VOT – Call for Papers

Visual Object Tracking Challenge Workshop, VOT2022
October 24th 2022, Tel Aviv, Israel

Workshop in conjunction with ECCV 2022
Web: http://www.votchallenge.net/vot2022

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CALL FOR PAPER SUBMISSION
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1. Send a regular paper now
2. Send your finally rejected ECCV paper

The VOT committee solicits papers describing:

* Incrementally adapted or novel methods for single-object tracking
* New insights into existing methods of single-object tracking
* New ideas for the performance analysis of single-object tracking
* Novel ways of using and extending the VOT framework for performance analysis of trackers

For additional information please see the VOT2022 participation webpage
(https://www.votchallenge.net/vot2022/participation).

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IMPORTANT DATES
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Regular Paper Submission Deadline: June 14
High-quality tracking papers not accepted to ECCV Paper Submission Deadline: July 17
Notification: July 22
Camera-ready: August 15
Workshop: October 24
 
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CONTACTS
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Stay informed by subscribing to the VOT mailing list:
https://service.ait.ac.at/mailman/listinfo/votchallenge

Call for papers — extended deadline

Dear colleagues,
We have extended the deadline for abstract and paper submissions for the ACM Symposium on Applied Perception 2022. Please, find below the new dates.

Call for workshop proposals

CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS – FG 2023
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/

ECCV 2022 Advances in Image Manipulation (AIM) workshop and challenges

CALL FOR PAPERS  & CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS IN 8 CHALLENGES
AIM: 4th Advances in Image Manipulation workshop and challenges on compressed/image/video super-resolution, learned ISP, reversed ISP, Instagram filter removal, Bokeh effect, depth estimation

In conjunction with ECCV 2022, Tel-Aviv, Israel

Website: https://data.vision.ee.ethz.ch/cvl/aim22/
Contact: radu.timofte@uni-wuerzburg.de

TOPICS

Papers addressing topics related to image/video manipulation, restoration and enhancement are invited. The topics include, but are not limited to:

Image-to-image translation
● Video-to-video translation
Image/video manipulation
● Perceptual manipulation
Image/video generation and hallucination
Image/video quality assessment
Image/video semantic segmentation
● Saliency and gaze estimation
● Perceptual enhancement
● Multimodal translation
● Depth estimation
Image/video inpainting
Image/video deblurring
Image/video denoising
Image/video upsampling and super-resolution
Image/video filtering
Image/video de-hazing, de-raining, de-snowing, etc.
● Demosaicing
Image/video compression
● Removal of artifacts, shadows, glare and reflections, etc.
Image/video enhancement: brightening, color adjustment, sharpening, etc.
● Style transfer
● Hyperspectral imaging
● Underwater imaging
● Aerial and satellite imaging
● Methods robust to changing weather conditions / adverse outdoor conditions
Image/video manipulation on mobile devices
Image/video restoration and enhancement on mobile devices
● Studies and applications of the above.

SUBMISSION

A paper submission has to be in English, in pdf format, and at most 14 pages (excluding references) in single-column, ECCV style. The paper format must follow the same guidelines as for all ECCV 2022 submissions.
The review process is double blind.
Dual submission is not allowed.
Submission site: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/AIMWC2022/

WORKSHOP DATES

● Submission Deadline: July 25, 2022
● Decisions: August 15, 2022
● Camera Ready Deadline: August 22, 2022

AIM 2022 has the following associated challenges (ONGOING!):

  1. Compressed Input Super-Resolution
  2. Reversed ISP
  3. Instagram Filter Removal
  4. Video Super-Resolution (Evaluation platform: MediaTek Dimensity APU) – Powered by MediaTek
  5. Image Super-Resolution (Eval. platform: Synaptics Dolphin NPU) – Powered by Synaptics
  6. Learned Smartphone ISP (Eval. platform: Snapdragon Adreno GPU) – Powered by OPPO
  7. Bokeh Effect Rendering (Eval. platform: ARM Mali GPU) – Powered by Huawei
  8. Depth Estimation (Eval. platform: Raspberry Pi 4) – Powered by Raspberry Pi

PARTICIPATION

To learn more about the challenges and to participate:

CHALLENGES DATES

● Release of train data: May 24, 2022
● Validation server online: June 1, 2022
● Competitions end: July 30, 2022

DeepLearn 2022 Autumn: early registration June 16

7th INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL ON DEEP LEARNING
DeepLearn 2022 Autumn
Luleå, Sweden
October 17-21, 2022
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Co-organized by:
Luleå University of Technology
EISLAB Machine Learning
Institute for Research Development, Training and Advice – IRDTA
Brussels/London
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Early registration: June 16, 2022
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SCOPE:
DeepLearn 2022 Autumn 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 and Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.
Deep learning is a branch of artificial intelligence covering a spectrum of current frontier 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 2022 Autumn 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 2022 Autumn will take place in Luleå, on the coast of northern Sweden, hosting a large steel industry and the northernmost university in the country. The venue will be:
Luleå University of Technology
 
