Special Session I: AI-Enhanced Intangible Cultural Heritage Preservation & Advancement

In today's digital age, the preservation and promotion of intangible cultural heritage (ICH) have become more crucial than ever. This special session explores the exciting intersection of artificial intelligence (AI) and ICH, showcasing the profound impact of AI technologies on the preservation, protection, and promotion of traditional arts and artifacts. The topics include the following,

1. Image enhancement/ inpainting on ICH and arts,
2. Object detection in ICH and art image,
3. Image authenticity verification on ICH and arts,
4. Video recognition and analysis on ICH,
5. Multimodal intelligent processing on ICH and arts,
6. Augmented reality (AR) applications on ICH and arts,
7. Other ICH-related AI applications.
 

Organizers

Prof. Ying Liu, Xi'an University of Posts and Telecommunications, Xi'an, China.
Prof. Zhijie Xu, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, Suzhou, China

 

Important Dates

Submission Deadline: April 20, 2025
Notification date: May 20, 2025
Registration: June 10, 2025
Camera Ready: June 10, 2025
Conference Dates: September 19-21, 2025

 

Submission Method

Electronic Submission System

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Bio of the organizers:

Dr. Ying Liu is currently a full professor in the School of Communication and Information Engineering, Xi’an University of Posts and Telecommunications (XUPT), China. She also serves as the director of Center for Image and Information Processing(CIIP) in XUPT. She received the B.E. degree in School of Information Engineering from Xidian University, China, M.Eng in school of Electrical Engineering from the National University of Singapore, and Ph.D. in School of Computing and Information Technology from Monash University, Australia. Before joining XUPT in 2011, she once worked as a researcher in Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, and then a lecturer in Republic Polytechnic, Singapore. Dr. Liu is a senior member of IEEE, as well as member of ACM and CCF,China. She has been involved in the organization of a list of international conferences/workshops, grand challenges in recent years. Her research activities focus on image/video understanding and retrieval. She once received best paper award and most cited paper certificate from Elsevier Pattern Recognition.


Dr. Zhijie Xu has been serving as the Head of the Department of Computing and Professor at Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University since September 2024. He previously held the position of Tenured Professor at the University of Huddersfield’s School of Computing and Engineering, where he was also the Director of the Centre for Visual and Immersive Computing and the Director of the Graduate School. Since beginning his teaching career in 1999, he has supervised 18 PhD students and completed more than twenty academic and engineering projects. Dr. Xu’s primary research interests include computer graphics and imaging, visual systems, digital twins, edge computing, and information visualization technologies. Since 1996, he has published over 200 papers, authored 5 books, and held 11 patents. Dr. Xu has served as the Chairman of the Chinese Automation and Computing Society in the UK and is an editorial board member and invited reviewer for numerous academic journals. He is also a senior member of several prestigious academic organizations, such as IEEE, IET, BCS, and HEA. In addition, he led the 2018 Ministry of Education Chunhui Plan UK Expert Group to China and served as an expert judge for the Manchester area of the Chunhui Cup Chinese Exchange Students Entrepreneurship Competition from 2017 to 2019. Through long-term scientific research cooperation with universities in China, he was selected for the Sichuan Province Thousand Talents Plan in 2017 and received the Second Prize of Sichuan Province Science and Technology Progress Award in 2021.