Conference Overview
We welcome research papers and presentations that explore advances in deep learning and imaging in a hybrid edge-cloud processing environment. Research topics include face detection and recognition; human detection and tracking; human behavior and action recognition, biometrics; gesture analysis; event detection; anomaly detection; object tracking and recognition; 3D and depth information for object recognition and reconstruction; pose estimation; multimedia and multimodal inference and understanding; content analysis, indexing, search, and retrieval.
2025 Conference Application Areas
AUGMENTED, MIXED REALITY, AND VIRTUAL REALITY
Augmented reality for online shopping applications; 3D environment sensing and segmentation; 3D object manipulation; AR-assisted maintenance and support; bio-analytics for user behavior understanding.
IMAGING IN SOCIAL NETWORKS
Web-based testing and ground-truth data collection (crowd-sourcing); social media content creation, modeling, manipulation, content analysis, information extraction, storage, search, learning and mining; privacy and copyright issues, provenance tracking, privacy, copyright, security, authentication, and verification.
MOBILE COMPUTING, SERVICES, AND APPLICATIONS
Mobile and location-based search, sharing, indexing, and retrieval to cloud-based repositories; mobile augmented reality; mobile and location-based computational photography; mobile content transformation; mobile apps and web services.
IMAGING FOR HEALTH, BEAUTY, AND NUTRITION
Mobile imaging sensors for medical measurement; image and video processing for healthcare applications such as dietary monitoring; mobile tools for accessing and updating patient data; remote and field-based diagnosis; diagnostic collaboration among experts; surgical planning.
IMAGING FOR VISUAL INSPECTION
Object recognition and tracking; pose estimation; defect identification; label recognition; quality rating; robotic navigation and planning.
IMAGING FOR AGRICULTURE AND ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING
Climate change monitoring; imaging sensor processing for smart home and smart office applications; ambient intelligence; activity recognition; occupancy-based environment control; monitoring and diagnostics for home appliances and HVAC systems; intelligent agents to assist with household chores, such as monitoring inventory of groceries and ordering replacements; Internet of Things (IOT), wildlife and livestock monitoring.
IMAGING FOR PHOTO AND VIDEO CREATIVE WORKFLOW
Image and video analysis; page composition; organization and search; creation and sharing on smartphones and social networks; image resizing and image in-painting; photo to art; color harmony and balance; aesthetics ranking; understanding of metrics for aesthetics ranking; active photography; data mining from online photos; autonomous extraction of photo metadata; automated photo and video editing; style transfer.
2025 Special Sessions
TBA
Awards
Best Paper Award
Past winners
| 2020 |
Bryan Blakeslee and Andreas Savakis (Rochester Institute of Technology) for their work on "LambdaNet: A fully convolutional architecture for directional change detection." |
| 2019 |
Song Guo, Fei Li, Hajime Nada, Hidetsugu Uchida, Tomoaki Matsunami, and Narishige Abe (Fujitsu Research & Development Center Co., Ltd. and Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd.) for their work titled "Face alignment via 3D-assisted features." |
| 2018 |
Dong Hye Ye, Jing Li, Qiulin Chen, Juan Wachs, and Charles Bouman (Purdue University) for their work on "Deep learning for moving object detection and tracking from a single camera in unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) ." |
2025 Committee
Conference Chairs
Bin Shen, Celonis (US)
Xiaoyu Xiang, Meta, (US)
Program Committee
Vijayan Asari, University of Dayton (US)
Jianhang Chen, Google, Inc. (US)
Mayur Dhanaraj, Amazon, Inc. (US)
Michael Gormish, Clarifai (US)
Ramakrishna Kakarala, OmniVision Technologies, Inc. (US)
Changsong Liu, Tsinghua University (China)
Cheng Lu, XPeng Motors (US)
Weijuan Xi, Google, Inc. (US)
Shaoyuan Xu, Amazon, Inc. (US)
Jane You, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (Hong Kong, China)
Fengqing Zhu, Purdue University (US)