ICPR 2020 is the premier international conference on Pattern Recognition, gathering leading researchers from around the world to present their latest achievements in Pattern Analysis and Recognition, applied Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. The topic of the year is " Putting Artificial intelligence to work on Patterns". 
For the first time, ICPR has employed a two-round review process similar to journal submissions, with new papers allowed to be submitted in either the first or second round and papers submitted in the first round and not accepted allowed to be revised and re-submitted for second round review. 

In this edition of the **ICPR 2020** Conference, there are 1407 Oral/Poster presentations organized in five Tracks: 
- Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning for Pattern Analysis; 
- Biometrics, Human Analysis and Behavior Understanding; Computer Vision, Robotics and Intelligent Systems; 
- Document and Media Analysis; and 
- Image and Signal Processing. 

The **ICPR 2020** Main Conference program also includes 7 Keynotes from prominent world-renowned scientists, 8 Tutorials, 28 Demos, 8 Challenges, 2 Panels, as well as an Industry/Sponsor Exhibition. In addition, 41 Workshops on a range of important current and emerging research topics complete the ICPR 2020 program. 


ICPR 2020 MAIN CONFERENCE

**25th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON PATTERN RECOGNITION**
MILAN, ITALY // JANUARY 10th TO 15th, 2021

ICPR 2020 is the premier international conference on Pattern Recognition, gathering leading researchers from around the world to present their latest achievements in Pattern Analysis and Recognition, applied Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. The topic of the year is " Putting Artificial intelligence to work on Patterns". 

For the first time, ICPR has employed a two-round review process similar to journal submissions, with new papers allowed to be submitted in either the first or second round and papers submitted in the first round and not accepted allowed to be revised and re-submitted for second round review. 

In this edition of the ICPR Conference, there are 1407 Oral/Poster presentations organized in five Tracks: Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning for Pattern Analysis; Biometrics, Human Analysis and Behavior Understanding; Computer Vision, Robotics and Intelligent Systems; Document and Media Analysis; and Image and Signal Processing. The ICPR2020 Main Conference program also includes 7 Keynotes from prominent world-renowned scientists, 8 Tutorials, 28 Demos, 8 Challenges, 2 Panels, as well as an Industry/Sponsor Exhibition. In addition, 41 Workshops on a range of important current and emerging research topics complete the ICPR2020 program. 


25th International Conference on Pattern Recognition

Italy

PS T4.1: Document Analysis and Retrieval

**ICPR Browser Link:** https://ailb-web.ing.unimore.it/icpr/paper/1088/nn 










**Abstract:**


Text line localization in document images is still considered an open research task. The state-of-the-art methods in this regard are only based on the classical image analysis techniques mostly have unsatisfactory performances especially when the document images i) contain significant degradations and different noise types and scanning defects, and ii) have touching and/or multi-skewed text lines or overlapping words/characters and non-uniform inter-line space. Moreover, localizing text in ancient handwritten Arabic document images is even more complex due to the morphological particularities related to the Arabic script. Thus, in this paper, we propose a hybrid method combining a deep network with classical document image analysis techniques for text line localization in ancient handwritten Arabic document images. The proposed method is firstly based on using the U-Net architecture to extract the main area covering the text core. Then, a modified RLSA combined with topological structural analysis is applied to localize whole text lines (including the ascender and descender components). To analyze the performance of the proposed method, a set of experiments has been conducted on many recent public and private datasets, and a thorough experimental evaluation has been carried out.

2133 - Combining Deep and Ad-hoc Solutions to Localize Text Lines in Ancient Arabic Document Images

WACV is the premier international computer vision event comprising the main conference and several co-located workshops and tutorials. With its high quality and low cost, it provides an exceptional value for students, academics and industry researchers.




IEEE WACV 2021


**Welcome video**

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University of Colorado WASH Virtual Symposium 2021

The recent years have seen a revolution in the science and practice of crystal growth. Novel mechanisms of nucleation and growth have decoded mysteries that have puzzled the community for ages. Elaborate processes and advanced techniques have birthed materials with unprecedented properties and exciting applications. Rationales developed within the crystal growth realm have illuminated longstanding conundrums in geology, biology, and medicine. 

These jointly-held conferences are the premier forums to discuss the huge modern advances in all aspects of crystal growth, both in the bulk and as epitaxial films. We will continue the tradition of numerous ACCGE and OMVPE meetings and bring together the topmost experts in the field from industry, academia, and government laboratories. Joining the two conferences affords an exceptional opportunity to present and discuss original results and provides a venue for newcomers to embrace the hot, new advances in science and technology. Our format is designed to maximize interaction among leading specialists and the wider crystal growth community, with oral and poster sessions as well as plenary and invited speakers to provide a broad picture of the up-to-date developments in the field.

