Invited key note talks (each talk is 60 minutes, including discussion):

The AI Revolution and Semiconductor Supply Chain Challenges. Chrysostomos L. Nikias, University of Southern California

A Novel User-Friendly AI Method for Prostate Cancer Detection and Classification from MRI Imaging. Andre Abreu, Giovanni Cacciamani, Vinay Duddalwar, Inderbir Gill, Masatomo Kaneko, Jay Kuo, Vasileios Magoulianitis, Yijing Yang and Chrysostomos L. Nikias*, University of Southern California

Invited tutorial

Talks (each talk is 30 minutes, including discussion; for multiple co-authors, the name of the presenting author is marked by *; the order of talks in the list below is the chronological order of abstract submission; the schedule will to be sent by email to the participants):

Applying Machine Learning to Real World Data. Cauligi Raghavendra, University of Southern California, USA

A Reflection on Teaching Computer Science in the GenAI Era. Marco Aiello, University of Stuttgart, Germany

Balancing Accuracy and Energy Costs: Experiments and Simulations on Adapting AI Models for Effective Image Classification. A. Orłowski*, K. Gajowniczek, M. Bator, R. Budzyński. Warsaw University of Life Sciences - SGGW, Poland

Scaling and Diversifying in Remote Alerting Systems. Stiliyan Kalitzin. Stichting Epilepsie Instellingen Nederland (SEIN) & University of Utrecht, Netherlands

A Quantum-Annealing-Inspired HPC Hybrid Computing Platform for AI-Accelerated Data Analysis. Hiroaki Kobayashi. Tohoku University, Japan

Improving CEM Diagnosis through Ordinal BI-RADS Modelling and Multiview Deep Learning Fusion. Valeria Popello (a, c), Chiara Zucco (a, b), Mario Cannataro (a, b). (a) Università Magna Graecia di Catanzaro, Italy  (b) Data Analytics Research Center, Università Magna Graecia di Catanzaro, Italy  (c) Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma, Italy

How AI-Driven Prescribing Tools Optimize Clinical Decision Making. K.P.A. van Apeldoorn, M. Postma, T. Fens, A.B.D. van Doorn*. University of Groningen, Netherlands

A Brain-Inspired Approach to Language Learning. Herwig Unger, Tim Harrison, Elen Petrevska. FernUniversitaet in Hagen, Germany

RBMs for Time Series Regression/Prediction. R W Harrison. Georgia State University, USA

Transferable Schema with the Cloned GraphLearner. T. Harrison*, H. Unger. Univ. of Hagen, Germany

From Generalist to Specialist: Integrating Expert's Domain Knowledge into Medical Vision-Language Models. Ismail Ben Ayed. ETS Montreal, Canada

Predicting Excess Returns: A Comparative ML Study with Novel Feature Selection and Fundamental Indicators. Ozancan Ozdemir*, Nicolai Petkov. Univ. of Groningen, Netherlands

Cortisol Dynamics and Identifiability analysis of models. S.Bhatkar*(a) , W.Arlt (b,c), K.Bunte (a). (a) Univ. of Groningen, , Netherlands; (b) Medical Research Council Laboratory of Medical Sciences, (c) Imperial College London, UK

Adapt or Collapse: Graph Neural Networks at Test Time. Huy Truong* (a), Alexander Lazovik (a), Victoria Degeler (b). (a) Univ. of Groningen, (b) Univ. of Amsterdam, Netherlands

When AI Gets Creative: Controlling Quality in Mass-Generated Product Images. Juergen Nuetzel*, Fahad Mansuri. deenovum Technologies AG, Germany

Real time, Resilient, Sustainable - When AI runs the water. Hydroinformatics team, Vitens, Netherlands

Operationalizing AI. E.Lazovik*, S. ben Aziza, K. Helmholt. TNO, Netherlands

“Compositionality, priors and unlearning: rethinking vision models in the ReVision project”. N. Strisciuglio. Univ. of Twente, Netherlands

Invited key note talks (each talk is 60 minutes, including discussion):

A Novel Green AI Method for Prostate Cancer MRI Classification: Towards A Virtual Biopsy Alternative. Andre Luis Abreu, Manju Aron, Giovanni E. Cacciamani, Vinay Duddalwar, Inderbir S. Gill, Karanvir Gill, Masatomo Kaneko, C.-C. Jay Kuo, Jinyuan Liu, Vasileios Magoulianitis, Passant Mohamed, Suzanne L. Palmer, Lorenzo Storino Ramaciotti, Jintang Xue, Jiaxin Yang, and Chrysostomos L. Nikias*;University of Southern California, US.

Takeaways from Retrieval-Augmented Generation: Advantages, Challenges, and Real-World Applications. Juergen Nuetzel; 4FriendsOnly.com Internet Technologies AG, DE.

Validated AI-Powered Machine Learning for Accelerating Delivery of Scientific Grand Challenges. William M. Tang; Princeton University, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, US.

Water is AI. Alexander Lazovik; University of Groningen, NL.

Invited tutorial

Interpretable AI: A Missing Link to eHealth? Danilo Mandic, Imperial College London, UK.

