The Third Latin American Workshop on Information Fusion (LAFUSION 2025) is a workshop focusing on the latest research results on the Information Fusion in Latin America. The goal of this workshop is to create a community of Information Fusion researchers in Latin America. Authors of accepted papers are expected to present their work in a plenary session as part of the main workshop program. Proceedings will be indexed in prominent digital libraries.
Information fusion is a multidisciplinary field that focuses on combining and integrating information from diverse sources to improve the accuracy, completeness, and reliability of the resulting information. It involves the process of merging data or knowledge from multiple sensors, databases, or information systems to generate a unified and coherent representation of the underlying reality.
The main goal of information fusion is to extract meaningful and actionable insights by leveraging the strengths of individual information sources while compensating for their limitations, uncertainties, or redundancies. It aims to provide a more comprehensive and accurate understanding of a given situation or phenomenon than what can be achieved by using individual sources in isolation.
Information fusion techniques typically involve various processes, including data preprocessing, feature extraction, data association, probabilistic modeling, decision-making, and knowledge representation. These processes may utilize methods from diverse disciplines such as statistics, signal processing, pattern recognition, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and cognitive science.
Applications of information fusion are widespread and can be found in fields such as surveillance and intelligence, remote sensing, robotics, autonomous systems, medical diagnosis, weather forecasting, transportation systems, and cybersecurity. By integrating and interpreting information from multiple sources, information fusion enables improved situational awareness, decision-making, and prediction capabilities, leading to enhanced performance, efficiency, and reliability in complex and uncertain environments. Several Latin American problems could be solved by Information Fusion. We are looking to form a Forum to debate the usage of Information Fusion to produce solutions for the challenges in the region.
LAFUSION will have two types of events: (I) Bootcamp and (II) Workshop. The Bootcamp are introductory classes meant to give a first glance into data Fusion. The Workshop will include a keynote presentation and several papers sessions showcasing the latest Information Fusion research.
The submission is the workshop papers (10 Pages). Authors of accepted papers are expected to present their work in a plenary session as part of the main workshop program (hybrid).
Workshop papers must be original (i.e., not previously published) and not currently under review by any other conference or journal. Submissions related to the featured topic are especially welcome, but all other submissions in the scope of Information Fusion are equally welcome. All submissions will be evaluated based on the same criteria. All submitted papers must conform to the CCIS conference template - CCIS template. All approved papers will be published by Springer CCIS.
LAFUSION 2025 will adopt a double-blind review process for regular papers. Authors must make a good faith effort to anonymize their submissions to ensure that their identities are not disclosed to reviewers, and reviewers are discouraged from actively working to uncover author identities. Submitting to arXiv (or similar) is allowed to promote early dissemination, provided cross-citations are not made.
You can submit your paper through Microsoft CMT - Submission link for CMT platform
The Microsoft CMT service was used for managing the peer-reviewing process for this conference. This service was provided for free by Microsoft and they bore all expenses, including costs for Azure cloud services as well as for software development and support.
LAFUSION is part of PRODEFESA support by the Naval War College.
For further information, please contact us via lafusion2025@labnet.nce.ufrj.br.
Escola de Guerra Naval - Pasteur Avenue, 480, Urca, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil
LAFUSION 2025 will happen on November 27th and 28th.
Submission Date: October 22th
Acceptance Notification: November 5th
Camera Ready: November 20th
Registration from 15th until 25th
Bootcamp: November 27th
Paper sessions: November 28th
The topics the interest are (but not limited to):
Claudio Miceli de Farias - Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)
Paulo Costa - George Mason University (United States of America)
Pablo Rangel - Instituto de Pesquisas da Marinha / Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)
Aldo DÃaz - Universidade Federal de Goiás (Brazil)
Alexandre de Barros Barreto - George Mason University (United States of America)
Beatriz Flamia Azevedo - Instituto Politécnico de Bragança (Portugal)
Carolina Gil Marcelino - Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)
