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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=ES link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"'>[Apologies for multiple copies due to cross-posting. Please forward to colleagues who might be interested]<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:#1F497D'>Extended deadline, 1st February </span></b><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:#1F497D'>!!!<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"'>Dear Colleague,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"'>We would like to cordially invite you to submit a paper for WCCI 2018/IJCNN Special Session on Machine Learning and Deep Learning Methods applied to Vision and Robotics (MLDLMVR) <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:ES'><img width=646 height=124 id="Imagen_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.png@01D3922A.51FD68C0"></span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"'><a href="http://www.dtic.ua.es/~jgarcia/IJCNN2018/index.html"><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>WCCI 2018 Special Session on Machine Learning and Deep Learning Methods applied to Vision and Robotics (MLDLMVR)</span></a></span></b><b><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"'> </span></b><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'>Aims: <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'>Over the last decades there has been an increasing interest in using machine learning and in the last few years, deep learning methods, combined with other vision techniques to create autonomous systems that solve vision problems in different fields. This special session is designed to serve researchers and developers to publish original, innovative and state-of-the art algorithms and architectures for real time applications in the areas of computer vision, image processing, biometrics, virtual and augmented reality, neural networks, intelligent interfaces and biomimetic object-vision recognition.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'>This special session provides a platform for academics, developers, and industry-related researchers belonging to the vast communities of *Neural Networks*, *Computational Intelligence*, *Machine Learning*, *Deep Learning*, *Biometrics*, *Vision systems*, and *Robotics *, to discuss, share experience and explore traditional and new areas of the computer vision, machine and deep learning combined to solve a range of problems. The objective of the workshop is to integrate the growing international community of researchers working on the application of Machine Learning and Deep Learning Methods in Vision and Robotics to a fruitful discussion on the evolution and the benefits of this technology to the society.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'>The methods and tools applied to vision and robotics include, but are not limited to, the following:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><ul style='margin-top:0cm' type=disc><li class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3'><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'>Computational Intelligence methods<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3'><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'>Machine Learning methods<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3'><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'>Self-adaptation and self-organisation <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'>Robust computer vision algorithms (operation under variable conditions, object tracking, behaviour analysis and learning, scene segmentation,,,,) <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'>Extraction of Biometric Features (fingerprint, iris, face, voice, palm, gait)<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3'><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'>Convolutional Neural Networks CNN <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3'><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'>Recurrent Neural Networks RNN <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3'><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'>Deep Reinforcement Learning DRL<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'>Hardware implementation and algorithms acceleration (GPUs, FPGA,s,…)<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt;text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'>The fields of application can be identified, but are not limited to, the following:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><ul style='margin-top:0cm' type=disc><li class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3'><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'>Video and Image Processing<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3'><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'>Video tracking <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3'><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'>3D Scene reconstruction<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'>3D Tracking in Virtual Reality Environments <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3'><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'>3D Volume visualization<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'>Intelligent Interfaces (User-friendly Man Machine Interface)<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'>Multi-camera and RGB-D camera systems <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'>Multi-modal Human Pose Recovery and Behavior Analysis<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'>Gesture and posture analysis and recognition <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3'><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'>Biometric Identification and Recognition <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'>Extraction of Biometric Features (fingerprint, iris, face, voice, palm, gait)<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3'><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'>Surveillance systems<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3'><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'>Autonomous and Social Robots<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3'><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'>Robotic vision<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3'><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'>Industry 4.0<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3'><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'>IoT and Cyber-physical Systems<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><b><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'>Important dates: <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'>Paper Submission Deadline<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'>February 1, 2018<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><b><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'>Paper acceptance notification date <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'>March 15, 2018 <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><b><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'>Final paper submission deadline<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'>May 1, 2018<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><b><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'>Conference<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'>July 08-13, 2018<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><b><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'>Submission Guidelines: <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'>Please select the special session in the list and follow the regular submission guidelines of WCCI 2018. Please notify the chairs of your submission by sending an email to: <a href="mailto:jgarcia@dtic.ua.es">jgarcia@dtic.ua.es</a>. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'>Journal special Issue<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'>A Journal special Issue with extended versions of best special session papers is being managed.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'>Previous special session best papers were published in Neural Processing Letters (WCCI 2014) and Neural Computing and Applications (IJCNN 2015), Expert Systems (IJCNN 2017).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'>Chairs: <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'>José García-Rodríguez -University of Alicante (Spain) </span><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'><a href="mailto:jgarcia@dtic.ua.es"><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>jgarcia@dtic.ua.es</span></a></span><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'>Alexandra Psarrou – University of Westminster (UK) </span><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'><a href="mailto:psarroa@wmin.ac.uk"><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>psarroa@wmin.ac.uk</span></a></span><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'>Isabelle Guyon - , U. Paris-Saclay, France and ChaLearn, USA </span><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'><a href="mailto:guyon@clopinet.com"><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>guyon@clopinet.com</span></a></span><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'>Andrew Lewis – Griffith University (Australia) </span><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'><a href="mailto:a.lewis@griffith.edu.au"><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>a.lewis@griffith.edu.au</span></a></span><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'>Contact: <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'>Email: </span><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'><a href="mailto:jgarcia@dtic.ua.es"><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>jgarcia@dtic.ua.es</span></a> </span><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'>Main Conference webpage: </span><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'><a href="http://www.ecomp.poli.br/~wcci2018/"><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>http://www.ecomp.poli.br/~wcci2018/</span></a></span><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'>Special session webpage: </span><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'><a href="http://www.dtic.ua.es/~jgarcia/IJCNN2018/"><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>http://www.dtic.ua.es/~jgarcia/IJCNN2018/</span></a></span><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'>Best regards.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'>Jose<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><i><span lang=ES-TRAD style='color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:ES'>Jose Garcia-Rodriguez, Phd</span></i></b><b><span style='mso-fareast-language:ES'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span lang=ES-TRAD style='color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:ES'>Associate Professor<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:ES'>Editor in Chief International Journal of Computer vision and Image Processing</span></i><span lang=EN-US style='mso-fareast-language:ES'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:ES'>Vice-Dean International Relations Polytechnic University College<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:ES'>Director Phd Program in Computer Science<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:ES'>Director of NVIDIA GPU Research Center & GPU Education Center </span></i><span lang=EN-US style='mso-fareast-language:ES'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:ES'>Dpt. Computer Technology</span></i><span lang=EN-US style='mso-fareast-language:ES'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:ES'>University of Alicante </span></i><span lang=EN-US style='mso-fareast-language:ES'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:ES'>PO Box. 99. 03080 Alicante (Spain)</span></i><span lang=EN-US style='mso-fareast-language:ES'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'>tel: +34 965903400 ext. 2616 mobile: +34 610488989<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'>fax: +34 965909643<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'>email:</span><span lang=EN-US> <a href="mailto:jgarcia@dtic.ua.es">jgarcia@dtic.ua.es</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'>skype: jose.garcia.alicante<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:ES'><a href="http://www.dtic.ua.es/~jgarcia/">http://www.dtic.ua.es/~jgarcia/</a></span></i><span lang=EN-US style='mso-fareast-language:ES'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>