Connectionists: [CFP] Complex- and Hypercomplex-valued Neural Networks - Special Session WCCI 2024

[Marcos Eduardo Valle (IMECC-Unicamp)]

Dear colleagues,

I would like to draw your attention to the following special session at
WCCI 2024, which will be held in Yokohama, Japan.

Complex- and Hypercomplex-valued Neural Networks

https://www.ime.unicamp.br/~valle/CFPs/wcci2024/

https://2024.ieeewcci.org/


Aim and Scope:

Complex-valued, quaternion-valued, and more generally, hypercomplex-valued
neural networks (HVNNs) constitute a rapidly growing research area that has
attracted continued interest for the last decade. Besides their natural
ability to tread multidimensional data, hypercomplex-valued neural networks
can benefit from hypercomplex numbers’ geometric and algebraic properties.
For example, complex-valued neural networks are essential for adequately
treating phases and the information contained in phases, including the
treatment of wave- and rotation-related phenomena such as electromagnetism,
light waves, quantum waves, and oscillatory phenomena. Quaternion-valued
neural networks, which have potential applications in three- and
four-dimensional data modeling, have been effectively used to process and
analyze multivariate images such as color and polarimetric SAR images.
Despite significant theoretical development and successful applications,
many research directions in HVNNs remain. These include formally
generalizing the commonly used real-valued network architectures and
training algorithms to the hypercomplex-valued case. There are also many
exciting applications in pattern recognition and classification, nonlinear
filtering, intelligent image processing, brain-computer interfaces,
time-series prediction, bioinformatics, and robotics, to list a few. This
special session aims to be the proper forum for a systematic and
comprehensive exchange of ideas, present the recent research results, and
discuss future trends in complex- and hypercomplex-valued neural networks.
We hope the proposed session will attract potential speakers and
researchers interested in joining the community. We also expect this
session to benefit and inspire computational intelligence researchers and
other specialties that need sophisticated neural network tools.

List of Topics:

This special session welcomes papers that are or might be related to all
aspects of complex- and, more generally, hypercomplex-valued neural
networks. Contributions to theoretical advances or of applied nature are
appreciated. We also welcome interdisciplinary contributions from other
areas on the proposed scope's borders. Topics include, but are not limited
to:

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   Theoretical aspects of complex- and hypercomplex-valued neural networks
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   Complex- and hypercomplex-valued activation functions
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   Learning algorithms for complex- and hypercomplex-valued neural networks
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   Complex- and hypercomplex-valued associative memories
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   Pattern recognition, classification, and time series prediction using
   hypercomplex-valued neural networks
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   Complex- and hypercomplex neural networks in nonlinear filtering
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   Dynamics of complex- and hypercomplex-valued neurons and networks
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   Chaos in the complex- and hypercomplex domain
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   Complex- and hypercomplex-valued deep neural networks
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   Spatiotemporal processing using complex- and hypercomplex-valued neural
   networks
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   Frequency domain processing using complex-valued neural networks
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   Phase-sensitive signal processing
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   Applications of complex- and hypercomplex-valued neural networks in
   image processing, speech processing, and bioinformatics
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   Quantum computation and quantum neural networks
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   Complex- and hypercomplex-valued neural networks in brain-computer
   interfaces
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   Complex- and hypercomplex-valued neural networks in robotics
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   Complex and hypercomplex-based hardware/devices such as lightwave and
   spin-wave neural devices


Past Special Sessions:

Special sessions on complex- and hypercomplex-valued neural networks have
become a traditional event of the IJCNN conference. Twelve special sessions
have been organized since 2006 (WCCI-IJCNN 2006, Vancouver; WCCI-IJCNN
2008, Hong Kong; IJCNN 2009, Atlanta; WCCI-IJCNN 2010, Barcelona;
IJCNN-2011, San Jose; WCCI-IJCNN 2012, Brisbane; IJCNN-2013, Dallas;
WCCI-IJCNN 2014, Beijing; WCCI-IJCNN 2016, Vancouver; WCCI-IJCNN 2018, Rio
De Janeiro; WCCI-IJCNN 2020, Glasgow, WCCI-IJCNN 2022, Padua). These
special sessions attracted numerous submissions and had large audiences.
They featured many engaging presentations and very productive discussions.
Because of the recent advances in complex- and hypercomplex-valued neural
networks, we expect this special session to be as exciting and fruitful as
the past special sessions.

Organizers

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   Teijiro Isokawa. University of Hyogo, Japan
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   Marcos Eduardo Valle. Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Unicamp), Brazil
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   Danilo Mandic, Imperial College, London, UK
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   Igor Aizenberg, Manhattan College, USA
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   Akira Hirose, University of Tokyo, Japan


Important Dates

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   Paper Submission: January 15, 2024
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   Notification of Acceptance: March 15, 2024
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   Final Paper Submission: May 01, 2024
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   IEEE WCCI 2024, Yokohama, Japan. June 30 - July 05, 2024


Do not hesitate to contact me or the organizers if you have any questions.

We are looking forward to seeing you in Yokohama!

Best regards,

Marcos Eduardo
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