New Media Possible Workshop Topics

• AI-optimized Hardware 
• Biometrics 
• Multimedia & cognitive informatics 
• Pattern recognition 
• Computational social science 
• Computational ecology 
  
• Computational behavioral science 
  
• Computational medicine
• Reasoning and evolution 
• Evolutionary computation
• Computational intelligence 
• Neural computation
• Computer vision
• Computer vision and speech understanding 
• Computer vision applications (autonomous navigation, visual surveillance, or content-based image and video indexing)
• Fusing 3D scene reconstruction
• 3D perception
• Vision, language, and cognition 
• Probabilistic graphical models
• Computational photography
• Medical vision
• Self-supervised representation learning 
• Deep learning and representation learning
• Computer vision and machine learning
• Video understanding
• Visual recognition and visual search
• Large-scale image/video retrieval
• Unsupervised visual discovery
• Image and video segmentation
• Vision and language
• Video summarization.
• Learning-based visual reconstruction 
• Understanding video contents 
• Visual sensing for ecology and conservation
• Human activity recognition
• Action understanding 
• Game theory
• Multi-agent systems
• Multi-Agent systems and distributed AI
• Emerging intelligent technologies and applications 
  
• Intelligent computer networks and systems
• Collective intelligence
• Commonsense reasoning
• Probabilistic reasoning
• AI algorithms 
• On-device AI
• Artificial intelligence tools & applications 
• Heuristic and AI planning strategies and tools 
• Computational theories of learning
• Artificial narrow intelligence (ANI), Artificial general intelligence (AGI), Artificial superintelligence (ASI)
• Artificial intelligence and information agents on the Internet
• Artificial intelligence systems integration
• Hybrid intelligent systems
• Artificial life (ALife or A-Life)
• Artificial intelligence and Intelligent agents
• State-space problem representations
• Uninformed and heuristic search
• Game playing and adversarial search
• Logical agents
• Constraint satisfaction problems
• Machine learning
• Supervised learning
• Unsupervised learning
• Semi-supervised learning
• Machine learning algorithms and theory 
• Learning and inference
• Causal modeling and machine learning 
• Causal structure learning and inference 
• Characterization of causal information in observational data 
• Understanding machine learning tasks in light of causality 
• Machine learning methods exploiting causal knowledge 
• Efficient causal discovery in large-scale data 
• Real-world problems for causal analysis.
  
• Applied machine learning
• Learning dynamical systems
• Learning algorithms for latent variable models 
  
• Latent social characteristics learning
• Machine learning for intelligent IoT
• Reinforcement learning
• Advanced learning technologies
• Data mining and machine learning tools
• Machine learning in signal processing
• Ontology
• Storytelling in games
• Smart graphics
• Graphics, human computer interaction, & user experience
• Style transfer
• Affective computing
• Cognitive machines
• Cognitive computing systems
• Cognitive modeling
• Medical and diagnostic systems
• Bioinformatics using intelligent and machine learning techniques
• Autonomous multi-robot systems
• Automated planning and scheduling
• Automatic control 
• Robotic process automation
• Robot planning and control
• Human-robot interaction
• Machine perception (machine vision, machine hearing, machine touch)
  
• Vision intelligence and machine learning
• Machine deception
• Machine perception
• Machine learning platforms 
• Distributed algorithms in machine learning
• Machine listening and learning
• Machine reading
• Optimization methods for machine learning
• Sequential decision making
• Interactive machine learning
• Embedding and representation learning
• Active learning
• Transfer learning
• Spectral learning
• Statistical relational learning
• Bayesian learning
• Bayesian statistics
• Improving learning efficiency 
• Deep learning
• Neural networks and deep learning
• Deep neural networks
• Convolutional neural network
• Manifold learning
• Deep visualization
• Deep learning and computer vision
• Deep learning platforms
• Deep learning hardware accelerators (GPUs, FPGAs, and TPUs)
• Deep generative models
• Deep reinforcement learning
• New learning systems and styles
• Robotics and computational perception
• Mobile robots
• Robot navigation
• Distributed robotics  
  
