Announcing the 2022 October SPRINGEROPEN EURASIP JIVP’s Free Web conferencing (Thu. Oct. 6th, 2022) 12h30 CET

October 7th, 2022 Daniela Lopez de Luise
We hope you can join us on Thursday, October 6th at 12:30pm CET for our
next 1-hour webinar on ” Generative models in computer vision and
biometrics” with Vitomir Štruc!

[06:30 a.m. New-York] – [12:30 p.m. Paris/Ljubljana] – [7:30 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

Title: Generative models in computer vision and biometrics

Abstract: With the developments in the field of generative modeling and
with the appearance of powerful model architectures, such as Generative
Adversarial Networks (GAN), a wide range of new techniques and inventive
algorithms has emerged recently to solve diverse computer vision
problems, including many problems in the area of biometrics. In this
talk, I will first provide a short overview of recent advances in
generative modeling and describe some of our research efforts that focus
explicitly on generative models. Next, I will present examples of our
recent work utilizing generative models and talk about: (i) face image
editing with our GAN inversion based MaskFaceGAN technique that allows
for photo realistic image manipulation and explicitly addresses the
problem of attribute entanglement seen with many latent-space based
editing solutions, (ii) computer vision for fashion and virtual try-on
with our context-driven C-VTON model  and (ii) bimodal ocular image
generation (and annotation) with our Dual-Branch StlyGAN2 (DB-StyleGAN)
model. Finally, I will elaborate on some of the existing challenges with
generative models and highlight future research directions.

Bio: Vitomir Štruc is an Associate Professor at the University of
Ljubljana, Slovenia. He received his doctoral degree from the Faculty of
Electrical Engineering in Ljubljana in 2010. Vitomir's research
interests include problems related to biometrics, computer vision, image
processing, pattern recognition and machine learning. He (co-)authored
more than 150 research papers for leading international peer reviewed
journals and conferences in these and related areas. He served in
different capacities on the organizing committees of several top-tier
vision conferences, including IEEE Face and Gesture, ICB, WACV and IJCB.
Vitomir is a Senior Area Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Information
Forensics and Security, a Subject Editor for Elsevier's Signal
Processing and an Associate Editor for Pattern Recognition, and IET
Biometrics. He served as an Area Chair for WACV 2018, 2019, 2020, ICPR
2018, Eusipco 2019 and FG 2020, 2021 and as the Program Chair for IJCB
2020 and IWBF 2022. Currently he acts as a Program Co-Chair for IWBF
2023, a workshop co-chair for WACV 2023, a competition co-chair for IJCB
2022, a Workshop and tutorial Co-Chair for FG 2023 and a General
Co-Chair for IJCB 2023. Dr. Struc is a Senior member of the IEEE, a
member of IAPR, EURASIP, Slovenia's national contact point for the
European Association for Biometrics (EAB) and the former president and
current executive committee member of the Slovenian Pattern Recognition
Society, the Slovenian branch of IAPR. Vitomir is also the current VP
Technical Activities for the IEEE Biometrics Council.

New webinar videos are available online at
https://vimeo.com/showcase/8005816.

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EvoApps 2023 Special Session in Evolutionary Computation in Edge, Fog and Cloud Computing

October 7th, 2022 Daniela Lopez de Luise
We are happy to invite you to the EvoApps 2023 Special Session in Evolutionary Computation in Edge, Fog and Cloud Computing.

Recent years have witnessed an increasing demand for Edge and Fog computing paradigms with the emergence of Internet-of-Things (IoT). This special session aims to solve different problems in the scope of Cloud, Fog, and Edge computing using EC techniques, covering all different evolutionary computation paradigms such as Genetic Algorithms (GAs), Genetic Programming (GP), Evolutionary Programming (EP), Evolution Strategies (ES), Memetic Algorithms (MAs), Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO), Ant Colony Optimization (ACO), Differential Evolution (DE), and Evolutionary Multi-objective Optimization (EMO).

Topics of Interest

  • Evolutionary computation for scheduling in Cloud, Fog, and Edge environments
  • Evolutionary computation for resource allocation optimisation
  • Evolutionary computation for node discovery and sensor-near processing in Cloud, Fog, and Edge environments
  • Evolutionary computation for pricing mechanisms in Cloud, Fog, and Edge environments
  • Evolutionary computation for management of sustainable energy consumption
  • Evolutionary computation for federated learning applications in Cloud, Fog, and Edge environments
  • Hybrid algorithms between Evolutionary computation, neural networks, and fuzzy systems for Cloud, Fog, and Edge computing

**** Submission Details ****

Page limit: 16 pages, Springer LNCS format, double-blind reviewing process

Submission link and details: https://www.evostar.org/2023/submit/

**** Important Dates ****

Submission deadline: November 1, 2022 (AoE)

