AI Mellontology Symposium 2022

23rd September 2022 8:00-17:00h CEST

 
 
 
 

About the Symposium

Artificial Intelligence (AI) poses serious R&D and societal challenges to address in the near future.

Here are two notable examples:

– Knowledge is the basis of our society, yet it is not formally quantified. How can we quantify knowledge, knowledge aggregation and transfer (education)?
– How can we build trustworthy and humanistic AI, while still advancing economic growth and competitiveness?

Horizon2020 AI flagship R&D projects: AI4Media and ELISE, together with the International AI Doctoral Academy (AIDA) joined forces in sponsoring the AI Methodology Symposium 2022, where participants will be able to debate hot AI issues of any form on any scientific, societal, industrial/economic AI aspect.

Discussion sessions will be informal and hopefully lively and hot aiming to debate contrasting views (thesis-antithesis) on each issue.

Session panelists will make their short statements before and/or during the panel to be discussed by the audience. 

There will be 7 AI science/technology/society/industry sessions (8 in the morning and 5 in the afternoon).

You are welcome to a) see other views and voice your own views on any panel topic, by using the ‘Voice your views’ area and b) actively participate in each panel discussion.

The more innovative, futuristic, even provocative your views are, the better. The discussion will be conducted though in a scientific way and in good faith.

The entire discussion and contributions will be compiled later on in a public ‘AI research white paper’ that will be used to guide R&D anywhere in the world, notably in the framework of AIDA and ICT48 R&D projects.





 
 

Key information

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WHEN?

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The 2022 AI Mellontology Symposium will be a HYBRID event. It will take place in the Meteoroscopy Auditorium, AUTH Campus, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 54124, Greece. Remote participation will be done by zoom & passcode 205540.

The Symposium will take place on 23rd September 2022, 8:00-17:00 CEST

This Symposium will be co-organized by Aristotle University of Thessaloniki & CERTH .

All symposium proceedings will be in English.
All times are in the CEST time zone.cf

 
 
 

Remote participation is free. Registration is required through the attached form.A very small registration fee (20 €) is required for local participation or for remote participation (if a participation certificate is desired) for people outside the AI4media

 

Program

8:00-8:05: Opening (Prof. Ioannis Pitas)

Morning Session Chair: Prof. N. Cesa Bianchi

8:05 – 9:00: “AI-based recommender systems in media: (how) does the EU legislation address the societal challenges?”
Organizer: L. Dutkiewicz (CiTiP, KUL)
Panelists: M. L. Stasi (ARTICLE19), Dr. K. Lindskow (CBS – Copenhagen Business School), A. Schjøtt Hansen (UvA), L. Dutkiewicz (CiTiP, KUL)

>>> Panel topic abstract

9:00 – 10:00: “Collaborative AI”
Organizer: Prof. N. Cesa Bianchi (U Milan), Prof. John Shawe-Taylor (UCL)
Panelists: Prof. N. Cesa Bianchi (U Milan), Prof. John Shawe-Taylor (UCL), Prof. J. Crowley (INRIA), Prof. A. Oulasvirta (Aalto U)
>>> Panel topic abstract

10:00 – 10:30: Coffee Break

10:30 – 11:30: “Human – AI Symbiosis”
Organizer: Dr. N. Vretos (CERTH/ITI)
Panelists: Prof. Federico Αlvarez Garcia (UPM), Dr. T. Giannakopoulos (NCSR Demokritos), Dr. N. Vretos (CERTH/ITI)
>>> Panel topic abstract

11:30-12:30: “AI studies: AI PhD Excellence. AI Curriculum. AI Science and Engineering?”
Organizer: Prof. Ioannis Pitas (AUTH)
Panelists: Prof. Ioannis Pitas (AUTH), Prof. A. Geiger (U Tuebingen), Prof. B. O’Sullivan (UCC), Prof. B. Schoelkopf (Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems)
>>> Panel topic abstract

12:30-13:30: Lunch break

13:30 – 14:30: “Latent brain”
Organizer: Prof. Dr. Patrick van der Smagt
Panelists: Prof. Dr. Patrick van der Smagt, Prof. Henrik Jörntell, Prof. Daniel Gauthier, Prof. Konrad Kording (U Penn)
>>> Panel topic abstract

14:30 – 15:30: “How AI meets human in media houses? (Recommendation systems and Media)”
Organizer: P. Kordík (CVUT)
Panelists: C. Kadar (NZZ.ch), K. Koupil (Seznam.cz), T. Lančová (Recombee)
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15:30 – 16:00: Coffee Break

Afternoon Session Chair: Dr. I. Kompatsiaris, Prof. I. Pitas

16:00 – 17:00: “AI Act: key elements and state of play”
Lecturer: Dr. G. Mazzini (EC)
>>> Topic abstract

17:00 – 19:00: “AIDA General Assembly”

19:00-21:00: Dinner (optional) at EnfantGâté in Guadeloupe

 


 
 

VOICE YOUR VIEWS ON PANEL DISCUSSION TOPICS!

Share your views about the AI R&D topics and challenges discussed in the panels or submit an AI research challenge you think is grand indeed. 

