<div dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><span class="gmail-aBn" tabindex="0" style="border-bottom:1px dashed rgb(204,204,204)"><span class="gmail-aQJ" style="top: 2px; z-index: -1;"><span style="font-family:"helvetica neue";font-size:14.6667px;font-weight:normal">[Please distribute, Sorry for multiple copies]</span><br></span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><span class="gmail-aBn" tabindex="0" style="border-bottom:1px dashed rgb(204,204,204)"><span class="gmail-aQJ" style="top: 2px; z-index: -1;"><span style="font-family:"helvetica neue";font-size:14.6667px;font-weight:normal"><br></span></span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><span class="gmail-aBn" tabindex="0" style="border-bottom:1px dashed rgb(204,204,204)"><span class="gmail-aQJ" style="top: 2px; z-index: -1;">19-21 June 2017</span></span>, Florence, Italy</span></p><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></div><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Sparse Data Machine Learning for Domains in Multimedia</span></p><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></div><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Using multimedia in specific fields such as medicine or psychology is an emerging trend, which gives the multimedia community an opportunity to perform research that can have societal impact and help people. Nevertheless, these domains often come with some challenges. One of the biggest challenges is the availability of labeled data. In the area of medicine, there are some areas and diseases that are well covered, for example image and video data for polyp detection. Thus, even the well covered areas have, compared to other datasets, very little data. This fact makes it very challenging to apply machine learning methods and get meaningful results. Especially, the highly praised and used deep learning is very depending on a lot of good training data. Moreover, deep learning might not be the silver bullet for tackling every problem. With this special session, we want to emphasize that there are relevant and emerging topics that might not or are against the odds be solvable with deep learning and require a more open and broader point of view. </span></p><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></div><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The scope of this session is machine learning in areas that come with a lack of data, such as medicine, addressing the challenges described in the motivation.</span></p><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></div><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Examples for topic of interest are:</span></p><ul style="font-size:12.8px;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Traditional machine learning vs Deep learning</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Machine Learning on small data</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Deep learning with small datasets</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Unsupervised machine learning</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Data creation</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Data annotation</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Knowledge transfer</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Areas with small multimedia datasets (for example medicine, psychology)</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Multimedia tools and applications in fields with lack of data (for example medicine, psychology)</span></p></li></ul><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></div><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">More information about the conference can be found here: </span><a href="https://www.micc.unifi.it/cbmi2017/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://www.micc.unifi.it/cbmi<wbr>2017/</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">For guidelines and submission procedure see Paper </span><a href="http://www.micc.unifi.it/cbmi2017/call-for-full-and-short-papers/authors.php" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">submission</span></a><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">.</span><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br class="gmail-m_-4524858158224312349gmail-m_-2348060031852006502gmail-kix-line-break"></span><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br class="gmail-m_-4524858158224312349gmail-m_-2348060031852006502gmail-kix-line-break"></span><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The CBMI proceedings are traditionally indexed and distributed by IEEE Xplore and ACM DL.</span><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br class="gmail-m_-4524858158224312349gmail-m_-2348060031852006502gmail-kix-line-break"></span><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">In addition, authors of the best papers of the conference will be invited to submit extended versions of their contributions to a special issue of Multimedia Tools and Applications journal (MTAP).</span></p><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></div><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Important dates:</span></p><ul style="font-size:12.8px;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Full/short paper submission deadline: <span class="gmail-aBn" tabindex="0" style="border-bottom:1px dashed rgb(204,204,204)"><span class="gmail-aQJ" style="top: 2px; z-index: -1;">February 28, 2017</span></span></span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Notification of acceptance: <span class="gmail-aBn" tabindex="0" style="border-bottom:1px dashed rgb(204,204,204)"><span class="gmail-aQJ" style="top: 2px; z-index: -1;">April 10, 2017</span></span></span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Camera-ready papers: <span class="gmail-aBn" tabindex="0" style="border-bottom:1px dashed rgb(204,204,204)"><span class="gmail-aQJ" style="top: 2px; z-index: -1;">April 21, 2017</span></span></span></p></li></ul><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></div><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Organizers:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Konstantin Pogorelov - Simula Research Laboratory, Norway</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial;font-size:14.6667px;white-space:pre-wrap">Michael Riegler - Simula Research Laboratory, Norway</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial;font-size:14.6667px;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial;font-size:14.6667px;white-space:pre-wrap">Duc-Tien Dang-Nguyen - Dublin City University, Ireland</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial;font-size:14.6667px;white-space:pre-wrap">Luca Piras - University of Cagliari, Italy</span><br></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Paolo Rota - Vienna University of Technology, Austria</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Pål Halvorsen - Simula Research Laboratory, Norway</span></p></div>