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<p class="paragraph" style="vertical-align:baseline"><span class="normaltextrun"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#424242">Call for papers: special session on "Machine Learning Applied to Sign Language" at ESANN 2023</span></b></span><span class="eop"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#424242"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="vertical-align:baseline"><span class="normaltextrun"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#424242">European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks, Computational Intelligence and</span></span><span class="eop"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#424242"> </span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="vertical-align:baseline"><span class="normaltextrun"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#424242">Machine Learning (ESANN 2023). 4-5 October 2023, Bruges, Belgium.
</span></span><a href="http://www.esann.org" target="_blank"><span class="normaltextrun"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#0563C1">http://www.esann.org</span></span></a><span class="eop"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="vertical-align:baseline"><span class="normaltextrun"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#424242">DESCRIPTION</span></b></span><span class="normaltextrun"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#424242">:</span></span><span class="eop"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#424242"> </span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="vertical-align:baseline"><span class="normaltextrun"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#424242">Deep learning has led to spectacular advances in many fields dealing with unstructured data such as computer
vision, natural language processing, and data generation. Recently, sign languages have drawn the attention of machine learning practitioners as sign language recognition, translation, and synthesis raise interesting technical challenges and have a clear societal
impact. The overarching domain of sign language processing is related to computer vision, natural language processing, computer graphics, and human-computer interaction. It brings together computer scientists and linguists to tackle interdisciplinary problems. This
special session aims to highlight recent advances made in sign language recognition, translation, and synthesis, as well as new datasets.</span></span><span class="eop"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#424242"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="vertical-align:baseline"><span class="normaltextrun"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#424242">Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:</span></span><span class="eop"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#424242"> </span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span class="normaltextrun"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#424242">Sign language recognition models</span></span><span class="eop"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#424242"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span class="normaltextrun"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#424242">Sign language translation models (from signed to spoken languages and vice versa)</span></span><span class="eop"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#424242"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span class="normaltextrun"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#424242">Sign language synthesis and virtual signing avatars</span></span><span class="eop"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#424242"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span class="normaltextrun"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#424242">Data collection efforts related to sign language processing</span></span><span class="eop"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#424242"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="vertical-align:baseline"><span class="normaltextrun"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#424242">All papers will be submitted to a peer review process. Accepted papers will be presented as either talks
or posters, in order to favour interaction with the ESANN attendees. There is no difference in quality between talks and posters and all papers will be published in the conference proceedings. At least one author is expected to register for the conference
and pay the registration fee.</span></span><span class="eop"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#424242"> </span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="vertical-align:baseline"><span class="normaltextrun"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#424242">SUBMISSION:</span></b></span><span class="eop"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#424242"> </span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="vertical-align:baseline"><span class="normaltextrun"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#424242">Prospective authors must submit their paper through the ESANN portal following the instructions provided
on </span></span><a href="https://www.esann.org/node/6" target="_blank"><span class="normaltextrun"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#0563C1">https://www.esann.org/node/6</span></span></a><span class="normaltextrun"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#424242">.
Author guidelines are available on </span></span><a href="https://www.esann.org/author_guidelines" target="_blank"><span class="normaltextrun"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#0563C1">https://www.esann.org/author_guidelines</span></span></a><span class="normaltextrun"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#424242">. Each
paper will undergo a peer reviewing process for its acceptance. Authors should send an e-mail with the tentative title of their contribution to the special session organizers as soon as possible.</span></span><span class="eop"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#424242"> </span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="vertical-align:baseline"><span class="normaltextrun"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#424242">IMPORTANT DATES:</span></b></span><span class="eop"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#424242"> </span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="vertical-align:baseline"><span class="normaltextrun"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#424242">Paper submission deadline: 2 May 2023</span></span><span class="eop"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#424242"><br>
</span></span><span class="normaltextrun"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#424242">Notification of acceptance: 16 June 2023</span></span><span class="eop"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#424242"><br>
</span></span><span class="normaltextrun"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#424242">The ESANN 2023 conference: 4-5 October 2023</span></span><span class="eop"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#424242"> </span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="vertical-align:baseline"><span class="normaltextrun"><b><span lang="FR-BE" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#424242">SPECIAL SESSION ORGANISERS:</span></b></span><span class="eop"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#424242"> </span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="vertical-align:baseline"><span class="normaltextrun"><span lang="FR-BE" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#424242">Joni Dambre, Ghent University (Belgium)</span></span><span class="scxw87237695"><span lang="FR-BE" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#424242"> </span></span><span lang="FR-BE" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#424242"><br>
</span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="mailto:joni.dambre@ugent.be" target="_blank"><span class="normaltextrun"><span lang="FR-BE" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#0563C1">joni.dambre@ugent.be</span></span></a></span><span lang="FR-BE"><br>
</span><span class="normaltextrun"><span lang="FR-BE" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#424242">Mathieu De Coster, Ghent University (Belgium)</span></span><span class="scxw87237695"><span lang="FR-BE" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#424242"> </span></span><span lang="FR-BE" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#424242"><br>
</span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="mailto:mathieu.decoster@ugent.be" target="_blank"><span class="normaltextrun"><span lang="FR-BE" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#0563C1">mathieu.decoster@ugent.be</span></span></a></span><span class="normaltextrun"><span lang="FR-BE" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><br>
J<span style="color:#424242">érôme Fink, Université de Namur (Belgium)</span></span></span><span class="scxw87237695"><span lang="FR-BE" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#424242"> </span></span><span lang="FR-BE" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#424242"><br>
</span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="mailto:jerome.fink@unamur.be" target="_blank"><span class="normaltextrun"><span lang="FR-BE" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#0563C1">jerome.fink@unamur.be</span></span></a></span><span lang="FR-BE"><br>
</span><span class="normaltextrun"><span lang="FR-BE" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#424242">Benoît Frénay, Université de Namur (Belgium)</span></span><span class="scxw87237695"><span lang="FR-BE" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#424242"> </span></span><span lang="FR-BE" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#424242"><br>
</span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="mailto:benoit.frenay@unamur.be" target="_blank"><span class="normaltextrun"><span lang="FR-BE" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#0563C1">benoit.frenay@unamur.be</span></span></a></span><span class="eop"><span lang="FR-BE" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#424242"> </span></span><span lang="FR-BE"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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