Save the Date: SICT 2023 “Radical changes for sustainable and equitable ICT in times of compounding crises” (doctoral summer school), July 03 – 07, Grenoble (France)

March 7th, 2023 Daniela Lopez de Luise

Dear all,

We are pleased to announce that the Doctoral Summer School on Sustainable ICT (SICT) is returning for its 4th edition this summer. While we are working hard to complete the program, we would like to invite everyone interested to mark July 03 – 07, 2023, in their calendars.

SICT 2023 will be a five-day, in-person workshop in English at Université Grenoble Alpes in Grenoble, France. We will send an official invitation to register later this spring, and we will continuously update our website as details become public, please keep an eye on:
 https://www.sictdoctoralschool.com

During SICT 2023, we will investigate the theme of “Radical changes for sustainable and equitable ICT in times of compounding crises”. Please check out the full abstract here:  https://www.sictdoctoralschool.com/media/abstract-sict2023.pdf 

We are looking forward to experiencing the 4th edition of SICT with many of you! Please forward this message to people (PhD students, colleagues, friends) who might be interested in attending our doctoral summer school.

Kind regards,

The SICT 2023 Organizing Team

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CVPR 2023 New Trends in Image Restoration and Enhancement (NTIRE) workshop and challenges

March 7th, 2023 Daniela Lopez de Luise
CALL FOR PAPERS  & CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS IN 13 CHALLENGES
NTIRE: 8th New Trends in Image Restoration and Enhancement workshop and challenges.
In conjunction with CVPR 2023, June 18, Vancouver, Canada.
TOPICS
● Image/video inpainting
● Image/video deblurring
● Image/video denoising
● Image/video upsampling and super-resolution
● Image/video filtering
● Image/video de-hazing, de-raining, de-snowing, etc.
● Demosaicing
● Image/video compression
● Removal of artifacts, shadows, glare and reflections, etc.
● Image/video enhancement: brightening, color adjustment, sharpening, etc.
● Style transfer
● Hyperspectral image restoration, enhancement, manipulation

● Underwater image restoration, enhancement, manipulation
● Light field image restoration, enhancement, manipulation
● Methods robust to changing weather conditions / adverse outdoor conditions
● Image/video restoration, enhancement, manipulation on constrained settings/mobile devices
● Visual domain translation
● Multimodal translation
● Perceptual enhancement
● Perceptual manipulation
● Depth estimation
● Image/video generation and hallucination
● Image/video quality assessment
● Image/video semantic segmentation
● Saliency and gaze estimation
● Studies and applications of the above.

SUBMISSION
A paper submission has to be in English, in pdf format, and at most 8 pages (excluding references) in CVPR style.
The review process is double blind.
Accepted and presented papers will be published after the conference in the 2023 CVPR Workshops Proceedings.

Author Kit: https://media.icml.cc/Conferences/CVPR2023/cvpr2023-author_kit-v1_1-1.zip

WORKSHOP DATES
● Regular Papers submission deadline: March 10, 2023  (EXTENDED)
● Challenge Papers submission deadline: March 31, 2023
● Papers reviewed elsewhere submission deadline: March 31, 2023


CHALLENGES
  1. HR Non-Homogeneous Dehazing
  2. Night Photography Rendering
  3. Real-Time Super-Resolution
  4. Bokeh Effect Transformation
  5. 360° Omnidirectional Super-Resolution
  6. Super-Resolution
  7. Light Field Super-Resolution
  8. Stereo Super-Resolution
  9. Quality Assessment for Video Enhancement
  10. Shadow Removal
  11. Denoising
  12. HR Depth Estimation
  13. Colorization

To learn more about the challenges, to participate in the challenges, and to access the data everybody is invited to check the NTIRE 2023 web page:

For those interested in constrained and efficient solutions validated on mobile devices we refer to the CVPR23 Mobile AI Workshop and Challenges:
CHALLENGES DATES

● Release of train data: January 30, 2023
● Competitions end: March 20, 2022

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CFP: Springer LNAI, 22nd International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing 2023

