Call for Papers Intelligent Environments (IE) 2023

 Dear colleagues,

The 19th International Conference on Intelligent Environments (IE2023) is the major annual venue in the area of ambient intelligence and intelligent physical spaces. It will be held in the beautiful Mauritius, next to Madagascar, from June 27th to June 30th, 2023. Mauritius is home to some of the world's rarest plants and animals. However, for those who cannot come to the beautiful Mauritius, IE2023 will also offer hybrid (online) participation options.

IE2023 offers an international forum and welcomes contributions from all over the planet. Intelligent Environments refer to physical
spaces in which information and communication technologies, artificial intelligence, interfaces sensing and actuating technologies
are woven in order to create interacting spaces. The ultimate objective of such environments is to enrich users’; activities, while
allowing users to manage them and be aware of each others capabilities.

Conference Program: IE2023 is a multidisciplinary event welcoming contributions from a diversity of various relevant areas,
including sensors and actuators, signal processing (incl. audio and images), networking, human-computer interaction, artificial
intelligence, software engineering, context-awareness, internet of things, pervasive and ubiquitous computing, applied in domains
such healthcare, education, culture, and building environments, etc.

IE2023 will include

  • full (8-page) and short (4-page) papers;
  • 4 special sessions
  • 9 workshops
  • 6 tutorials
  • a doctoral colloquium;
  • an industrial forum; and
  • demos & video sessions.
  • 4 keynote speeches (with speakers from both academia and industry)
  • 5 awards

Moreover, accepted papers will be invited to submit an extended version of their paper in several leading journals in the field.

Important Dates

  • Conference paper submission: 1 December 2022
  • Communication of results: 20 February 2023
  • Camera ready versions : 30 March 2023
  • Workshops paper submission : 1 March 2023
  • Workshops results: 5 April 2023
  • Workshops camera ready : 15 April 2023
  • Workshops/Tutorials : 27-28 June 2023
  • Conference : 29-30 June 2023

Please see the attached CFP with detailed information.

Kind regards,
Juan Carlos Augusto (Middlesex University London, UK)
Egon L. van den Broek (Utrecht University, The Netherlands)
Ehsan Adeli (Stanford University, USA)

Call for Participation – RoboCup 2023 Humanoid Soccer Competition (corrected)

* Call for Participation *

RoboCup 2023
Humanoid Soccer Competition https://humanoid.robocup.org/

July 06 – 09, 2023, Bordeaux, France

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The RoboCup Humanoid League invites teams to apply for participation at the RoboCup 2023 Humanoid Soccer Competition and the Humanoid Research Demonstration in Bordeaux, France.

The Humanoid League will host competitions in the following categories:
* Humanoid Soccer Competition
  * KidSize: 40 – 100cm robot height (FIFA size 1 ball)
  * AdultSize: 130 – 200cm robot height (FIFA size 5 ball) 
* Humanoid Research Demonstration


In addition, we may organize a Humanoid Open Competition with a CfP following later this year.

For more detailed class definitions and more information about the humanoid league, please refer to the humanoid league home page at https://humanoid.robocup.org/ and join the humanoid league mailing list at: https://lists.robocup.org/listinfo/robocup-humanoid

Teams are also encouraged to form and apply as joint teams. Joint proposals will be judged on their combined merit. Teams must provide the following qualification material:

1) Humanoid Soccer Competition
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You do not need to provide a full robot team to apply for competing in the Humanoid Soccer Competition. The qualifying round of Drop-In games will be played with only one robot per team. Teams that cannot provide a full team of robots (four robots in KidSize and two in AdultSize) will be grouped to form a playable team for the main tournament games. 

In case of a sufficient number of qualified teams, the sub-leagues (KidSize and/or AdultSize) will be divided into League A and League B. Teams are seeded into the leagues based on the results of an initial round of Drop-In games.

Each application to the Humanoid Soccer Competition will be reviewed by two members of the Technical Committee and two other teams applying to the Humanoid Soccer Competition. The combined reviewing score will decide whether a team qualifies for participation.

