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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Dear colleagues,</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">We are excited to inform you that the FOCUS: Foundation Models Creators meet Users workshop will be held on September 30th, 2024, at ECCV 2024 in Milan, Italy.</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">This workshop presents an excellent opportunity for those engaged in integrating cutting-edge foundation models into robotics pipelines and applications. It will be a platform to present
your work, exchange ideas, and discuss future trends.</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Please find more details about the workshop and important deadlines below.</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Summary</span></b><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">- Workshop Website:
</span><a href="https://es.sonicurlprotection-fra.com/click?PV=2&MSGID=202406071254520172489&URLID=7&ESV=10.0.28.7941&IV=C3196746714CFCEF7907A3DE1982A87C&TT=1717764897437&ESN=x4xFqsuy1xFpNB9me2lYzL6PZwP36eiuAr5DoeKcqE8%3D&KV=1536961729280&B64_ENCODED_URL=aHR0cHM6Ly9mb2N1cy13b3Jrc2hvcC5naXRodWIuaW8v&HK=86449AD369BE8169F625D320CD9A49A9EDDD6093404EA912237663BBD1F8A321"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">https://focus-workshop.github.io/</span></a><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">- CMT Submission Page:</span><a href="https://es.sonicurlprotection-fra.com/click?PV=2&MSGID=202406071254520172489&URLID=5&ESV=10.0.28.7941&IV=22ECB904470709FB2184C3F3B8A9B5AA&TT=1717764897437&ESN=9zw74Q9zdkhINS%2FJ%2Bgtk8e%2BcL4pa47EBJbQDkzKlR4E%3D&KV=1536961729280&B64_ENCODED_URL=aHR0cHM6Ly9jbXQzLnJlc2VhcmNoLm1pY3Jvc29mdC5jb20vRk9DVVMyMDI0&HK=FEE9743C9DD3972694B1B86955719041D5A5A945D1F924E40D18D0CEA303AF73"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">
<span lang="EN-US">https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/FOCUS2024</span></span></a><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">- Submission Opening: June 15, 2024</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">- Submission Deadline: July 15, 2024 (11:59 p.m. CET)</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">- Author Notification: July 31, 2024</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">- Camera ready papers Deadline: August 15th, 2024<br>
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<b>Workshop Overview</b><br>
Over the last few years, the field of Artificial Intelligence has witnessed significant growth, largely fueled by the development of large-scale machine learning models, also called foundation models. Such general-purpose solutions often reveal potentials that
go beyond what their creators originally envisioned, motivating users to adopt these models for a broad spectrum of applications. </span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">The goal of this workshop is to identify and discuss strategies to assess both positive and negative (possibly unexpected) behaviors in the development and use of foundation
models.<br>
Particular attention will be given to applications that diverge significantly from the scenarios encountered during the training phase of foundational models. These include application-specific visual understanding, uncertainty evaluation, goal-conditioned
reasoning, human habits learning, task and motion planning, scene navigation, vision-based manipulation, etc.
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Our purpose is to foster an open discussion between foundation model creators and users, targeting the analysis of the most pressing open questions for the two communities and fostering new fruitful collaborations.<br>
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<b>Call for Papers</b><br>
The workshop calls for submissions addressing, but not limited to, the following topics:</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">New vision-and-language applications<o:p></o:p></span></li><li style="color:black;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Supervised vs unsupervised based foundation model and downstream tasks<o:p></o:p></span></li><li style="color:black;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Zero-shot, Few-shot, continual and life-long learning of foundation model<o:p></o:p></span></li><li style="color:black;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Open set, out-of-distribution detection and uncertainty estimation<o:p></o:p></span></li><li style="color:black;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Perceptual reasoning and decision making: alignment with human intents and modeling<o:p></o:p></span></li><li style="color:black;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Prompt and Visual instruction tuning<o:p></o:p></span></li><li style="color:black;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Novel evaluation schemes and benchmarks<o:p></o:p></span></li><li style="color:black;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Task-specific vs general-purpose models<o:p></o:p></span></li><li style="color:black;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Robustness and generalization<o:p></o:p></span></li><li style="color:black;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Interpretability and explainability<o:p></o:p></span></li><li style="color:black;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Ethics and bias in prompting<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<p style="margin:0cm"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Submission guidelines</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><br>
Papers should be submitted at:<br>
</span><a href="https://es.sonicurlprotection-fra.com/click?PV=2&MSGID=202406071254520172489&URLID=3&ESV=10.0.28.7941&IV=F54CF70621D034A56BDBD5E6D0AC2BC2&TT=1717764897437&ESN=sTq7GvcddZiDnzJepZCepspGPlDAOWMA%2FzWnxPiXdEs%3D&KV=1536961729280&B64_ENCODED_URL=aHR0cHM6Ly9jbXQzLnJlc2VhcmNoLm1pY3Jvc29mdC5jb20vRk9DVVMyMDI0&HK=64694D5D334818E4BA73098726E14E33ADC260D3A089657BFA93747CACB9E10A"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><span lang="EN-US">https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/FOCUS2024</span></span></a><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">
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We accept two types of submission:</span></span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm"><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Full papers</span></u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">: must present original research, not published elsewhere, and follow
the ECCV main conference policies and format with a maximum length of 14 pages (extra pages with references only are allowed). Accepted full papers will be included in the ECCV 2024 Workshop proceedings. Supplemental materials are not allowed.
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<p style="margin:0cm"><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Short papers</span></u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">: previously or concomitantly published works that could foster the workshop
objectives. Short-papers will have a maximum length of 4 pages (extra pages with references only are allowed), they will be presented without inclusion in the ECCV 2024 Workshop proceedings. Supplemental materials are not allowed. </span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">The review process is double-blind and there is no rebuttal.<br>
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<b>Speakers</b><br>
Kira Zsolt, Professor, Georgia Tech<br>
Ishan Misra, Director, Facebook AI Research<br>
Hilde Kuehne, University of Bonn</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Organizing Committee</span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><br>
Antonio Alliegro, Politecnico di Torino<br>
Francesca Pistilli, Politecnico di Torino<br>
Songyou Peng, ETH Zurich<br>
Biplab Banerjee, IIT Bombay<br>
Gabriela Csurka, Naver Labs Europe<br>
Giuseppe Averta, Politecnico di Torino</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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Assistant Professor</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-language:IT"><br>
<i>Department of of Control and Computer Engineering<br>
Vandal Lab </i><br>
<i>Politecnico di Torino</i><br>
<b><i>e </i></b> <u><a href="mailto:francesca.pistilli@polito.it">francesca.pistilli@polito.it</a></u></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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