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ISCApad #280 |
| Wednesday, October 06, 2021 by Chris Wellekens |
4 Academic and Industry Notes
| 4-1 | New Master curriculum integrating advanced study and research covering all areas of language science,Univ. of Paris, France The Paris Graduate School of Linguistics (PGSL) is a newly-formed Paris-area graduate program covering all areas of language science. It offers a comprehensive Master curriculum integrating advanced study and research, in close connection with PhD programs as well as with the Empirical Foundations of Linguistics consortium. Research plays a central part in the program, and students also take elective courses to develop an interdisciplinary outlook. Prior knowledge of French is not required. For more details, please see https://paris-gsl.org/index.html New funding opportunity: https://u-paris.fr/en/call-for-applications-international-students-miem-scholarship-program/ Application deadline : February 1st 2021 (program starting September 1st 2021) PGSL is funded by Smarts-UP (Student-centered iMproved, Active Research-based Training Strategy at Université de Paris) through the ANR SFRI grant « Grandes universités de recherche » (PIA3) 2020-2029.
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| 4-2 | Bids for ICMR 2023 The ICMR Steering Committee invites interested parties to submit proposals to
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| 4-3 | ACMMM 2021: Call for Grand Challenge Proposals ===============================================
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| 4-4 | Projet européen ELE (European Language Equality), Dans le cadre du projet européen ELE (European Language Equality), qui vise à créer une
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| 4-5 | 'The Zero Resource Speech Challenge 2021 enhanced at NeurIPS 2021' -------
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| 4-6 | CfP for the 'European Performing Science Night', Call for participation for the 'European Performing Science Night', a project for the European Research Night Led by the Fundació Èpica-La Fura dels Baus and with the participation of the LPL (AMU-CNRS-ILCB) and four other partners, a research team will organize several events during the prestigious European Research Night on 24 September 2021, in Badalone (Catalonia). The project - co-financed under the Marie Sk?odowska-Curie actions - aims to bring scientists closer to the general public through an innovative language based on the performing arts and new language tools for researchers.
Call for participation open from June 7 to July 15: Open Call September ? EPSN (epicalab.com) Contact at the LPL: Clément François clement.francois@univ-amu.fr European Performing Science Night project website: EPSN ? European Performing Science Night (epicalab.com)
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| 4-7 | Covid-19 MLIA @ Eval - Community Evaluation Effort for MultiLingual Information Access (MLIA) on Covid-19 Covid-19 MLIA @ Eval - Community Evaluation Effort for MultiLingual Information Access (MLIA) on Covid-19
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An integral part of the Covid-19 MLIA @ Eval approach is the sharing of information and ideas among the participants. This happens via the rolling technical report where participants describe their solutions as the evaluation rounds progress and the virtual meetings at the end of each round where participants briefly present the main highlights of what worked and what did not work and interactively discuss together in order to share ideas and improve for the next round. We offer tasks in the following languages: Arabic, English, French, German, Greek, Italian, Spanish, Swedish. Miltos Deligiannis, ILSP/Athena RC, Greece
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| 4-8 | Multimedia Evaluation Benchmark (MediaEval) Multimedia Evaluation Benchmark (MediaEval) MediaEval 2021 Registration Now Open https://multimediaeval.github.io ******************************************************* The Multimedia Evaluation Benchmark (MediaEval) offers challenges in the form of shared tasks. The goal of MediaEval is to develop and evaluate new algorithms and technologies for multimedia retrieval, analysis and exploration. MediaEval tasks are innovative, involving multiple modalities, (e.g., images, video, music, user interaction data, sensor data, lifelogging data) and focusing on the human and social aspects of multimedia. Our larger aim is to promote reproducible research that makes multimedia a positive force for society. MediaEval 2021 Tasks: Driving Road Safety Forward: Video Data Privacy Emerging News: Detecting emerging stories from social media and news feeds Emotional Mario: A Games Analytics Challenge Emotions and Themes in Music FakeNews: Corona Virus and Conspiracies Multimedia Analysis Task Insight for Wellbeing: Cross-Data Analytics for (transboundary) Haze Prediction Medico: Transparency in Medical Image Segmentation NewsImages: The relation between images and text in news articles Predicting Media Memorability Sports Video: Fine Grained Action Detection and Classification of Table Tennis Strokes from videos Visual Sentiment Analysis: A Natural Disaster Use-case WaterMM: Water Quality in Social Multimedia For details of the tasks and information on how to register visit: https://multimediaeval.github.io/editions/2021/ Tasks will start to release data at the end of July and continue through August. Submissions will be due in early November. The MediaEval 2021 Workshop is a hybrid workshop that will take place in Bergen, Norway 6-8 December 2021 and also provide an opportunity for online participation. For more information see https://multimediaeval.github.io or contact Martha Larson m.larson at cs.ru.nl or Steven Hicks steven@simula.no
On behalf on the MediaEval organization team, Gabi Constantin Researcher at: Personal page: http://gconstantin.aimultimedialab.ro/ AI Multimedia Lab: https://www.aimultimedialab.ro/ CAMPUS Research Center: http://www.campus.pub.ro/ University Politehnica of Bucharest https://upb.ro/en/
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| 4-9 | The Second DiCOVA Challenge announcement ---------------------------------------------------------------
The Second DiCOVA Challenge announcement
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Can sound samples serve as acoustic biomarkers of COVID-19? If yes, an acoustics based COVID-19 diagnosis can provide a fast, contactless and inexpensive testing scheme, with potential to supplement the existing molecular testing methods, such as RT-PCR and RAT. The DiCOVA Challenge Series is an exploration of ideas to find answers to this question.
