The 10th IAPR TC3 Workshop on Artificial Neural Networks in Pattern Recognition
ANNPR 2022
24-26th November 2022
Heriot-Watt University Dubai Campus, Dubai Knowledge Park
Dubai, UAE
ANNPR 22 Program (In-person and *Online)
Day 1 Thursday 24th November (ANNPR 22 opening and welcome reception)
| Time (GST) | Room | Online Link | |
| 3.30-4 pm | Registration | 5.34 | |
| 4.00-5.30 pm | Welcome Reception and Networking Event will be held 5th floor marketplace | ||
| 5.30-6 pm | ANNPR 2022 Opening Session & Welcome Note Chair: Steve Gill, Heriot-Watt University, UAE Prof. Heather McGregor Provost and Vice Principal, HWU, Dubai Steve Gill Academic Head, School of Mathematical & Computer Sciences, HWU, Dubai Neamat El Gayar, Mirco Ravanelli, Hazem Abbas & Edmondo Trentin ANNPR 22 chairs | 5.33 | Webinar Link |
| 6-7 pm | Chair: Neamat El Gayar, Heriot-Watt University, UAE *Invited Talk: Advances and Paradigms in Deep Learning Michael S. Lew, Leiden University, Netherlands (online Lecture) Abstract & Speaker Bio: https://annpr2022.com/speakers/ | 5.33 | Webinar Link |
Day2 Friday 25th November
| Time (GST) | Room | Online Link | |
| 9.15-9.55 AM | Registration | 5.34 | |
| 10-12.00 PM | Day 2 Session 1 (Learning Algorithms and Architectures I) Chair: Md Azher Uddin, Heriot-Watt University, UAE Graph Augmentation for Neural Networks Using Matching Graphs Mathias Fuchs and Kaspar Riesen A Novel Representation of Graphical Patterns for Graph Convolution Networks Marco Benini, Pietro Bongini and Edmondo Trentin A Review of Capsule Networks in Medical Image Analysis Heba Elshimy, Hind Zantout, Michael Lones and Neamat El Gayar Introducing an Atypical Loss: A Perceptual Metric Learning for Image Pairing Mohamed Dahmane | 5.33 | Webinar Link |
| 12.30-2.30 PM | Friday prayer break & lunch | ||
| 2.30-4.30 PM | Day 2 Session 2 (Applications I) Chair: Jindrich Matousek, University of West Bohemia, Czech Republic *Utilization of Vision Transformer for Classification and Ranking of Video Distortions Nouar Aldahoul, Hezerul Abdul Karim and Myles Joshua Toledo Tan *Medical Deepfake Detection using 3-Dimensional Neural Learning Misaj Sharafudeen and Vinod Chandra S. S. Assessment of Pharmaceutical Patent Novelty using Siamese Neural Network Heba Elshimy, Hind Zantout and Hani Ragab Hassen A Study on the Autonomous Detection of Impact Craters Nour Aburaed, Mina Alsaad, Saeed Al Mansoori and Hussain Al-Ahmad | 5.33 | Webinar Link |
Day3 Saturday 26th November
| Time GST | Room | Online Link | |
| 9.15-9.55 | Registration | ||
| 10-11.30 AM | Day 3 Session 1 (Learning Algorithms and Architectures II) Chair: Radu Radu-Casian Mihailescu, Heriot-Watt University, UAE *Do Minimal Complexity Least Squares Support Vector Machines Work? Shigeo Abe *Minimizing Cross Intersections in Graph Drawing via Linear Splines Rida Ghafoor, Matteo Tiezzi, Gabriele Ciravegna and Marco Gori *Multi-stage Bias Mitigation for Individual Fairness in Algorithmic Decisions Adinath Ghadage, Dewei Yi, Peter Edwards, George Coghill and Wei Pang | 5.33 | Webinar Link |
| 11.30-12 PM | Coffee Break | ||
| 12 PM-1 PM | Chair: Hind Zantout, Heriot-Watt University, UAE IAPR Invited Lecture: Evolutionary algorithms and neural networks: a match made in heaven? Michael Lones, Heriot-Watt University, UK Abstract & Speaker Bio: https://annpr2022.com/speakers/ | 5.33 | Webinar Link |
| 1-2 PM | Lunch | ||
| 2.00-3.30 PM | Session 2 (Applications II) Chair Mohamed Dahmane, Computer Research Institute of Montreal, Canada *White Blood Cell Classification of Porcine Blood Smear Images Jemima Loise U. Novia, Jacqueline Rose T. Alipo-on, Francesca Isabelle F. Escobar, Myles Joshua T. Tan, Hezerul Abdul Karim, and Nouar AlDahoul Transformer-Encoder generated context-aware embeddings for spell correction Noufal Samsudin and Hani Ragab Sequence-to-Sequence CNN-BiLSTM Based Glottal Closure Instant Detection from Raw Speech Jindrich Matousek and Daniel Tihelka | 5.33 | Webinar Link |
| 3.30-4 PM | Coffee break | ||
| 4-5.00 PM | Session 3 (Applications III) Chair: Daniel Tihelka, University of West Bohemia, Czech Republic *Wavelet Scattering Transform Depth Benefit, An Application for Speaker Identification Abderrazzaq Moufidi, David Rousseau and Pejman Rasti *Mono vs Multilingual BERT for Hate Speech Detection and Text Classification: A Case Study in Marathi Hrushikesh Patil, Abhishek Velankar and Raviraj Joshi | 5.33 | Webinar Link |
| 5-5.30 PM | Closing | 5.33 | Webinar Link |
*Online Presentation