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<tt> Call for Papers -- FAPER2020</tt><tt><br>
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</tt><tt> ---===== Apologies for cross-postings =====---</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt> Please distribute this call to interested
parties</tt><tt><br>
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</tt><tt> International Workshop on Fine Art Pattern Extraction and
Recognition</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt> F A P E R 2 0 2 0</tt><tt><br>
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</tt><tt> workshop in conjunction with the</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt> 25th International Conference on Pattern Recognition
(ICPR2020)</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt> Milan, Italy, September 13-18, 2020</tt><tt><br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://sites.google.com/view/faper-workshop/">https://sites.google.com/view/faper-workshop/</a> <<<</tt><tt><br>
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</tt><tt> *** Submission deadline: June 15, 2020 ***</tt><tt><br>
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</tt><tt>- Submission link:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=faper2020">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=faper2020</a> -</tt><tt><br>
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</tt><tt>=== Aim & Scope ===</tt><tt><br>
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</tt><tt>Cultural heritage, in particular fine art, has invaluable
importance for the cultural, historic, and economic growth of our
societies. Fine art is developed primarily for aesthetic purposes,
and it is mainly concerned with paintings, sculptures, and
architectures. In the last few years, due to technology
improvements and drastically declining costs, a large-scale
digitization effort has been made, leading to a growing
availability of large digitized fine art collections. This
availability, along with the recent advancements in pattern
recognition and computer vision, has opened new opportunities for
computer science researchers to assist the art community with
automatic tools to analyse and further understand fine arts. Among
the other benefits, a deeper understanding of fine arts has the
potential to make them more accessible to a wider population, both
in terms of fruition and creation, thus supporting the spread of
culture.</tt><tt><br>
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</tt><tt>The ability to recognize meaningful patterns in fine art
inherently falls within the domain of human perception, and this
perception can be extremely hard to conceptualize. Thus,
visual-related features, such as those automatically learned by
deep learning models, can be the key to tackling problems of
extracting useful representations from low-level colour and
texture features. These representations can assist in various
art-related tasks, ranging from object detection in paintings to
artistic style categorization, useful for examples in museum and
art gallery websites.</tt><tt><br>
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</tt><tt>The aim of the workshop is to provide an international
forum for those who wish to present advancements in the state of
the art, innovative research, ongoing projects, and academic and
industrial reports on the application of visual pattern extraction
and recognition for the better understanding and fruition of fine
arts. The workshop solicits contributions from diverse areas such
as pattern recognition, computer vision, artificial intelligence
and image processing.</tt><tt><br>
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</tt><tt>=== Topics ===</tt><tt><br>
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</tt><tt>Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt>- Application of machine learning and deep learning to
cultural heritage</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt>- Computer vision and multimedia data</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt>- Generative adversarial networks for artistic data</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt>- Augmented and virtual reality for cultural heritage</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt>- 3D reconstruction of historical artifacts</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt>- Historical document analysis</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt>- Content-based retrieval in the art domain</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt>- Speech, audio and music analysis from historical archives</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt>- Digitally enriched museum visits</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt>- Smart interactive experiences in cultural sites</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt>- Projects, products or prototypes for cultural heritage
restoration, preservation and fruition</tt><tt><br>
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</tt><tt>=== Submission guidelines ===</tt><tt><br>
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</tt><tt>Submissions must be formatted in accordance with the
Springer's Computer Science Proceedings guidelines. The following
paper categories are welcome:</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt>- Full papers (12-15 pages, including references)</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt>- Short papers (6-8 pages, including references)</tt><tt><br>
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</tt><tt>Accepted manuscripts will be included in the ICPR 2020
Workshop Proceedings Springer volume. Once accepted, at least one
author is expected to attend the event and orally present the
paper. Authors of selected papers will be invited to extend and
improve their contributions for a Special Issue of the Journal of
Imaging (MDPI).</tt><tt><br>
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</tt><tt>=== Important Dates ===</tt><tt><br>
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</tt><tt>- June 15th 2020 - workshop submission deadline</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt>- July 15th 2020 - author notification</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt>- July 30th 2020 - camera-ready submission</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt>- Aug. 15th 2020 - finalized workshop program</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt>- Sept. 18th 2020 - workshop day</tt><tt><br>
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</tt><tt>=== Organizing committee ===</tt><tt><br>
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</tt><tt>Gennaro Vessio (University of Bari, Italy)</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt>Giovanna Castellano (University of Bari, Italy)</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt>Fabio Bellavia (University of Palermo, Italy)</tt><tt><br>
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</tt><tt>=== Venue ===</tt><tt><br>
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</tt><tt>The workshop will be hosted at Milan Congress Center
(Mi.Co.), which is located in Piazzale Carlo Magno 1, Milan,
Italy.</tt><tt><br>
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</tt><tt> Contacts: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:gennaro.vessio@uniba.it">gennaro.vessio@uniba.it</a></tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt> <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:giovanna.castellano@uniba.it">giovanna.castellano@uniba.it</a></tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt> <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:fabio.bellavia@unipa.it">fabio.bellavia@unipa.it</a></tt><tt><br>
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</tt><tt> Workshop: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://sites.google.com/view/faper-workshop/">https://sites.google.com/view/faper-workshop/</a></tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt> ICPR2020: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.micc.unifi.it/icpr2020/">https://www.micc.unifi.it/icpr2020/</a></tt><tt><br>
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