International Conference on Activity and Behavior Computing Jun. 22nd - 25th, 2020 Aug. 26-29, 2020, Kitakyushu, Japan
In conjunction with ICIEV&IVPR2020
Sponsors:
Mamezou Co., Ltd Innovation Plus Co., Ltd. Fusic Co., Ltd. SMART Co., Ltd. Liful Co., Ltd. CARECOM Co., Ltd.

Welcome to ABC2020!

Human Activity Recognition has been researched in thousands of papers so far, with mobile / environmental sensors in ubiquitous / pervasive domains, and with cameras in vision domains. As well, Human Behavior Analysis is also explored for long-term health care, rehabilitation, emotion recognition, human interaction, and so on. However, many research challenges remain for realistic settings, such as complex and ambiguous activities / behavior, optimal sensor combinations, (deep) machine learning, data collection, platform systems, and killer applications.

In this conference, we comprehend such research domains as ABC: Activity and Behavior Computing, and provide an open and a confluent place for discussing various aspects and the future of the ABC.

Call for Papers

We welcome 4 categories of papers: regular papers, position papers, survey papers, and challenge papers. The submitted papers are peer reviewed by expert researchers, and accepted based on the research quality.

Accepted papers will be included in the Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies series of Springer books (Indexed in ISI Proceedings, EI-Compendex, SCOPUS, Google Scholar and Springerlink).

Selected papers will be invited to submit to the Pattern Recognition Letters journal (5-Year Impact Factor: 2.350) and to International Journal on Computer Vision and Signal Processing.

Scope

  • Mobile sensor-based ABC
  • Environmental sensor-based ABC
  • Vision-based ABC
  • Multimodal ABC
  • Physical / semantic analysis of ABC
  • Gait analysis
  • Sleep analysis
  • Emotion recognition / analysis
  • ABC with deep learning
  • ABC data mining
  • Data collection
  • ABC systems
  • Interactive ABC
  • Healthcare applications
  • Sports applications
  • Business applications
  • Tools for industry
  • ABC in the wild

Categories

  • Regular papers: full technical contents which describe the accuracy and performance of ABC Systems, real deployment cases or application of new paradigms such as deep learning to ABC.
  • Survey papers: new perspective or new challenges in ABC based on literature survey. We do not welcome just compilations of existing research, but do if it provides new research horizons.
  • Challenge papers: we will provide a dataset and accept results for activity recognition and papers describing the methods and the results. Please see the Challenge Site for details.
  • Position papers: describe the challenges and future directions of ABC based on problems that arise when systems are deployed in real settings.

Format

  • Regular papers: 8-20 pages in single column
  • Survey papers: 10-20 pages in single column
  • Challenge papers: 4-10 pages in single column
  • Position papers: 4-10 pages in single column
  • Please use Springer Contributed Book format (button below for the LaTeX template).
  • Submit from Microsoft CMT for ICIEV2020 (button below) and select the ABC.
  • Note that the author information should be removed from the paper, for double blind reviews.

Important dates

[Regular/Survey/Position] Paper submission

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Jan. 17th, 2020 Feb. 28th, 2020 (Anywhere on Earth)!

[Challenge] Result submission

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Mar. 18th, 2020 Apr. 1st, 2020 (Anywhere on Earth)!

[Challenge] Paper submission

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Mar. 25th, 2020 Apr. 1st, 2020 (Anywhere on Earth)!

[Challenge] Review result

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Apr. 6th, 2020 Apr. 25th, 2020

Review result

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Mar. 13th, 2020 Apr. 6th, 2020 Apr. 25th, 2020

Resubmission for conditionally accepted paper

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May 25th, 2020

[Regular/Survey/Position/Challenge] Camera ready and Registration

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Apr. 20th, 2020 June 15th, 2020

Conference

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Jun. 22nd - Jun. 25th, 2020 Aug. 26-29, 2020
Template Submit

Venue

ABC2020 will be held in Kitakyushu-city, Fukuoka, Japan. There are many natural and industrial attractions.

For more information, please see here.

Committee

General Chairs

Sozo Inoue, Kyushu Institute of Technology / Riken, Japan
Atiqur Rahman Ahad, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh / Osaka University, Japan

Program Chairs

Daniel Roggen, University of Sussex, UK
Kaori Fujinami, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan

Publicity Chair

Brahim Benaissa, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan

Publication Chair

Paula Lago, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan

Advisory Board

Paul Lukowicz, DFKI, Germany
Kristof Van Laerhoven, University of Siegen, Germany
Daniel Roggen, University of Sussex, UK
Michael Beigl, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
Jeffry Cohn, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Anind Dey, University of Washinton, USA
Nobuo Kawaguchi, Nagoya University, Japan

Secretaries

Tahera Hossain, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan
Moe Matsuki, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan
Nattaya Mairittha, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan
Tittaya Mairittha, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan

Program Committee (Tentative)

Ren Ohmura, Toyohashi University of Technology, Japan
Kazuya Murao, Ritsumeikan University, Japan
Kristof Van Laerhoven, University of Siegen, Germany
Susanna Pirttikangas, University of Oulu, Finland
Philipp M. Scholl, University of Freiburg, Germany
Hristijan Gjoreski, Ss. Cyril and Methodius University, Macedonia
Katsuhiko Kaji, Aichi Institute of Technology, Japan
Tsuyoshi Okita, Kyushu Institute of Technology / Riken, Japan
Paula Lago, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan
Stephan Sigg, Aalto University, Finland
Hiroki Watanabe, Hokkaido University, Japan
Pascal Hirmer, University of Stuttgart, Germany
Shigeyuki Miyagi, The University of Shiga Prefecture, Japan
Yu Enokibori, Nagoya University, Japan
Anja Exler, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
Kristina Yordanova, University of Rostock, Germany
Trung Thanh NGO, Osaka University, Japan
Ricky J Sethi, Fitchburg State University, USA
Ikuhisa Mitsugami, Hiroshima City University, Japan
Mohiuddin Ahmad, Khulna University of Engineering & Technology, Bangladesh
Upal Mahbub, University of Meryland, College Park, USA
Atsushi Shimada, Kyushu University, Japan
Guillaume Lopez, Aoyama Gakuin University, Japan
Atsushi Nakazawa, Kyoto University, Japan
Liming Chen, Ulster University, UK
Christopher Nugent, Ulster University, UK
François Charpillet, INRIA, France
Maria Del Pilar Villamil Giraldo, University of Los Andes, Colombia
Shoji Kobashi, University of Hyogo, Japan
Phond Phunchongharn, KMUTT, Thailand

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