2021 approved special sessions

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Special Sessions (2021)

The finalized special sessions to be included in the conference program are listed below. Please see the full program and the session overview for details on the papers to be presented in these special sessions.

All special session papers go through the same rigorous review process. Special sessions with only a small number of accepted papers will be cancelled, and the accepted papers moved to the regular oral or poster sessions.

ID	Title of Special Session	Organizers
S01	Artificial Intelligence and Security (AISE) More Information Here	Riccardo Pecori, University of Sannio, Italy, Marta Cimitile, Unitelma Sapienza University, Rome, Italy, Luca Verderame, University of Genoa, Italy
S02	Healthcare Analytics” Improving Healthcare outcomes using Multimedia Data Analytics	Imran Razzak, Guandong Xu, Peter Eklund, Ibrahim A Hameed
S03	Adversarial Machine Learning and Cyber Security More Information Here	Wei Liu
S04	Representation Learning for Audio, Speech, and Music Processing More Information Here	Konstantinos Drossos, Xavier Favory, Paul Magron, Stylianos Ioannis Mimilakis, Emanuele Principi
S05	Machine Learning and Deep Learning Methods applied to Vision and Robotics (MLDLMVR)	Jose Garcia-Rodriguez (University of Alicante, Spain) Alexandra Psarrou (University of Westminster, UK) Isabelle Guyon (University Paris-Saclay, France) Antonis Argyros (FORTH, Greece) Andrew Lewis (Griffith University, Australia) Sergio Escalera (University of Barcelone/CVC, Spain) Juxi Leitner (Queensland University of Technology, Australia) Enrique Dominguez (University of Malaga, Spain)
S06	Randomization-Based Deep and Shallow Learning Algorithms	Dr. P. N. Suganthan, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Dr. M. Tanveer, Indian Institute of Technology Indore, India Dr. M. Panella, Department of Information Engineering, Electronics and Telecommunications, University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Italy
S07	Online Intelligence And Trust Computation In Large-Scale Dynamic Networks More Information Here	Shan Xue, Jian Yang, and Jia Wu
S08	Computational Intelligence in Transactive Energy Management and Smart Energy Network More Information Here	Dr Fanlin Meng, Prof Kang Li, Prof Dunwei Gong, Dr Zhile Yang, Prof Furong Li
S09	Computational Intelligence in Software Engineering (CISE) More Information Here	Pasquale Ardimento, Lerina Aversano, Mario Luca Bernardi
S10	Evolving Machine Learning and Deep Learning Models for Computer Vision	Li Zhang, Chee Peng Lim, Jungong Han, Guiguang Ding
S11	AutoML and its applications in Deep Learning	Miao Zhang, Shirui Pan
S12	Deep Learning for Financial Data Analysis More Information Here	Martin Magris, Juho Kanniainen and Alexandros Iosifidis
S13	Deep Neural Networks-Based Recommender System	Dr. Di Han; Dr. Yulin He
S14	Reservoir Computing: Advances in Models, Applications, and Implementations	Claudio Gallicchio (University of Pisa, Italy), Azarakhsh Jalalvand (Ghent University-imec, Belgium), Kohei Nakajima (University of Tokyo, Japan)
S15	Advanced Algorithms of Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence Applied for Biomedical Data Processing More Information Here	Larbi Boubchir, Boubaker Daachi
S16	AI-based Computational Creativity	Aneta Neumann
S17	Advanced Deep Learning for Smart Energy Internet	Kailong Liu; Tianyu Hu; Xinwei Shen; Bin Gou; Zong Woo Geem
S18	Special Session on Federated Learning and Cooperative Neural Networks (CoNN)	Fiammetta Marulli
S19	Machine learning in Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum devices	Adenilton J. da Silva, Carsten Blank, Daniel K. Park and Francesco Petruccione
S20	The Knowledge Discovery in Biomedical Data	Pengwei Hu, Xin Luo, Lun Hu
S21	Learning from Imbalanced and Difficult Data	Bartosz Krawczyk
S22	Deep and Generative Adversarial Learning	Dr Ariel Ruiz Garcia, Professor Vasile Palade
S23	Current Trend of Machine Learning in Computer Vision	Mukesh Prasad, Xian Tao, Domingo Mery, Chin-Teng Lin
S24	Data Analytics and Computation Intelligence for Internet of Everything	Mukesh Prasad, Omprakash Kaiwartya, Deepak Puthal
S25	Feature Extraction and Learning on Image and Text Data	Mukesh Prasad, Kaska Musial-Gabrys, Javier Andreu-Perez, Weiping Ding
S26	Metrology, Verification, and Explanation of Data-Driven AI Systems and Neural Networks	Ivan Tyukin, Alexander Gorban, Danil Prokhorov
S27	Transparent and Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) for Health	Alfredo Vellido*, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, UPC BarcelonaTech, Spain. Paulo J.G. Lisboa , Liverpool John Moores University, U.K. José D. Martín , Universitat de València, Spain.
S28	The 2nd Session on Bayesian Neural Networks: The Interplay between Bayes’ Theorem and Neural Networks More Information Here	Maoying Qiao, Junyu Xuan, Yu Guang Wang
S29	DRL and AutoML applications for Autonomous Driving	Dr.Qichao Zhang, Dr. Yaran Chen, Dr. Dongbin Zhao, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China