15th, 2023
For any additional information please contact the IJCB 2023 Competition
Co-Chairs:
Clinton Fookes (c.fookes@qut.edu.au) and
Ana Filipa Sequeira (ana.f.sequeira@inesctec.pt)
25th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction
January 24th, 2023 Daniela Lopez de Luise 25th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction
(9-13 October 2023)
ICMI 2023 Call for Workshops : https://icmi.acm.org/2023/call-for-workshops/
The International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2023) will be held in Paris on October 9-13, 2023. ICMI is the premier international conference for multidisciplinary research on multimodal human-human and human-computer interaction analysis, interface design, and system development. ICMI has developed a tradition of hosting workshops in conjunction with the main conference to foster discourse on new research, technologies, social science models, and applications. Examples of recent workshops include:
- Media Analytics for Societal Trends
- International Workshop on Automated Assessment of Pain (AAP)
- Multi-sensorial Approaches to Human-Food Interaction
- Multimodal e-Coaches
- Modeling Cognitive Processes from Multimodal Data
- Multimodal Analyses enabling Artificial Agents in Human-Machine Interaction
- Investigating Social Interactions with Artificial Agents
- Insights on Group & Team Dynamics
- Face and Gesture Analysis for Health Informatics
- Generation and Evaluation of Non-verbal Behaviour for Embodied Agents
- Bridging Social Sciences and AI for Understanding Child Behavior
We are seeking workshop proposals on emerging research areas related to the main conference topics, and those that focus on multi-disciplinary research. We would also strongly encourage workshops that will include a diverse set of keynote speakers (factors to consider include: gender, ethnic background, institutions, years of experience, geography, etc.).
The content of accepted workshops is under the control of the workshop organizers.
Workshops may be half-day or one-day in duration. Workshop organizers will be expected to manage the workshop content, solicit submissions, be present to moderate the discussion and panels, invite experts in the domain, conduct the reviewing process, and maintain a website for the workshop. Workshop papers will be indexed by ACM Digital Library in an adjunct proceeding, and a short workshop summary by the organizers will be published in the main conference proceedings.
Submission
Prospective workshop organizers are invited to submit proposals in PDF format (Max. 3 pages). Please email proposals to the workshop chairs: Giovanna Varni and Theodora Chaspari (icmi2023-workshop-chairs@acm.org). The proposal should include the following:
- Workshop title
- List of organizers including affiliation, email address, and short biographies
- Workshop motivation, expected outcomes and impact
- Tentative list of keynote speakers
- Workshop format (by invitation only, call for papers, etc.), anticipated number of talks/posters, workshop duration (half-day or full-day) including tentative program
- Planned advertisement means, website hosting, and estimated participation
- Paper review procedure (single/double-blind, internal/external, solicited/invited-only, pool of reviewers, etc.)
- Paper submission and acceptance deadlines
- Special space and equipment requests, if any
Important dates
Workshop proposal submission February 5, 2023
Notification of acceptance February 17, 2023
Workshop papers due July 23, 2023
Workshop dates 9-13 October 2023