Talks (each talk is 30 minutes, including discussion; for multiple co-authors, the name of the presenting author is marked by *; the order of talks in the list below is the chronological order of abstract submission; the schedule will to be sent by email to the participants):

On an extended GraphLearner concept. Herwig Unger, Timothy Harrison*; University of Hagen, DE.

A Paradigm Shift in Service Research: The Case of Service Composition. Marco Aiello; University of Stuttgart.

Predictability of adverse state transitions in epilepsy. Stiliyan Kalitzin; Stichting Epilepsie Instellingen Nederland (SEIN) and Image Sciences Institute, University Medical Center Utrecht, NL.

A Comprehensive Review of Fundamental Indicators and Machine Learning Techniques for Stock Market Forecasting. O. Ozdemir*, M. Biehl, N. Petkov; University of Groningen, NL.

Applying Machine Learning to Medical Data. Cauligi (Raghu) Raghavendra*; University of Southern California, US.

Frequency-based Few-shot Learning for Image Classification. Z.Miao* (a), E. Talavera Martinez (b), J.Guo (a); (a) Univ. of Groningen, (b) Univ. of Twente, NL.

Super-resolution Reconstruction of Three-dimensional Vorticity Fields by Machin Learning Models. T. Fukui and M. Yokokawa*; Kobe University, JP.

Few-shot adaptation of large vision-language models: Do we really need prompt learning? Ismail Ben Ayed; ETS Montreal, Univ. Of Quebec, CA.

Intelligent Warranty Management System Based on Neural Networks and Fuzzy Logic. B.R. Campomanes-Alvarez* (a), P. Rojo (b), C. Campomanes-Alvarez(a); (a) Data & Analytics Business Unit, SEAT-CODE, ES, (b) ZF Automotive, Technical Centre, UK

Graph-based Data Analysis of Three-dimensional Electron Diffraction Data. Hiroaki Kobayashi* and Yusuke Fukasawa;Tohoku University, JP.

Evolving 2Prescribe: A Hybrid AI platform for Pharmacotherapy E-learning and Expert Decision Support.A.B.D. van Doorn*, D. Meijer, M. Postma, T. Fens; University of Groningen, NL.

High Performance Bioinformatics: 20 Years Experiences at University Magna Graecia of Catanzaro. M. Milano, P. Cinaglia, C. Zucco, G. Agapito, P.H. Guzzi, M. Cannataro*; University Magna Graecia of Catanzaro, IT.

Designing an Emotion-Based Motivation Model for Adaptive AI Agents. R.Yanakorn*, U.Herwig, University of Hagen, DE.

Modeling and Control of Turbulent Convection. M. Straat*, T. Markmann, B. Hammer; Bielefeld University, DE.

AI and Oracle-Based Arbitration for Blockchain Public Procurement. Salek Riadi; Higher School of Technology‚ Äì Laayoune, Ibn Zohr University, MA.

Sequential Optimal Experiment Design Strategies for Injection Molding with Recyclates. I.Bayer*, F. Schoenenberger, Palaimon GmbH, DE.

Scientific Machine Learning for partially observed dynamical systems. K. Bunte, Univ. of Groningen, NL.

Invited key note talks:
Semiconductor chips in the center of geopolitical competition. Chrysostomos (Max) L. Nikias, University of Southern California, US. 

Interpretable AI: The multi-graph tensor network approach. Danilo Mandic, Imperial College London, UK.

Learning in dynamic environment by autonomous reinforcement. Sitiliyan Kalitzin, Stichting Epilepsie Instellingen Nederland (SEIN) & Univ. Utrecht, NL. 

Evolution of neural networks for image segmentation. Markus van Almsick, Wolfram Research, US.

Talks (name of the presenting author is marked by *):

Sequence learning for Natural Language Processing. Herwig Unger* (a), Thomas Böhme (b) Mario Kubek (c); (a) University of Hagen (b) TU Ilmenau (c) Georgia State University (GSU), DE/US.

Asymmetry in the peak in measured daily Covid-19 cases and the pandemic R-parameter. (a)Sayali Bhatkar, (b) Mingyang Ma, (c) Mary Zsolway, (d) Ayush Tarafder, (e) Sebastian Doniach, (f) Gyan Bhanot*: (a) Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, IN; (b),(c),(d)(f) Rutgers University, US; (e) Stanford University. IN/US.

Remote object tracking based on optical flow reconstruction of motion-group parameters. S. Karpuzov(a), G. Petkov(a*), S. Ilieva(a), Al. Petkov(b), St. Kalitzin(c, d): Camera Movement (a) Institute GATE, Sofia Univ., (b) Univ. of Bristol, (c) Foundation Epilepsy Institute in The Netherlands (SEIN), (d) Image Sciences Institute, University Medical Center Utrecht, BG/UK/NL.

Machine Learning Applications in Endocrinology. M. Biehl; University of Groningen, NL.

Using Large Language Models (LLMs) and Text Embeddings for Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG). J. Nuetzel, 4FriendsOnly.com Internet Technolgies AG, DE.

Service Composition in the ChatGPT Era. Marco Aiello, University of Stuttgart, DE.

AI - Data Protection and Privacy - Some Legal Aspects Analysis between Europe and USA. Nicola Fabiano, (a) Studio Legale Fabiano, (b) International Institute of Informatics and Systemics (IIIS), Florida, IT/US.

