BICS 2023: 2023 International Conference on Brain-Inspired Cognitive Systems Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, August 5-6, 2023

Conference website	https://www.nationalsubseacentre.com/
Submission link	https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bics2023
Camera Ready	July 25, 2023
Eary registration	July 25, 2023
Notification Date	July 28, 2023
Submission deadline	July 31, 2023

The 13th Int. Conf. on Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems (BICS’23) will be held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, as a sequel of BICS 2004 - 2022. It is co-organized by the University of Nottingham Malaysia (UNM) (www.nottingham.edu.my), the National Subsea Centre (www.nationalsubseacentre.com), the Robert Gordon University (RGU) (www.rgu.ac.uk), the Edinburgh Napier University (ENU) (www.napier.ac.uk), UK and the Guangdong Polytechnic Normal University (GPNU) (https://www.gpnu.edu.cn/), China.

BICS'23 aims to provide a high-level international forum for scientists, engineers, and innovators to present thestate-of-the-art in brain-inspired cognitive systems research and applications in diverse fields. The conference willfeature plenary lectures given by world-renowned scholars, regular sessions with broad coverage, and some specialsessions and workshops focusing on popular and timely topics.

BICS’23 conference proceedings will be published as part of Springer LNAI Series and indexed by EI. Selectedbest papers will be recommended for SCI Journal Special Issues including: Springer's Cognitive Computation (http://springer.com/12559 - JCR Impact Factor 5.418), Expert Systems (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/14680394 - JCR Impact Factor: 2.8) and others.

New: For authors who cannot attend due to travel issues, online participation is feasible. A joint workshop will also be organised in China, co-hosted by Guangdong Polytechnic Normal University, with a particular poster session for exchange and discussions. This workshop is planned one-week late during Aug 12-13, details to follow soon.

 

Submission Guidelines

All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. The following paper categories are welcome:

• All prospective authors are invited to submit full-length papers (up to 10 pages maximum, using Springer LNAI format) through the conference website. The submission of a paper implies that the paper is original and has not been submitted, under review, or copyright protected elsewhere. All submitted papers will be subject to a rigorous peer review process, and authors of accepted papers will have an opportunity to revise their papers before camera-ready submission. If a paper is accepted, at least one of the authors listed on the paper must attend and present the conference, otherwise, the paper may be excluded from the conference proceedings.

  The following paper categories(but not limited to ) are welcome:

• Full papers describing  Biologically Inspired Systems,Cognitive Neuroscience,Models of Consciousness,Neural Computation and so on.

List of Topics

 

Topic 1: Biologically Inspired Systems	Brain inspired systems Brain inspired vision Brain inspired audition and sound processing Brain inspired other sensory modalities Brain inspired motion processing Brain inspired robotics Brain inspired adaptive and control systems Brain inspired evolutionary systems Brain inspired oscillatory systems Brain inspired signal processing Brain inspired learning Neuromorphic systems Others
Topic 2: Cognitive Neuroscience	Cognitive neuroscience Cognitive neuroscience of vision Cognitive neuroscience of non-vision sensory modalities Cognitive neuroscience of volition Systems neuroscience Attentional mechanisms Affective systems Language Cortical models Sub-cortical models Cerebellar models Neural correlates Others
Topic 3: Models of Consciousness	World awareness Self-awareness Global workspace theory Imagination Qualia models Virtual machine approaches Formal models fo consciousness Control theoretical models Developmental/Infant models Will and volition Emotion and affect Philosophical implications Neurophysiological grounding Enactive approaches Heterophenomenology Analyitic/Synthetic phenomenology Others
Topic 4: Neural Computation	Neuro-computational systems Hybrid neural systems Neural learning Neural control systems Neural signal processing Architectures of neural computation Neural devices Neural perception and pattern classifiers Neuro-fuzzy systems Evolutionary neural networks Biological neural network models Applications Others

 

Organizers

• Prof. Amir Hussain, ENU, UK

• Dr. Iman Yi Liao, UNM, Malaysia

• Prof. Jinchang Ren, RGU, UK

• Prof. Xiaoyong Liu, GPNU, China

Keynote Talks

• Prof. Chan Chee Seng, Universiti Malaya, Malaysia

        DeepIP: Intellectual Property Protection for Deep Learning Model

     

• Prof Francisco Herrera, Granada University, Spain

     Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence for high risk scenarios

 

• Prof. Erik Cambria, Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore

          Neurosymbolic AI for Explainable Sentiment Analysis

 

• Prof. Kaizhu Huang, Duke Kunshan University (DKU), China

 Rethinking  Data Augmentation for Model Generalization

• Prof. Jinchang Ren, RGU, U.K.