• Wearable robotic systems
• Networked robotic systems
  
• Swarm robotics
• Swarm intelligence
• Microrobotics 
  
• Soft robotics
• Intelligent user interfaces
• Brain–computer interface/Mind-machine interface
• Social computing and crowdsourcing systems
• AI for social good
• Computational linguistics and speech processing
• Speech recognition systems
• Text-to-speech synthesizers
• Automated voice response systems
• Automatic speech recognition
• Language instruction materials
• Biomedical natural language processing
• Machine translation/multilingual processing
• Information extraction and natural language processing
• Natural language generation and understanding
• Automatic text summarization
• Natural language processing and computational linguistics
• Natural language processing: algorithms and tools to extract computable information from Electronic Health Records (EHRs) and from the biomedical literature
• Natural language learning
• Language generation and conversational AI
• Language grounding with vision
• Statistical relational learning
• Transfer learning
• Active learning
• Auditory, speech and language processing
• Text analytics and natural language processing (NLP)
• Natural language processing and its connections with data mining, social science and vision
• Spoken language understanding
• Physical commonsense
• Unsupervised speech processing
• Automatic text summarization 
• Speech processing and synthesis
• Voice synthesis 
• Text-to-Speech (TTS)
• Speech recognition
• Machine learning, natural language processing, and social media
• Conversational search, recommendation, and QA systems 
• Online handwriting and gesture recognition technology
• Decision management 
• Knowledge management and business intelligence
• Learning algorithms for gleaning semantic and structured knowledge from massive social media and web data
• Business intelligence systems
• Business process management and workflow mining
• Genetic algorithms and evolutionary computing
• Knowledge representation  
• Knowledge-based systems (knowledge acquisition, knowledge discovery and data mining, knowledge representation and management)
• Pervasive computing and ambient intelligence 
• Hybrid intelligent systems 
• Intelligent system architectures 
• Intelligent machinima generation
• Theory and applications of social computing
• Social media analytics
• Social media mining
• Web intelligence
• Web search engines
• Intelligent web mining and applications
• Intelligent web personalization
• Web intelligence applications & search 
• Semantic web techniques and technologies 
• Web mining and ontology construction
• Social informatics
• mobile crowdsourcing
• Crowdsourcing to understand website privacy policies
• Learning algorithms for gleaning semantic and structured knowledge from massive social media and web data
• Information extraction
• Intelligent web-based systems
• Explainable recommendation and search
• Intelligent visual computing
• Intelligent tutoring systems 
  
• Intelligent disaster warning system
• Intelligent user interfaces
• Brain-computer interfaces & computational neuroscience
• Visual intelligence
• Anticipatory computing
• Bayesian networks 
• Knowledge-base and theory refinement
• Graph mining
• Knowledge discovery (data mining, text mining, and web mining)
• Data mining and knowledge management
• Data mining and data analytics - knowledge discovery and representation
• Text and data mining for life science
• Data mining, data analytics, and machine learning approaches in materials science
• Data clustering
• Multimedia data mining
• Mining dark data
• Mining and learning with graphs
• Educational data mining and human-computer interaction
• Statistical learning and data mining
• Applied machine learning and data mining
• Large scale distributed knowledge management
• Information fusion for decision making under uncertainty
• Secure distributed learning
• Data and knowledge representation standards
• Domain-driven actionable knowledge discovery
• Reality mining
• Pattern discovery (association analysis, anomaly detection, and cluster analysis) 
• Spatiotemporal data analysis
• Data mining and predictive modeling
• Engineering informatics
• Cheminformatics
• Materials informatics
• Approximate inference for graphical models
• Multimedia techniques for enhanced accessibility systems
• Modeling and organizing large-scale Internet image collections
• Feedback motion planning for robotics
• Financial and stock market monitoring and prediction
• Emerging intelligent technologies