Please register for the ACCGE-22/OMVPE-20 to be able to access the content.  [Registration here](https://www.eventbrite.com/e/144704802961)

If you have already registered, please login with the same email you used to registered forthe conference.

ACCGE-22/OMVPE-20

ACCGE's mission is to unify the global community of professionals engaged in research and clinical care for children with cerebrovascular diseases and chart a path forward for multinational, multidisciplinary effort.


**Making Physics More Inclusive and Eliminating Exclusionary Practices in Physics**

As a gateway discipline to STEM majors and careers, physics plays a central role in deciding who does, and who doesn't, get to discover and pursue scientific careers. Technical and scientific professionals are rewarded with economic privilege and status which affords them both social and cultural power. Therefore, social justice will be realized only when the opportunity, and the choice, to excel in physics is open to all students. The culture and practices of the physics classroom reflect the culture of physics at large, which raises the question of how our professional physics communities can embrace, rather than inadvertently repel, a diverse group of academics that can help improve physics culture.  To this end, the 2021 Physics Education Research Conference will focus on defining inclusive spaces and practices. Additionally, we will explore strategies for eliminating exclusionary practices in our classrooms, research spaces, and professional organizations. We call on the community to propose sessions that will drive conversations related to these initiatives throughout PERC 2021.

PERC Summer Event 2021

August 4, 2021 - August 5, 2021 in a Virtual Conference Format

Making Physics More Inclusive and Eliminating Exclusionary Practices in Physics

ComSciConCAN is Canada’s first national science communication workshop for graduate students. This unique professional development program aims to help the next generation of leaders in STEM fields develop the skills needed to communicate their research and ideas to their peers, experts in other fields, policy makers, and the general public.

ComSciConCAN looks to bring the longstanding and successful ComSciCon framework from the United States to Canada. Since its establishment in 2013 by graduate students at Harvard University and MIT, the training opportunities offered by ComSciCon have benefited over 500 graduate students across the United States and Canada. What was once a single annual national meeting has expanded to numerous local ComSciCon workshops across the United States. In collaboration with other alumni and invited experts, former ComSciCon attendees have published over 80 articles written at these workshops, initiated new science communication endeavours, and built lasting professional networks.

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ComSciConCAN

ComSciConCAN is Canada’s first national science communication workshop for graduate students. This unique professional development program aims to help the next generation of leaders in STEM fields develop the skills needed to communicate their research and ideas to their peers, experts in other fields, policy makers, and the general public.

CAN-ACN 2021

14th Canadian Neuroscience Meeting from August 23rd-25th

**[Download Full Agenda](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Dm9lJyTfJrvd7-StaHFmUmhXC-J_UgTj/view?usp=sharing)**

Dear IPSO Virtual Conference Attendees:

Welcome to IPSO’s first-ever conference! We are delighted to bring together experts from <u>multiple disciplines</u> and <u>six continents</u> to provide a diverse perspective on pediatric cerebrovascular disease.  

A few quick words about what to expect.  Two important goals of this conference are to (1) foster a sense of community and (2) identify global priorities for our field. Hence, the program includes short presentations on an array of clinical controversies and dedicates more time to panel discussions with a live chat function so that everyone can participate. We are excited to announce IPSO is able to offer 8.75 CME units for the virtual conference. If you would like to claim CME credits, please email  <membership@internationalpediatricstroke.org>. 

We want to hear from you!  Planning for the [IPSO Founding Members’ Congress](https://internationalpediatricstroke.org/2022-congress/) in Vienna, April 24-26, 2022, will commence as soon as the Virtual Conference ends. Let us know your priorities through the live chat function, via email, or by submitting a symposium idea. Based on your input, the Scientific Program Committee will select the topics that we will address in greater depth when we meet again in the spring.

We hope you find the Virtual Conference both interesting and educational, and hope to see you in person in Vienna, or at another IPSO meeting in the future.  

Warm regards,

Heather Fullerton, IPSO President

Adam Kirton, IPSO Vice-President

Lori Jordan, IPSO Secretary & Treasurer


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*Header Photo Credit: Helen Carlson, Ph.D, Alberta Children's Hospital*

To access IPSO 2021, you must pre-register for the conference.  Instructions on how to access the event will be provided directly to attendees and included on the IPSO 2021 conference website. [Register now](https://internationalpediatricstroke.org/2021-congress/registration/).