Analog In-Network Computing for Supporting Cognitive and Energy-Efficient Network Functions. S. Saleh* (a), B. Koldehofe (b); (a) Univ. of Groningen, NL, (b) TU-Ilmenau, DE.

Estimation of soil parameters for unsaturated flow using Physics-Informed Neural Networks. Sai Karthikeya Vemuri*, Joachim Denzler; Friedrich Schiller University Jena, DE.

Multivariate, Unsupervised Anomaly Detection for Risk Mitigation in Closed-Loop Greenhouse Telemetry. Ferdinand Rewicki* (a,b), Joachim Denzler (b), Julia Niebling (a); (a) German Aerospace Center (DLR), Institute of Data Science Jena, (b) Friedrich-Schiller University Jena, DE.

Microservices-Oriented Lifecycle Management System for Real-Time AI/ML Applications. Mostafa Hadadian Nejad Yousefi* (a), Victoria Degeler (b), Alexander Lazovik (a); (a) University of Groningen, (b) University of Amsterdam, NL.

Hermite transform, image denoising, smoothing, quality enhancement. Đorđe Stanković* (a,b), Anđela Draganić (a), Cornel Ioana (b), Irena Orović (a); (a) Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Montenegro, (b) Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP), GIPSA-lab, ME/FR.

Rule learning in temporal sensor data. Victoria Degeler; University of Amsterdam, NL.

Data Analysis and Artificial Intelligence Approaches applied to the Automotive Industry. Carmen Campomanes-Alvarez* (a), B. Rosario Campomanes-Alvarez (a); Data & Analytics Business Unit Seat:Code, ES.

Enhancing Imitation Learning through Video Demonstrations for Adaptive Robotics. P. Foggia (a), F. Rosa* (a), M. Vento (a); Univ. of Salerno, IT. 

Equilibrium Analysis of Feed-Forward Neural Networks. O. Citton*, M. Biehl; University of Groningen, NL.

Koopman-based Modeling of Rayleigh-Bénard Convection. Thorben Markmann, Michiel Straat*, Barbara Hammer; Bielefeld University, DE. 

Machine Learning-Based Prediction of Relative Returns of Stocks. Htet Htet Htun, Michael Biehl, Nicolai Petkov*; University of Groningen, NL.

APPIS 2023

APPIS 2022

APPIS 2020, proceedings

Tuesday, January 7th

January 7

09:30 - 10:20 Registration

10:20 - 10:30 Welcome and opening

10:30 - 11:10 Session1 - Invited Talk: Barbara Hammer "Adversarial Attacks and where to find them"

Chair: Nicola Strisciuglio

11:10 - 11:40 Coffee break

11:40 - 13:20 Session 2: Applications of Machine Learning, Chair:

11:40 – 12:00 Godliver Owomugisha, Ephraim Nuwamanya, John A. Quinn, Michael Biehl and Ernest Mwebaze Early detection of plant diseases using spectral data

12:00 - 12:20 Robin Klöckner and Patrick Klose deep-MARLIN: Using Deep Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Adaptive Traffic Light Control

12:20 - 12:40 Antonio Greco, Christopher Pironti, Alessia Saggese, Mario Vento and Vincenzo Vigilante A deep learning based approach for detecting panels in photovoltaic plants

12:40 - 13:00 Antonio Roberto, Alessia Saggese and Mario Vento A deep convolutionary network for automatic detection of audio events

13:00 - 13:20 Vladislav Ostankovich and Rauf Yagfarov Segmification. Solving road segmentation and scene classification tasks for self-driving cars using one neural network

13:20 - 16:30 Break

16:30 - 17:50 Session 3: Energy and industrial applications, Chair:

16:30 - 16:50 Ilche Georgievski, Laura Fiorini and Marco Aiello Towards Service-Oriented and Intelligent Microgrids

16:50 - 17:10 Shadi Shahoud, Hatem Khalloof, Clemens Duepmeier and Veit Hagenmeyer Descriptive Statistics Time-based Meta Features (DSTMF): Constructing a better Set of Meta Features for Model Selection in Energy Time Series Forecasting

17:10 - 17:30 Simone Coscetti,Davide Moroni, Gabriele Pieri and Marco Tampucci Factory Maintenance Application Using Augmented Reality

17:30 - 17:50 Yanni Xu, Sébastien Thomassey and Xianyi Zeng An Application of Machine Learning to Marker Prediction in Garment Industry: Marker Length Estimation by Neural Network for the Exponentially Increasing Magnitude of Possible Size Combinations

17:50 - 18:20 Coffee break

18:20 - 19:40 Session 4: Applications of Intelligent Systems 1, Chair: -

18:20 – 18:40 Anatolijs Zabasta,Nadezhda Kunicina,Kaspars Kondratjevs and Leonids Ribickis Adaptive Workflow of Service Oriented IoT Architectures for Small and Distributed Automation Systems

18:40 - 19:00 Astha Singh, Ankit Kumar, Malay Kishore Dutta,Carlos M Travieso-Gonzalez and Luis Esteban Hernández Perspective Approach for Security of Biometric Image

