AIWC 2018: Artificial Intelligence for Wildlife Conservation Workshop Stockholm, Sweden, July 13-16, 2018 |
Conference website | https://sites.google.com/a/usc.edu/aiwc/home |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aiwc2018 |
Submission deadline | May 9, 2018 |
Conservation of natural resources, such as wildlife, is of the utmost importance. Recent challenges, such as poaching of animals, loss of habitat, and increasing effects of climate change, have made conservation an increasingly difficult task. Current extinction rates are now 1000 times higher than the natural extinction rate, with future extinction rates 10000 times higher. Fortunately, AI techniques have shown promise in addressing several of these challenges, in the areas of planning and advanced processing of sensor data. One example of AI aiding in conservation planning challenges is game theoretic software assistants that recommend patrol plans to wildlife park rangers for protection of tigers and rhinos (among other animals) from being killed by well-organized poachers.AI techniques have also played a role in processing large amounts of sensor data captured for conservation purposes. Some sensors that are being used in conservation include GPS collars on animals, camera trap photos, and imagery from UAVs. From these data, AI algorithms are automatically identifying objects of interest, for example. In an effort to further bring together the AI and conservation fields, the workshop will welcome papers in a broad area of AI for wildlife conservation.
The workshop welcomes papers including but not limited to the following topics:
- adversary modeling
- patrol planning
- conservation area planning
- species modeling
- aerial monitoring of species
- drone flight planning
- wildlife smuggling
- influencing behaviors to reduce the threat of poaching
- estimating wildlife population
- predicting poaching threat
- computer vision for camera trap imagery
Papers should be formatted using the IJCAI formatting requirements. We solicit two kinds of submissions for this workshop:
- (A) Papers reporting new results as well as preliminary or recently published work in the field of artificial intelligence for wildlife conservation (up to 4 pages plus references). Papers reporting results that have already been published or presented at another venue should clearly indicate so.
- (B) Position Papers (up to 2 pages) reporting preliminary results, describing an open artificial intelligence for wildlife conservation problem, proposing ideas for bringing in new computational methods into the field, or summarizing the focus areas of a group working on artificial intelligence for wildlife conservation.
Papers should be submitted to EasyChair. Oral presentations and posters will be selected from among the submissions after peer reviews. Accepted authors can choose to opt in or out of the proceedings. Papers should be submitted by May 9 at 11:59pm GMT. Author notification will be sent on May 30 in time for the early registration deadline on May 31.