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The 6th International Conference on Activity and Behavior Computing
May 29-31, 2024,  Nakatsu & Kitakyushu, Japan (Hybrid)
https://abc-research.github.io/

(Please send an empty email to abc2024@sozolab.jp to get updates!)

Human Activity Recognition has been researched in thousands of papers so far, with mobile / environmental sensors in ubiquitous / pervasive domains, and with cameras in vision domains. As well, Human Behavior Analysis is also explored for long-term health care, rehabilitation, emotion recognition, human interaction, and so on. However, many research challenges remain for realistic settings, such as complex and ambiguous activities / behavior, optimal sensor combinations, (deep) machine learning, data collection, platform systems, and killer applications.

In this conference, we comprehend such research domains as ABC: Activity and Behavior Computing, and provide an open and a confluent place for discussing various aspects and the future of the ABC.

CALL FOR PAPERS

We welcome 3 categories of papers: regular papers, position papers, and challenge papers. The submitted papers are peer reviewed by expert researchers, and accepted based on the research quality.

Accepted and presented papers will be published as IEEE Proceedings or a J-Stage open access journal (Authors can choose. Details will be updated soon).

SCOPE
• Mobile sensor-based ABC
• Environmental sensor-based ABC
• Vision-based ABC
• Multimodal ABC
• Physical / semantic analysis of ABC
• Gait analysis
• Sleep analysis
• Emotion recognition / analysis
• ABC with deep learning
• ABC data mining
• Data collection
• ABC systems
• Interactive ABC
• Healthcare applications
• Nursing applications
• Elderly care applications
• Sports applications
• Business applications
• Tools for industry
• ABC in the wild


CATEGORIES
- Regular papers (4-10 pages) (TBA): full technical content papers (to be published in IEEE proceedings or J-Stage open access journal).
- Position papers (2-4 pages): describe the challenges and future directions of ABC based on problems that arise when systems are deployed in real settings (Not to be published).
- Challenge papers: we will provide a dataset and accept results for a recognition challenge with papers describing the methods and the results.

SPECIAL SESSIONS (TBA)

- SS1: Nursing Activity and Analysis
Chair: Noriyo Colley, Hokkaido University, Japan
- SS2: Dynamic Systems Theory (DST) of the Human as Long-Term Measurement
Chair: Emi Yuda, Tohoku University, Japan
- SS3: Integrated Use of Multiple Datasets on ABC
Chair:  Yu Enokibori, Nagoya University, Japan
- SS4: Sensing and Recognition of Work Activities
Chair: Takuya Maekawa, Osaka University, Japan

IMPORTANT DATES
- Title and Abstract: Jan. 17, 2024
- Paper deadline: Feb. 7, 2024
- Review result: Mar 6, 2024
- Resubmission: Mar 27, 2024
- Camera ready: Apr. 17, 2024
- Conference: May. 29-31, 2024


COMMITTEE

GENERAL CHAIRS
- Sozo Inoue, Kyushu Institute of Technology / AUTOCARE LLC, Japan
- Md Atiqur Rahman Ahad, University of East London, UK

PROGRAM CHAIRS
- Guillaume Lopez, Aoyama Gakuin University, Japan
- Björn W. Schuller, Imperial College London, UK and Technical University of Munich, Germany

ADVISORY BOARD
- Anind Dey, University of Washington, USA
- Björn W. Schuller, Imperial College London, UK and Technical University of Munich, Germany
- Jeffry Cohn, University of Pittsburgh, USA
- Kristof Van Laerhoven, University of Siegen, Germany
- Michael Beigl, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
- Paul Lukowicz, RPTU / DFKI, Germany
- Thomas Plötz, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA

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