1st International Workshop on Industrial Machine Learning

ICPR 2020

January 10th, 2020 | Milan, Italy

With the advent of Industry 4.0 paradigm, data has become a valuable resource, and very often an asset, for every manufacturer. Data from the market, from machines, from warehouses and many other sources are now cheaper than ever to be collected and stored. It has been estimated that in 2020 we will have more than 50B devices connected to the Industrial Internet of Things, generating more than 500ZB of data. With such an amount of data, classical data analysis approaches are not useful and only automated learning methods can be applied to produce value, a market estimated in more than 200B$ worldwide. Through the use of machine learning techniques manufacturers can use data to significantly impact their bottom line by greatly improving production efficiency, product quality, and employee safety.

The introduction of ML in industry has many benefits that can result in advantages well beyond efficiency improvements, opening doors to new opportunities for both practitioners and researchers. Some direct applications of ML in manufacturing include predictive maintenance, supply chain management, logistics, quality control, human-robot interaction, process monitoring, anomaly detection and root cause analysis to name a few.

This workshop will draw attention to the importance of integrating ML technologies and ML-based solutions into the manufacturing domain, while addressing the challenges and barriers to meet the specific needs of this sector. Workshop participants will have the chance to discuss:

  • needs and barriers for ML in manufacturing

  • state-of-the-art in ML applications to manufacturing

  • future research opportunities in this domain

Program

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Organizers

Francesco Setti

University of Verona

Luigi Di Stefano

University of Bologna

Paolo Rota

University of Trento

Vittorio Murino

University of Verona

Massimiliano Mancini

University of Tübingen

Program Committee

Martino Alessandrini, Datalogic, Italy

Carlos Beltran, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Italy

Michael Bortz, Fraunhofer-ITWM, Germany

Paolo Bosetti, University of Trento, Italy

Marco Carletti, Embedded Vision Systems, Italy

Nicolò Carissimi, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Italy

Valerio Carpani, FIZYR, The Netherlands

Fabio Cermelli, Politecnico di Torino, Italy

Samrjit Chakraborty, University of North Carolina, USA

Chiara Corridori, Deltamax Automazione, Italy

Daniele De Gregorio, EyeCan.ai, Italy

Giacomo De Rossi, University of Verona, Italy

Ahmad Delforouzi, Fraunhofer, Germany

Siddhartha Dutta, Technische Universit{\"a}t Kaiserslautern, Germany

Dario Fontanel, Politecnico di Torino, Italy

Francesco Fornasa, Embedded Vision Systems, Italy

Emanuele Frontoni, Univ. Politecnica delle Marche, Italy

Giovanni Gualdi, Deep Vision Consulting, Italy

Florian Kleber, TU Wien, Austria

Donato Laico, SACMI, Italy

Adriano Mancini, Univ. Politecnica delle Marche, Italy

Matteo Moro, University of Trento, Italy

Danilo Pau, STMicroelectronics, Italy

Nicola Piccinelli, University of Verona, Italy

Paolo Piccinini, Marchesini Group, Italy

Andrea Pilzer, University of Trento, Italy

Matteo Poggi, University of Bologna, Italy

Fabio Regoli, Pirelli Tyres, Italy

Andrea Roberti, University of Verona, Italy

Luca Romeo, Univ. Politecnica delle Marche, Italy

Luca Rocchini, Datalogic, Italy

Cristiano Saltori, University of Trento, Italy

Andrea Simonelli, University of Trento, Italy

Levi Osterno Vasconcelos, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Italy

Thorsten Wuest, West Virginia University, USA

Andrea Zignoli, University of Trento, Italy

Call for Papers

This is an open call for papers, soliciting original contributions considering recent findings in theory, methodologies, and applications in the field of industrial machine learning. Position papers presenting industrial use cases and discussing potential solutions are welcome. Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

  • Robustness-oriented learning algorithms

  • Machine learning for robotics (e.g. learning from demonstration)

  • Continuous and life-long learning for industrial applications

  • Transfer learning and domain adaptation

  • Anomaly detection and process monitoring

  • ML applications to Predictive Maintenance

  • ML applications to Supply Chain and Logistics

  • ML applications to Quality Control

  • ML for flexible manufacturing

  • Deep Learning for industrial applications

  • Learning from Big-Data

  • Inference in real-time applications

  • Machine Learning on Embedded and Edge computing hardware

All the contributions are expected to expose applications to the industrial sector, possibly with real world case studies. Position papers presenting new industrial systems and case studies, possibly reporting preliminary validation studies, are also encouraged.

A Best Paper Award will be assigned to the most relevant contribution. The decision will be taken by the Organizing Committee according to the reviewers’ feedback.

Sumbission

Papers will be limited to 8 pages according to ICPR format (c.f. Main conference authors guidelines). All papers will be reviewed by at least two reviewers with double blind policy. Papers will be selected based on relevance, significance and novelty of results, technical merit, and clarity of presentation. Papers will be published in ICPR proceedings.

All the papers must be submitted using CMT submission server.

Important dates

  • Full Paper Submission: September 25, 2020 DEADLINE EXTENDED: October 17, 2020

  • Notification of Acceptance: November 10, 2020

  • Camera-Ready Paper Due : November 15, 2020

In case of rejection from ICPR main conference, authors can submit their work to the IML workshop by October 17, 2020. Authors should address all ICPR reviewers' comments in the submitted paper and submit the ICPR reviews as supplementary material.