    Unsupervised Hyperspectral Band Selection: Emerging Techniques and Applications

 

Committees

 

Honorary co-Chairs

• Prof. Tariq Durrani, University of Strathclyde (UoS), UK

• Prof. Tieniu Tan, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), China

 

General co-Chairs

• Prof. Amir Hussain, ENU, UK

• Prof. Chung-Lim Law, UNM, Malaysia

• Prof. Qing-Yun Dai, GPNU, China

• Prof. J. Ren, RGU, UK

 

Program Chairs

• Prof. Qiu-Wen Huang, GPNU, China

• Prof. Kaizhu Huang, DKU, China

• Dr. Tomas Maul, UNM, Malaysia

• Prof. Hui-Min Zhao, GPNU, China

• Dr. Hafeez Ullah Amin, UNM, Malaysia

• Dr. Yijun Yan, RGU, UK

 

Special Workshop Chairs

• Prof. Yu Tang, GPNU, China

• Prof. Xiao-Yong Liu, GPNU, China

• Prof. Rong-Jun Chen, GPNU, China

• Dr. MD Junayed Hasan, RGU, UK

 

Advisory Board and Publicity Chairs

• Prof. Cheng-Lin Liu, CAS, China

• Prof. Bin Luo, Anhui Univ., China

• Prof. Gun Li, UESTC, China

• Prof. Jin Tang, Anhui Univ., China

• Prof. Huiyu Zhou, Univ. of Leicester, U.K.

 

Poster Session Chairs

• Prof. G. Sun, China Univ. of Petroleum, China

• Dr. Erfu Yang, UoS, U.K.

• Prof. Aihua Zheng, CAS, China

 

Publication Chairs

• Dr. Iman Yi Liao, UNM, Malaysia

• Dr. Ping Ma, RGU, UK

• Dr. Huihui Li, GPNU, China

 

Local Arrangement Chairs

• Dr. Iman Liao, UNM, Malaysia

• Dr. Zhan-Hao Xiao, GPNU, China

• Mr. Yinhe Li, RGU, UK

• Ms. Jiayi He, GPNU, China

• Mr. Li Chen, Academy of Heyuan, GPNU, China

• Jia Ouyang, GPNU, China

 

Registration 

New: Onsite registration for just attending is RM100 per day per person, excluting gift bag and dinner. Lunch/tea may be offered if the place reserved  for catering purpose.

 

Programme 

 

           Agenda (Day 1 - 05 Aug 2023)

Session 1 (8:50-10:40), Host: Dr. Iman Liao (UNM, Malaysia)
8:50	Open Speech	Prof. Chung Lim Law	UNM, Malaysia
8:55	Welcome Speech	Prof. J. Ren	RGU, U.K.
9:00	Keynote 1	Prof. Chan Chee Seng	Universiti Malaya
9:40	A1	T. Maul	UNM, Malaysia
10:00	A2	X. Zhao	Wuhan Univ., China
10:20	A3	H. Jiang	XJTLU, China
10:40	Tea Break
Session 2 (11:00-12:40): Host: Prof. Chan Chee Seng (Universiti Malaya)
11:00	Keynote 2	Prof. K. Huang	DKU, China
11:40	A4	M. Waqas	UNM
12:00	A5	H. Pan	TJNU, China
12:20	A6	W. Wang*	SYSU, China
12:40	Lunch (KLTC)

 