March 7th, 2023 Daniela Lopez de Luise
The 22nd International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing ICAISC 2023 will be held in the hybrid mode: online and on-site in Zakopane (situated in the High Tatra mountains), Poland on June 18-22, 2023 in Hotel Mercure Kasprowy. The conference will provide an excellent opportunity for scientists and engineers to present and discuss the latest scientific results and methods on intelligent data analysis and modelling. The technical program will cover all artificial intelligence and soft computing methods such as neural networks, fuzzy systems or evolutionary computation applied to all fields of computer vision, speech processing, data mining, robotics, game theory, hardware implementations, databases etc.

http://www.icaisc.eu/

Publication
The working language of the conference is English. Only original, unpublished papers in the aforementioned fields are invited. Authors should submit an electronic version of papers by the conference web page. The papers should be organized in accordance with a common scientific structure (abstract, state of the art in the field, intention, used methodology, obtained results and references). Papers will be refereed by an international committee, and accepted on the basis of their scientific merit and relevance to the conference topics. After the notification of acceptance, authors will be allowed to make a correction in accordance with the suggestions of the reviewers and submit final camera-ready papers in Latex format only. The conference proceedings will be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence series and distributed among the participants during the conference. Accepted papers must be presented by author(s) personally to be published in the!
  conference proceedings.

List of Invited Speakers:

Luís A. Alexandre, Portugal,  “Improving Reinforcement Learning by Learning from Demonstrations”,
Włodzisław Duch, Poland, “Understanding real brain neurodynamics using recurrence analysis”,
Artur Luczak, Canada, “Predictive neurons: bio-inspired ideas to improve AI”,
Zbigniew Michalewicz, Australia, “Advanced Ai-Based Business Applications For Transforming Data Into Decisions”,
Witold Pedrycz, Canada, “Data Privacy, Energy Awareness, Credibility and Interpretability of Models: Challenges in Machine Learning”
Jerzy Stefanowski, Poland, “Using prototypes and counterfactuals in explaining machine learning models: selected methods and research challenges”
Wenying Xu, China, “Fully distributed event-triggered control for multi-agent systems”

Previous conferences were honoured by talks of internationally recognized speakers, among others: Lotfi A. Zadeh, Hojjat Adeli, Rafal Angryk, Igor Aizenberg, Cesare Alippi, Shun-ichi Amari, Daniel Amit, Plamen Angelov, Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay, Albert Bifet, Piero P. Bonissone, Jim Bezdek, Zdzisław Bubnicki, Jan Chorowski, Andrzej Cichocki, Swagatam Das,  Ewa Dudek-Dyduch, Włodzisław Duch, Adel S. Elmaghraby, Pablo A. Estévez, João Gama, Erol Gelenbe, Jerzy Grzymala-Busse, Martin Hagan, Yoichi Hayashi, Akira Hirose, Kaoru Hirota, Adrian Horzyk, Tingwen Huang, Eyke Hüllermeier, Hisao Ishibuchi, Er Meng Joo, Janusz Kacprzyk, Nikola Kasabov, Jim Keller, Laszlo T. Koczy, Tomasz Kopacz, Jacek Koronacki, Zdzislaw Kowalczuk, Adam Krzyzak, Rudolf Kruse, James Tin-Yau Kwok, Soo-Young Lee, Derong Liu, Robert Marks, Ujjwal Maulik, Zbigniew Michalewicz, Evangelia Micheli-Tzanakou, Kaisa Miettinen, Krystian Mikołajczyk, Henning Müller, Christian Napoli, Ngoc Thanh Nguyen, Andrze!
 j Obuchowicz, Erkki Oja, Nikhil R. Pal, Witold Pedrycz, Marios M. Polycarpou, José C. Príncipe, Jagath C. Rajapakse, Šarunas Raudys, Enrique Ruspini, Roman Senkerik, Jörg Siekmann, Andrzej Skowron, Roman Słowiński, Igor Spiridonov, Boris Stilman, Ponnuthurai Nagaratnam Suganthan, Ryszard Tadeusiewicz, Ah-Hwee Tan, Dacheng Tao, Shiro Usui, Thomas Villmann, Fei-Yue Wang, Jun Wang, Bogdan M. Wilamowski, Ronald Y. Yager, Xin Yao, Syozo Yasui, Gary Yen, Ivan Zelinka and Jacek Zurada.
We invite internationally recognized experts to organize special sessions focused on novel and challenging topics.

Proceedings of ICAISC https://link.springer.com/conference/icaisc  belong to the top most downloaded eBooks in SpringerLink.