IPSO2021

Welcome to the first IPSO Virtual Conference. The mission of the virtual conference is to unify the global community of professionals engaged in research and clinical care for children with cerebrovascular diseases, and chart a path forward for multinational, multidisciplinary efforts.  Please go here to access the virtual conference platform- <a href="https://underline.io/events/157/reception">Reception page</a>. 



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**Welcome to the 2021 IEEE Summer Topicals Meeting Series!**

The Summer Topicals is a premier conference for emerging areas in photonic science, technology and applications. Historically, the meetings are conducted in intimate resort environments and create opportunities to learn about new exciting areas from world experts and technology leaders during three days of talks, networking events, and unforgettable fun events.
	
We all would prefer to be meeting in person this year, however, while our return to normal seems to be just around the corner, unfortunately we are not there yet. The conference management and technical committees have put together a comprehensive virtual program, to be delivered through a new online platform with many Q&A sessions and panel discussions to be conducted live. Due to the virtual format the schedule of the conference is adjusted to spread the sessions throughout the day to better fit the daylight time around the globe.
	
The Summer Topicals’ history includes topics ranging from bio-photonics and optical communications to quantum information science. The five topics for 2021 are: 
	
* Photonics for Information Processing (PIP)
* Reconfigurable Optics and Photonics (ROP)
* Silicon-Integrated Mid-Infrared Photonics (SIMP)
* Structured Light and Beyond (SLB)
* Ultra-wideband Optical Fiber Communication Systems (UWB)

Each year the topics and organizers are brand new keeping the technical content fresh. The organizers have spent a full year in planning the topics from submitting a proposal to securing high quality plenary and invited speakers, as well as excellent contributed papers.
	
Networking, socializing, and mentorship are highly valued at the Summer Topicals. We hope that for the next year the conference will be back to its normal format – in person! And so we will be able to return to our valued tradition of having social events and special initiatives to complement the technical program, so as to allow all researchers, organizers, and the IEEE Photonics Society staff to meet: a get together reception, a Welcome/Poster Session on Monday, Automation Hackathon and Mentor Match program.  
	
Whether you are a student, professional, or new to photonics, we encourage each of you to attend this and future Summer Topical series, and to build lasting relationships with colleagues, friends and collaborators. 
	
See you next year at Summer Topicals 2022. Don’t forget to submit your 2022 topic proposal!  



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To access SUM 2021, you must pre-register for the conference.  Instructions on how to access the event will be provided directly to attendees and included on the SUM 2021 conference website. [Register now](https://www.ieee-sum.org/registration-2/).

2021 IEEE Summer Topicals Meeting Series

The IEEE Summer Topicals Meeting Series serves as an international forum to facilitate information exchange between various technical communities using or affected by rapidly growing areas of technology or “Hot Topics” related to the general field of Photonics. This intimate environment provides the opportunity to learn about emerging fields and to interact with the research and technology leaders. 

**About**
<br>The PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments (PETRA) conference is a highly interdisciplinary conference that focuses on computational and engineering approaches to improve the quality of life and enhance human performance in a wide range of settings, in the workplace, at home, in public spaces, urban environments, and other. Outcomes of this conference have a broad impact in application areas that include, manufacturing, transportation, healthcare, energy systems, security and safety, robotics, biomedicine, environment and conservation, and many others. PETRA brings together very different types of technologies to also address important social and healthcare issues for sensitive populations, such as the elderly, persons suffering from chronic conditions such as Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, Cerebral Palsy, and other disabilities or traumas.

<br>PETRA (which means “stone” in Greek) addresses important human living needs. From a technological perspective, PETRA motivates and inspires new scientific thrusts, innovations and discoveries to improve living environments, a particularly important issue, in an increasingly crowded and complex world where the need for inclusiveness and connectivity with the rest of the world is key. For the elderly in particular, PETRA addresses the fact that, as people grow older; they will increasingly rely on technology to be able to prolong staying in their homes and enjoy an independent life.

<br>The PETRA 2021 proceedings will be published in the ACM Digital Library as part of the ACM ICPS program. The ISBN number assigned to PETRA '21 is 978-1-4503-8792-7
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PETRA2021

The PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments (PETRA) conference is a highly interdisciplinary conference that focuses on computational and engineering approaches to improve the quality of life and enhance human performance in a wide range of settings, in the workplace, at home, in public spaces, urban environments, and other. Outcomes of this conference have a broad impact in application areas that include, manufacturing, transportation, healthcare, energy systems, security and safety, robotics, biomedicine, environment and conservation, and many others. PETRA brings together very different types of technologies to also address important social and healthcare issues for sensitive populations, such as the elderly, persons suffering from chronic conditions such as Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, Cerebral Palsy, and other disabilities or traumas.