Reviewing other team's material is mandatory for teams that want to participate in the Humanoid Soccer Competition. Failing to provide an adequate review by the provided deadline will have consequences for the teams own qualification status.

1.1) Robot Video

DeepLearn 2023 Winter: early registration October 24

8th INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL ON DEEP LEARNING

DeepLearn 2023 Winter

Bournemouth, UK

January 16-20, 2023

https://irdta.eu/deeplearn/2023wi/

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Co-organized by:

Department of Computing and Informatics
Bournemouth University

Institute for Research Development, Training and Advice – IRDTA
Brussels/London

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Early registration: October 24, 2022

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SCOPE:

DeepLearn 2023 Winter will be a research training event with a global scope aiming at updating participants on the most recent advances in the critical and fast developing area of deep learning. Previous events were held in Bilbao, Genova, Warsaw, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Guimarães, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and Luleå.

Deep learning is a branch of artificial intelligence covering a spectrum of current exciting research and industrial innovation that provides more efficient algorithms to deal with large-scale data in a huge variety of environments: computer vision, neurosciences, speech recognition, language processing, human-computer interaction, drug discovery, health informatics, medical image analysis, recommender systems, advertising, fraud detection, robotics, games, finance, biotechnology, physics experiments, biometrics, communications, climate sciences, bioinformatics, etc. etc. Renowned academics and industry pioneers will lecture and share their views with the audience.

Most deep learning subareas will be displayed, and main challenges identified through 24 four-hour and a half courses and 3 keynote lectures, which will tackle the most active and promising topics. The organizers are convinced that outstanding speakers will attract the brightest and most motivated students. Face to face interaction and networking will be main ingredients of the event. It will be also possible to fully participate in vivo remotely.
An open session will give participants the opportunity to present their own work in progress in 5 minutes. Moreover, there will be two special sessions with industrial and recruitment profiles.

ADDRESSED TO:

Graduate students, postgraduate students and industry practitioners will be typical profiles of participants. However, there are no formal pre-requisites for attendance in terms of academic degrees, so people less or more advanced in their career will be welcome as well. Since there will be a variety of levels, specific knowledge background may be assumed for some of the courses. Overall, DeepLearn 2023 Winter is addressed to students, researchers and practitioners who want to keep themselves updated about recent developments and future trends. All will surely find it fruitful to listen to and discuss with major researchers, industry leaders and innovators.

VENUE:

DeepLearn 2023 Winter will take place in Bournemouth, a coastal resort town on the south coast of England. The venue will be:

Talbot Campus
Bournemouth University
https://www.bournemouth.ac.uk/about/contact-us/directions-maps/directions-our-talbot-campus

STRUCTURE:

3 courses will run in parallel during the whole event. Participants will be able to freely choose the courses they wish to attend as well as to move from one to another.

Full live online participation will be possible. However, the organizers highlight the importance of face to face interaction and networking in this kind of research training event.

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:

Yi Ma (University of California, Berkeley), CTRL: Closed-Loop Data Transcription via Rate Reduction

Daphna Weinshall (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Curriculum Learning in Deep Networks

Eric P. Xing (Carnegie Mellon University), It Is Time for Deep Learning to Understand Its Expense Bills

PROFESSORS AND COURSES:

Mohammed Bennamoun (University of Western Australia), [intermediate/advanced] Deep Learning for 3D Vision

Matias Carrasco Kind (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), [intermediate] Anomaly Detection

Nitesh Chawla (University of Notre Dame), [introductory/intermediate] Graph Representation Learning

Seungjin Choi (Intellicode), [introductory/intermediate] Bayesian Optimization over Continuous, Discrete, or Hybrid Spaces

Sumit Chopra (New York University), [intermediate] Deep Learning in Healthcare

Luc De Raedt (KU Leuven), [introductory/intermediate] From Statistical Relational to Neuro-Symbolic Artificial Intelligence

