Program

June 5, 2023
On-site Registration Open: 17:15 (JST)
17:45  (JST),
Opening Remarks (Mayumi Bono, National Institute of Informatics, Japan)

18:00-19:00 (JST), Chair: Silvia Barbotto (University of Turin, Italy)
PANEL FACETS
1. [IP] Gabriele Marino. Signs made flesh. Embodied semiotics through improvisation
2. [IP] Silvia Barbotto. Datification in the facesphere. Performances, transhistorical analysis and contemporary semiosis

June 6, 2023
On-site Registration Open: 9:00 (JST)
9:30-10:30 (JST), Chair: Yusuke Miyao (The University of Tokyo, Japan)
3. [IP] Junwen Mo, Duc Minh Vo and Hideki Nakayama. Enhancing Sign Language Translation with Quantized Video Encoding
4. [IP] Yi-Pei Chen, Noriki Nishida, Hideki Nakayama and Yuji Matsumoto. Constructing Personal Knowledge Graph from Conversations

10:45-12:15 (JST), Chair: Noriki Nishida (RIKEN, Japan)
5. [IP] Kuanchao Chu and Hideki Nakayama. Balanced Scene Graph Generation from Biased Model Predictions
6. [IP] Duc Minh Vo, Hong Chen, Akihiro Sugimoto and Hideki Nakayama. Robusting Novel Object Captioning by Retrieving Objects from External Knowledge
7. [IP] Jiaxuan Li, Duc Minh Vo, Kohei Murao, Hiroyuki Abe, Tetsuo Ushiku, Shin'Ichi Satoh and Hideki Nakayama. Biases mitigation in medical images via knowledge guidance

14:30-15:30 (JST), Chair: Katsuya Takanashi (The University of Shiga Prefecture, Japan)
8. [FP] Kanato Ochiai and Mayumi Bono. Finger Braille as a Personal Medium: Exploring Communication Methods for Deafblind People Based on Computer-Mediated Communication Studies
9. [FP] Mayumi Bono and Robert Adam. Online Cross-Signing Project Between the United Kingdom and Japan: First Phase of Data Collection

IP: Idea presentation
FP: Full paper

15:45-16:45 (JST), Chair: Hideki Nakayama (The University of Tokyo, Japan)
Keynote Speaker
Richard Bowden(University of Surrey, The United Kingdom)

17:00-20:00 (JST), Chair: Keiko Sagara (Minpaku National Museum of Ethnology, Japan)
Special Panel Session on Cross-signing
LANGUAGE: International Sign, Japanese Sign Language, and English (Interpreters provided by Hands lab and LEGATO Co., Ltd.)
Kang-Suk Byun (Radboud University, The Netherlands)
Johanna Mesch (Stockholm University, Sweden)
Eli Raanes (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway)
Robert Adam (Heriot-Watt University, The United Kingdom)
Mayumi Bono (National Institute of Informatics, Japan)

Closing (Hideki Nakayama, The University of Tokyo, Japan)