**Please view videos prior to the conference!**


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The Emerging Leaders Conference encourages Missouri youth to become engaged in the legislative process. Divided into two parts — civic engagement and college access — this conference gives students an opportunity to build on their leadership skills.

The conference focuses on a range of activities:

* exploring and debating community issues,
* diverse political perspectives and
* the legislative decision-making process.
* Additionally, participating students access the college-planning process and experience postsecondary socialization and events on the University of Missouri campus in Columbia.

The Emerging Leaders program is open to all rising 10th through 12th grade Missouri high school students. At the end of the experience, legislators select 3-4 conference participants for a 2-day internship the following spring.

Please register and you will have access to 2021 Emerging Leaders conference.

2021 Emerging Leaders Conference

The Emerging Leaders program is open to all rising 10th through 12th grade Missouri high school students. At the end of the experience, legislators select 3-4 conference participants for a 2-day internship the following spring.

It is our great pleasure to invite you to attend the 26th International Workshop on Rare Earth and Future Permanent Magnets and Their Applications (REPM2021) which will be held virtually on June 7-10, 2021. Please note, this is an updated schedule due to COVID-19 travel restrictions which forced us to postpone the conference from summer of 2020. The REPM workshop takes place every two years and is the premier conference on permanent magnets covering a wide range of topics including:

* Rare earth magnets
* Rare earth-free magnets
* Raw materials, mining and recycling
* Advanced synthesis, processing and characterization techniques
* Theoretical modeling of coercivity
* Fundamental properties of advanced magnetic materials
* Thin film magnets
* Applications of permanent magnets

***Workshop***
The workshop will be chaired by Professor George C. Hadjipanayis, University of Delaware, Newark, DE and Dr. Jinfang Liu, President & COO of Electron Energy Corporation, Landisville, PA.
The objectives of the workshop are to bring together engineers and scientists who work on permanent magnets and their applications to present their latest results and exchange ideas on a wide range of relevant topics including resources, raw materials, recycling, processing, fundamental and hard magnetic properties and applications of rare earth and future magnets.

To regsiter for this event, please follow the link below.

REPM 2021: The 26th International Workshop on Rare-Earth and Future Permanent Magnets and their Applications

The UKSG Annual Conference and Exhibition 2021 will be held online for the first time. The event is a major event in the scholarly communications calendar which attracts a large number of delegates each year from around the world - librarians, publishers, content providers, consultants and intermediaries. The conference combines high-quality plenary presentations, lightning talks and breakout sessions with virtual social events and a major online trade exhibition.



UKSG Annual Conference 2021

CPAF2021

Brought to you by **National Defense Industrial Association ([NDIA](https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ndia-sd.org%2F&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNHj_BQx1K4KVKKp1NTIsAltZOG9Vg))** and hosted by the **Battlespace Exploitation of Mixed Reality ([BEMR](https://cdn.dvidshub.net/media/video/2101/DOD_108139354/DOD_108139354-1024x576-1769k.mp4)) Lab**, at **Naval Information Warfare Center Pacific ([NIWC PAC](https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.public.navy.mil%2Fnavwar%2FNIWC-Pacific%2FPages%2Fdefault.aspx&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNFNS160IEsocfaBrnCNB3u7NqLHPw))**, and welcoming academia, government/DOD, and industry leaders who support Industrial Augmented Reality/Virtual Reality by using the following technologies:   


* Augmented Reality (AR) / Virtual Reality (VR)

* 2D/3D displays

* mobile displays

* wearables

* any other "immersive" technology

### In all fields that touch:

* 3D modeling

* Manufacturing 

* Installations 

* Maintenance and Repairs

* Construction

* Logistics

* Additive manufacturing

* Training

The technical exchange is a two day event held online this year due to COVID-19. It will feature two days of oral presentations, demonstrations, and posters from leaders in AR/VR and other display technologies, including government briefings on active projects within the DOD. The technical exchange is unclassified and we welcome participation from the Navy, DoD as well as from industry and academia. 

The goals of TEAR 3M are:

*  To spread awareness of current immersive technology research relevant to Navy/DOD applications

*  To connect AR researchers with experts in DOD to learn about needs and requirements

*  To build and strengthen collaborations within the DOD research community

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TEAR 3M General Chairs:

Heidi Buck,  Director @ BEMR Lab, Naval Information Warfare Center, Pacific

Lauren Burnette, BEMR Lab, Naval Information Warfare Center, Pacific


For more information, contact Lauren and Heidi at:  tear3m@spawar.navy.mil

Questions regarding sponsorship/registration contact:  ndiasd@sandiegositepros.com

Conference host POC is Tammy Sanchez (NDIA):  tamsanch@cisco.com

TEAR 3M 2021

Welcome to Part I of the two-part, online workshop series on Aligning Global Engineering Graduate Program Priorities, funded by the National Science Foundation. The focus of Part I will be on the following questions:

Day 1: What is Global Engineering? What do global engineers need to know and know how to do?

