DeepLearn 2023 Winter: early registration September 26

8th INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL ON DEEP LEARNING 
DeepLearn 2023 Winter
Bournemouth, UK
      
January 16-20, 2023   
      
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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: September 26, 2022
      
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SCOPE:
      
DeepLearn 2022 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
 
      
 
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
 
 
 
 
 
 
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
 
 
 
 
 
 
CERTIFICATE:
 
 
 
A certificate of successful participation in the event will be delivered indicating the number of hours of lectures.
 
 
 
QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION:
 
 
 
 
 
 
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS:
 
 
 
Bournemouth University
 
 
 
Rovira i Virgili University
 
 
 
Institute for Research Development, Training and Advice – IRDTA, Brussels/London

Deadline Extended: Sept. 10: 2nd IEEE ICDM International Workshop on AI for Nudging and Personalization (WAIN-2022)

Call for Papers: 2nd IEEE ICDM International Workshop on AI for Nudging (WAIN-2022)

Co-located with the IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM)

 

Nudging has been widely used by decision makers and organizations (both government and private) to influence the behavior of target populations, and the concept of nudging is now being widely used in the digital world. Examples of digital nudging include emails from hospitals or public health officials encouraging individuals to get vaccinated, text messages from colleges to stressed-out students to advertise the availability of counseling services during exam weeks, marketing messages through various digital media, and user interfaces designed to guide people’s behavior in digital choice environments.  

 

The central idea behind nudging is to make small changes to the environments in which citizens make decisions to encourage better behaviors. Even though nudges have traditionally involved simple changes that are easy and inexpensive to implement, more complex and sustained behavior change requires more complex interventions, presenting new challenges for nudging in the virtual world. Though the concept of nudging has been popularized recently, nudges have been in use in various aspects of society for a long time, including in healthcare, public health policy, law, economics, politics, insurance, finance, and advertising. With increasing availability of big data from many scientific disciplines, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and data science (DS) technologies have vast potential to transform data-driven nudging and decision making. This workshop seeks to build a new community around AI for nudging and provide a platform for exploring the state of the art in AI/ML/DS based systems and applications of digital nudging.  

 

Adaptation of products and services to individual preferences, called Personalization, has been at the core of modern businesses to improve customer satisfaction. Modern business and digital systems coupled with artificial intelligence technologies are poised to enable personalization on a grand scale. Personalization is a key element behind many modern businesses such as Netflix, Facebook, and Amazon to increase their revenue and customer base. Modern businesses are tailoring content for individual users based on the social, economic, and cultural profiles mined from the data, as it is shown to increase revenue and attract new customers. Modern applications ranging from precision marketing to precision healthcare have shown a clear demand for personalized content.  

 

We invite contributions from researchers of any discipline who are developing AI/ML/DS technologies that impact human behavior based on nudging theory or personalization or behavioral science-based solutions. For example, in the context of public health communications, how can AI/ML be used to address the construction of a message incorporating nudges; how do you digitally nudge people towards better healthcare outcomes, better financial decisions, or improve productivity; or how can nudging be personalized? What are the key data, technology, privacy and ethical, adaptation, and scaling challenges in nudging and personalization? In addition to algorithmic and systems papers, case studies that shed light on the effectiveness of nudges and personalization at maximizing a specific outcome, how AI/ML based systems can nudge people to make better decisions, or how industry is developing and/or using nudging and personalization technology to influence behavior of consumers are of great interest to this workshop.  

 

Topics of interest include, but not limited to, the following:  

  • Theoretical foundations of nudging and personalization 
  • Data driven and evidence based approaches in nudging and personalization
  • Core AI/ML topics including multi-agents, federated learning, active learning, semi-supervised learning, multi-armed bandits, contextual bandits, reinforcement learning, deep learning, transfer learning 
  • Multi-modal data and model fusion 
  • Representation learning, and embeddings 
  • Learning from categorical and relational data 
  • Feature engineering 
  • Statistical models, A/B testing 
  • Privacy and Ethical issues in nudging and personalization 
  • Personalized nudging 
  • Challenges for AI in real-time nudging 
  • AI-driven interactions encoding behavior change solutions 
  • Nudging and personalization in conversational AI systems 
  • Evaluation strategies to measure impact and effectiveness of nudging and personalization
  • Applications: Healthcare, Precision Medicine, Energy, Environment, Transportation, Workforce, Education, Advertising, Government, Politics, Policy, Software Engineering 

Important Dates: 

Sept. 10, 2022: Paper submission 

Sep. 23, 2022: Acceptance notification 

Oct. 01, 2022: Camera-ready deadline and copyright form 

Nov. 28, 2022: Workshop 

 

Paper Submissions:  

This is an open call-for-papers. We invite both full papers (max 8 pages) describing mature work and short papers (max 4-5 pages) describing work-in-progress or case studies. Only original and high-quality papers formatted using the IEEE 2-column format (Latex Template), including the bibliography and any possible appendices will be considered for reviewing.

 

Proceedings:  

All submitted papers will be evaluated by 2-3 program committee members, and accepted papers will be included in an ICDM Workshop Proceedings volume, to be published by IEEE Computer Society Press and will be included in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library.  

 

Best Research/Application/Student Paper Awards:  

Best research, application, and student paper awards are sponsored by Lirio. The awards committee will select papers for these awards based on relevance, program committee reviews, and presentation quality.

