9th International Workshop on Assistive Computer Vision and Robotics (ACVR 2021) Call for Papers

ICCV2021 - 
9th International Workshop on Assistive Computer Vision and Robotics (ACVR 2021)

Montreal (Canada) October 11th - October 17th, 2021

In conjunction with ICCV2021 - International Conference on Computer Vision

As well as the main conference, the ACVR 2021 workshop will be a virtual experience

 Web: https://iplab.dmi.unict.it/acvr2021/ 
Contact: ACVR.workshop@gmail.com

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IMPORTANT DATES
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Full Paper Submission: 30/06/2021
Notification of Acceptance: 02/08/2021
Camera-Ready Paper Due: 16/08/2021
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CALL FOR PAPERS
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The last decade has witnessed the significant impact of Computer
Vision and Robotics on real-world products. This has been possible
thanks to the results of traditional Computer Vision and Robotics
problems such as tracking, 3D reconstruction, detection, recognition,
odometry, navigation, and ultimately, thanks to deep
learning. However, most of these results have focused on constrained
application scenarios that do not involve the integration of feedback
from the user. Since these applications do not consider the user's
intentions and goals, they tend to be of limited use when it is
necessary to provide assistance to humans.

With the pervasive successes of Computer Vision and Robotics and the
advent of industry 4.0, it has become paramount to design systems that
can truly assist humans and augment their abilities to tackle both
physical and intellectual tasks. We broadly refer to such systems as
"assistive technologies". Examples of these technologies include
approaches to assist visually impaired people to navigate and perceive
the world, wearable devices which make use of artificial intelligence,
mixed and augmented reality to improve perception and bring
computation directly to the user, and systems designed to aid
industrial processes and improve the safety of workers. These
technologies need to consider an operational paradigm in which the
user is central and can both influence and be influenced by the
system. Despite some examples of this approach exist (e.g., OrCam,
HoloLens), implementing applications according to this
"human-in-the-loop" scenario still requires a lot of effort to reach
an adequate level of reliability and introduces challenging satellite
issues related to usability, privacy, and acceptability.

The main scope of ACVR 2021 is to bring together researchers from the
diverse fields of engineering, computer science, social and biomedical
sciences who work in the context of technologies involving Computer
Vision and Robotics related to real-time continuous assistance and
support of humans while performing any task.

Research papers are solicited in, but not limited to, the following topic areas:

Symbiotic Human-Machine Systems;
Computer Vision to aid Industrial Processes;
Augmented and Mixed Reality;
Computer Vision to Improve the safety of workers;
Human-Robot Interaction;
Home Healthcare;
Technology for Cognition;
Automatic Emotional Hearing and Understanding;
Activity Monitoring Systems;
Manipulation Aids;
Smart Environments;
Safety and Security;
Ambient Assistive Living;
Privacy-preserving systems;
Robot assistants;
Quality of Life Technologies;
Navigation Systems;
Mobile and Wearable Systems;
Applications for the Visually Impaired;
Sign language recognition and applications for hearing impaired;
Applications for the Ageing Society;
Personalized Monitoring;
Egocentric and First-Person Vision;
Applications to improve the health and wellbeing of children and elderly;
Autonomous Driving;
Driver Assistance Systems;
Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCI) for Assistive Systems;
Multi-modal Human-Centered Systems.

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INVITED SPEAKERS
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Danica Kragic, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden (CONFIRMED)
Web: https://www.csc.kth.se/~danik/

Georgia Gkioxari, FAIR, USA (CONFIRMED)
Web: https://gkioxari.github.io/

Anca Dragan, UC Berkeley, USA (CONFIRMED)  
https://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Faculty/Homepages/anca.html

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SUBMISSION AND REVISION
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All submissions will be handled electronically via the conference's
CMT Website: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/ACVR2021.
 

The format for paper submission is the same as the ICCV 2021 main
conference. Please refer to ICCV 2021 author guidelines
(http://iccv2021.thecvf.com/node/4#submission-guidelines)

See the instructions and guidelines at the following page: 
http://iplab.dmi.unict.it/acvr2021/submission

 

ACVR reviewing will be double blind; in that authors will not know the
names of the area reviewers of their papers, and area reviewers will
not know the names of the authors. Each submitted paper will be
revised by three experts.

The paper length should match that intended for final
publication. Papers are limited to 8 pages (excluding references),
including figures and tables. Additional pages must contain only cited
references. While there is no limit to the number of references,
reviewers are instructed to check for pertinence. Citation of any of
the co-authors’ published work must be done in the third
person. Reference to unpublished work can be made by anonymizing it,
including it as supplementary material, and referencing it as
Anonymous.

Authors may optionally submit additional material that could not be
included in the main paper due to constraints of format (e.g., a
video), space (e.g., a proof of a theorem or an extra figure or table)
or anonymity.

Papers that are not blind, or do not use the template, or have more
than 8 pages (excluding references) will be rejected without review.

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PROCEEDING AND JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUE
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All accepted papers will appear in the ICCV workshops proceedings.
 
Authors may be invited to submit an extended version (at least 40%
more than the seminar versions) of their work to a special issue
(currently still in the planning stage) in one of the most highly
rated journals in the field of computer vision or of robotic research.

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WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS
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Giovanni Maria Farinella, University of Catania, IT
Antonino Furnari,  University of Catania, IT
Marco Leo, CNR-Institute of Applied Sciences and Intelligent Systems, IT
Gerard G. Medioni, University of Southern California, US
Mohan Trivedi, University of California San Diego, US

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ENDORSERS
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CVPL - Associazione Italiana in Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition andMachine Learning
http://www.cvpl.it/
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CONTACTS
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Email: ACVR.workshop@gmail.com

Website: https://iplab.dmi.unict.it/acvr2021/