Day 2: How do we achieve these learning objectives through graduate education? 

The goal of this workshop is to generate consensus on a Body of Knowledge within the emerging field of Global Engineering, working together to: (i) develop and align learning objectives and graduate curricula programming and (ii) strengthen collaboration amongst Global Engineering and other related programs in the United States. 

In preparation for the workshop, please watch the two plenary talks (12min, 19min) and review the following background documents: [North American Global Engineering Programs Summary](https://drive.google.com/file/d/12JHqNYsjdSavnrgk4GC28sy8g1Z0KAAc/view?usp=sharing); [Part I Workshop Participant Survey Summary](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1MROalnXDGBfTKlniq5d7rNd0IzvXFWy5/view?usp=sharing); and [Introduction to Bloom’s Taxonomy](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1i9XEjqhXvnKrUp5SLQ6WG9LWesBFMwOp/view?usp=sharing).

**Evan Thomas Plenary Video**[](https://)

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**Jack Colford Plenary Video**

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Please view the [**[Workshop Participant List & Breakout Assignments]**](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1CEZ8nnes5m1P2xrXLZLNyDZ9V2IOJ420J1erbCDsfY4/edit?usp=sharing)

**We use Gather.Town for the Breakout Sessions**

Please [click here](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ewUD0IGC_-IgsHi2KZU1Y3F3zYWBPirV/view?usp=sharing) for written instructions on using Gather.Town


Aligning Global Engineering Graduate Program Priorities

Dear attendees,
we would like to remind you that this year's ISSCC has three events on Underline. If you wish to reach ISSCC Innovation [please click here](https://underline.io/events/74/reception). If you wish to reach ISSCC Exploration [please click here](https://underline.io/events/79/reception). Remember that you need to be registered for other events in order to have access.

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**The International Solid-State Circuits Conference** is the foremost global forum for presentation of advances in solid-state circuits and systems-on-a-chip. The Conference offers a unique opportunity for engineers working at the cutting edge of IC design and application to maintain technical currency, and to network with leading experts.

The ISSCC 2021 Technical Program is composed of three sub-conferences: Education, Innovations and Exploration. 
* Innovations consists of 205 outstanding technical papers including 4 plenary and 6 invited industry (“Highlighted Chip Releases”) and Special Events. 
* Education consists of twelve introductory tutorials, and a short course on PLLs, Clocking, and Clock Distribution. 
* Exploration consists of six expert-oriented forums.

The Conference will also feature a variety of special events, available to all attendees: 
* three panels on “What Technologies Will Shape the Future of Computing?”, “Going Remote: Challenges and Opportunities to Remote Learning, Work, and Collaboration”, and “Favorite Circuit Design and Testing Mistakes of Starting Engineers”, and 
* another technical session on “ICs in PandemICs”. In addition, we continue with the “Student Research Preview” and “Making a Career Choice”.

In addition, you will have access to two Demonstration Sessions, for both recorded and “live” sessions of devices described in nearly 50 selected papers.
Many networking options will be available, please use provided links to get access to networking lounges, speakers interview or book displays.

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IEEE ISSCC Education

RWW consists of five related conferences that focus on the intersection between wireless communication theory, systems, circuits, and device technologies. This creates a unique forum for engineers to discuss various technologies for state-of-art wireless systems and their end-use applications.  ARFTG continues joining RWW2021 as a co-located conference.

RWW2021 will be held fully virtual on 17 – 22 January 2021.

IEEE Radio & Wireless Week (RWW)

ICPR 2020 Workshops & Tutorials

AAPT® is a strong professional physics science society dedicated to the pursuit of excellence in physical science education.

Winter and Summer National Meetings:
These National Meetings, held each winter and summer, are opportunities for members, colleagues, and future physicists from around the world to:

- participate in physics workshops
- meet and greet other physics educators
- form networks nationally and locally
- engage exhibitors and learn about the latest physics resources
- discuss innovations in teaching methods
- share the results of research about teaching and learning.

If you're not able to log in, you're most likely using **incorrect login credentials**. Double-check that you are using the same email and password that you used to register for the conference, submit your abstract or access your AAPT membership. There may also be **an issue with your AAPT meeting registration**. Please email aapt2021@underline.io and programs@aapt.org and we will work quickly to resolve this issue.

