The ninth annual AAAI Fall Symposium on “Artificial Intelligence for Human-Robot Interaction” (AI-HRI) will take place on November 17-19, 2022, at the Westin Arlington Gateway in Arlington, VA, USA. We are planning a hybrid in-person and online format to reach more people who would not be able to attend in person.
Paper submissions will be due on July 31, 2022 and can be made through https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=fss22. For more information and updates, please see below or visit the symposium website at https://ai-hri.github.io.
Overview
The Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) symposium has been a successful venue of discussion and collaboration on AI aimed at HRI since 2014. This year, after a review of the achievements of the AI-HRI community over the last decade in 2021, we are focusing on a visionary theme: exploring the future of AI-HRI. Accordingly, we added a Blue Sky Ideas track to foster a forward-thinking discussion on future research at the intersection of AI and HRI. As always, we appreciate all contributions related to any topic on AI/HRI and welcome new researchers who wish to take part in this growing community.
With the success of past symposia, AI-HRI impacts a variety of communities and problems, and has pioneered the discussions in recent trends and interests. This year's AI-HRI Fall Symposium aims to bring together researchers and practitioners from around the globe, representing a number of university, government, and industry laboratories. In doing so, we hope to accelerate research in the field, support technology transition and user adoption, and determine future directions for our group and our research.
Topics
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Future of AI-HRI and “Blue Sky” ideas
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Ubiquitous HRI, including AR and VR
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Ethics in HRI
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Trust and explainability in HRI
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Robot planning and decision-making for HRI
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Architectures and systems supporting autonomous HRI
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Interactive task learning and planning
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Interactive dialog systems and natural language
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Field studies, experimental, and empirical HRI
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Safety and human comfort in HRI
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Software tools for autonomous HRI
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AI for social robots
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AI for physical HRI
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Knowledge representation and reasoning to support HRI
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HRI in teams and groups
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Replication studies and reproducibility
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Test methods and metrics for AI-HRI
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…and many other topics relevant to the application of Artificial Intelligence to Human-Robot Interaction!
Format
This year's symposium will focus on identifying the future of the field of AI-HRI, ranging from research directions to establishing a year-long collaborating community. However, symposium participants will still be invited to present their own work as it contributes to understanding what matters towards these goals. Symposium participants presenting their work will be encouraged to include a perspective on the reproducibility and ethics in HRI, though all research on AI-HRI will be considered.
We will also continue to include community-building efforts in the schedule: position talks to incite discussion on new and controversial views; informal, focused discussions during poster sessions; breakout discussion sessions in smaller groups; and a demo session, which will emphasize live robot and AR/VR demonstrations. Such discussions and demos are ideal within the symposium community, which is small enough that we can all learn each other's names and faces, but large enough to draw an audience of people who have a real impact in our field. These discussions give perfect opportunities for new researchers in the field to meet senior members in a more informal setting, and become more involved in future collaboration within the community.
This year, we have the opportunity to gather in person after two years of being virtual. For inclusiveness, we are planning in advance to implement a hybrid in-person and online format to reach more people who would not be able to attend in person. The diversity chair will lead the efforts for creating an inclusive community and will work with AAAI to manage the logistics for hybrid participation.
Submissions
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Full papers (6-8 pages) highlighting state-of-the-art HRI-oriented AI research, HRI research focusing on the Future of AI-HRI, the use of autonomous AI systems, or the implementation of AI systems in commercial HRI products.
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Short papers (2-4 pages) outlining new or controversial views on AI-HRI research or describing ongoing AI-oriented HRI research.
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Tool papers (2-4 pages) describing novel software, hardware, or datasets of interest to the AI-HRI community.
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Blue Sky papers (2-4 pages) fostering a forward-thinking discussion on the future at the intersection of AI and HRI.
Symposium participants presenting their work are encouraged to include a perspective on the reproducibility and ethics in HRI, though all research on AI-HRI will be considered.
All accepted papers will be presented orally and published in the proceedings through ArXiv. Authors will be notified as to whether they have been assigned a “full-length” or “lightning” presentation slot.
Please see the AAAI Author Kit (https://www.aaai.org/Publications/Templates/AuthorKit22.zip) for paper templates to ensure that your submission has the proper formatting.
Contributions may be submitted through EasyChair now: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=fss22.
For any extenuating circumstances that may result in a delayed submission, please contact us at ai4hri@gmail.com.
Important Dates
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Submission deadline: July 31, 2022
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Notification of acceptance: September 6, 2022
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Camera-ready deadline: October 9, 2022
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Registration deadline: October 14, 2022
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Symposium: November 17-19, 2022
Diversity & Inclusion at AI-HRI
AI-HRI is committed to growing the diversity of our community and is actively pursuing ways to make our community more inclusive. Our efforts include diversifying the participation among our program committee, invited speakers, paper authors, and symposium attendees.
