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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:13.999999999999998pt; font-family:Arial; color:#0000ff; font-weight:700; white-space:pre-wrap">Video and Image Question Answering (VIQA) Workshop at ICPR 2020</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="https://sites.google.com/view/viqa2020"><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#1155cc; font-weight:700; text-decoration:underline; text-decoration-skip-ink:none; white-space:pre-wrap">https://sites.google.com/view/viqa2020</span></a></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; font-weight:700; white-space:pre-wrap">Call For Paper flyer
</span><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1lagAWl8oWgM2LuzZQKSywlh5A1lXrDSz/view"><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#1155cc; font-weight:700; text-decoration:underline; text-decoration-skip-ink:none; white-space:pre-wrap">here</span></a></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; font-weight:700; white-space:pre-wrap">Submit your paper
</span><a href="http://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/viqa2020"><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#1155cc; font-weight:700; text-decoration:underline; text-decoration-skip-ink:none; white-space:pre-wrap">here</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; font-weight:700; white-space:pre-wrap">.
</span><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; white-space:pre-wrap">Please note that papers
</span><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; font-weight:700; white-space:pre-wrap">not accepted in the ICPR2020</span><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; white-space:pre-wrap"> main conference and</span><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; font-weight:700; white-space:pre-wrap"> fitting
the VIQA topics </span><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; white-space:pre-wrap">can be submitted here!</span><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; font-weight:700; white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; white-space:pre-wrap">Authors
should address all ICPR reviewers' comments in the submitted paper and submit the
</span><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; font-weight:700; white-space:pre-wrap">ICPR reviews
</span><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; white-space:pre-wrap">as supplementary material. The deadline has been
</span><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; font-weight:700; white-space:pre-wrap">extended
</span><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; white-space:pre-wrap">to
</span><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; font-weight:700; white-space:pre-wrap">October 17th</span><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; white-space:pre-wrap">, 2020!</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; white-space:pre-wrap">Organized in conjunction with the 25th
</span><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; font-weight:700; white-space:pre-wrap">International Conference on Pattern Recognition</span><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; white-space:pre-wrap"> (</span><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; font-weight:700; white-space:pre-wrap">ICPR
2020</span><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; white-space:pre-wrap">), Milan, Italy, January 10-15, 2021 (</span><a href="https://www.micc.unifi.it/icpr2020/"><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#1155cc; text-decoration:underline; text-decoration-skip-ink:none; white-space:pre-wrap">https://www.micc.unifi.it/icpr2020/</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; white-space:pre-wrap">)</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#0000ff; font-weight:700; white-space:pre-wrap">AIMS AND SCOPE</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; font-weight:700; white-space:pre-wrap">Image Question Answering and Video Question Answering</span><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; white-space:pre-wrap"> are
two tasks involving the realization of models able to analyze the visual content of an image or a video, and produce a meaningful answer to visual content-related questions. These tasks both involve spatial, frame-level reasoning. Moreover, Video Question
Answering also requires temporal, video-level reasoning which further raises the difficulty of the task. Solving these tasks would represent the ability to train models able to jointly analyze and reason on visual contents and textual contents at a human-level:
the obtained models would be able to learn to isolate and pinpoint objects of interest in video (or image), and to identify and reason about their interactions in both the spatial and temporal domains. Image and Video Question Answering thus represent a challenging,
but fundamental task in both Computer Vision and Natural Language Processing communities.</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; white-space:pre-wrap">The
</span><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; font-weight:700; white-space:pre-wrap">first Video and Image Question Answering (VIQA) Workshop</span><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; white-space:pre-wrap"> will
be held at the 25th </span><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; font-weight:700; white-space:pre-wrap">International Conference on Pattern Recognition</span><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; white-space:pre-wrap"> (</span><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; font-weight:700; white-space:pre-wrap">ICPR2020</span><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; white-space:pre-wrap">)
and will focus on these two fundamental tasks, while covering several tasks in both Computer Vision and Natural Language Processing fields. Given the availability of new large scale image and video datasets, these tasks are getting more and more attention.</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; white-space:pre-wrap">The first VIQA workshop wants to gather all the people from academia and industry interested in the
aforementioned topics, this in order to stimulate the sharing between participants of state-of-the-art approaches, best practices, and future directions.</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; white-space:pre-wrap">A
