[Announcements] 5 reasons for Activity and Behavior Computing

[Sozo Inoue]

Apologies for multiple postings.

Upon requests, we have extended the paper deadline to Feb. 28th.
Sorry if you miss the 5 below.

5 REASONS TO PARTICIPATE ABC:

1. Neat and one of the best communities for Activity and Behavior Computing:
The program committee members are selected and invited from top-tier
conferences and workshop for human activity recognition and behavior
computing. For whatever the paper category is (among regular / survey /
 challenge / position) , they will give great feedback to submitted papers.

2. Publication in Springer BOOK.
The papers accepted as book chapter are compiled as a Springer book
entitled "Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies" series (Indexed in
ISI Proceedings, EI-Compendex, SCOPUS, Google Scholar and Springerlink).

3. Industrial sponsors:
Thanks to the sponsors Mamezou / Innovation Plus / Fusic / SMART / Lifull /
CARECOM, around 5 students of excellent papers will be supported their
travel costs. The industry session will lead to opportunities of
internships and job hunting.

4. Interesting recognition challenge:
We provide interesting motion dataset comprised of multi-level complexity
for cooking, and organize a challenge in advance. The winner will get 100K
yen and invited to use the world-unique sensing room with MoCap and many
sensing facilities also with elderly care equipments with a travel grants
anytime after the conference.

5. Nice city in Asia.
Kitakyushu is the city of UNESCO World Heritage / Industrial Revolution.
Also the city was chosen as one of Japan's top three night-views.




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                                               CALL FOR PAPERS
        International Conference on Activity and Behavior Computing (ABC
2020)

                                          https://abc-research.github.io/
                               Jun. 22nd - 25th, 2020, Kitakyushu, Japan
                                   In conjunction with ICIEV&IVPR2020
                         Accepted papers will be included in a Springer
Book!
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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.

CONFERENCE SCOPES
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.

- 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.
- Position papers: describe the challenges and future directions of ABC
based on
  problems that arise when systems are deployed in real settings.
- 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.
   https://abc-research.github.io/cook2020/

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.

IMPORTANT DATES: (deadlines are anywhere on earth).
- [Regular/Survey/Position] Paper submission: Feb. 28th, 2020 (Extended)
- Review result: Mar. 13th, 2020
- [Challenge] Result submission: Mar. 18th, 2020
- [Challenge] Paper submission: Mar. 25th, 2020
- [Challenge] Review result: Apr. 6th, 2020
- [Regular/Survey/Position/Challenge] Camera ready:  Apr. 20th, 2020
- Conference :  Jun. 22nd - Jun. 25th, 2020
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SPONSORS
- Mamezou Co., Ltd.
- Innovation Plus, Inc.
- Fusic Co., Ltd.
- SMART Inc.
- Lifull Co., Ltd.
- CARECOM Co., Ltd.

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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

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
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