Connectionists: ESANN 2013 Special Session - DEADLINE POSTPONED - Final CFP AND ACTIVITY RECOGNITION COMPETITION - "Human Activity and Motion Disorder Recognition: Towards Smarter Interactive Cognitive Environments"

[Alessandro Ghio]

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-- Due to several requests, the deadlines for the special session and for the competition have been postponed to December 7th! --
ESANN 2013 Special Session - "Human Activity and Motion Disorder Recognition: Towards Smarter Interactive Cognitive Environments" - CALL FOR PAPERS AND ACTIVITY RECOGNITION COMPETITION.

European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks, Computational Intelligence and Machine Learning (ESANN 2013). 24-26 April 2013, Bruges, Belgium - http://www.esann.org

Submissions are invited for next year ESANN Special Session on "Human Activity and Motion Disorder Recognition: Towards Smarter Interactive Cognitive Environments". 

Organizers: Jorge Luis Reyes-Ortiz (1,2), Alessandro Ghio (1), Xavier Parra-Llanas (2), Davide Anguita (1), Joan Cabestany (2), Andreu Català (2)
(1) University of Genoa (Italy), (2) Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (Spain)
Participants are also encouraged to take part in a competition using a new publicly available dataset containing waist-worn smartphone inertial data for Human Activity Recognition.
ESANN 2013 Special Sessions: http://www.elen.ucl.ac.be/esann/index.php?pg=specsess

ABSTRACT
Human Activity Recognition (HAR) exploits heterogeneous sensors (including accelerometers, video-cameras, microphones, body-worn sensors, etc.) to capture the state and the activity of one or more users as well as to depict the condition of the environment, which the users move in, to provide adaptation to the surrounding computing resources. The so-gathered activity-related data can be then used to model and automatically interpret complex situations, thus laying the foundation for building smarter Interactive Cognitive Environments (ICEs).
In this special session, we would like to encourage submissions related to:
- The development of new Machine Learning and Computational Intelligence techniques, targeting HAR.
- The application of HAR approaches to real-world problems (e.g. personalized healthcare applications, surveillance, security, safety, entertainment, etc.).
- The development of specific algorithms for human motion disorder recognition mainly related to neurological diseases (for instance Parkinson Disease).
We kindly invite you to submit a paper to this special session. Each paper will undergo to a peer reviewing process for its acceptance. Paper submission should be done exclusively through the ESANN portal following the instructions provided in: (http://www.elen.ucl.ac.be/esann/index.php?pg=submission). 

ACTIVITY RECOGNITION COMPETITION
A competition is also organized concurrently with the special session, where competitors are requested to perform classification of Android-OS smartphone sensor signals, gathered for HAR purposes in assistive technologies applications. The competition and the Call for Papers are independent events therefore it is possible to participate in one or both of them. Participants to the competition will have the possibility to submit a paper to the special session describing their approach. The registration fees to ESANN 2013 will be covered for the competition winner and the best performing approaches will have the paper accepted for the special session.
A new publicly available database of daily human activities has been recorded using accelerometer and gyroscope data from a waist-mounted Android-OS smartphone. Participants are encouraged to propose method to obtain the labels (activities) of a test dataset given a labelled training set. For more details about the competition check the README.txt included in the database. To download the competition dataset follow this link:
http://smartlab.ws/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=60  
To participate in this competition it is necessary to send an email to this address ( activityrecognition at smartlab.ws) before the deadline and include the following information:
- A text file with the forecasted labels of the test dataset.
- A full description of the proposed approach.
Disclaimer: The decision of the event organizers regarding the competition outcome is final in every situation and no further correspondence will be entered into.

IMPORTANT DATES 
 Special Session:
 - Paper submission deadline: 30 November 2012 7 December 2012
 - Notification of paper acceptance: 01 February 2013
 - ESANN conference: 24 - 26 April 2013

 Competition:
 - Competition deadline: 30 November 2012 7 December 2012
 - Competition paper submission deadline : 23 December 2012
  
Please note that the authors of accepted papers must register and pay the registration fee in the same way as any other participant to the conference. If you have any questions concerning the special session and/or the competition, please do not hesitate to contact us via email to: activityrecognition at smartlab.ws

More information about the Conference Program, accommodation facilities and registration fees is available on the ESANN website www.esann.org

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Dr. Alessandro Ghio, Ph.D.

DITEN - University of Genoa
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@ Alessandro.Ghio at smartlab.ws

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