We are excited to share with you the announcement on the Second DiCOVA Challenge on Diagnosing COVID-19 using Acoustics. The challenge features the following three parallel tracks and one fusion track.
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Track-1: Breathing Sound Samples
Track-2: Cough Sound Samples
Track-3: Speech Sound Samples
Track-4: Fusion. Here participants can use any combination of above sound categories.
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The task in all the tracks requires building a binary classifier for COVID-19 detection using only sound samples. As was the case in the first DiCOVA challenge, a dataset and a baseline system will be released, and a leaderboard style platform for evaluation using a blind test set will be provided to all participants.
For more information please check out the below links.
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Event website: https://dicovachallenge.github.io/Registration Details: https://dicovachallenge.github.io/#register Flyer: https://dicovachallenge.github.io/docs/Second_DiCOVA_challenge2022_flyer.pdf Looking forward to your participation in the challenge.
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The challenge timeline is chosen to suit the paper submission deadline (1st Oct. 2021) of the International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, Signal Processing (ICASSP), a flagship conference of the IEEE (https://2022.ieeeicassp.org/).(If not done already), we request you to express your interest in participating in this challenge by filling the form at the link below by 14th Aug (midnight GMT) with tentative details on Abstract, Title, and Authors. This information will help us in proposing a Special Session at ICASSP 2022. Form Link: https://forms.office.com/r/rkEduk9FzR
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| 4-10 | ACM ICMI 2021: Announcing Blue Sky Paper Awards ACM ICMI 2021: Announcing Blue Sky Paper Awards
https://icmi.acm.org/2021/index.php?id=award
18-22 Oct 2021, Montreal, Canada
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Announcing New ACM ICMI 2021 Blue Sky Paper Awards
The Blue Sky Paper Awards have been announced. Congratulations to awardees!
The papers will be presented at ICMI 2021, in the Blue Sky Papers session
moderated by Prof. Sharon Oviatt. The tentative conference program is available at https://icmi.acm.org/2021/index.php?id=program
First Place: Sandy Pentland
Optimized Human-A.I. Group Decision Making: A Personal View
Second Place: Georgios Rizos
Towards Sonification in Multimodal and User-Friendly Explainable Artificial Intelligence
Third Place: Philippe Palanque
Dependability and Safety: Two Clouds in the Blue Sky of Multimodal Interaction
The Blue Sky paper track at ACM ICMI 2021 emphasizes innovative, visionary, and highimpact contributions.
This track solicited papers relevant to ICMI content that go beyond the usual research paper to present
new visions that stimulate the community to pursue innovative new research directions.
The papers were encouraged to present high-risk controversial
ideas that may challenge existing assumptions and methodologies,
or propose new applications or theories.
Submitted papers were expected to represent deep reflection,
to argue rigorously, and to present ideas from a high-level
synthetic viewpoint (e.g., multidisciplinary, based on multiple methodologies).
The 23rd ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction
(ICMI 2021) will be held in Montreal, Canada October 18-22, 2021.
ICMI is the premier international forum for multidisciplinary
research on multimodal human-human and human-computer interaction,
interfaces, and system development. The main conference themes in 2021 will
be behavioral health and virtual connectivity, but other major topics of
central interest include human communication and multimodal language/dialogue processing,
human-robot/agent interaction, affective computing and social interaction,
cognitive modeling, multimodal representations and fusion-based architectures,
machine learning for multimodal interaction and system applications, speech,
gesture, haptics, olfaction, gaze and vision, multimodal datasets and platforms,
mobile and ubiquitous interfaces, interfaces for virtual/augmented reality,
smart environments, and assistive technologies.
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