AIxPAC is meant to gather contributions from the scientific community and industry representatives to discuss theoretical and practical concepts. We plan on setting out two separate sessions for contributors to hold their presentations and answer questions from the attendees (15-minute presentation + 5-minute question and answer session). We also want to foster multidisciplinary collaboration from scientists and researchers with different backgrounds by offering two thematic panels, respectively, on physicalist ontology of consciousness and artificial consciousness and colour perception from externalism and internalism viewpoints. 

Throughout the workshop sessions, we want to tackle the following research questions:

1) Can a Visual Perception system be embedded in machines?

2) How accurately does AI tackle Visual Attention processes? And what is the relation between attention and consciousness?

3) What is the Ontology of Consciousness and Artificial Consciousness?

4) Can current AI architectures and approaches be used to design Artificial Consciousness?

The above-mentioned questions are all but easy to answer. Furthermore, they can be faced using different approaches. Some researchers focus on cognitive architectures to try and deliver a complete vision of the world, with others mostly involved in building specific modules entailing human tasks (vision, speech, motion, reading, reasoning) as tiles of a bigger and more complex mosaic.

Here is a list of topics of interest for the workshop:

• AI Models for Visual Perception and Visual Attention

• Attention and Self-attention-based applications

• Computational Approaches for Visual Saliency

• Consciousness and Artificial Consciousness Ontology

• Computational Models of Consciousness

• Cognitive Architectures for Artificial Consciousness

• Biologically inspired AI solutions.

Submission Guidelines

Submitted papers should be written in English and formatted according to the Springer LNCS style.

Regular papers must be original papers, which are not being submitted simultaneously for publication elsewhere. These papers should not exceed 12 pages, with any number of additional pages containing bibliographic references only.

Discussion papers report results already published or accepted for publication in international conferences, and should not exceed 8 pages with any number of additional pages containing bibliographic references only.

Committees

Program Committee

• Anuja Arora, Jaypee Institute of Information Technology, Noida, India

• Pradeep N Bapuji Institute of Engineering and Technology, Davanagere, India

• Chintan M Bhatt, Pandit Deendayal Energy University, India

• Giuseppe Caggianese, ICAR CNR, Italy 

• Sophia Corvaja, University of Palermo, Italy

• Fulvio Gaglio, University of Palermo, Italy 

• Mingliang Gao, Shandong University, China

• Ignazio Infantino, ICAR CNR, Italy

• Amine Mohammed Kerkouri, University of Orleans, France

• Giovanni Pilato, ICAR CNR, Italy

• Riccardo Rizzo, ICAR CNR, Italy

• Luca Sabatucci, ICAR CNR, Italy 

• Paolo Spagnolo, ISASI CNR, Italy

• Marouane Tliba, University of Orleans, France

• Yishi Zhang, Wuhan University of Technology, China

Organizing Committee

• Alessandro Bruno - IULM University
• Arianna Pipitone - Università degli studi di Palermo
• Riccardo Manzotti - IULM University
• Antonio Chella - Università degli studi di Palermo
• Agnese Augello - ICAR CNR
• Pier Luigi Mazzeo - ISASI CNR
• Filippo Vella - ICAR CNR

Contact

alessandro dot bruno at iulm dot it 

arianna dot pipitone at unipa dot it

agnese dot augello at icar dot cnr dot it

filippo dot augello at icar at cnr at it

pierluigi dot mazzeo at cnr dot it