• Future Internet architectures
• Internet architecture and protocol designs
• Internet routing architectures and protocols
• Internet routing security
• Internet content distribution
• Energy Internet
• Industrial Internet
• The tactile Internet
• Quantum computing and communications
• Quantum Internet

• Cloud/Fog radio access networks
• Internet of vehicles
  
• Vehicular cloud
  
• Machine-to-Machine (M2M) cloud
• Urban computing
• Distributed computing
• Parallel and distributed systems
• Distributed data intensive systems
• Distributed cloud storage system
• Cloud computing infrastructures,
• Cloud culture
• Ubi/Cloud computing architecture
• Micro datacenter (cloudlets/edges)
  
• Mobile cloud computing
• Infrastructure/software/application/business cloud
• Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) in cloud computing
• Virtualization of hardware/software resources
• Design tool for cloud computing
• Maintenance and management of cloud computing
• Cloud-computing and ubiquitous sensing
• Cloud applications in vertical industries
• Cloud computing in the healthcare industry
• Smart and connected healthcare
• Scientific computing in the cloud
• Business computing in the cloud
• Social computing in the cloud
  
• High availability in cloud computing environments
• High performance computing (HPC) cloud

• Semantic/social/sensor webs
• Semantic web, web services an networks
• Emerging web technologies
• The deep web
• Web science
• Web mining
• Distributed web
• Search engine optimization (SEO)

• The green data center
• Data center power management
  
• Cloud computing: Impact on data center technology and operations
• Virtualization and cloud computing in the data center
• Software-defined data center
  
• Software-defined power
  
• Scalable storage infrastructure for database systems
• Social media, cloud computing and big data
• E-government interoperability in cloud computing, open government, and smart city initiatives

4. Fog Computing: Architecture, Algorithms, and Applications

5. The Internet of Things (IoT)

6. Cyber Security, Digital Forensics

• Cyber security strategy
• Quantum Cryptography
• Applied cryptography
• Anomaly detection systems
• Malware analysis and detection
• Digital forensics and crimes
• Biometrics and forensics
• Biometric authentication
• Data leakage, data protection and database forensics
• Forensics of virtual and cloud environments
• Network forensics and traffic analysis hardware vulnerabilities and device forensics
• File system and memory analysis multimedia forensics
• Anti-forensics and anti-anti-forensics techniques
• Malware forensics and anti-malware techniques
• Pattern recognition (face/iris recognition) 
• Applications of machine learning for security,
• Security (biometrics) 
• Visual analytics for cyber security
• Automated vulnerability detection
  
• Cyberbullying detection
• Security risk assessment and management
  
• Intrusion detection and prevention
• Cloud infrastructure security
• Emerging threats to cloud-based services
• Securing distributed data storage in the cloud
• Cybersecurity in distributed systems
• Internet privacy
• Balancing identity and privacy
• Privacy and ethics
• Privacy and security in cloud computing and big data
  
• Privacy-preserving techniques for cloud computing (homomorphic encryption)
• Security assurance/interoperability for critical infrastructure
• Network and system security
• Secure information exchange gateway and watchdog switches
• Embedded systems security
  
• Wide area monitoring, protection & control
• Access control management and authentication services
• Surveillance systems
• Smart grid security
• Cyber warfare trends and approaches
• Cyber defense and network: evolving, adapting, defending
  
• Cyber war and international law
• Resilient infrastructure
  
• Wireless security
• Wireless network intrinsic secrecy  
• Next-generation security technologies
• Bio-inspired technologies for enhancing cybersecurity
• Biometrics standards and standardization
• Biometrics applications
• Emerging theories and algorithms in biometrics
• Multimedia and document security
• Software evolution
  
• Software verification and assurance
• Software security
• Computer language-based security and privacy
• Secure routing
  
