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The 7th International Conference on Activity and Behavior Computing
(IEEE Technically Co-sponsored)

Apr. 21-25 , 2025, Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi, UAE (Hybrid)
https://abc-research.github.io/

(Please send an empty email to abc2025@autocare.ai 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.

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) : full technical content papers, 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the challenges and future directions of ABC based on problems that arise when systems are deployed in real settings (Not to be published).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.

IMPORTANT DATES
- Title and Abstract: Nov 11, 2024
- Paper deadline:     Dec 9, 2024
- Review result:      Jan 13, 2025
- Resubmission:       Feb 10, 2025
- Camera ready:       Mar 10, 2025
- Conference:         Apr 21-25, 2025

COMMITTEE

GENERAL CHAIRS
- Kinda Khalaf, Khalifa University, UAE
- Fady Alnajjar, UAE University, UAE
- Sozo Inoue, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan
- Md Atiqur Rahman Ahad, University of East London, UK

PROGRAM CHAIRS
- Guillaume Lopez, Aoyama Gakuin University, Japan
- Tahera Hossain, Nagoya University, Japan

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
- Masahiko Inami, University of Tokyo, Japan
- Juri Gelovani, UAE University, UAE.
- Nazar Siedahmed, UAE University, UAE
- Abderrahmane Lakas, UAE University, UAE
- Leontios Hadjileontiadis, Khalifa University, UAE
- Mohamed Seghier, Khalifa University, UAE
- Amjad Gawanmeh, University of Dubai, UAE
- Shingo Shimoda, Nagoya University, Japan

HISTORY
ABC2019 Spokane (USA)
ABC2020 Kitakyushu (Japan)
ABC2021 Bangkok (Online)
ABC2022 London (UK)
ABC2023 Kaiserslautern (Germany)
ABC2024 Nakatsu & Kitakyushu (Japan)
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