Marco Duarte (University of Massachusetts, Amherst), [introductory/intermediate] Explainable Machine Learning

João Gama (University of Porto), [introductory] Learning from Data Streams: Challenges, Issues, and Opportunities

Claus Horn (Zurich University of Applied Sciences), [intermediate] Deep Learning for Biotechnology

Zhiting Hu (University of California, San Diego) & Eric P. Xing (Carnegie Mellon University), [intermediate/advanced] A “Standard Model” for Machine Learning with All Experiences

Nathalie Japkowicz (American University), [intermediate/advanced] Learning from Class Imbalances

Gregor Kasieczka (University of Hamburg), [introductory/intermediate] Deep Learning Fundamental Physics: Rare Signals, Unsupervised Anomaly Detection, and Generative Models

Karen Livescu (Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago), [intermediate/advanced] Speech Processing: Automatic Speech Recognition and beyond

David McAllester (Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago), [intermediate/advanced] Information Theory for Deep Learning

Abdelrahman Mohamed (Meta), [intermediate/advanced] Speech Representation Learning for Recognition and Generation

Dhabaleswar K. Panda (Ohio State University), [intermediate] Exploiting High-performance Computing for Deep Learning: Why and How?

Fabio Roli (University of Cagliari), [introductory/intermediate] Adversarial Machine Learning

Bracha Shapira (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev), [introductory/intermediate] Recommender Systems

Richa Singh (Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur), [introductory/intermediate] Trusted AI

Kunal Talwar (Apple), [introductory/intermediate] Foundations of Differentially Private Learning

Tinne Tuytelaars (KU Leuven), [introductory/intermediate] Continual Learning in Deep Neural Networks

Lyle Ungar (University of Pennsylvania), [intermediate] Natural Language Processing using Deep Learning

Bram van Ginneken (Radboud University Medical Center), [introductory/intermediate] Deep Learning for Medical Image Analysis

Yu-Dong Zhang (University of Leicester), [introductory/intermediate] Convolutional Neural Networks and Their Applications to COVID-19 Diagnosis

OPEN SESSION:

An open session will collect 5-minute voluntary presentations of work in progress by participants. They should submit a half-page abstract containing the title, authors, and summary of the research to david@irdta.eu by January 8, 2023.

INDUSTRIAL SESSION:

A session will be devoted to 10-minute demonstrations of practical applications of deep learning in industry. Companies interested in contributing are welcome to submit a 1-page abstract containing the program of the demonstration and the logistics needed. People in charge of the demonstration must register for the event. Expressions of interest have to be submitted to david@irdta.eu by January 8, 2023.

EMPLOYER SESSION:

Organizations searching for personnel well skilled in deep learning will have a space reserved for one-to-one contacts. It is recommended to produce a 1-page .pdf leaflet with a brief description of the company and the profiles looked for to be circulated among the participants prior to the event. People in charge of the search must register for the event. Expressions of interest have to be submitted to david@irdta.eu by January 8, 2023.

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:

Rashid Bakirov (Bournemouth, local co-chair)
Marcin Budka (Bournemouth)
Vegard Engen (Bournemouth)
Nan Jiang (Bournemouth, local co-chair)
Carlos Martín-Vide (Tarragona, program chair)
Sara Morales (Brussels)
David Silva (London, organization chair)

REGISTRATION:

It has to be done at

https://irdta.eu/deeplearn/2023wi/registration/

The selection of 8 courses requested in the registration template is only tentative and non-binding. For the sake of organization, it will be helpful to have an estimation of the respective demand for each course. During the event, participants will be free to attend the courses they wish.

Since the capacity of the venue is limited, registration requests will be processed on a first come first served basis. The registration period will be closed and the on-line registration tool disabled when the capacity of the venue will have got exhausted. It is highly recommended to register prior to the event.

FEES:

Fees comprise access to all courses and lunches. There are several early registration deadlines. Fees depend on the registration deadline. The fees for on site and for online participation are the same.