EvoStar: April 12-14, 2023
Brno, Czech Republic
held as part of EvoStar (http://www.evostar.org/2022/)
****Organizers****
Diego Oliva
Universidad de Guadalajara, México
diego.oliva (at) cucei.udg.mx
Seyed Jalaleddin Mousavirad
Hakim Sabzevari University, Iran
sj.mousavirad (at) hsu.ac.ir
Mahshid Helali Moghadam
RISE Research Institutes of Sweden, Sweden
mahshid.helali.moghadam(at)ri.se

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Final CFP: IEEE SocialCom2022 (Social Computing and Networking), Dec. 2022

October 7th, 2022 Daniela Lopez de Luise
Final Call for papers:
   
The 15th IEEE International Conference on Social Computing and Networking ( SocialCom 2022), 17-19 Dec. 2022, Melbourne, Australia.
   
Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2022/socialcom/
   
Key dates:
Submission Deadline: October 7, 2022   (11:59pm UTC/GMT, extended, but firm)
Notification: October 31, 2022  
   
Submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2022/socialcom/submission.htm
   
Publication:
Proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press.
   
Special issues:
Distinguished papers will be selected for special issues in Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, Journal of Computer and System Science

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Introduction
   
Social computing and networking is concerned with the intersection of social behaviour and computing systems, creating or recreating social conventions and contexts through the use of software and technology. Various social computing applications such as blogs, email, instant messaging, social networking (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google+ etc.), wikis, and social bookmarking have been widely popularised by providing digital platforms for social interaction. Such applications have been profoundly change social behaviours and digital life styles of humankind whilst pushing the boundaries of Internet technologies. While people can enjoy or even indulge in the benefits such as freedom and convenience brought about by social computing, various critical issues such as trust, privacy, HCI design, and the modelling as well as understanding of social behaviours via computational means provide significant challenges.
   
SocialCom (Social Computing and Networking) was created to provide a prime international forum for researchers, industry practitioners and domain experts to exchange the latest fundamental advances in the state of the art and practice of Social Computing & Networking and its broadly related areas.
     
Scope and Topics

Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to:
·   Fundamentals of social computing
·   Modelling of social behaviour
·   Social network analysis and mining
·   Big social media data
·   Social media infrastructure and cloud computing
·   Computational models of social simulation
·   Web 2.0 and semantic web
·   Innovative HCI and touch-screen models
·   Modelling of social conventions and social contexts
·   Social cognition and social intelligence
·   Social media analytics and intelligence
·   Group formation and evolution
·   Security, privacy, trust, risk and cryptography in social contexts
·   Social system design and architectures
·   Information retrieval, data mining, artificial intelligence and agent-based technology
·   Group interaction, collaboration, representation and profiling
·   Handheld/mobile social computing
·   Service science and service oriented interaction design
·   Cultural patterns and representation
·   Emotional intelligence, opinion representation, influence process
·   Mobile commerce, handheld commerce and e-markets
·   Connected e-health in social networks
·   Social policy and government management
·   Social blog, micro-blog, public blog, internet forum
·   Business social software systems
·   Impact on peoples activities in complex and dynamic environments
·   Collaborative filtering, mining and prediction
·   Social computing applications and case studies
       
Submission Guidelines
Submissions must include an abstract, keywords, the e-mail address of the corresponding author and should not exceed 8 pages (or up to 10 pages with over length charge), including tables and figures in IEEE CS format. The template files for LATEX or WORD can be downloaded here. All paper submissions must represent original and unpublished work. Each submission will be peer reviewed by at least three program committee members. Submission of a paper should be regarded as an undertaking that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register for the conference and present the work.

Submit your paper(s) in PDF file at the submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2022/socialcom/submission.htm.
   
Publications
Accepted and presented papers will be included into the IEEE Conference Proceedings published by IEEE CS Press. Authors of accepted papers, or at least one of them, are requested to register and present their work at the conference, otherwise their papers may be removed from the digital libraries of IEEE CS and EI after the conference.

Distinguished papers will be selected for special issues in Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, Journal of Computer and System Science.
   
General Chairs
Phoebe Chen, La Trobe University, Australia
Guandong Xu, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
       
Program Chairs
Wookey Lee, Inha University, Korea
Yan Wang, Macquarie University, Australia

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CfP Special Issue of IJAR on *Logics for the new AI Spring*

October 7th, 2022 Daniela Lopez de Luise

 

We invite submissions for a Special Issue on Logics for the new AI Spring, to be published with the International Journal of Approximate Reasoning. 