Session 3 (14:00-15:40), Host: Prof. Jinchang Ren (RGU, U.K.)
14:00	Keynote 3	Prof. F. Herrera*	Univ. of Granada, Spain
14:40	B1	Erik Cambria	NTU., Singapore
15:00	B2	C. Zhang	Shandong Univ., China
15:20	B3	Md J. Hasan*	RGU, U.K.
15:40	Tea Break Poster Session (Host: Dr. T. Maul, UNM, Malaysia)
Session 4 (16:10-17:50): Host: Prof. K. Huang (DKU, China)
16:10	Keynote 4	Prof. Erik Cambria	NTU, Singapore
16:50	B4	Y. Yan*	RGU, U.K.
17:10	B5	M. Haithami	UNM Malaysia
17:30	B6	Y. Li*	RGU, U.K.
18:30	Dinner

 

Agenda (Day 2 - 06 Aug 2023)

 

Session 1 (9:00-10:40), Host: Dr. Tomas Maul (UNM)
9:00	Keynote 5	Prof. J. Ren	RGU, U.K.
9:40	C1	B. Chen	Wuhan Univ., China
10:00	C2	Y. Xu*	NWPU, China
10:20	C3	J. Ren*	XPU, China
10:40	Tea Break Poster Session (Host: Dr. Iman Liao, UNM)
Session 2 (11:10-12:50): Host: Prof. Q. Wang (XJTLU),  Prof. S. Wang (CAS)
11:10	C4	Doreen Sim Ying Ying	UNM. Malaysia
11:30	C5	Yefan Xie*	NWPU, China
11:50	C6	Hafeez Ullah Amin*	UNM, Malaysia
12:10	C7	Y. Wu*	CIOMP, CAS
12:30	C8	Chen Fan*	BUAA, China
12:50	Lunch  Awards/Closing (Host: Prof. J. Ren, RGU)

 

Note:

1) * for online, authors need to send the videos to BICS2023@yahoo.com before 5pm 03/08/2023 (Malaysia time).

2) Online links in Day 1: Microsoft Teams Meeting ID: 497 523 312 725 (passcode: wpGK6d)    Day 2: 488 358 619 034 (passcode:  jGQayD) 

 

Paper List

No    Title                                                 Presenter

A1    Vision-Based Deep Q-Learning    T. Maul

A2    How Challenging is a Challenge for SLAM?     X. Zhao

A3    Generalized W-Net                H. Jiang

A4    Evaluation of post-hoc interpretability        M. Waqas

A5   Red Blood Cell Detection       H. Pan

A6    Blind Deblurring of QR Codes            W. Wang*

B1    Knowledge Representation...    E. Cambria

B2    GSA-UBS        C. Zhang

B3    Segmentation Framework for Heat Loss          J. Hasan*

B4    Underwater Object Detection          Y. Yan*

B5    Enhancing generalizability of deep learning     M. Haithami

B6    MLM-LSTM: Multi-layer Memory Learning Framework     Y. Li*      

C1    A hierarchical geometry-to-semantic fusion GNN     B. Chen

C2    Fusing Multi-scale Attention      Y. Xu

C3    Zero-shot incremental learning    J. Ren*        

C4    Effects of PCA-Enabled Machine Learning    Doreen Sim Ying Ying

C5    Mixed-Precision Collaborative Quantization    Y. Xie*

C6    Pre-Diagnosis for Autism     Hafeez Ullah Amin*

C7    HRMOT: Two-step Association    Y. Wu*

C8    SAR Incremental Learning    Chen Fan*            

Posters

P1    Cross-Modal Transformer GAN    S. Wang

P2    Visual-Textual Attention     Q. Wang

P3    Automated bioacoustic detection    Yen Yi Loo,  Ee Phin Wong

P4    Cipher-prompt    R. Zhang

P5    UAV Cross-modal Image Registration    Y. Xiao, F. Liu

 

Venue

The conference will be held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Venue: The Kuala Lumpur Teaching Centre (KLTC), Level 2, Chulan Tower, Jalan Conlay, Kuala Lumpur.

 

 

Contact

All questions about submissions et al should be emailed to bics2023@yahoo.com.