19:00 - 19:20 Lalita Jaiswar, Anjali Yadav, Malay Kishore Dutta,Carlos M Travieso-Gonzalez and Luis Esteban Hernández

Transfer Learning based Real-Time Assistive Technology for Visually Impaired for detection of Common Places

19:20 - 19:40 Salvatore Saiu and Enrico Grosso The SoundLight System: Fostering Adaptive Sound and Light Control in Clinical Environment

19:40 - 20:45 Social event: Welcome cocktail at Museo Elder terrace bar

Wednesday, January 8th

January 8

09:00 - 09:30 Registration 

09:30 - 10:10

Session 5 - Invited Talk: Xiaoyi Jiang “Biomedical Imaging: From Information Processing to Galisonian Perspective”

10:10 - 11:10 Applications of Intelligent Systems 2

10:10 - 10:30 Juergen Nuetzel Automation of the Training of Chatbot for a Customer Service - a comparison between the chatbot building platforms Amazon Lex and Google Dialogflow

10:30 - 10:50 Tatsuki Fujii,Ryohei Orihara,Yuichi Sei,Yasuyuki Tahara and Akihiko Ohsuga Generating Cooking Recipes from Cooking Videos Using Deep Learning Considering Previous Process with Video Encoding

10:50 - 11:10 Diego Falcão de Souza, Arthur Felix Batista, Thiago Marques Rocha, Cícero Augusto De Lara Pahins, Larissa Medeiros de Almeida, Fabrício D'Morison da Silva Marinho and Jungyoon Cha WIZARD: An Intelligent Approach to Prepare Android Devices for Reproducible Tests

11:10 - 11:40 Coffee break

11:40 - 13:20 Session 6: Robotics and Control

11:40 – 12:00 David Fernandez-Chaves, Jose-Raul Ruiz-Sarmiento, Nicolai Petkov and Javier Gonzalez-Jimenez From Object Detection to Room Categorization in Robotics

12:00 - 12:20 Samuel-Felipe Baltanas, Jose-Raul Ruiz-Sarmiento and Javier Gonzalez-Jimenez A Face Recognition System for Assistive Robots

12:20 - 12:40 Pepe Ojeda, Javier Monroy and Javier González-Jiménez An Evaluation of Gas Source Localization Algorithms for Mobile Robots

12:40 - 13:00 Alexander Schmidt, Florian Schellroth and Oliver Riedel Control architecture for embedding reinforcement learning frameworks on industrial control hardware

13:00 - 13:20 Dmitry Popov and Alexandr Klimchik Transfer Learning for Collision Localization in Collaborative Robotics

13:20 - 16:30 Break

16:30 - 17:50 Session 7: Applications of Intelligent Systems 3

16:30 - 16:50 Maryam Abdollahyan, Fabrizio Smeraldi, Rashmi Patel and Conrad Bessant Investigating Comorbidity of Mental and Physical Disorders in Online Health Forums

16:50 - 17:10 Deepak Nagaraj and Dirk Werth Towards a Generalized System for Generative Engineering

17:10 - 17:30 Deepak Nagaraj, Erik Schake, Patrick Leiner and Dirk Werth An RNN-Ensemble approach for Real Time Human PoseEstimation from Sparse IMUs

17:30 - 17:50 Mehdi Mekni, Zakaria Baani and Dalia Sulieman A Smart Virtual Assistant for Students

17:50 - 18:20 Coffee break

18:20 - 19:20 Session 8: Applications of Intelligent Systems 4 / Legal and social aspects of Intelligent Systems, Chair:

18:20 – 18:40 Oleg Borisov, Peter Krawitz and Carlo Maj Bioinformatics framework for genome-wide and transcriptome-wide association studies and polygenic risk score modeling

18:40 - 19:00 Małgorzata Gawlik-Kobylińska, Paweł Maciejewski, Jacek Lebiedź and Witold Ostant To Survive in a CBRN Hostile Environment: Application of CAVE Automatic Virtual Environments in First Responder Training

19:00 - 19:20 Nicola Fabiano The value of personal data is the Data Protection and Privacy preliminary condition: synthetic human profiles on the web and ethics

20:30 Social event: Conference Dinner at restaurant ‘La Marinera’

Thursday, January 9th

January 9

09:00 - 09:30 Registration

09:30 - 10:10 Session 9 - Invited Talk: Javier Gonzalez Jimenez “Making robots intelligent through vision”

10:10 - 11:10 Healthcare applications

10:10 - 10:30 Lizzy Farrugia and Charlie Abela medicX: Mining drug-drug interactions for healthcare professionals

10:30 - 10:50 Abhishek Kaushal, Anjali Yadav, Malay Kishore Dutta,Carlos M Travieso-Gonzalez and Luis Esteban Hernández Low Cost Portable Diagnostic Device for Automatic Classification of the Abnormal Cardiac Sound using PGC Recording

10:50 - 11:10 Muddasar Naeem,Antonio Coronato and Giovanni Paragliola A CNN based monitoring system to minimize medication errors during treatment process at home

11:10 - 11:40 Coffee break

11:40 - 13:20 Session 10: Machine Learning and AI – Chair: -

11:40 – 12:00 Marinella Cadoni, Andrea Lagorio and Enrico Grosso Do CNN’s features correlate with human fixations?