 

The development of logics capable of representing human-like reasoning has  always been  one of the central objectives of logic-based Artificial Intelligence. In addition to providing  very successful tools for  knowledge representation and reasoning, logic-based AI is now facing the new and pressing challenge  related to the  integration of symbolic and sub-symbolic AI. In pursuing it, logic can once again shape significantly the future developments of AI. The primary goal of this special issue is to gather cutting-edge contributions which will jointly provide a comprehensive state-of-the-art in the subject.

 

To achieve this, the scope of the special issue focuses on, but is not limited to, the following topics:

 

(1) Logical methods in symbolic AI;

(2) Logical methods in machine learning;

(3) Machine learning in a logical setting;

(4) Reasoning and (interactive) decision making under uncertainty.

 

Important: Given the goal of the special issue, authors are strongly encouraged to put forward as clearly as possible  why and how their contribution can be seen to provide an element of the state-of-the-art in “Logic for Artificial Intelligence”. Failure to do so may lead to desk-rejection.

 

Instructions: Authors should prepare their manuscripts according to the “Instructions for Authors” guidelines of the International Journal of Approximate Reasoning outlined at the journal website: https://www.elsevier.com/journals/international-journal-of-approximate-reasoning/0888-613X/guide-for-authors. 

 

Submissions are expected to be written in LaTeX following the Journal’s template. All papers will be peer-reviewed according to the standard procedure. 

 

All manuscripts should be submitted electronically through Editorial Manager ® at https://www.editorialmanager.com/ija/default1.aspx. When submitting papers, please select Article Type as “VSI:Logics for the new AI spring”. 

 

Submission Deadline: 1st March 2023.       

 

Keywords: Logic for AI; Machine Learning, Knowledge Representation; Symbolic AI; Hybrid systems.

 

Guest editors:

 

Dr. Tommaso Flaminio (Managing Guest Editor)

Instituto de Investigación en Inteligencia Artificial (IIIA – CSIC), Barcelona.

 

Prof. Hykel Hosni

Logic, Uncertainty, Computation, and Information Group, Dipartimento di Filosofia, Università degli Studi di Milano.

 

 

Further information is available from the IJAR website

 

WACV 2023 – First Workshop on Photorealistic Image and Environment Synthesis for Computer Vision (PIES-CV)

October 7th, 2022 Daniela Lopez de Luise

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WACV 2023 –

First Workshop on Photorealistic Image and Environment Synthesis  for Computer Vision (PIES-CV)

Waikoloa, Hawaii, January 3-7

 

In conjunction with IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV)

 

Web: https://sites.google.com/view/piesworkshop/pies-cv2023

 

Contact: ngans@uta.edu

 

Submission Website: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/PIESCV2023/ 

 

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CALL FOR PAPERS

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The First Workshop on Photorealistic Image and Environment Synthesis for Computer Vision (PIES-CV) will engage experts and researchers on the synthesis of photorealistic images and virtual environments, particularly in the form of public datasets, software tools, and infrastructures, for computer vision (CV) research. Such public datasets, software tools, and infrastructures will enable researchers to better investigate how photorealism affects CV algorithms and approaches. Photorealistic image and environment synthesis can benefit multiple research areas in addition to CV, such as machine learning, robotics, human perception, multimedia systems, and mixed reality.

 

The topics of interest include but are not limited to:

●            360° image/video capture and playback

●            Automated/semi-automated reconstruction

●            Computer vision algorithms based on photorealistic data

●            Environment capture/scanning

●            Evaluations of photorealistic images and environments

●            High-fidelity mesh representations

●            Image/video capture and playback

●            Machine learning models based on photorealistic data

●            Manipulation and interaction with synthetic objects

●            Point cloud representations

●            Simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM)

 

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SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

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Full paper submissions should propose comprehensive and well-validated solutions, and adhere to the guidelines of standard WACV 2023 submissions (max 8 pages + references). Accepted full papers will be published under the WACV 2023 workshop proceedings and will be included in IEEE Xplore.

 

All submissions should be compiled for double-blind review and adopt the standard WACV 2023 template.  An Overleaf Toolkit can be found at https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/wacv-2023-author-kit-template/sthdnkfzqvtf  

 

Submissions will be via Microsoft Research Conference Management Tool: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/PIESCV2023/  

 

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IMPORTANT DATES

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Submission deadline: October 10th, 2022 (23:59 AoE)

Result notification: November 4th, 2022

Camera-ready deadline: November 18th, 2022

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WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS

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Nicholas R. Gans, University of Texas at Arlington

Ryan P. McMahan, University of Central Florida

 

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PROGRAM COMMITTEE

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• William Beksi – University of Texas at Arlington

• Chen Chen – University of Central Florida

• Nicholas Gans – University of Texas at Arlington

• Asif Iqbal – University of Texas at Arlington

• Ryan P. McMahan – University of Central Florida

• Katja Schwarz – University of Tübingen

 

 

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