 

Contact:  

CFP Workshop on learning with few or without annotated Face, Body and Gesture data @ FG 2023

In conjunction with the 17th International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG 2023), January 4-8 2023, we are organizing a workshop on learning with few or without annotated Face, Body and Gesture data.
The deadline for submission is in one week: September 12th, 2022
Please find more information here: https://sites.google.com/view/lfa-fg2023/, as well as the CFP below.

Best Regards,
Mohamed, Stefano, Jonathan, Germain and Maxime

First CfP 2nd Edition of Graph Models for Learning and Recognition (GMLR) Track at 37th ACM-SAC 2022 in Brno, Czech Republic

 

Graph Models for Learning and Recognition (GMLR) Track

The 38th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2023)

               March 27 – April 2, 2023, Tallinn, Estonia

                              http://phuselab.di.unimi.it/GMLR2023

 

Important Dates

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Submission of regular papers:                                  October 1, 2022

Notification of acceptance/rejection:                    November 19, 2022

Camera-ready copies of accepted papers:           December 6, 2022

SAC Conference:                                                          March 27 – April 2, 2023

 

Motivations and topics

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The ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2023) has been a primary gathering

forum for applied computer scientists, computer engineers, software engineers,

and application developers from around the world. SAC 2023 is sponsored by the

ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing (SIGAPP), and will be held in

Tallinn, Estonia. The technical track on Graph Models for Learning and

Recognition (GMLR) is the second edition and is organized within SAC 2023.

Graphs have gained a lot of attention in the pattern recognition community

thanks to their ability to encode both topological and semantic information.

Despite their invaluable descriptive power, their arbitrarily complex

structured nature poses serious challenges when they are involved in learning

systems. Some (but not all) of challenging concerns are: a non-unique

representation of data, heterogeneous attributes (symbolic, numeric, etc.),

and so on.

In recent years, due to their widespread applications, graph-based learning

algorithms have gained much research interest. Encouraged by the success of

CNNs, a wide variety of methods have redefined the notion of convolution and

related operations on graphs. These new approaches have in general enabled

effective training and achieved in many cases better performances than

competitors, though at the detriment of computational costs.

Typical examples of applications dealing  with graph-based representation are:

scene graph generation, point clouds classification, and action recognition in

computer vision; text classification, inter-relations of documents or words to

infer document labels in natural language processing; forecasting traffic

speed, volume or the density of roads in traffic networks, whereas in

chemistry researchers apply graph-based algorithms to study the graph

structure of molecules/compounds.

 

This track intends to focus on all aspects of graph-based representations and

models for learning and recognition tasks. GMLR spans, but is not limited to,

the following topics:

 

● Graph Neural Networks: theory and applications

● Deep learning on graphs

● Graph or knowledge representational learning

● Graphs in pattern recognition

● Graph databases and linked data in AI

● Benchmarks for GNN

● Dynamic, spatial and temporal graphs

● Graph methods in computer vision

● Human behavior and scene understanding

● Social networks analysis

● Data fusion methods in GNN

● Efficient and parallel computation for graph learning algorithms

● Reasoning over knowledge-graphs

● Interactivity, explainability and trust in graph-based learning

● Probabilistic graphical models

● Biomedical data analytics on graphs

 

Authors of selected top papers of this track will be asked to publish an

extended version in a Special Issue of a high-impact Journal (the journal

will be announced later).

 

 

Track Chairs

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Donatello Conte (University of Tours)

Alessandro D'Amelio (University of Milan)

Giuliano Grossi (University of Milan)

Raffaella Lanzarotti (University of Milan)

Jianyi Lin (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore)

 

 

Scientific Program Committee

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Annalisa Barla (University of Genoa)

Davide Boscaini (Bruno Kessler Foundation)

Vittorio Cuculo (University of Milan)

Samuel Feng (Sorbonne University)

Gabriele Gianini (University of Milan)

Alessio Micheli (University of Pisa)

Carlos Oliver (ETH Zürich)

Maurice Pagnucco (University of New South Wales)

Ryan A. Rossi (Adobe Research)

Jean-Yves Ramel (University of Tours)

(others to be confirmed)

 

 

 

Submission Guidelines

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Authors are invited to submit original and unpublished papers of research

and applications for this track. The author(s) name(s) and address(es) must

not appear in the body of the paper, and self-reference should be in the

third person. This is to facilitate double-blind review. Please, visit the

website for more information about submission.

 

SAC No-Show Policy

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Paper registration is required, allowing the inclusion of the paper/poster

in the conference proceedings. An author or a proxy attending SAC MUST

present the paper. This is a requirement for the paper/poster to be included

in the ACM digital library. No-show of registered papers and posters will

result in excluding them from the ACM digital library.

IPCAI 2023 call for area chairs (closing soon!)

This message is for researchers in computer-assisted surgery and surgical data science.
The International Conference on Information Processing in Computer-Assisted Interventions (IPCAI) will be held between 20-21 June 2023 in Munich Germany.

The submission deadline is fast approaching (intention-to-submit:  28 October 2022). 
ACs have a vital role in the paper selection process, essential to deliver a high-quality conference. It's also a great way to increase committee experience, and to receive peer recognition (the names of all ACs will appear in the conference program, proceedings, and on the IPCAI website). ACs are not required to attend the conference, but we would be most happy to see you there! 
If you are interested to be an AC (either for the first time or having been an AC previously), we would most welcome you getting in touch using the IPCAI 2023 website, with further details about criteria, and a short form:
We aim to finalise the ACs very soon, so please get in touch before the end of the week (2/9/2022). Also, feel free to pass on this message to others who you would recommend as an AC.
Best regards,
Toby, Qi and Mathias (IPCAI 2023 PCs)
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