ACCOMMODATION:

Accommodation suggestions are available at

https://irdta.eu/deeplearn/2023wi/accommodation/

CERTIFICATE:

A certificate of successful participation in the event will be delivered indicating the number of hours of lectures.

QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION:

david@irdta.eu

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS:

Bournemouth University

Rovira i Virgili University

CFP – 5th Workshop on Accelerated Machine Learning (AccML) at HiPEAC 2023

5th Workshop on Accelerated Machine Learning (AccML)

Co-located with the HiPEAC 2023 Conference
(https://www.hipeac.net/2023/toulouse/)

January 18, 2023
Toulouse, France
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DEADLINE IS APPROACHING! – IET Image Processing special issue on “Advancements in Fine Art Pattern Extraction and Recognition”

!!! *DEADLINE IS APPROACHING* !!!
________28 November 2022_________

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Aim & Scope

Cultural heritage, especially fine arts, plays an invaluable role in the
cultural, historical and economic growth of our societies. Fine arts are
primarily developed for aesthetic purposes and are mainly expressed
through painting, sculpture and architecture. In recent years, thanks to
technological improvements and drastic cost reductions, a large-scale
digitization effort has been made, which has led to an increasing
availability of large digitized fine art collections. This availability,
coupled with recent advances in pattern recognition and computer vision,
has disclosed new opportunities, especially for researchers in these
fields, to assist the art community with automatic tools to further
analyze and understand fine arts. Among other benefits, a deeper
understanding of fine arts has the potential to make them more
accessible to a wider population, both in terms of fruition and
creation, thus supporting the spread of culture.

This special issue aims to offer the opportunity to present advancements
in the state-of-the-art, innovative research, ongoing projects, and
academic and industrial reports on the application of visual pattern
extraction and recognition for a better understanding and fruition of
fine arts, soliciting contributions from pattern recognition, computer
vision, artificial intelligence and image processing research areas. The
special issue will be linked to the 2nd International Workshop on Fine
Art Pattern Extraction and Recognition (FAPER2022). Authors of selected
conference papers will be invited to extend and improve their
contributions for this special issue, and authors are also invited to
submit new contributions (non-conference papers).

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Topics include, but are not limited to:
– Applications of machine learning and deep learning to cultural
heritage and digital humanities
– Computer vision and multimedia data processing for fine arts
– Generative adversarial networks for artistic data
– Augmented and virtual reality for cultural heritage
– 3D reconstruction of historical artifacts
– Point cloud segmentation and classification for cultural heritage
– Historical document analysis
– Content-based retrieval in visual art domain
– Digitally enriched museum visits
– Smart interactive experiences in cultural sites
– Project, products or prototypes for cultural heritage

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*Submission Deadline*: 28 November 2022

Submissions must be made through ScholarOne:
https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/theiet-ipr

see the PDF call for paper for more information:
https://ietresearch.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/pb-assets/assets/17519667/Special%20Issues/IPR%20SI%20CFP_AFAPER-1651107571727.pdf

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Open Access

 From January 2021, The IET began an Open Access publishing partnership
with Wiley. As a result, all submissions that are accepted for this
Special Issue will be published under the Gold Open Access Model and
subject to the Article Processing Charge (APC) of $2,300.

*APC can be covered in FULL, i.e. FREE OF CHARGE*, or part by your
institution
*CHECK  YOUR  ELIGIBILITY  HERE*
https://authorservices.wiley.com/author-resources/Journal-Authors/open-access/affiliation-policies-payments/institutional-funder-payments.html

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Editor-in-Chief

Prof. Farzin Deravi, University of Kent, UK

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Guest Editors

Giovanna Castellano, Universita' di Bari, Italy
Gennaro Vessio, Universita' di Bari, Italy
Fabio Bellavia, Universita' di Palermo, Italy
Sinem Aslan, Università Ca' Forscari Venezia, Italy

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