12:00 - 12:20 Jiaqi Zhang and Xiaoyi Jiang Improved Computation of Affine Invariant Dynamic Time Warping

12:20 - 12:40 Conor Clare, Glenn Hawe and Zhiwei Lin Confidence Bound Minimization for Bayesian optimization with Student’s-t Processes

12:40 - 13:00 Nathan Hubens, Matei Mancas, Marc Decombas, Marius Preda, Titus Zaharia, Bernard Gosselin and Thierry Dutoit An Experimental Study of the Impact of Pre-Training on the Pruning of a Convolutional Neural Network

13:00 - 13:20 Binay Dahal and Justin Zhan, Effective Mutation and Recombination for Evolving Convolutional Networks

13:20 – 13:25 Closing

15:00 – 19:30 Social event: Guided tour of Cueva Pintada

APPIS 2019

Monday, January 7th

Technical Program

January 7

10:00 - 10:25 Registration

10:25 - 10:30 Opening

10:30 - 11:10 Session 1 - Invited Talk: Prof. Marco Aiello, "The Web was done by amateurs: A Reflection on one of the largest collective systems ever engineered", Chair: Nicola Strisciuglio

11:10 - 11:40 Coffee break

11:40 - 13:20 Session 2: Learning systems, Chair: Arkadiusz Orlowski

11:40 – 12:00 Marius Jahrens and Thomas Martinetz, 'Multi-layer Relation Networks for relational reasoning’

12:00 - 12:20 Víctor Alvarez-López, B. Rosario Campomanes-Álvarez and Pelayo Quirós, ‘Hybrid Machine Learning Methods for Demand Forecasting’

12:20 - 12:40 Angel Ayala, Claudio Henríquez and Francisco Cruz, 'Reinforcement learning using continuos states and interactive feedback’

12:40 - 13:00 Luis Lesmes and Michael Dorr, 'Active Learning for Visual Acuity Testing’

13:00 - 13:20 Giuseppe Agapito, Barbara Calabrese, Pietro Hiram Guzzi and Mario Cannataro, 'A pipeline for mining association rules from large retailers documents’

13:20 - 16:30 Break 

16:30 - 17:50 Session 3: Robotics and autonomous systems 1, Chair: Marco Aiello

16:30 - 16:50 Pasquale Foggia, Antonio Greco, Gennaro Percannella, Mario Vento and Vincenzo Vigilante, 'A system for Gender Recognition on Mobile Robots’

16:50 - 17:10 María Leyva-Vallina, Nicola Strisciuglio and Nicolai Petkov, 'Benchmarking pose regression in garden environments’

17:10 - 17:30 Alberto Jaenal, Francisco-Angel Moreno and Javier Gonzalez-Jimenez, ‘Experimental Study of the Suitability of CNN-based Holistic Descriptors for Accurate Visual Localization’

17:30 - 17:50 Bruno Almeida and Paulo André Castro, 'Autonomous Driving on a Direct Perception System with Deep Recurrent Layers’

17:50 - 18:20 Coffee break

18:20 - 19:40 Session 4: Robotics and autonomous systems 2, Chair: Patrick Klose

18:20 – 18:40 Mikhail Gorobetz, Leonids Ribickis, Anatoly Levchenkov and Anna Beinarovica 'Machine Learning Algorithm of Immune Neuro-Fuzzy Anti-collision Embedded System for Autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicles’ Team’

18:40 - 19:00 Patrick Klose and Rudolf Mester - ‘Simulated Autonomous Driving in a Realistic Driving Environment using Deep Reinforcement Learning and a Deterministic Finite State’ Machine

19:00 - 19:20 Mercedes Garcia-Salguero, Javier Monroy, Alejandro Solano and Javier Gonzalez-Jimenez 'Socially Acceptable Approach To Humans By A Mobile Robot’

19:20 - 19:40 Mercedes Garcia-Salguero, Javier Monroy, Cipriano Galindo and Javier Gonzalez-Jimenez ‘Extending An Assistance Robot With The Ability To Play Board Games’

19:40 - 20:45 Social event: Welcome cocktail

Tuesday, January 8th

January 8

09:00 - 09:30 Registration

09:30 - 10:10

Session 5 - Invited Talk: Pasquale Foggia “Graph algorithms for very large graphs, and their applications to bioinformatics and social network analysis.”, Chair: George Azzopardi

10:10 - 11:10 Applications of Intelligent Systems 1

10:10 - 10:30 Mohit Dubey, Haydn Jones, Austin Thresher and Garrett Kenyon, 'Separating Musical Sources With Convolutional Sparse Coding’

10:30 - 10:50 Leszek Chmielewski, Konrad Furmańczyk and Arkadiusz Orłowski, 'Combined Change Detector based on Competitive Filters and Statistical Tests’

10:50 - 11:10 Arkadiusz Orłowski and Leszek J Chmielewski, 'Generalized Visual Cryptography Scheme with Completely Random Shares’

11:10 - 11:40 Coffee break

11:40 - 13:20 Session 6: Applications of Intelligent Systems 2, Chair: Michael Wilkinson

11:40 – 12:00 Danila Germanese, Maria Antonietta Pascali, Andrea Berton, Giuseppe Riccardo Leone, Bushra Jalil, Davide Moroni, Ovidio Salvetti and Marco Tampucci, 'A preliminary study for a marker-based crack monitoring in ancient structures’

12:00 - 12:20 Karola Panke, Tatjana Pladere, Mara Velina, Aiga Svede, Gatis Ikaunieks and Gunta Krumina, 'Ocular performance evaluation - how prolonged near work with virtual and real 3D image modifies our visual system’

12:20 - 12:40 Dario Cazzato, Silvia Castro, Osvaldo Agamennoni, Gerardo Fernández and Holger Voos, 'A non-invasive tool for attention-deficit disorder analysis based on gaze tracks.’

