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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EL link=blue vlink=purple style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-top:5.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><div><div><p style='margin:0in'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#212121'>Call for Papers </span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black'>ICIP 2021 Autonomous Vehicle Vision (AVVision) Special Session </span><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Georgia",serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black'>(Deadline Extended</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Georgia",serif'> to <b><u><span style='color:#212121'>February 14, 2021 </span></u></b><span style='color:#212121'>by ICIP2021 organizers</span><span style='color:black'>!) </span></span><span lang=EN-US style='color:#500050'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#500050'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#500050'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black'>Early abstract submissions are welcome! Send us your abstract (</span><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:red'>including tentative title, abstract, author list, and corresponding author contact email</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black'>) before </span><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:red'>January 18, 2021</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black'>! <b>Email: <a href="mailto:avvision@mias.group">avvision@mias.group</a></b></span><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Georgia",serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#500050'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Georgia",serif'><a href="https://sites.google.com/view/avvision-icip21" target="_blank">https://sites.google.com/view/avvision-icip21</a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#500050'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p style='margin:0in'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#212121'>Call for Papers </span></b><span lang=EN-US style='color:#500050'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in'><span lang=EN-US style='color:#500050'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black'>With a number of breakthroughs in autonomous system technology over the past decade, the race to commercialize self-driving cars has become fiercer than ever. The integration of advanced sensing, computer vision, signal/image processing, and machine/deep learning into autonomous vehicles enables them to perceive the environment intelligently and navigate safely. Autonomous driving is required to ensure safe, reliable, and efficient automated mobility in complex uncontrolled real-world environments. Various applications range from automated transportation and farming to public safety and environmental exploration. Visual perception is a critical component of autonomous driving. Enabling technologies include: a) affordable sensors that can acquire useful data under varying environmental conditions, b) reliable simultaneous localization and mapping, c) machine learning that can effectively handle varying real-world conditions and unforeseen events, as well as “machine-learning friendly” signal processing to enable more effective classification and decision making, d) hardware and software co-design for efficient real-time performance, e) resilient and robust platforms that can withstand adversarial attacks and failures, and f) end-to-end system integration of sensing, computer vision, signal/image processing and machine/deep learning. The special session will cover all these topics. Research papers are solicited in, but not limited to, the following topics:</span><span lang=EN-US style='color:#500050'><br><br></span><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black'>• 3D road/environment reconstruction and understanding;</span><span lang=EN-US style='color:#500050'><br></span><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black'>• Semantic/instance driving scene segmentation and semantic mapping;</span><span lang=EN-US style='color:#500050'><br></span><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black'>• Self-supervised/unsupervised visual environment perception;</span><span lang=EN-US style='color:#500050'><br></span><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black'>• Car/pedestrian/object/obstacle detection/tracking and 3D localization;</span><span lang=EN-US style='color:#500050'><br></span><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black'>• Car/license plate/road sign detection and recognition;</span><span lang=EN-US style='color:#500050'><br></span><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black'>• Driver status monitoring and human-car interfaces;</span><span lang=EN-US style='color:#500050'><br></span><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black'>• Deep/machine learning and image analysis for car perception;</span><span lang=EN-US style='color:#500050'><o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black'>• Adversarial domain adaptation for autonomous driving.</span><span lang=EN-US style='color:#500050'><o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:.25in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:15.0pt'><span lang=EN-US style='color:#500050'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#212121'>Organizers </span></b><span lang=EN-US style='color:#500050'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black'>Dr. Rui Ranger Fan, UC San Diego<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black'>Prof. Ioannis Pitas, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki</span><span lang=EN-US style='color:#500050'><o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black'>Dr. Nemanja Djuric, Uber ATG</span><span lang=EN-US style='color:#500050'><o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:.25in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:15.0pt'><span lang=EN-US style='color:#500050'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black'>Important Dates</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='color:#500050'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:47.25pt;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:#500050'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#212121'>Paper Submission Deadline: <b><u>February 14, 2021</u></b></span><span lang=EN-US style='color:#500050'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:47.25pt;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:#500050'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#212529'>Reviews Made Available to Authors: April 14, 2021</span><span lang=EN-US style='color:#500050'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:47.25pt;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:#500050'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#212529'>Author Rebuttal Deadline: April 21, 2021</span><span lang=EN-US style='color:#500050'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:47.25pt;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:#500050'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#212529'>Paper Acceptance Notification: May 19, 2021</span><span lang=EN-US style='color:#500050'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:47.25pt;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:#500050'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#212529'>Final Paper Submission Deadline: June 16, 2021</span><span lang=EN-US style='color:#500050'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:47.25pt;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:#500050'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#212529'>Author Registration Deadline: June 25, 2021</span><span lang=EN-US style='color:#500050'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black'>Submission</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='color:#500050'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in'><span lang=EN-US style='color:#500050'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#212529'>Papers must be formatted according to the instructions in the IEEE ICIP 2021 </span><span lang=EN-US style='color:#500050'><a href="https://2021.ieeeicip.org/Papers/PaperKit.asp" target="_blank"><b><span style='font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#007BFF'>Paper Kit</span></b></a></span><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#212529'>.</span><span lang=EN-US style='color:#500050'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in'><span lang=EN-US style='color:#500050'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#212529'>Please read the entire paper kit carefully to verify that your paper document is formatted correctly and that you have all the information you need before starting your paper submission. The paper kit contains detailed instructions on formatting your document and completing the submission process, as well as a description of how the review process works and how to prepare for your presentation at the conference if your paper is accepted.</span><span lang=EN-US style='color:#500050'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in'><span lang=EN-US style='color:#500050'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#212529'>All papers must be presented and registered to be published, according to the </span><span lang=EN-US style='color:#500050'><a href="https://2021.ieeeicip.org/Policies.asp" target="_blank"><b><span style='font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#007BFF'>Non-Presented Paper (No-Show) Policy</span></b></a></span><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#212529'>.</span><span lang=EN-US style='color:#500050'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in'><span lang=EN-US style='color:#500050'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='margin-top:0in'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#212121'>More details can be found at </span><span lang=EN-US style='color:#500050'><a href="https://2021.ieeeicip.org/Papers.asp" target="_blank"><b><span style='font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#007BFF'>https://2021.ieeeicip.org/Papers.asp</span></b></a> </span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div><div id="DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2"><br />
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