The Latin American Workshop on Information Fusion
Federal University of Rio de Janeiro - Brazil
(Hybrid)
November 23th, 2023
The First Latin American Workshop on Information Fusion (LAFUSION 2023) 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. Accepted papers will be published in IEEE. 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 the IEEE Digital Library, SCOPUS, and other 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.
ADDRESSES
VENUE
Av. Athos da Silveira Ramos, 149 - Bloco G, Sala 122 - Cidade Universitária da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro - RJ, 21941-909, Brasil
PROGRAM
09:00 - OPENING
10:00 - PAPER SESSION 1
Flavio Ferreira, Julio Cesar Duarte and Maria Claudia Cavalcanti.
João Victor Davim, Ananias Machado, Leopoldo Lusquino Filho, Felipe Maia Galvão França and Priscila Machado Vieira Lima.
Kelyn Botina, David Esteban Nuñez Montes, Cesar Agudelo, Brayan Andrés Gutiérrez, Edinson Cortes and Juan Gonzalo Alvarez.
Maria Mesquita, Sávio Ribeiro, Ivo Pimenta, Francisco Conceição, Francisco Nobre and Rafael Gomes.
11:00 - PAPER SESSION 2
Leonado V. Acioly Filho, Gabriel M. C. Leite, Silvia Jiménez-Fernández, Sancho Salcedo-Sanz, Carla A. D. M. Delgado and Carolina G. Marcelino.
Caio Luchetti Cortada, Rafael Baldessini Campanini, Vinícius De Jesus Carrara Rebello Horta, Guilherme Lucas dos Santos Lima, Igor Cesar Moreira Bernardes, Eduardo Ferreira Rios de Oliveira and Leopoldo Lusquino Filho.
Leonel Jaime Ocsa Sánchez and Juan Carlos Gutierrez Cáceres.
Ramon Garcia, Augusto Fonseca, Eduardo Ogasawara, Pedro González, Fabio Porto and Eduardo Bezerra.
12:00 - KEYNOTE 1 - JOSÉ FERNANDO BASSO BRANCALION (EMBRAER)
13:00 - LUNCH
14:00 - KEYNOTE 2 - CLAUDIO MICELI DE FARIAS
15:00 - PAPER SESSION 3
Matheus Emerick, Carlos Eduardo Barbosa, Madalena Lopes E Silva, Gabriel Martins de Oliveira Costa and Jano Moreira de Souza.
Danielle Pinna, Fernando de Sá, Kelle Belloze, Rafaelli Coutinho, Angela Ferreira, Rodrigo Toso, Raphael Guerra and Diego Brandão.
Gustavo Buçard, Gabriel Martins, Diego London, Roberto David and Claudio Farias.
Daniel Jesús Echegaray Apac, Renzo Antonio Arroyo Andrade, Magister Daniel Alejandro Subauste Oliden and Doctor Alvaro Antonio Aures García.
16:00 - PAPER SESSION 4
Gabriel Matos Cardoso Leite, Silvia Jiménez-Fernández, Sancho Salcedo-Sanz, Elizabeth Fialho Wanner, Carolina Gil Marcelino and Carlos Eduardo Pedreira.
Vinicius D. Do Nascimento, Tiago A. O. Alves and Diego L. C. Dutra.
Rui Sarmento, Douglas O. Cardoso, Pavel Brazdil and Joao Gama.
Daniela Godoy.
17:00 - PAPER SESSION 5
Robertas Damasevicius and Rytis Maskeliunas.
André M. Demori, Julio C. C. Tesolin, Marcus A. A. Silva, David F. C. Moura and Maria Claudia Cavalcanti.
Prajindra Sankar Krishnan, Chai Phing Chen, Gamal Alkawsi, Sieh Kiong Tiong and Fernando Capretz.
Almir Antônio Monteiro Júnior, Liss Faulhaber, Felipe da Rocha Henriques and Pedro Henrique González.
18:00 - CLOSING
TOPICS OF INTEREST
Probability theory, Bayesian inference, argumentation, Dempster-Shafer theory, possibility and fuzzy set theory, rough sets, logic fusion, preference aggregation, decision theory, random sets, finite point processes and others.
THEORY AND REPRESENTATION
Probability theory, Bayesian inference, argumentation, Dempster-Shafer theory, possibility and fuzzy set theory, rough sets, logic fusion, preference aggregation, decision theory, random sets, finite point processes and others.
ALGORITHMS
Cognitive methods, signal processing and localisation, recognition, classification, identification, nonlinear filtering, data association, tracking, prediction, situation/impact assessment, alignment and registration, pattern/behavioural analysis, image fusion, fusion architectures, resource management, machine learning and artificial intelligence, topic modelling, natural language processing, contextual adaptation, anomaly/change detection.
APPLICATIONS
Soft-hard fusion, autonomous systems, defence/security, robotics, intelligent transportation, mining/manufacturing, wireless sensor networks, economics, finance, fintech, environmental monitoring medical care/e-health, bioinformatics, radio astronomy, critical infrastructure protection, condition monitoring precision agriculture, video streaming, streaming and sketching and other emerging applications.
METHODS/TOOLS
Sequential inference, data mining. graph analysis, ontologies/semantics, modelling/realisation/evaluation, target/sensor modelling, benchmarks/testbeds, trust in fusion systems, computational methods, cloud/edge computing/fusion, fusion performance.
IMPORTANT DATES
ORGANIZATION
GENERAL CHAIRS
Paulo Costa
George Mason University
USA
Claudio Miceli de Farias
Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Brazil
TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Alan Sá
Universidade de Lisboa
Portugal
André Braga
EMBRAER S.A
Brazil
Anne-Laure Jousselme
CS Group
France
Beatriz Azevedo
Polytechnic Institute of Bragança
Portugal
Carolina Marcelino
Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Brazil
Chee-Yee Chong
Independent consultant
USA
Edgar Sarmiento
Universidad Nacional de San Agustin de Arequipa
Peru
Eduardo Hargreaves
Petrobrás
Brazil
Fabrício Faria
Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Brazil
Flavia Delicato
Fluminese Federal University
Brazil
Gabriel Mattos
Universidad de Alcalá
Spain
Guilherme Horta Travassos
Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Brazil
Henrique Gasparotto
ISEN
France
Jose Brancalion
EMBRAER S.A
Brazil
Juliana França
Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Brazil
Kathryn Laskey
George Mason University
USA
Lance Kaplan
Army Research Laboratory
USA
Lauro Snidaro
University of Udine
Italy
Leandro Santiago de Araújo
Fluminense Federal University
Brazil
Leopoldo Lusquino Filho
São Paulo State University
Brazil
Luidi Simonetti
Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Brazil
Luis Arenas
São Paulo State University
Brazil
Marcelo Martins de Sena
Federal University of Minas Gerais
Brazil
Pablo Rangel
Brazilian Navy
Brazil
Pedro Henrique González
Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Brazil
Silas Lima Filho
Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Brazil
Vivian Santos
Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Brazil