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
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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.