12:40 - 13:00 Janneth Chicaiza, Mariela Tapia-Leon, Nelson Piedra, Jorge Lopez-Vargas and Edmundo Tovar-Caro, 'Linked Open Knowledge Organization Systems. Definition of a method for reducing the traversing’

13:00 - 13:20 Godliver Owomugisha, Ephraim Nuwamanya, John A Quinn, Michael Biehl and Ernest Mwebaze, 'Early detection of plant diseases using spectral data’

13:20 - 16:30 Break

16:30 - 17:50

Session 7:, Applications of Intelligent Systems 3 / Legal aspects of Intelligent Systems Chair: George Petkov

16:30 - 16:50 Davide Moroni, Gabriele Pieri, Giuseppe Riccardo Leone and Marco Tampucci, 'Smart Cities Monitoring through Wireless Smart Cameras’

16:50 - 17:10 Antonello Calabrò, Eda Marchetti, Davide Moroni and Gabriele Pieri, 'A dynamic and scalable solution for improving daily life safety’

17:10 - 17:30 Nicola Fabiano, 'Robotics, Intelligent Systems, Ethics and Data Protection’

17:30 - 17:50 Cesare Bartolini, Antonello Calabrò and Eda Marchetti, ‘GDPR and Business process: an effective solution’

17:50 - 18:20 Coffee break

18:20 - 19:20 Session 8: Applications of Image Processing, Chair: Ahmad Alsahaf

18:20 – 18:40 Wilbert Tabone, Michael H.F. Wilkinson, Anne E.J.V. Gaalen, Janniko Georgiadis and George Azzopardi, 'Alpha-Tree Segmentation of Human Anatomical Photographic Imagery’

18:40 - 19:00 Lara Marie Demajo, Kristian Guillaumier and George Azzopardi, 'Age Group Recognition from Face Images using a Fusion of CNN- and COSFIRE-based Features’

19:00 - 19:20 Marlon Oliveira, Houssem Chatbri, Naresh Yarlapati, Noel E. O Connor and Alistair Sutherland, 'Hand Orientation Redundancy Filter Applied to Hand-shapes Dataset’

20:30 Social event: Conference Dinner at ‘La Marinera’

Wednesday, January 9th

January 9

09:00 - 09:30 Registration

09:30 - 10:10 Session 9 - Invited Talk: Joao Tavares “Segmentation of Complex Medical Images – Algorithms and Applications” - Chair: Stiliyan Kalitzin

10:10 - 11:10 Medical-related applications 1

10:10 - 10:30 Valeri Petrov, Mirella Gueorguieva, Laura Andreeva, Angelina Stoyanova-Ivanova, George Petkov and Stiliyan Kalitzin, 'Modelling of nickel release dynamics for three types of nickel-titan orthodontic wires’

10:30 - 10:50 Astha Singh, Shubhi Srivastava, Malay Kishore Dutta, Anjali Yadav and Carlos M Travieso-Gonzalez, 'Automatic Framework for Extraction of Red Lesion Using Gabor Filter from Fundus Image’

10:50 - 11:10 Ashmita Gupta, Mansi Bhatnagar, Ashish Issac, Malay Kishore Dutta and Carlos M Travieso-Gonzalez, 'Imaging method for Noise Removal and segmentation of Skin Lesions from Dermoscopic Images’

11:10 - 11:40 Coffee break

11:40 - 13:20 Session 10: Medical-related applications 2 – Chair: Joao Tavares

11:40 – 12:00 Robert Helling, George Petkov and Stiliyan Kalitzin, 'Expert System for Pharmacological Epilepsy Treatment Forecast and Optimal Medication Dose Prescription’

12:00 - 12:20 Stiliyan Kalitzin, George Petkov and Anouk van Beurden, 'Remote-sensor automated system for SUDEP forecast and alerting’

12:20 - 12:40 Constantinos Loizou, Dimka Karastoyanova and Christos Schizas, 'Measuring the Impact of Blockchain to Healthcare Applications - A stress test of application’

12:40 - 13:00 Neelesh Srivastava, Mansi Bhatnagar, Malay Kishore Dutta and Carlos M Travieso-Gonzalez, 'Machine Learning Based Improved Automatic Diagnosis of Cardiac Disorder’ Definition of a method for reducing the traversing’

13:00 - 13:20 Vedant Singh, Malay Kishore Dutta and Carlos M Travieso-Gonzalez 'Zero, ‘Watermarking Scheme for Unique Patient Identification Tags in Fundus Images for Tele-Ophthalmologic Applications’