If you are having difficulties, please contact us at ai4hri@gmail.com.
Organizing Committee
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Zhao Han (General Co-Chair, Colorado School of Mines, USA)
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Emmanuel Senft (General Co-Chair, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA)
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Muneeb I. Ahmad (Communication Co-Chair, Swansea University, UK)
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Shelly Bagchi (Communication Co-Chair, National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA)
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Justin W. Hart (University of Texas at Austin, USA)
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Daniel Hernández García (Heriot-Watt University, UK)
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Boyoung Kim (Program Co-Chair, George Mason University, USA)
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Matteo Leonetti (King’s College London, UK)
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Ross Mead (Semio, USA)
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Reuth Mirsky (Bar Ilan University, Israel)
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Ahalya Prabhakar (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland)
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Ruchen Wen (Program Co-Chair, Colorado School of Mines, USA)
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Jason R. Wilson (Diversity & Sponsorship Chair, Franklin & Marshall College, USA)
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Amir Yazdani (Publicity Chair, University of Utah Robotics Center, USA)
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Megan L. Zimmerman (National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA)
IEEE NorCAS 2022 – call for papers
June 28th, 2022 
Daniela Lopez de Luise
The IEEE Nordic Circuits and Systems Conference (NorCAS) 2022 will
be organized in Oslo, Norway on October 25-26, 2022.
We have this year the following special sessions, in addition to the topics
in the regular analog, digital and SoC tracks:
- Approximate Computing Circuits and Systems
- Heterogeneous Networks and Mobility Management in 5G and 6G
- Reconfigurable Architectures and Network-on-Chips for Massively Parallel Signal Processing
The special session papers will be treated similarly to any submission to
IEEE NorCAS: IEEE 2-column format full paper submission, peer review by at least
3 independent reviewers, obligation to present the accepted paper, and submission
for inclusion in the IEEE Xplore database as part of the conference proceedings.
The conference schedules are:
Paper submission deadline: August 15, 2022
Notification of acceptance: September 20, 2022
Final camera-ready papers: October 4, 2022
See the call for papers and other details at https://events.tuni.fi/norcas2022/
Regards,
Jari Nurmi (TAU)
IEEE NorCAS General Chair
IEEE MeditCom: WS1 – Intelligent Distribution of Computing in Cloud Continuum (ID3C) [Deadline: 8 July]
June 28th, 2022 Daniela Lopez de Luise Call For Papers
Intelligent Distribution of Computing in Cloud Computing (ID3C) Workshop in conjunction with IEEE Meditcom 2022
https://meditcom2022.ieee-meditcom.org/authors/call-for-workshop-papers/#ws1
Athens, Greece, September 5-8, 2022
Submit Paper: https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=29459&track=111190
ECCV Workshop – 2nd International Workshop on Distributed Smart Cameras
June 28th, 2022 Daniela Lopez de Luise Dear Colleagues,
we are happy to announce the Call for Papers for the 2nd International Workshop on Distributed Smart Cameras (IWDSC), which will be virtually held in conjunction with the European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV).All the following information is also available at https://iwdsc.github.io/
Apologies if you receive this more than once.
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About IWDSC
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Smart camera networks are becoming a fundamental piece of our intelligent cities, buildings, and homes, progressively inserting themselves into our lives. From smart surveillance systems composed of many smart camera nodes to small wearable cameras able to render a visual log of our daily experience, these devices interact with each other and with a wealth of other smart things, and of course the internet. Their rapid development is possible thanks to the convergence of several technologies. From advanced image sensors and vision chips to embedded vision systems capable of efficient feature extraction, image encoding, and wireless transmission of the relevant visual content: This technology opens the door to new application domains, where video analytics and the extraction of semantic information from the scene is performed in a distributed fashion, implementing a new type of cooperative and/or collaborative vision.The IWDSC team has previously organized 12 editions of the International Conference on Distributed Smart Cameras (ICDSC) with ACM as an international forum to discuss recent advances and open issues in these topics.