AAPT WM21

WACV is the premier international computer vision event comprising the main conference and several co-located workshops and tutorials. With its high quality and low cost, it provides an exceptional value for students, academics and industry researchers.



Wacv 2021

American Conference on Crystal Growth and Epitaxy

Join us in exploring emergent themes in PER as a scholarly endeavor and as a research community!  Since its inception, PER has served as a confluence of discipline, theory, research methodology, practice, and application.  How have these facets and the interplays among them been fruitful for physics education globally, regionally, locally, or otherwise?  And, how have our successes and interactions influenced the very nature of PER itself?
Following the lead of AAPT for the summer meeting, PERC 20/20 was virtual. Enjoy browsing the content.

PERC 2021

ComSciConCAN is Canada’s first national science communication workshop for graduate students. This unique professional development program aims to help the next generation of leaders in STEM fields develop the skills needed to communicate their research and ideas to their peers, experts in other fields, policy makers, and the general public.

ComSciConCAN looks to bring the longstanding and successful ComSciCon framework from the United States to Canada. Since its establishment in 2013 by graduate students at Harvard University and MIT, the training opportunities offered by ComSciCon have benefited over 500 graduate students across the United States and Canada. What was once a single annual national meeting has expanded to numerous local ComSciCon workshops across the United States. In collaboration with other alumni and invited experts, former ComSciCon attendees have published over 80 articles written at these workshops, initiated new science communication endeavours, and built lasting professional networks.


Due to the ongoing COVID-19 restrictions in place throughout Canada and beyond, CAN-ACN is excited to announce that the 14th Annual Meeting will be held as a virtual event, taking place from 23 – 25 August 2021. This decision was made to ensure the safety of our scientific community, as well as to enable maximum accessibility and engagement for those unable or unwilling to travel to Vancouver.

CAN-ACN 2021 

International Pediatric Stroke Organization

The IEEE Summer Topicals Meeting Series serves as an international forum to facilitate information exchange between various technical communities using or affected by rapidly growing areas of technology or “Hot Topics” related to the general field of Photonics. This intimate environment provides the opportunity to learn about emerging fields and to interact with the research and technology leaders. Historically, the conference hosts 4-7 individual topics and attracts 200+ participants with 30-50 participants attending each topic.

2021 IEEE Summer Topicals Meeting Series 

PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments

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After our virtual paper selection process in October we are very happy to report, with strong submissions, we have put together an outstanding technical program together with an excellent set of educational programs. We are confident to bring you a high-quality conference as you all expect from ISSCC.

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**25th International Conference on Pattern Recognition.**
25th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON PATTERN RECOGNITION MILAN, ITALY // JANUARY 10th TO 15th, 2021

ICPR 2020 is the premier international conference on Pattern Recognition, gathering leading researchers from around the world to present their latest achievements in Pattern Analysis and Recognition, applied Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. The topic of the year is " Putting Artificial intelligence to work on Patterns".

For the first time, ICPR has employed a two-round review process similar to journal submissions, with new papers allowed to be submitted in either the first or second round and papers submitted in the first round and not accepted allowed to be revised and re-submitted for second round review.

In this edition of the ICPR Conference, there are 1407 Oral/Poster presentations organized in five Tracks: Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning for Pattern Analysis; Biometrics, Human Analysis and Behavior Understanding; Computer Vision, Robotics and Intelligent Systems; Document and Media Analysis; and Image and Signal Processing. The ICPR2020 Main Conference program also includes 7 Keynotes from prominent world-renowned scientists, 8 Tutorials, 28 Demos, 8 Challenges, 2 Panels, as well as an Industry/Sponsor Exhibition. In addition, 41 Workshops on a range of important current and emerging research topics complete the ICPR2020 program.

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**ICPR Browser Link:** https://ailb-web.ing.unimore.it/icpr/paper/176/nn 










**Abstract:**


Focusing on hyperspectral imaging together with deep learning, Sony Europe B.V and University of Padova are proposing together the paper “Semi-supervised Deep Learning Techniques for Spectrum Reconstruction”. We present a family of novel deep learning schemes for hyperspectral data estimation able to work when the hyperspectral information at our disposal is limited. Firstly, we introduce a learning scheme exploiting a physical model based on the backward mapping to the RGB space and total variation regularization that can be trained with a limited amount of HSI images. Then, we propose a novel semi-supervised learning scheme able to work even with just a few pixels labeled with hyperspectral information. The proposed techniques allow to reach impressive performances with very limited supervision with ground truth data.

