The field of information fusion has been undergoing major changes due to the ubiquity of heterogeneous sensors, rapid development in computing technology, intense focus on data-driven techniques and emerging application domains such as intelligent transportation. We actively solicit papers that expand the reach of information fusion to new theoretical frameworks, processing techniques, application domains and computing paradigms. We encourage papers, tutorials, and special sessions that explore the interplay between traditional model-based techniques and emerging data-driven artificial intelligence, machine learning, and autonomous methodologies at both high-level and low-level data and information fusion.

The following is a non-exhaustive list of areas and topics of interest:


Probability theory Cognitive methods Soft-hard fusion Sequential inference Image and video
Bayesian inference Localization and signal processing Autonomous systems Data mining Radar
Argumentation ATR, classification and identification Defense and security Graph analysis Lidar
Dempster-Shafer theory Nonlinear filtering Robotics Ontology and semantics Passive sensors
Possibility and fuzzy set theory Data association, tracking and prediction Intelligent transportation Soft and human data
Rough sets Situation and impact assessment/prediction Manufacturing and mining Target and sensor modeling
Logic-based fusion Alignment and registration Economics, finance and fintech Benchmarks and testbeds Machine, deep and transfer learning
Preference aggregation and decision theory Pattern and behavioral analysis Environmental monitoring Computational methods Topic modeling
Random sets Architectures and distributed fusion Medical care and bioinformatics Cloud and edge computing Natural language processing
Finite point processes Process and sensor resource management Critical infrastructure protection Fusion performance Contextual adaptation
Special Sessions, Tutorials, Panels, and Demonstrations

In addition to the above topics, you can submit your proposals for special sessions on emerging or focused topics, tutorials on theory or application, panel discussions on topics of importance, and technology or software demonstrations of engineering systems.

Submissions

Prospective authors will be invited to submit papers electronically via the submission system, following the submission guidelines [update pending]. Submitted papers must be no more than eight pages in length. All papers must be approved for public release prior to submission.