For more info, please visit http://www.icaisc.eu/
We look forward to welcoming you in Zakopane!

General Conference Chair: Leszek Rutkowski
Co-chair: Rafal Scherer

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IEEE International Conference on Robotic Computing (IRC) 2023

March 7th, 2023 Daniela Lopez de Luise
The IEEE International Conference on Robotic Computing (IRC) will be held in December 11-13, 2023 in Laguna Hills, California.

IEEE International Conference on Robotic Computing (IRC) 2023
December 11-13, 2023
The Hills Hotel, Laguna Hills, California
Format: hybrid (in person/virtual)
For more information: https://www.ieee-irc.org/
### Important dates ###
 – Workshop Proposal Deadline: August 1, 2023 PT
 – Paper Submission Deadline: September 1, 2023 PT
 – Workshop Proposal Acceptance: September 1, 2023 PT
 – Notification of Paper Acceptance: October 1, 2023 PT
 – Workshop Paper Submission Deadline: October 15, 2023 PT
 – Camera Ready and Registration Deadline: November 1, 2023 PT
### Topics of interest ###
Robotic Computing (RC) addresses the synergetic interaction of computing technologies and robotic technologies. The synergy between Robotics and Computer Science is both realistic and strategic. Their mutual benefit is to make it possible to build and evolve new robotic systems, to reduce their development cost, and to enhance their quality.
Topics related to Computer Science:
 – Formal methods for analysis and design
 – Software architectures
 – Middleware infrastructures
 – Model-driven engineering
 – Component-based engineering
 – Software product line engineering
 – Data, ontology, and knowledge engineering
 – Autonomic computing
 – Natural language understanding
 – Service oriented computing
 – Cloud computing
 – Semantic computing
 – Multimedia computing
 – Internet of Things
 – Virtual reality
 – Computer security
Topics related to Robotics:
 – RAMS abilities of robotic systems
 – Hardware modeling and abstraction
 – Resource awareness
 – Sensor fusion, integration
 – Place recognition, localization
 – Object recognition, tracking
 – Scene interpretation
 – Robot cognition
 – Manipulation, grasping
 – Robot kinematics, dynamics
 – Motion planning, control
 – Navigation
 – Task planning, monitoring
 – Human-robot Interaction
 – Robot simulation
 – Multi-robot systems
The Conference is also inviting innovative contributions that discuss the future of the field including, but not limited to:
 – What are the challenges to robotic computing?
 – What are the main unresolved theoretical and/or methodological controversies?
 – What are the stakeholders' (e.g., industries, public bodies, educators) research and development problems?
 – What can be learned from other disciplines and what can they learn from robotic computing?
 – What is the real world experience of Robotic Computing over the past 10 years, and how might it continue to evolve as we look toward the next decade?
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Regards,
Riccardo Monica
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Laboratory
Department of Engineering and Architecture

University of Parma, Italy

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Special Session on Machine Learning and Computer Vision in Industry 4.0

March 7th, 2023 Daniela Lopez de Luise

18th International Conference on Soft Computing Models in Industrial and Environmental Applications (SOCO 2023)

Special Session on Machine Learning and Computer Vision in Industry 4.0
Machine Learning and Computer Vision in Industry 4.0 (uma.es)

 

Deadline for submissions: April 1

Notification: May 1

Conference: September 5-7

 

Scope

In the coming years, the use of machine learning and computer vision in industry is a trend that is changing not only large corporations, but also small and medium-sized businesses. Thanks to these technologies, the innovation in the industrial sector is giving rise to the named “smart factories”, allowing them to obtain multiple advantages.

This special session tries to provide a common platform for academics, developers, and industry-related researchers to discuss, share experiences and explore the new technological advances. The objective is to integrate an international scientific community working on industrial applications of machine learning and computer vision for fruitful discussions and ideas on the evolution of these technologies.

Topics

•             Computational intelligence

•             Machine learning

•             Deep learning

•             Self-organization and self-adaptation

•             Computer vision

•             Video and image processing

•             Biometric features extraction

•             Pattern recognition

•             Surveillance systems

•             Hardware implementations

•             Smart manufacturing

•             Autonomous vehicles/machines

•             Quality control

•             Demand prediction

•             Data visualization

 

More information can be find at the conference website.

 

Best regards,

Chairs

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