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Papers are invited in the following and related areas:
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=> Smart cameras in the Internet of Things (IoT), Industry 4.0, and smart transport
– Smart cameras as IoT sensors
– Intelligent traffic cameras
– Smart IoT security camera for smart homes
– Smart cameras for Industry 4.0
– Vision sensors in Vehicular Ad- hoc Networks (VANETs)=> Mobile Vision, 3D, and Robotics
– 3D reconstruction of everything
– Driver assistance, autonomous driving
– Social robot
– Drone distributed smart cameras
– Structure-from-motion in mobile devices
– Visual landmark localization
– Active vision and mobile/body-worn cameras
– Position discovery and middleware apps=> Smart image sensors and vision chips
– Circuits and systems for image sensing
– Parallel processing hardware
– Camera beyond the visual spectrum
– HW/S W codesign for embedded vision
– Reconfigurable vision processing architectures
– High-performance image sensors
– Neuromorphic cameras and networks=> Machine learning in distributed camera networks
– Deep learning on smart cameras
– Transforming embedded vision through deep learning
– Distributed learning algorithms in visual sensor networks
– Novel machine learning technology implementation on smart cameras
– Machine learning for low-powered sensors
– Artificial intelligence and deep learning at the edge=> Distributed smart cameras and network architectures
– Camera system designs and architectures
– Architectures for camera networks
– Embedded vision programming
– Distributed video coding
– Self-reconfiguring camera networks
– Self-organizing smart cameras
– Wireless and mobile image sensor network s
– Context-aware networks
– Distributed video analytics
– Resource management and task allocation
– Data aggregation and information fusion
– Collaborative object recognition and extraction=> Emerging applications
– Process splitting in-camera vs cloud
– Virtual reality and augmented reality
– Smart cameras and semantic information
– Smart cities and smart cameras
– Camera-based health and wellness monitoring
– AI and video analytics for smart cameras
– Social media and big data
– Smart cameras for situational intelligence and interaction================================================================
Submission
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The submission site is open, and accessible at: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/IWDSC2022/Each paper will be reviewed by at least two members of the Scientific Program Committee, in a double-blind fashion. The submitted papers should present original work, not currently under review elsewhere, and should have no substantial overlap with already published work. Submissions should be submitted in PDF and should be no more than 14 pages (additional pages containing only cited references are allowed) following the ECCV main Conference paper format and guidelines (https://iwdsc.github.io/submissions/).
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Important Dates
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Paper Submission Deadline: July 10, 2022 (11:59 PM Pacific Time)
Reviews Released to Authors: August 11, 2022 (11:59 PM Pacific Time)
Camera-ready due: August 22, 2022 (11:59 PM Pacific Time)
In case of rejection from ECCV, authors can submit their work to the workshop. Authors should address all ECCV reviewers’ comments in the submitted paper and submit the ECCV reviews as supplementary material.================================================================
Proceedings and Special Issue
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Accepted papers will be published in the ECCV Workshop Proceedings. Authors of high-quality papers will be invited to extend their work and submit it for a special issue in a JCR-indexed journal.================================================================
Organizing Team
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Niki Martinel, University of Udine, Italy
Ehsan Adeli, Stanford University, USA
Rita Pucci, University of Udine, Italy
Caifeng Shan, Shandong University of Science and Technology, China
Anima Anandkuma, Caltech/NVidia, USA
Yue Gao, Tsinghua University, China
Hamid Aghajan, Gent University, Belgium
Christian Micheloni, University of Udine, Italy
Fei-Fei Li, Stanford University, USA
Information of SCIS&ISIS2022, Nov 29-Dec2, 2022, Ise-Shima, Japan
June 28th, 2022 Daniela Lopez de Luise
The information of SCIS^ISIS2022
held on Nov. 29-Dec 2, 2022 at Ise Shima, Japan, Resort Place near Nagoya (140km)
Note: The important dates have been updated as follows:
Paper Submission Deadline: July 22, 2022
Notification of Acceptance: September 2, 2022
Camera-Ready Submission: September 23, 2022
Early Registration: September 23, 2022
The accepted papers will be uploaded on IEEE Xplore.
Full paper
Authors should prepare full papers of four (4) to six (6) pages (maybe extended up to eight (8) pages but subject to an additional fee) in IEEE style including results, figures, and references.
[CFP] SCIS&ISIS2022, Nov 29-Dec2, 2022, Ise-Shima, Japan
http://soft-cr.org/scis/2022/
We would like to cordially invite you to submit papers to 2022 Joint 12th International Conference on Soft Computing and Intelligent Systems and 23rd International Symposium on Advanced Intelligent Systems (SCIS&ISIS) held in Ise-Shima, Mie, Japan, on November 29 – December 2, 2022.
The list of special sessions has been uploaded to http://soft-cr.org/scis/2022/special_session.html
The submission guideline can be found at http://soft-cr.org/scis/2022/submission.html
The submission system will be open in the middle of June.
From June 1, 2022, the Japanese border measures have been relaxed.
https://www.mhlw.go.jp/stf/covid-19/bordercontrol.html
It may be easier to enter Japan now. However, we don't know the future. We will accept remote presentations for those who cannot come to Japan.
Please consider submitting your papers to SCIS&ISIS2022. The accepted papers will be uploaded on IEEE Xplore.