Daniela Godoy - National Council for Scientific and Technological Research / Facultad de Ciencias Exactas / Instituto Superior de IngenierÃa de Software de Tandil (Argentina)
FabrÃcio Firmino de Farias - Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)
Felipe Oliveira e Silva - Universidade Federal de Lavras (Brazil)
Gustaf Hendeby - Linköping University (Sweden)
José Gomes de Carvalho Júnior - Instituto de Pesquisas da Marinha (Brazil)
Leandro Santiago de Araújo - Universidade Federal Fluminense (Brazil)
Leopoldo Lusquino Filho - Universidade Estadual Paulista (Brazil)
Markus Endler - PontifÃcia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)
Shou Matsumoto - George Mason University (United States of America)
Stiven Dias - Embraer (Brazil)
Zoran Sjanic - Saab AB / Linköping University (Sweden)
08:00 - Registration
09:00 - Opening: Prof. Paulo Costa (George Mason University), Prof. Pablo Rangel (Instituto de Pesquisas da Marinha), Rear Admiral (Ret.) José Luiz Ferreira Canela (Escola de Guerra Naval) and Captain(Ret.),D.Sc. William Moreira (Escola de Guerra Naval)
10:00 - Bootcamp: Introduction to Information Fusion - Pablo Rangel (Instituto de Pesquisas da Marinha)
11:00 - Bootcamp: Probabilistic Robotics - Claudio Miceli de Farias (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro)
12:00 - *** LUNCH: NOT INCLUDED ***
13:30 - Bootcamp: Distributed Inference in Information Fusion - Claudio Miceli de Farias (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro)
14:30 - Bootcamp: Estimation in Information Fusion - Aldo Diaz-Salaz (Universidade Federal do GoiÃs)
15:30 - Coffee-Break
16:00 - Bootcamp: High-Level Information Fusion - Paulo Costa (George Mason University)
17:00 - End of the First Day
08:00 - Registration
09:00 - Keynote: Simulation of Passive Sonar Data Using Generative Learning Models - Prof. Natanael (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro)
10:00 - Paper Session: Evaluating Networks by Fusing Metrics with Fuzzy Logic - Charles Mendes (UFRJ), Aline de Oliveira (UFRJ), Douglas Francisco (UFRJ), Pablo Rangel (IPqM/UFRJ), Diego Dutra (UFRJ), Claudio Amorim (UFRJ) and Claudio Farias (UFRJ)
10:20 - Paper Session: Bio-Inspired Data Fusion for Large-Scale WSNs - Felipe Pires (UFRJ), Pablo Rangel (IPqM/UFRJ) and Claudio Farias (UFRJ)
10:40 - Paper Session: Fusing Weightless Neural Networks for Branch Prediciton - Rafael Alves (UFRJ), Milena de Sá (UFRJ), Pablo Rangel (IPqM/UFRJ) and Claudio Farias (UFRJ)
11:00 - Paper Session: Collective Terrain Surveillance through Occasional Data Exchange within a Swarm of UAVs - Vilson Belle (PUC-RJ), Markus Endler (PUC-RJ) and Bruno de Souza (PUC-RJ)
11:20 - Paper Session: Optimization of Acoustic Buoy Network Positioning for Projectile Impact Localization - Pedro Magno (IPqM), José Gomes de Carvalho Júnior (IPqM) and Pablo Rangel (IPqM/UFRJ)
11:40 - Paper Session: An Ensemble Data Fusion Pipeline for Armed Individual Detection and Localization from UAV Video - Luiz Marques (UFRJ), Caio Ferreira (CEFET-RJ), Pablo Rangel (IPqM/UFRJ) and Claudio Farias (UFRJ)
12:00 - *** LUNCH: NOT INCLUDED ***
13:30 - Paper Session: Fairness-Aware Data Merging Strategies for Aerial Object Detection: Mitigating Class Imbalance and Systematic Bias - Luca Plaster (UFG) and Aldo Salazar (UFG)
13:50 - Paper Session: Leader-Follower Sizing in Heterogeneous UAV Swarms for SAR: Latency-Coverage Trade-Offs via Discrete-Event Simulation - Sebastian Arias (LAC), Markus Endler (PUC-RJ) and Bruno Olivieri (PUC-RJ)
14:10 - Paper Session: System-X: Hair and Product Embeddings for Multimodal Haircare Recommendation - Matheus Castro (UNESP), Cesar Silva (UNESP), Fabio Leal (UNESP), Lucas Morello (UNESP) and Leopoldo Filho (UNESP)
14:30 - Paper Session: Cursor Stabilization Using Eye-Gaze Tracker for Mild Motor Disabilities - Kevin Ribeiro (UFRJ), Lucas Carvalho (UFRJ), Claudio Farias (UFRJ), Pablo Rangel (IPqM/UFRJ) and Geraldo Zimbrão (UFRJ)
14:50 - Paper Session: Comparison of Data Fusion Strategies for Prediction of Respiratory Morbidity: A Municipality-Level Study with Random Forest - Lucas Souza (UNESP), Lucas Morello (UFRJ), Liliane Nery (UNESP), Darllan Silva (UNESP) and Leopoldo Filho (UNESP)
15:30 Coffee-Break
16:00 - Paper Session: A Metaheuristic Approach for Gas Leak Detection Sensor Planning in Chemical Plants Using the Disjunctively Constrained Knapsack Problem - Lucas Fonseca (UFRJ), Gabriel Souto (UFRJ) and Pedro Gonzalez (UFRJ)
16:30 - Closing Ceremony, Awards, and Announcements
17:00 - End of the Second Day
Attendees and speakers(authors) need to fill out the form available at link: LAFUSION 2025 Registration
If you are an author , you must register and present your work. Please provide your paper ID in the form provided above.
Please be aware that LAFUSION will take place inside a military facility . For this reason, all attendes and spearkers are required to follow and appropriate dress code. We kindly ask participants to avoid shorts, sleeveless shirts, flip-flops or any informal attire. Business casual or professional cloting is recommended.