Younger AI researchers’ views are particularly encouraged.
The more innovative, futuristic, even provocative your views are, the better. They will be communicated to the panel and you can also present them during the panel discussion.
They may be included in the upcoming ‘AI research white paper’.

 

 
 
 

Organizing Committee

AI Mellontology Symposium Chair: Prof. Ioannis Pitas (AUTH)

(IEEE Fellow, IEEE Distinguished Lecturer, EURASIP fellow) received the Diploma and Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering, both from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. Since 1994, he has been a Professor at the Department of Informatics of the same University. His current interests are in the areas of image/video processing, machine learning, computer vision, intelligent digital media, human-centered interfaces, affective computing, 3D imaging, and biomedical imaging. He has published over 920 papers, contributed in 45 books in his areas of interest and edited or (co-)authored another 11 books. He has also been member of the program committee of many scientific conferences and workshops. In the past he served as Associate Editor or co-Editor of 9 international journals and General or Technical Chair of 4 international conferences. He participated in 71 R&D projects, primarily funded by the European Union and is/was principal investigator/researcher in 41 such projects. He leads International AI Doctoral Academy (AIDA) and is PI in Horizon2020 EU funded R&D projects AI4Media (1 of the 4 AI flagship projects in Europe) and AerialCore. He has 33300+ citations to his work and h-index 86+.

AI Mellontology Symposium co-Chair: Dr. Ioannis Kompatsiaris (CERTH)

Dr. Ioannis (Yiannis) Kompatsiaris is a Research Director at CERTH-ITI, the Head of Multimedia Knowledge and Social Media Analytics Laboratory and Deputy Director of the Institute. His research interests include ΑΙ/Machine Learning for multimedia analysis, Semantics (multimedia ontologies and reasoning), Social Media and Big Data Analytics, Multimodal and Sensors Data Analysis and Human-Computer Interfaces. He is the co-author of 178 papers in refereed journals, 63 book chapters, 8 patents and 560 papers in international conferences. Since 2001, Dr. Kompatsiaris has participated in 88 National and European research programs, in 31 of which he has been the Project Coordinator. He has also been the PI in 15 contracts from the industry. He has been the co-chair of various international conferences and workshops including the 13th IEEE Image, Video, and Multidimensional Signal Processing (IVMSP 2018) Workshop and has served as a regular reviewer, associate and guest editor for a number of journals and conferences currently being an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Image Processing. He is a member of the National Ethics and Technoethics Committee, the Scientific Advisory Board of the CHIST-ERA funding programme and an elected member of the IEEE Image, Video and Multidimensional Signal Processing – Technical Committee (IVMSP – TC).

Prof. Nicolò Cesa-Bianchi (University of Milan)

Nicolò Cesa-Bianchi is a professor of Computer Science at the University of Milan, Italy. His main research interests are the design and analysis of machine learning algorithms for statistical and online learning, multi-armed bandit problems, and graph analytics. He is co-author of the monographs “Prediction, Learning, and Games” and “Regret Analysis of Stochastic and Nonstochastic Multi-armed Bandit Problems”. He served as President of the Association for Computational Learning and co-chaired the program committees of some of the most important machine learning conferences, including NeurIPS, COLT, and ALT. He is the recipient of a Google Research Award, a Xerox Foundation Award, a Criteo Faculty Award, and a Google Focused Award. He is ELLIS fellow and co-director of the ELLIS program on Interactive Learning and Interventional Representations. He serves on the steering committees of the Italian Laboratory on AI and Intelligent Systems and of the Italian PhD program on AI.

Prof. Nicu Sebe (University of Trento)

Nicu Sebe is a professor in the University of Trento, Italy, where he is leading the research in the areas of multimedia information retrieval and human-computer interaction in computer vision applications. He received his PhD from the University of Leiden, The Netherlands and has been in the past with the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA. He was involved in the organization of the major conferences and workshops addressing the computer vision and human-centered aspects of multimedia information retrieval, among which as a General Co-Chair of the IEEE Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition Conference, FG 2008, ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval (ICMR) 2017 and ACM Multimedia 2013. He was a program chair of ACM Multimedia 2011 and 2007, ECCV 2016, ICCV 2017 and ICPR 2020. He is a general chair of ACM Multimedia 2022, ACM ICMI 2022 and ACM ICMR 2023 and a program chair of ECCV 2024. He is a fellow of ELLIS, IAPR and a Senior member of ACM and IEEE.

 
 

Sponsors

If you want to sponsor this event, please contact Ioanna Koroni: koroniioanna@csd.auth.gr

Past events

AI Mellontology e-Symposium 2021

 
 

The event will be organized in the informal and inspirational forms of the ancient Symposia (which means co-drinking, while debating). It can be combined with optional visits to: 

 
 

Aristotle birthplace

Stageira, Chalkidiki, Greece

 

Aristotle school

Mieza, Imathia, Greece

The philosophical basis of Artificial Intelligence can be traced all the way back to Aristotle, founder of Logic and, to a good extend, of Ethics.

 
 

This event is supported by European Union´s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant number 951911 – AI4Media”

 
 
 

@ai4mediaproject

 
 
 

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