2134 - Semi-supervised Deep Learning Techniques for Spectrum Reconstruction

**ICPR Browser Link:** https://ailb-web.ing.unimore.it/icpr/paper/76/nn 










**Abstract:**


Among all clustering problems, the k-means problem is probably the most well-known one. Lloyd algorithm is a simple and elegant algorithm that gives a certain local optimum for this problem. However, this algorithm has two severe drawbacks. First, there is no theoretical guarantee for the solution quality. Second, if the number of points is very large, it could be infeasible to run this algorithm. In this paper, we improve the analysis of the uniform sampling-based algorithm and propose a novel sub-linear time clustering algorithm called Double-K-MC2 sampling. Experiments on the data clustering task and the image segmentation task have validated the effectiveness of our algorithms.

2137 - Uniform and Non-uniform Sampling Methods for Sub-linear Time k-means
Clustering

**ICPR Browser Link:** https://ailb-web.ing.unimore.it/icpr/paper/540/nn 










**Abstract:**


We study the impact of highly correlated image content on the estimated photo response non-uniformity (PRNU) of a sensor unit and its impact on the sensor identification performance. Based on eight publicly available finger vein datasets, we show formally and experimentally that the nature of finger vein imagery can cause the estimated PRNU to be biased by image content and lead to a fairly bad PRNU estimate. Such bias can cause a false increase in sensor identification performance depending on the dataset composition. Our results indicate that independent of the biometric modality, examining the quality of the estimated PRNU is essential before the sensor identification performance can be claimed to be good.

2139 - Can you really trust the sensor’s PRNU? How image content might impact the finger vein sensor identification performance

**ICPR Browser Link:** https://ailb-web.ing.unimore.it/icpr/paper/279/nn 










**Abstract:**


Monocular depth estimation plays a key role in 3D scene understanding, and a number of recent papers have achieved significant improvements using deep learning based algorithms. Most papers among them proposed methods that use a pre-trained network as a deep feature extractor and then decode the obtained features to create a depth map. In this study, we focus on how to use this encoder-decoder structure to deliver meaningful representation throughout the entire network. We propose a new network architecture with our suggested modules to create a more accurate depth map by bridging the context between the encoding and decoding phase. First, we place the pyramid block at the bottleneck of the network to enlarge the view and convey rich information about the global context to the decoder. Second, we suggest a skip connection with the fuse module to aggregate the encoder and decoder feature. Finally, we validate our approach on the NYU Depth V2 and KITTI datasets. The experimental results prove the efficacy of the suggested model and show performance gains over the state-of-the-art model.

2141 - Delivering Meaningful Representation for Monocular Depth Estimation

**ICPR Browser Link:** https://ailb-web.ing.unimore.it/icpr/paper/1192/nn 










**Abstract:**


Automatic liver tumor segmentation from 3D Computed Tomography (CT) is a necessary prerequisite in the interventions of hepatic abnormalities and surgery planning. However, accurate liver tumor segmentation remains challenging due to the large variability of tumor sizes and inhomogeneous texture. Recent advances based on Fully Convolutional Network (FCN) in liver tumor segmentation draw on success of learning discriminative multi-level features. In this paper, we propose a Deep Attentive Refinement Network (DARN) for improved liver tumor segmentation from CT volumes by fully exploiting both low and high level features embedded in different layers of FCN. Different from existing works, we exploit attention mechanism to leverage the relation of different levels of features encoded in different layers of FCN. Specifically, we introduce a Semantic Attention Refinement (SemRef) module to selectively emphasize global semantic information in low level features with the guidance of high level ones, and a Spatial Attention Refinement (SpaRef) module to adaptively enhance spatial details in high level features with the guidance of low level ones. We evaluate our network on the public MICCAI 2017 Liver Tumor Segmentation Challenge dataset (LiTS dataset) and it achieves state-of-the-art performance. The proposed refinement modules are an effective strategy to exploit multi-level features and has great potential to generalize to other medical image segmentation tasks.

2142 - DARN: Deep Attentive Refinement Network for Liver Tumor Segmentation from 3D CT volume

**ICPR Browser Link:** https://ailb-web.ing.unimore.it/icpr/paper/858/nn 










**Abstract:**


Anthropometric body measurements are importantfor industrial design, garment fitting, medical diagnosis andergonomics. A number of methods have been proposed toestimate the body measurements from images, but progress hasbeen slow due to the lack of realistic and publicly availabledatasets. The existing works train and test on silhouettes of 3D body meshes obtained by fitting a human body model to the commercial CAESAR scans. In this work, we introduce theBODY-fit dataset that contains fitted meshes of 2,675 female and1,474 male 3D body scans. We unify evaluation on the CAESAR-fit and BODY-fit datasets by computing body measurements fromgeodesic surface paths as the ground truth and by generating two-view silhouette images. We also introduce BODY-rgb - a realisticdataset of 86 male and 108 female subjects captured with an RGBcamera and manually tape measured ground truth. We propose a simple yet effective deep CNN architecture as a baseline method which obtains competitive accuracy on the three datasets.