</span><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; font-weight:700; white-space:pre-wrap">special issue</span><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; white-space:pre-wrap"> about Video and Image Question Answering is
going to be organized in a top journal.</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#0000ff; font-weight:700; white-space:pre-wrap">TOPICS</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; white-space:pre-wrap">Topics of interest are mainly related to Visual (Image and Video) Question Answering including, but
not limited to:</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">Datasets and evaluation </span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">Deep learning methods for vision and language</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">Egocentric visual question answering</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">Image question answering</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">Multimodal question answering</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">Representation learning</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">Transfer learning for vision and language</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">Video analysis and understanding </span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">Video question answering</span></p>
</li><li dir="ltr" style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000">
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">Video summarization</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">Vision and language and/or other modalities </span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">Vision applications and systems</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">Visual reasoning and logical representation</span></p>
</li></ul>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#0000ff; font-weight:700; white-space:pre-wrap">SUBMISSION GUIDELINES</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; white-space:pre-wrap">Submissions must be formatted in accordance with the
</span><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; font-weight:700; white-space:pre-wrap">Springer's Computer Science Proceedings</span><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; white-space:pre-wrap"> guidelines (</span><a href="https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines"><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#1155cc; text-decoration:underline; text-decoration-skip-ink:none; white-space:pre-wrap">https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; white-space:pre-wrap">).
Two types of contribution will be considered:</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-weight:700; white-space:pre-wrap">Full
</span><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">papers (12-15 pages, including references)</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-weight:700; white-space:pre-wrap">Short
</span><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">papers (6-8 pages, including references)</span></p>
</li></ul>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; white-space:pre-wrap">Accepted manuscripts will be included in the</span><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; font-weight:700; white-space:pre-wrap"> ICPR
2020 Workshop Proceedings</span><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; white-space:pre-wrap"> Springer volume. Once accepted, at least one author is expected to attend the event and orally present the paper.</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#0000ff; font-weight:700; white-space:pre-wrap">IMPORTANT DATES</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; font-weight:700; white-space:pre-wrap">Submission deadline</span><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; white-space:pre-wrap">:
October </span><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; font-weight:700; white-space:pre-wrap">17th</span><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; white-space:pre-wrap"> 2020 (</span><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; font-weight:700; white-space:pre-wrap">extended</span><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; white-space:pre-wrap">)</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; font-weight:700; white-space:pre-wrap">Author notification</span><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; white-space:pre-wrap">:
November 10th 2020</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; font-weight:700; white-space:pre-wrap">Camera-ready submission</span><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; white-space:pre-wrap">:
November 15th 2020</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#0000ff; font-weight:700; white-space:pre-wrap">CONTACTS</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; white-space:pre-wrap">Best regards from the VIQA Workshop organizers!</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; font-weight:700; white-space:pre-wrap">Falcon Alex</span><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; white-space:pre-wrap">,
PhD student at Fondazione Bruno Kessler and University of Udine (Italy)</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; font-weight:700; white-space:pre-wrap">Giuseppe Serra</span><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; white-space:pre-wrap">,
University of Udine (Italy)</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; font-weight:700; white-space:pre-wrap">Oswald Lanz</span><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; white-space:pre-wrap">,
Fondazione Bruno Kessler (Italy)</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; font-weight:700; white-space:pre-wrap">Rainer Stiefelhagen</span><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; white-space:pre-wrap">,
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Germany)</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; font-weight:700; white-space:pre-wrap">Makarand Tapaswi</span><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; white-space:pre-wrap">,
Inria Paris (France)</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; white-space:pre-wrap">For further information, please send an email to Alex Falcon at
</span><a href="mailto:falcon.alex@spes.uniud.it"><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#1155cc; text-decoration:underline; text-decoration-skip-ink:none; white-space:pre-wrap">falcon.alex@spes.uniud.it</span></a><br>
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