Announcement of IEEE ISCAS 2021 — Smart Technology for an Intelligent Society
The IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS) is the flagship conference of the IEEE Circuits and Systems (CAS) Society and the world’s premier forum for researchers in the highly active fields of theory, design, and implementation of circuits and systems. At ISCAS 2021, research will be shared through technical conference sessions, poster sessions, live demonstration sessions, and the publication of conference papers. The theme for ISCAS 2021 will be “Smart Technology for an Intelligent Society”.
Important Dates:
- 5 October 2020 - Special Session Proposals due
- 23 October 2020- Regular Papers and Live Demo Proposals due
- 16 November 2020 - CASS Transactions Papers due
- 7 December 2020 - Tutorial Proposals due
- 8 January 2021 - Notification of Acceptance (for all papers)
- 11 January 2021 - Notification of Acceptance (for demos and tutorials)
- 29 January 2021 - Final Submissions due
See WEBSITE for more information: https://iscas2021.org/index.php
https://lpcv.ai/2020CVPR/introduction
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IEEE Low Power Computer Vision Challenge (LPCVC):
Winners Announcement
The 2020 IEEE Low-Power Computer Vision Challenge (LPCVC), sponsored by the IEEE CASS, concluded successfully on 2020/07/31, after a month of competition. Forty-six teams submitted 378 solutions in four tracks. During the month-long challenge, many teams submitted multiple solutions and witnessed the scores becoming much higher. The 2020 LPCVC adds a video track and expands the Low-Power Image Recognition Challenge (LPIRC) started in 2015.
The 2020 LPCVC has the following tracks:
- Recognizing English letters in video taken by an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV, also called drone) using PyTorch Mobile
- Recognizing objects in images using FPGA (Field Programming Gate Array)
- Recognizing objects in images using TensorFlow
- Classifying images using TensorFlow
For more information, go to the competition introduction page. To see a detailed score breakdown for each submission, go to the leaderboard.
Competition results are available online here, https://lpcv.ai/2020CVPR/introduction.
CALL FOR NOMINATIONS: IEEE CAS SOCIETY OFFICERS (2021-2022)
Each year, members of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society (CASS) elect several members of the Executive Committee to serve the Society starting the beginning of the following year. This year we are electing members for the following officer positions for the 2021-2022 term:
- Vice President - Financial Activities
- Vice President - Publications
Descriptions of the duties of these officers and eligibility criteria can be found in the CASS Constitution and Bylaws.
CASS is a professional volunteer-based organization. It is essential that we elect energetic and engaged leaders who will organize activities that will meet the needs of entire Circuits and Systems community and who will guide our Society into the future. As a CASS member, you are in an excellent position to know the strengths of your fellow members and how they can best serve our community. As you consider potential nominees, please take into account that CASS wishes to promote diversity in every possible dimension. As such, CASS would love to receive nominations that also complete the current composition of its Executive Committee with respect to, to name a few, technical, gender, and geographic diversity.
Complete candidate nominations must be received by close of business (5:00 pm EDT) on 19 October 2020, in order to be considered.
Nomination Process
There are two options for adding nominees to the election slate. Nominators should indicate which of the following two options they prefer.
- The first option is to nominate by petition. The CASS Bylaws regarding the nomination petition process states: “Nomination petitions for the officers appointed by the Board of Governors require signatures from at least 22% of the voting members of the Board of Governors. The petition must be submitted to the Nominations Committee, together with the biography and position statement of the candidate..." Please contact the Society Operations Manager prior to 9 October 2020 should you care to nominate an individual by petition.
- The second option involves the Nominations Committee, which may also place candidates on the ballot at its discretion.
Nomination Documents
A complete nomination must include all items indicated by an asterisk in the nomination form. These items include data for the Candidate and the Nominator, a Candidate Photo, a Candidate Position Statement (limited to 1500 words), and a Candidate Biography (limited to 700 words), which needs to describe the most important contributions of the candidate (for CASS or in other organizations) which makes him/her particularly suitable for the specific position he/she is running for.
Nomination Submission
The nomination form must be submitted by 19 October 2020 through the CASS website to Yong Lian, Chair of the CASS Nominations Committee.
The Nominations Committee greatly encourages you to recommend suitable candidates for these elections. Our strength as a society is not only in our engineering expertise but also in our societal spirit including the sharing of information with each other. This we can do best when we have a strong organization with engaged members.
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IEEE COINS 2020 was a Fantastic and Remarkable Success
On behalf of the organizing committee, we would like to take this opportunity to thank all the members, steering committee, reviewers and sponsors, particularly IEEE Circuits and Systems Society (CASS), IEEE Council on Electronic Design Automation (CEDA), IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc), IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (RAS), IEEE IoT Initiative, and IEEE Spain Section that worked hard to make this event happen. We appreciate their support and advice, which we hope to continue for future editions. We also would like to acknowledge Dr. Sani Nassif and Prof. Jan M. Rabaey, Prof. David Z. Pan, and Prof. Majid Sarrafzadeh for their advice throughout this endeavor, which we hope to continue, grow, and thrive for the years to come. We would especially like to thank all the attendees from 37 countries who witnessed this big event that gathered all great interest in the research community and industry frontiers.
As we announced in April 2020, our priority and the option of our dreams was to organize IEEE COINS 2020 as a face-to-face in-person event in Barcelona, Spain; that is why we postponed the conference from July to September. Unfortunately, due to travel restrictions and the risk of new outbreaks in Europe and other regions of the world and after studying and evaluating the announcements, guidance, and news released by relevant national departments, the organization team decided to completely switch to a virtual event and run the entire conference virtually based on online presentations. COINS 2020 was a 3-day online event with 44 multi-disciplinary presentations in vertical and topical tracks delivered by distinguished speakers from industry, academia, and the public sector addressing all important aspects of the IoT and AI ecosystem. The selection process was very competitive, and we could only select a small number of the submitted papers to appear in the program that made the acceptance rate of the conference 37%.
COINS 2021 will be held in Barcelona, Spain on 23-25 August 2021. This event includes keynote speeches delivered by distinguished speakers, panels, technical sessions featuring peer-reviewed technical papers as well as workshops focusing on the latest trends in various technologies. IEEE COINS 2021 organizing committee invites proposals for workshops and special sessions.
We look forward to meeting you again in COINS 2021!
Farshad Firouzi, Krishnendu Chakrabarty, Bahar Farahani, Vasilis Pavlidis and William Fornaciari