• Testbeds for security applications
• Operating systems security
• Intrusion detection/prevention
• Cyberbullying detection
• Multilingual cyberbullying detection system
• Future cyber security
• Web and mobile security.
• Cyber security and Internet economy
• On-demand economy

• Transmedia theory and design

• Transmedia, art and content

• Transmedia storytelling
• Transmedia journalism

• Transmedia and future computing/IT convergence/creative industry

• Wearable computing
• Mobile devices and virtual reality
• Ubiquitous mixed/augmented reality (MR/AR)
  
• Wearable and mobile mixed/augmented reality (MR/AR)
  
• Distributed and collaborative mixed/augmented reality (MR/AR)
  
• Industrial/medical mixed/augmented reality (MR/AR) applications
  
• Mixed/augmented reality (MR/AR) for entertainment and training
• Interactive, virtual and augmented environments
• Avatars and virtual community
• Opportunistic user interfaces
• Brain–computer interface 
• Gesture recognition 
• Omnidirectional treadmill 
• Speech recognition
• Tele-immersion
• Fovea-contingent display
• Volumetric display
  
• Vari-focal plane head-mounted display
• Multi-focal plane head-mounted display
• Head-mounted projection display
• Eye-tracked head-mounted display
• 3D printing technology
• New 3D printing tools and techniques
• Robotics and telepresence
  

• Mixed/augmented reality (MR/AR) for cultural heritage
  
• Computer animation for cultural heritage applications and virtual heritage
• Virtual realty (VR) applications in conservation research and practice
• Intelligent description of cultural heritage content (in multiple languages)
• Novel Internet-based cultural heritage applications
• Encyclopedias in cultural heritage
• Digital libraries and archives
• National digital libraries and aggregators as cross-domain systems
  
• E-libraries and e-learning in cultural heritage
• Cultural heritage and edutainment
• Cultural heritage and cuisine
  
• Knowledge systems for heritage management
• Virtual heritage, virtual tourism, and virtual museum applications (e-museums and e-exhibitions)
• Digital image processing and pattern recognition
  
• 3D data capture and processing in cultural heritage
• Digital reconstructions and 3D modeling
• Digital media and commodification of cultural heritage
• Digital heritage tools and systems
  
• The economics of cultural informatics and tourism

• Digital humanities
• Film, television, and digital media
• Computer vision
• Camera culture
• Immersive cinema
• 3D reconstruction and motion estimation
• Computational camera and photography
• Information technologies, social networking, and digital media
• International, inter-cultural, and intra-cultural communication
• Cyberarts and visualization
• Gigapixel display
• 3D displays
• Information visualization and visual analytics
• Ubiquitous/pervasive media and art
• Media arts and creative technologies
• Creative writing
• Interactive and mobile media & art
• Opera of the future
• Museology
• Museum art and exhibitions
• Future of storytelling
• Digital storytelling
• Applications of serious gaming technologies
• Affective computing
• Media forensics
• Applied arts
• Apparel design, architecture, furniture design, industrial design, interior architecture and landscape architecture
• Culture, fashion design and digital media
• Fashion photography
• Craft and decorative art
• Music theory and composition
  
• Ethnomusicology
• Intermedia music technology
• Networked music
• Computer music and multimedia
• Electronic music composition
• Computer audition
• Sound analysis, processing, synthesis and control
• Melodic pattern recognition
• Auditory display
• Symbolic manipulation of formal music representations
• Music perception and cognition
• Music therapy
• Emerging sound recording technologies
• Internet music delivery
• Music entrepreneurship

• Human-computer interaction
• Interactive multimedia
• Role-playing games
• Mixed/augmented reality (MR/AR) for entertainment
• Human-centered computing and cognitive science
  
• Education, virtual classroom and virtual collaborative learning
• Social impact, social networking, sound and music
• Social and interactive computing and media
• Social Computing and computational journalism
• Knowledge representation
• Computer-supported collaborative learning
• Digital game-based learning
• Web-based learning environment
• Mobile learning
  
• Mobile entertainment
• Mobile social networks