[Tccc] (ISACS 2013): Deadline Extension to April 26

Paletta, Lucas lucas.palettaatjoanneum.at
Fri Apr 19 01:57:50 EDT 2013



 Deadline Extension
  

   6th International Symposium on ATTENTION IN COGNITIVE SYSTEMS
   associated with IJCAI 2013
   Beijing, China, August 5, 2013
   http://isacs2013.joanneum.at/



Based on several requests, the paper submission deadline is extended to



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          **  Friday, April 26, 2013                **

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There will be no further extensions. Please find the CfP below.



Best regards,

Lucas Paletta, Laurent Itti, Bjrn Schuller, Fang Fang (co-chairs)



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ELECTRONIC SUBMISSION AT  https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=isacs2013

associated with the 23rd International Joint Conference on Artificial 
Intelligence, IJCAI 2013 http://ijcai13.org/

IMPORTANT DATES

Full paper submission:             April 26, 2013
Notification of acceptance:          May 20, 2013
Final paper submission:              May 30, 2013
Workshop day:                      August 5, 2013

SCOPE

The capacity to attend to the relevant has been part of Artificial Intelligence 
(AI) systems since the early days of the discipline. Currently, with respect to 
the design and computational modeling of artificial cognitive systems, 
selective attention has again become a focus of research, and one sees it 
important for the organization of behaviors, for control and interfacing 
between sensory and cognitive information processing, and for the understanding 
of individual and social cognition in humanoid artifacts. While visual 
cognition obviously plays a central role in human perception, findings from 
neuroscience and cognitive psychology have informed us on the perception-action 
nature of cognition. In particular, the embodiment in sensory-motor 
intelligence requires a continuous spatio-temporal interplay between 
interpretations from various perceptual modalities and the corresponding 
control of motor activities. In addition, the process of selecting information 
from the incoming sensory stream, in tune with contextual processing on a 
current task and global goals, becomes a challenging control issue within the 
viewpoint of focused attention. Seemingly attention systems must operate at 
many levels and not only at interfaces between a bottom-up driven world 
interpretation and top-down driven information selection. One may consider 
selective attention as part of the core of artificial cognitive systems. These 
insights have already produced paradigmatic changes in several AI-related 
disciplines, such as, in the design of behavior based robotics and the 
computational modeling of animats. Within the context of the engineering 
domain, the development of enabling technologies such as autonomous robotic 
systems, miniaturized mobile - even wearable - sensors, and ambient 
intelligence systems involves the real-time analysis of enormous quantities of 
data. These data have to be processed in an intelligent way to provide "on time 
delivery" of the required relevant information. Knowledge has to be applied 
about what needs to be attended to, and when, and what to do in a meaningful 
sequence, in correspondence with visual feedback.

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

Techniques, modelling, and concepts

- Computational architectures for attention
- Modelling of visual and auditory attention
- Attention in multimodal information fusion
- Biologically inspired attention
- Attentive control in animats and robotic systems
- Aspects of attention in cognitive psychology, neuroscience, and philosophy
- Attention and control of machine vision processes
- Etc.

Application related topics of interest
- Attentive multimodal interfaces
- Autonomous intelligent systems
- Video surveillance
- Video and image retrieval
- Usability research
- Etc.


CONFERENCE CHAIRS

Lucas Paletta, Joanneum Research, Austria
Laurent Itti, University of Southern California, USA
Bjoern Schuller, Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany
Fang Fang, Peking University, China


PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Minoru Asada, University of Osaka, Japan
Christian Balkenius, Lund University, Sweden
Anna Belardinelli, University of Tbingen, Germany
Ali Borji, University of Southern California, USA
James J. Clark, McGill University, Toronto, Canada
Ralf Engbert, University of Potsdam, Germany
Fang Fang, Peking University, China
Simone Frintrop, University of Bonn, Germany
Horst-Michael Gross, Technical University of Ilmenau, Germany
Dietmar Heinke, University of Birmingham, UK
Laurent Itti, University of Southern California, USA
Ilona Kovacs, Universite Paris Descartes, France
Eileen Kowler, Rutgers University, USA
Minho Lee, Kyungpook National Univ., South Korea
Michael Lindenbaum, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Israel
David Melcher, University of Trento, Italy
Giorgio Metta, Italian Institute of Technology, Italy
Lucas Paletta, Joanneum Research, Austria
Fiora Pirri, University of Rome, La Sapienza, Italy
Ron Rensink, University of British Columbia, BC, Canada
Erich Rome, Fraunhofer IAIS, Germany
Albert Rothenstein, York University, Toronto, Canada
Bjrn Schuller, Technische Universitt Mnchen, Germany
Jochen Triesch, Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Germany
Yizhou Wang, Peking University, China
Hezy Yeshurun, University of Tel Aviv, Israel
Chen Yu, University of Indiana, IN, USA


AUTHOR GUIDELINES

Publication of the proceedings will be in LNCS/LNAI Springer format. Submitted 
papers should be min. 8 pages, and max. between 10 (short paper) and 14 (long 
paper) pages in Springer format.

Appropriate style files can be downloaded from 
http://www.springer.com/dal/home/computer/lncs (please consult instruction for 
authors of Springer proceedings). The organizers expect submissions in PDF 
format. We will perform double-blind reviews, i.e., author information must be 
hidden in the paper: blank author fields, no acknowledgment information, own 
papers should be cited only if mandatory.

We will link on the homepage to electronic paper submission until mid March 
2013. Papers will be considered for review that have also been submitted to the 
main IJCAI conference. Double submission must be indicated by authors, and the 
workshop organizer must be given a copy of the IJCAI reviews. In case we 
receive a reasonable number of high quality contributions we will consider the 
organization of a poster session to inform - in addition to the about all 
related on-going activities in this field.

PROCEEDINGS

Accepted contributions will be provided on CD-ROM as hand-outs to participants 
at the workshop site.

It is intended to publish post-conference proceedings of selected, revised and 
invited papers of the workshop in Springer LNAI, see LNCS 3368/WAPCV 2004, LNAI 
4840/WAPCV 2007, LNAI 5395/WAPCV 2008.

PREVIOUS WORKSHOPS OF THE WAPCV/ISACS SERIES

WAPCV 2008, Santorini, Greece (ICVS) http://dib.joanneum.at/wapcv2008
WAPCV 2007, Hyderabad, India (IJCAI) http://dib.joanneum.at/wapcv2007
WAPCV 2005, San Diego, USA (CVPR) http://dib.joanneum.at/wapcv2005
WAPCV 2004, Prague, Czech Rep.(ECCV) http://dib.joanneum.at/wapcv2004
WAPCV 2003, Graz, Austria (ICVS) http://dib.joanneum.at/wapcv2003


PRESENTATIONS

Regular oral presentations should be 20 minutes in total, i.e., approx. 15 
minutes for presentation and 5 minutes for discussion. Invited Talks will be 
40-60 minutes in total.


BEST PAPER AWARD

The ISACS Best Paper Award will be presented to the winner at the workshop. 
Awardees will receive a Best Paper certificate and prize money of 500 Euro 
kindly funded by SensoMotoric Instruments GmbH, Germany 
http://www.smivision.com/.


INVITED TALKS - to be announced


CONTACT

Lucas Paletta, Joanneum Research, Austria 
lucas.pale... at joanneum.at<mailto:lucas.pale... at joanneum.at>
Laurent Itti, University of Southern California, CA, USA 
i... at pollux.usc.edu<mailto:i... at pollux.usc.edu>
Bjrn Schuller, Technische Universitt Mnchen, Germany 
schul... at tum.de<mailto:schul... at tum.de>
Fang Fang, Peking University, China x... at pku.edu.cn<mailto:x... at pku.edu.cn>


Dr. Lucas Paletta
JOANNEUM RESEARCH Forschungsgesellschaft mbH
DIGITAL - Institute for Information and Communication Technologies
Steyrergasse 17, 8010 Graz, Austria

Phone: +43 (316) 876 1769
Fax: +43 (316) 876 91769
E-mail: lucas.pale... at joanneum.at<mailto:lucas.pale... at joanneum.at>
Web: http://www.joanneum.at/digital




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