Call for workshop proposals
July 4th, 2022 
Daniela Lopez de Luise https://hal.cse.msu.edu/fg2023/
We invite workshop proposals for the 2023 IEEE Conference on Automatic
Face and Gesture Recognition (FG2023) in Waikoloa, Hawaii. Accepted
workshops will be held on either 4 January or 5 January 2023, in the
same venue as the FG 2023 main conference.
Complementary to the main venue, we especially encourage workshop
proposals relating to emerging new fields or new application domains of
face and gesture analysis and synthesis.
*** Submission Procedure ***
Workshop proposals should include the following information:
+ Workshop title.
+ Workshop motivation, expected outcomes, and impact.
+ List of organizers including affiliation, email address, and a short bio.
+ Tentative length of the workshop (half-day or full-day).
+ Tentative paper submission and review schedule.
+ Planned advertisement means, website hosting.
+ Paper submission procedure (submission via the website, via email,
etc.) if applicable.
+ Paper review procedure (single/double-blind, internal/external,
solicited/invited-only, the pool of reviewers, etc.).
+ Tentative program committee, and invited speakers, if any.
+ Estimated number of submissions and acceptance rate.
Proposals should be submitted through CMT:
https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/FGWT2023
*** Contact ***
For additional information and queries regarding the workshop proposal
procedure, please contact the Workshop and Tutorial Co-chairs: Tae-Kyun
Kim (tk.kim@imperial.ac.uk). Vitomir Štruc (vitomir.struc@fe.uni-lj.si)
and Lijun Yin (lijun@cs.binghamton.edu).
*** Important Dates ***
Workshop proposals due: 5 July 2022
Notification of acceptance: 11 July 2022.
For more information see:
https://hal.cse.msu.edu/fg2023/participate/workshops/
Special Issue “Advances of Transformers in Medical Imaging”
July 4th, 2022 Daniela Lopez de Luise Dear Colleague,
Apologies in advance for cross-posting. The journal Applied Sciences (IF 2.679, https://www.mdpi.com/journal/applsci) is currently running a Special Issue entitled “Advances of Transformers in Medical Imaging”, which is now open for submissions:
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/applsci/special_issues/Transformers_Medical_Imaging
The main aim of this Special Issue is to collect original contributions as either research papers or comprehensive reviews that address and discuss the impact and relevance of the application of transformers models in the medical imaging field.
The official submission deadline is *31 December 2022*. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website.
Benefits of publishing with Applied Sciences:
1. Gold open access: unlimited and free access for readers.
2. High visibility: indexed by the Science Citation Index Expanded (Web of Science) (search for “Applied Sciences-Basel”), Scopus, Inspec (IET), and other databases. The 2020 impact factor for this journal has increased from
2.474 to 2.679.
3. Rapid publication: manuscripts are peer-reviewed, and a first decision is provided to authors approximately 17.7 days after submission; acceptance to publication is undertaken in approximately 3.5 days (median values for papers published in this journal in the first half of 2021).
Please visit the instructions for authors page on the following website before submitting your manuscript:
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/applsci/instructions
Please note that an article processing charge (APC) of CHF 2300 (Swiss Francs) currently applies for each paper accepted for publication in this journal in 2022.
We look forward to hearing from you soon.
Kind regards,
Dr. Nadia Brancati
Dr. Maria Frucci
Prof. Dr. Daniel Riccio
Dr. Mara Sangiovanni
Guest Editors
Call for workshop proposals
July 4th, 2022 Daniela Lopez de Luise We invite workshop proposals for the 2023 IEEE Winter Conference of
Applications on Computer Vision (WACV 2023). WACV 2023 is planned as an
in-person conference with associated in-person workshops in Waikoloa,
Hawaii, January 3-7, 2023. However, proposals for purely virtual
workshops will also be considered.
The workshop proposals should focus on topics related to computer vision
and its applications, interdisciplinary themes with other scientific and
application areas, as well as emerging challenges or competitions. We
encourage workshop proposals aimed at creating or strengthening
communities. The format, style, and content of accepted workshops are
under the control of the workshop organizers and largely autonomous from
the main conference. Workshop organizers are expected to manage their
technical programs, invite experts in the domain, and maintain a website
for the workshop. Workshop registration and logistics will be handled by
the main conference.
Accepted workshops will be held on either 3 January 2023 or 7 January
2023. The workshop paper submission, review, acceptance notification,
and final manuscript submission should all be handled between 10 October
2022 (tentative deadline for submission of workshop papers) and 19
November 2022 (firm camera-ready workshop paper due date).
Conference website: https://wacv2023.thecvf.com/
*** Submission Instructions ***
Proposals should clearly specify/discuss the following:
• Workshop title, topic and tentative call for papers
• Motivation, impact, and expected outcomes
• Brief bios of organizers (including email and web pages)
• Tentative program committee
• Format (select either half or full day) and preliminary schedule
• Type of workshop, i.e., in-person or virtual (the latter requires a
short justification)
• Tentative invited speakers
• Estimated number of submissions and attendees
• Plans (if any) for a special journal issue or book
• Social impact of the workshop
Workshop proposals should be submitted in the form of a single PDF
through CMT: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/WACVworkshops2023.