13:20 – 13:25 Closing

16:30 Guided tour of ‘La Vegueta’

APPIS 2018

Technical Program

January 10th 

Jan

January 10

 08:30 - 09:20 Registration 

 09:20 - 09:30 Opening

 09:30 - 10:30 Invited Talk: Prof. Petia Radeva - "Deep learning in a multi-task framework. Application to food analysis"

 10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break

 11:00 - 13:00 Session 1: Intelligent and adaptive systems

11:00 - 11:20

Marco Aiello - "Ten Questions to Define Energy Intelligent Buildings"

11:20 - 11:40

Laura Pandolfo, Luca Pulina and Enrico Grosso - "A User Model Ontology for Adaptive Systems in Cultural Tourism Domain"

11:40 - 12:00

Laura Pandolfo, Souad Khellat-Kihel, Luca Pulina and Enrico Grosso - "On Leveraging Facial Emotion Recognition Techniques in Personalized Recommendations"

12:00 - 12:20

Małgorzata Gawlik-Kobylińska - "The Four-Dimensional Instructional Design Approach In The Perspective of Human-Computer Interactions"

12:20 - 12:40

Filip Malawski - "Real-Time First Person Perspective Tracking and Feedback System for Weapon Practice Support in Fencing"

12:40 - 13:00

Nicola Fabiano - "Internet of Things, Blockchain and Intelligent Systems: the primary role of Data Protection" (Invited tutorial on legal aspects of Intelligent Systems)

 13:00 - 14:00 Lunch

 14:00 - 16:00 Session 2: Robotics and automatic systems

14:00 - 14:20

Patrick Klose and Rudolf Mester - "Simulated Autonomous Driving on Realistic Road Networks using Deep Reinforcement Learning"

14:20 - 14:40

Rafael Muñoz-Salinas, Francisco J. Maestre, Manuel J Marín-Jiménez and Rafael Medina-Carnicer - "Fiducial marker mapping from mobile devices"

14:40 - 15:00

Andres Gongora, David Chaves, Alberto Jaenal, Javier Monroy and Javier Gonzalez - "Toward the Generation of Smell Maps: Matching ElectroChemical Sensor Information with Human Odor Perception"

15:00 - 15:20

Carlos Sanchez-Garrido, Javier Monroy and Javier Gonzalez-Jimenez - "Probabilistic Localization of Gas Emission Areas with a Mobile Robot in Indoor Environments"

15:20 - 15:40

Francisco-Angel Moreno, José Raúl Ruiz Sarmiento, Javier Monroy, Mailys Fernandez and Javier Gonzalez-Jimenez - "Analyzing interference between RGB-D cameras for human motion tracking"

15:40 - 16:00

Eun Yi Kim and Jinxi Li - "Vision-based Wheelchair Navigation using Geometric AdaBoost Learning"

 16:00 - 16:30 Coffee break

 16:30 - 17:30 Session 3: H2020: TrimBot2020 project, Chair:

16:30 - 16:50

Trimbot2020 project overview

16:50 - 17:10

Trimbot2020 manipulator's design

17:10 - 17:30

Talk 3 

 17:30 - 18:30 Movie projection in Museo Elder

 18:30 - 19:30 Welcome drinks

January 11th

January 11

 09:30 - 10:30 Invited Talk: Prof. Danilo Mandic - "Hearables: Multimodal    24/7 Physiological Sensing"

 10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break

 11:00 - 13:00 Session 4: Image and visual data processing (1)

11:00 - 11:20

Ryo Sasaki, Kento Hosoya, Kaori Tanji, Hayato Itoh and Atsushi Imiya - "Variational Method for Multiresolution Image Registration"

11:20 - 11:40

Kaori Tanji, Hayato Itoh and Atsushi Imiya - "Application of Directional Statistics to Classification of Three-Channel Colour Images"

11:40 - 12:00

Adrian Apap, Laura Fernandez-Robles and George Azzopardi - "Retinal Fundus Biometric Analysis using COSFIRE Filters"

12:00 - 12:20

G. Bárcena-González, M.P. Guerrero, E. Guerrero, D.F. Reyes, S.B. Lagomazzini, A. Yañez, D. Gonzalez and P.L. Galindo - "Application of Super-Resolution techniques to transmission electron microscopy images"

12:20 - 12:40

Abhishek Gangwar, Eduardo Fidalgo, Enrique Alegre and Victor Gonzalez - "PhishFingerprint: A Practical Approach for Phishing Web Page Identity Retrieval Based on Visual Cues"

12:40 - 13:00

Mohammed Mohammadi, Nicolai Petkov, Reynier Peletier, Pedro Bibiloni and Kerstin Bunte - "Detection of Globular Clusters in the Halo of Milky Way"

 13:00 - 14:00 Lunch

 14:00 - 16:00 Session 5: Image and visual data processing (2) / Text analysis

14:00 - 14:20

Estefania Talavera Martinez, Alexandre Cola, Nicolai Petkov and Petia Radeva - "Who do we have in common? Person reidentification from egocentric images"

14:20 - 14:40

Juan Buhagiar, George Azzopardi, Nicola Strisciuglio and Nicolai Petkov - "Automatic Segmentation of Indoor and Outdoor Scenes from Visual Lifelogging"