 
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:
Wolfram Burgard (University of Freiburg), Probabilistic and Deep Learning Techniques for Robot Navigation and Automated Driving
Tommaso Dorigo (Italian National Institute for Nuclear Physics), Deep-Learning-Optimized Design of Experiments: Challenges and Opportunities
Elaine O. Nsoesie (Boston University), AI and Health Equity
      
PROFESSORS AND COURSES:
Sean Benson (Netherlands Cancer Institute), [intermediate] Deep Learning for a Better Understanding of Cancer
      
Daniele Bonacorsi (University of Bologna), [intermediate/advanced] Applied ML for High-Energy Physics
      
Thomas Breuel (Nvidia), [intermediate/advanced] Large Scale Deep Learning and Self-Supervision in Vision and NLP
      
Hao Chen (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology), [introductory/intermediate] Label-Efficient Deep Learning for Medical Image Analysis
      
Jianlin Cheng (University of Missouri), [introductory/intermediate] Deep Learning for Bioinformatics
      
Nadya Chernyavskaya (European Organization for Nuclear Research), [intermediate] Graph Networks for Scientific Applications with Examples from Particle Physics
      
Peng Cui (Tsinghua University), [introductory/advanced] Towards Out-Of-Distribution Generalization: Causality, Stability and Invariance
 
Sébastien Fabbro (University of Victoria), [introductory/intermediate] Learning with Astronomical Data
       
Efstratios Gavves (University of Amsterdam), [advanced] Advanced Deep Learning
      
Quanquan Gu (University of California Los Angeles), [intermediate/advanced] Benign Overfitting in Machine Learning: From Linear Models to Neural Networks
      
Jiawei Han (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), [advanced] Text Mining and Deep Learning: Exploring the Power of Pretrained Language Models
      
Awni Hannun (Zoom), [intermediate] An Introduction to Weighted Finite-State Automata in Machine Learning
      
Shirley Ho (Flatiron Institute), [intermediate] Structured Machine Learning for Simulations
      
Tin Kam Ho (IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center), [introductory/intermediate] Deep Learning Applications in Natural Language Understanding
      
Timothy Hospedales (University of Edinburgh), [intermediate/advanced] Deep Meta-Learning
      
Shih-Chieh Hsu (University of Washington), [intermediate/advanced] Real-Time Artificial Intelligence for Science and Engineering
 
Andrew Laine (Columbia University), [introductory/intermediate] Applications of AI in Medical Imaging
      
Tatiana Likhomanenko (Apple), [intermediate/advanced] Self-, Weakly-, Semi-Supervised Learning in Speech Recognition
      
Peter Richtárik (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology), [intermediate/advanced] Introduction to Federated Learning
      
Othmane Rifki (Spectrum Labs), [introductory/advanced] Speech and Language Processing in Modern Applications
      
Mayank Vatsa (Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur), [introductory/intermediate] Small Sample Size Deep Learning
      
Yao Wang (New York University), [introductory/intermediate] Deep Learning for Computer Vision
      
Zichen Wang (Amazon Web Services), [introductory/intermediate] Graph Machine Learning for Healthcare and Life Sciences
      
Alper Yilmaz (Ohio State University), [introductory/intermediate] Deep Learning and Deep Reinforcement Learning for Geospatial Localization
      
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 October 9, 2022.
      
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 October 9, 2022.
      
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 organization 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 October 9, 2022.
      
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:
Nosheen Abid (Luleå)
Sana Sabah Al-Azzawi (Luleå)
Lama Alkhaled (Luleå)
Prakash Chandra Chhipa (Luleå)
Saleha Javed (Luleå)
Marcus Liwicki (Luleå, local chair)
Carlos Martín-Vide (Tarragona, program chair)
Hamam Mokayed (Luleå)
Sara Morales (Brussels)
Mia Oldenburg (Luleå)
Maryam Pahlavan (Luleå)
David Silva (London, organization chair)
Richa Upadhyay (Luleå)
REGISTRATION:
It has to be done at
      
The selection of 8 courses requested in the registration template is only tentative and non-binding. For logistical reasons, 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 participants are the same.
 
ACCOMMODATION:
Accommodation suggestions will be available in due time 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:
 
Luleå University of Technology, EISLAB Machine Learning
      
 
Rovira i Virgili University
 
 
 
Institute for Research Development, Training and Advice – IRDTA, Brussels/London
      
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