Proposals will be evaluated by the workshop chairs and conference
organizers, with an eye towards selecting high-quality workshops on a
diverse set of topics that will inform and inspire the community.
*** Diversity, equity and inclusion ***
We especially encourage proposals involving diverse organizing teams and
communities currently under-represented at WACV. We also welcome
workshop topics that address issues in Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
in Computer Vision applications.
*** Contact and Queries ***
For questions and concerns, please contact
Adam Czajka (aczajka@nd.edu) and Vitomir Štruc (vitomir.struc@fe.uni-lj.si)
Workshops Co-Chairs WACV 2023
*** Important Dates ***
Workshop proposal deadline: August 8, 2022
Workshop acceptance notification: August 15, 2022
Workshop dates: 3 January or 7 January 2023
*** Submission ***
https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/WACVworkshops2023
CFP: The 2nd Causality in Vision Workshop @ ECCV’22
July 4th, 2022 Daniela Lopez de Luise CALL FOR PAPERS AND CHALLENGE PARTICIPATION
2nd Causality in Vision (CiV)
http://www.causalityinvision.com
2022 NICO Common Context Generalization Challenge
In conjunction with the 17th European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV 2022)
Tel-Aviv, Israel, Oct. 23-27 2022.
The goal of this workshop is to provide a comprehensive yet accessible overview of existing causality research and to help CV researchers to know why and how to apply causality in their own work. We aim to invite speakers from this area to present their latest works and propose new challenges.
CALL FOR PAPERS
We invite submissions of papers related to the applications/theories of causality in computer vision, including but not limited to:
* Causal discovery for high-dimensional visual data
* Causal inference for fair and explainable deep models
* Causal inference for robust visual models
* Causality combined with unsupervised, supervised, and reinforcement learning
* Learning visual causal generative mechanisms
* Structural causal models for heterogeneous and multimodal data
* Novel models combined vision and causality
* Visual causality data collection, benchmarking, and performance evaluation
Workshop submissions are open! Visit the website:
http://www.causalityinvision.com/submission.html
Important dates:
– Submission deadline: July 22, 2022 (11:59pm Pacific Standard Time).
– Notification to authors: April 17, 2022 (11:59pm Pacific Standard Time).
– Camera-ready deadline: August 22, 2022 (11:59pm Pacific Standard Time).
– Workshop: October 23 or 24, 2022
CALL FOR CHALLENGE PARTICIPATION
The goal of NICO Challenge is to facilitate the OOD (Out-of-Distribution) generalization in visual recognition through promoting the research on the intrinsic learning mechanisms with native invariance and generalization ability. The training data is a mixture of several observed contexts while the test data is composed of unseen contexts. Participants are tasked with developing reliable algorithms across different contexts (domains) to improve the generalization ability of models.
The NICO Challenge is an image recognition competition containing two main tracks: 1) common context generalization (Domain Generalization, DG) track; 2) hybrid context generalization track. The difference of these two tracks is whether the context used in training data for all the categories are aligned (e.g. common contexts) and the availability of context (domain) labels. Same as the classic DG setting, all the contexts are common contexts that are aligned for all categories in both training and test data in the common context generalization track. Nevertheless, both common and unique contexts are used for the hybrid context generalization track where the contexts varies across different categories. Context labels are available for the common context generalization track while unavailable for the hybrid context generalization track.
To participate, please register on host-website [Codalab] and create a team for the challenge.
Track 1: Common Context Generalization
https://codalab.lisn.upsaclay.fr/competitions/4084
Track 2: Hybrid Context Generalization
https://codalab.lisn.upsaclay.fr/competitions/4083
Important dates:
– 2022-04-18 Releasing the NICO++ dataset. (See the DATASET)
– 2022-04-20 Start Date of Phase 1.
– 2022-07-10 Deadline of Phase 1. This is the last day for team registration and result submission.
– 2022-07-12 Notification of winner teams in Phase 1. Start Date of Phase 2.
– 2022-07-30 Deadline of Phase 2. This is the last day for Top 10 teams to submit the model.
– 2022-08-10 Notification of Final Winners.
All deadlines are at 23:59 AoE on the corresponding day unless otherwise noted.
Workshop Organizers:
Yulei Niu, Columbia University, New York, United States
Hanwang Zhang, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Peng Cui, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
Song-Chun Zhu, Peking University, Beijing, China
Qianru Sun, Singapore Management University, Singapore
Mike Zheng Shou, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Challenge Organizers:
Peng Cui, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
Hanwang Zhang, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
David Lopez-Paz, Meta AI Paris, France