2145 - Silhouette Body Measurement Benchmarks

**ICPR Browser Link:** https://ailb-web.ing.unimore.it/icpr/paper/434/nn 










**Abstract:**


Reinforcement learning is an area of machine learning which recently has been applied in a variety of domains. A lot of challenging problems such as playing Atari video games, controlling robotics and many other fields have been solved in past few years. But when it comes to multi-agent environment, there remains much more complex challenges due to the some multiagent pathologies such as the environment non-stationary problem, curse of dimensionality, credit assignment problem and relative overgeneralization. Inspired by the application of attention mechanism in machine translation and other related domains, we propose an attention based approach called attention value decomposition network (AVD-Net), which capitalizes on the coordination relations between agents.

2147 - AVD-Net: Attention Value Decomposition Network For Deep Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning

**ICPR Browser Link:** https://ailb-web.ing.unimore.it/icpr/paper/1107/nn 










**Abstract:**


Degraded document image binarization is one of the most challenging tasks in the domain of document image analysis. In this paper, we present a novel approach towards document image binarization by introducing three-player min-max adversarial game. We train the network in an unsupervised setup by assuming that we do not have any paired-training data. In our approach, an Adversarial Texture Augmentation Network (ATANet) first superimposes the texture of a degraded reference image over a clean image. Later, the clean image along with its generated degraded version constitute the pseudo paired-data which is used to train the Unsupervised Document Binarization Network (UDBNet). Following this approach, we have enlarged the document binarization datasets as it generates multiple images having same content feature but different textual feature. These generated noisy images are then fed into the UDBNet to get back the clean version. The joint discriminator which is the third-player of our three-player min-max adversarial game tries to couple both the ATANet and UDBNet. The three-player min-max adversarial game stops, when the distributions modelled by the ATANet and the UDBNet align to the same joint distribution over time. Thus, the joint discriminator enforces the UDBNet to perform better on real degraded image. The experimental results indicate the superior performance of the proposed model over existing state-of-the-art algorithm on widely used DIBCO datasets.

2150 - UDBNET: Unsupervised Document Binarization Network via Adversarial Game

**ICPR Browser Link:** https://ailb-web.ing.unimore.it/icpr/paper/756/nn 










**Abstract:**


In this work, we propose a long-term RGBD trackerthat achieves state-of-the-art performance on the PrincetonRGBD, STC and CDTB datasets and runs nearly real-time(20fps). The tracker is based on non-stationary formulation of the deep Discriminative Correlation Filter (DCF). The DCFfeature channels are modulated by the depth context in eachlocation which makes the tracker robust against occlusion andbackground clutter. Moreover, the non-stationary DCF also performs well in target re-detection enabling long-term tracking.

2151 - DAL: A Deep Depth-Aware Long-term Tracker

**ICPR Browser Link:** https://ailb-web.ing.unimore.it/icpr/paper/1224/nn 










**Abstract:**


We present FourierNet, a single shot, anchor-free, fully convolutional instance segmentation method that predicts a shape vector. Consequently, this shape vector is converted into the masks’ contour points using a fast numerical transform. Compared to previous methods, we introduce a new training technique, where we utilize a differentiable shape decoder, which manages the automatic weight balancing of the shape vector’s coefficients. We used the Fourier series as a shape encoder because of its coefficient interpretability and fast implementation.
FourierNet shows promising results compared to polygon representation methods, achieving 30.6 mAP on the MS COCO 2017 benchmark. At lower image resolutions, it runs at 26.6 FPS with 24.3 mAP. It reaches 23.3 mAP using just eight parameters to represent the mask (note that at least four parameters are needed
for bounding box prediction only). Qualitative analysis shows that suppressing a reasonable proportion of higher frequencies of Fourier series, still generates meaningful masks. These results validate our understanding that lower frequency components hold higher information for the segmentation task, and therefore, we can achieve a compressed representation. Code is available at github.com/cogsys-tuebingen/FourierNet.

2133 - Combining Deep and Ad-hoc Solutions to Localize Text Lines in Ancient Arabic Document Images

Olfa Mechi

2133 - Combining Deep and Ad-hoc Solutions to Localize Text Lines in Ancient Arabic Document Images

Olfa Mechi

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