14:40 - 15:00

Akanksha Joshi, Eduardo Fidalgo, Enrique Alegre and Mhd Wesam Al Nabki - "Extractive Text Summarization in Dark Web: A Preliminary Study"

15:00 - 15:20

Herwig Unger, Thomas Böhme, Erik Deussen and Mario Kubek - "On Evolving Text Centroids"

15:20 - 15:40

Thanos Konstantinidis, Bruno Scalzo and Danilo P. Mandic - "Text Mining and the Investment Process"

15:40 - 16:00

Akanksha Joshi, Eduardo Fidalgo and Enrique Alegre - "Deep Learning based Text Summarization: Approaches, Databases and Evaluation Measures"

 16:00 - 16:30 Coffee break

 16:30 - 18:30 Session 6: Non-visual data analysis (1), Chair:

16:30 - 16:50

José Raúl Ruiz Sarmiento, Javier Gonzalez Monroy, Francisco-Angel Moreno, Jose María Bonelo and Javier Gonzalez-Jimenez - "Data Analysis of the Hot Rolling Process in a Stainless Steel Factory for Predictive Maintenance"

16:50 - 17:10

Leonids Ribickis, Anatoly Levchenkov and Mikhail Gorobetz - "Neuro-Immune Algorithm for Embedded Real-time Control System in Transport Safety Tasks"

17:10 - 17:30

Azkario Rizky Pratama, Frans Juan Simanjuntak, Alexander Lazovik and Marco Aiello - "Low-power Device Recognition using Recurrent Neural Networks"

17:30 - 17:50

Hayato Itoh, Atsushi Imiya and Tomoya Sakai - "Distances between Tensor Subspaces"

17:50 - 18:10

Miloš Brajović, Stefan Vujović, Irena Orovic and Srdjan Stankovic - "Coefficient Tresholding in the Gradient Reconstruction Algorithm for Signals Sparse in the Hermite Transform Basis"

18:10 - 18:30

Blanca Rosario Campomanes-Álvarez, Pelayo Quirós and Bernardo Fernández - "Semi-Supervised Learning for Spanish Speech Recognition using Deep Neural Networks"

 20:00 Conference Dinner

January 12th 

January 12

 09:30 - 10:30 Invited Talk: Prof. Theo Gevers  - "Intrinsic Image Understanding by Deep Learning"

 10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break

 11:00 - 13:00 Session 7: Non-visual data analysis (2) / COCOMED (1), Chair:

11:00 - 11:20

Ahmad Alsahaf, George Azzopardi, Bart Ducro, Roel Veerkamp and Nicolai Petkov - "Predicting slaughter age in pigs using random forest regression"

11:20 - 11:40

Jee-Weon Jung, Hee-Soo Heo, Il-Ho Yang, Hye-Jin Shim and Ha-Jin Yu - "DNN-based Speaker Feature Extractor for Speaker Verification Using Raw Audio Signals"

11:40 - 12:00

Yaohui Yu, Eunjeong Ko, Jinxi Li and Eun Yi Kim - "Light Therapy System: Combining Real-time Emotion Recognition and Learning-based Color Recommendation"

12:00 - 12:20

Francesco Puja, Simone Grazioso, Lorenzo Mauro, Valsamis Ntouskos, Marta Sanzari, Luigi Freda and Fiora Pirri - "Hybrid planning environment with visual search and recognition"

12:20 - 12:40

George Panos, Eirini Schiza, Aristide Ilias, Paraskevi Chra, George Pavlides and Christos Schizas - "Universal Electronic Health Record (U-EHR): A global medical database management system"

12:40 - 13:00

Lidia Talavera Martinez, Rosalie V. Kogan, Sanne K. Meles, Deborah Mudali, Jos B.T.M. Roerdink, Klaus L. Leenders, Remco J. Renken and Michael Biehl - "Machine learning analysis of FDG-PET brain images for the diagnosis of neurodegenerative disorders"

 13:00 - 14:00 Lunch

 14:00 - 16:00 Session 8: COCOMED (2)

14:00 - 14:20

Stiliyan Kalitzin, Evelien Geertsema and George Petkov - "Optic flow reconstruction for multi-spectral image sequences"

14:20 - 14:40

George Petkov, Robert Halling and Stiliyan Kalitzin - "Observing epileptic potential from inter-ictal resting state EEG activity: Computational dynamics analysis and application to pharmacological effectiveness assessment"

14:40 - 15:00

Maryam Abdollahyan, Raúl Mondragón, Conrad Bessant and Fabrizio Smeraldi - "Visualising the Topological Structure of Health-related Message Board User Networks"

15:00 - 15:20

Jai Sehgal, Sayantan Bhattacharya, Namita Sengar, Malay Kishore Dutta and Carlos M Travieso Gonzalez - "An Imaging Algorithm for Rotation Invariant Automated Macula localization in Digital Fundus Images"

15:20 - 15:40

Constantinos Neocleous and Christos Schizas - "Artificial neural networks to investigate the importance of a mother’s age and weight on the risk for preeclampsia"

15:40 - 16:00

Xingguo Zhang - "An End-to-end Cells Detection Approach for Colon Cancer Histology Images"

 16:00 Guided tour of La Vegueta