Programme AVSS2026

22nd International Conference on Advanced Visual and Signal-Based Systems

Lecce, Italy | August 31 – September 3, 2026

Daily Schedule

Workshop/Tutorial DayAugust 31st, 2026
Morning
W002 — ISSA— Half Day
Morning
T02 — Maximize the throughput of your open-source model inference workloads — Half Day
Morning
T03 — AI for Brain MRI: From Image Formation to Clinical Applications in Neurodegeneration — Half Day
Morning
T04 — Designing and Assembling Smart Cyber-Physical Systems — Half Day
Full Day
W006 — AI4Nature— Full Day
Full Day
W007 — GIS — Full Day
Afternoon
W001 — MDB— Half Day
Afternoon
W004 — ABS— Half Day
Day 1September 1st, 2026
09:00–09:30
Opening
09:30–10:30
Invited Talk 1
10:30–11:00
Coffee break
11:00–12:30
ORAL SESSION I — Intelligent Perception and Behavioral Intelligence through Multimodal Sensor Fusion
12:30–14:00
Lunch
14:00–15:00
Invited Talk 2
15:00–16:00
ORAL SESSION II — Intelligent Care Systems: Medical Imaging, Assisted Living, and Secure Healthcare
16:00–16:30
Coffee break
16:30–18:00
ORAL SESSION III — Trustworthy Identity Intelligence: Biometrics, Privacy, and Digital Forensics
18:00–20:00
City tour
20:00–22:00
Welcome cocktail
Day 2September 2nd, 2026
09:30–10:30
Invited Talk 3
10:30–11:00
Coffee break
11:00–12:30
ORAL SESSION IV — Object Detection & Tracking
12:30–14:00
Lunch
14:00–15:30
ORAL SESSION V — Signal Processing for Surveillance
15:30–16:00
Coffee break
16:00–17:30
POSTER SESSION I / Industrial Session
18:00
Bus departure
19:30–22:00
Gala dinner
Day 3September 3rd, 2026
09:30–10:30
Invited Talk 4
10:30–11:00
Coffee break
11:00–12:30
ORAL SESSION VI — Intelligent Urban Ecosystems: Smart Infrastructure and Environmental Intelligence
12:30–14:00
Lunch
14:00–15:30
ORAL SESSION VII — Video Surveillance & Analytics
15:30–16:00
Coffee break
16:00–17:30
POSTER SESSION II
17:30
Closing remarks

Oral Sessions

ORAL SESSION IIntelligent Perception and Behavioral Intelligence through Multimodal Sensor Fusion
#90
Detection and Metric Learning from Pseudo-Labels for Unsupervised Maritime Vessel Re-Identification

Marco Sangiorgi

#102
Privacy-Preserving Violence Detection via Base-Pair Extended Difference of Gaussians and 2D Chroma-Temporal Encoded Human Poses

Oliver Werthwein; Niklas Ries; Wilhelm Stork

#128
POCI-Diff: 3D-Layout Guided Diffusion for Controllable Synthetic Surveillance Data Generation

Andrea Rigo

#201
XiDepth: a Lightweight and Efficient Network for Self-supervised Monocular Depth Estimation

Lamberto Ballan

#36
Multiscale Temporal Variability of Behaviors for Multimodal Depression-Schizophrenia Classification

Miriana Russo

#183
From CCTV to Social Interaction: An F-formation-based Interaction Analysis in Childcare Environments

Suchun Park

ORAL SESSION IIIntelligent Care Systems: Medical Imaging, Assisted Living, and Secure Healthcare
#43
Heterogeneous CNN–Transformer Ensemble with Probability-Level Fusion: Large-Scale Multi-Class MRI Classification

Jagadesh B

#177
VisionAid: A Speech-Driven, Scene-Aware AI System for Assisting Visually Impaired Individuals

Vivek Kanhangad

#176
TMF-RSE: Tri-Modal Fusion with Regional Semantics and Evidential Uncertainty for Lung Severity Scoring

Fadi Zidi

#211
Efficient Hierarchical Cross-Attention for Brain Tumor Classification with Frozen ConvNeXt Features

Marco Leo

ORAL SESSION IIITrustworthy Identity Intelligence: Biometrics, Privacy, and Digital Forensics
#37
Proactive Defense Against Face Swapping Using Pixel-Wise Adaptive Momentum

Donghyun Kim

#83
Robust Adversarial Privacy Protection for Face Recognition via Frequency-Constrained Gradient-Semantic Optimization

Jiayang Xu

#200
Physical Adversarial Patch Attacks on Real-Time Object Detectors in Fully Unmanned Stores

Wonho Lee

#98
Quality-Conditioned Hierarchical Optimal Transport for Cross-Quality Surveillance Face Matching

Sanghoon Lee

#182
Leveraging Smartphone Inertial Data for User Authentication

Gabriele Bortolai

#233
Super-Resolution for Biometric Ear Recognition: Boosting Accuracy with SRGAN and EDSR

Eman Alomari

ORAL SESSION IVObject Detection & Tracking
#18
LiteSAFD: Scale-Aware Dual-Head Classification for Efficient Tiny Face Detection in Surveillance Applications

Yogesh Aggarwal

#100
Predicting Dynamic Map States from Limited Field-of-View Sensor Data

Knut Peterson

#61
Can Vision-Language Models Replace Supervised Detectors in Construction Safety Monitoring?

Marco Cocco; Matteo Dunnhofer; Massimiliano Varutti; Paolo Perucci; Christian Micheloni

#154
DroneDAR: Long-Range Drone Distance Estimation Using Monocular Vision and Bounding-Box Features

Knut Peterson

#228
MIRAGE: Mattress Inspection through Integrated Reasoning and Anomaly Grounded Embeddings

Alessia Saggese; Camilla Spingola; Mattia Marseglia; Giuseppe Parrella; Speranza Ranieri; Francesco Rosa; Mattia Sarno

#210
Hi-DAB-DETR: DETR with Hierarchical Prototype Refinement

Emanuele Malagoli

ORAL SESSION VSignal Processing for Surveillance
#38
A Density Regression Refiner Framework with Pyramidal Feature Fusion Networks for Crowd Counting

Shahbaz Ahmad

#67
Wafer-Level Etch Spatial Profiling for Process Monitoring from Time-Series with Time-LLM

Hyunwoo Kim

#114
Underwater Source Detection and Classification for Signal-Based Surveillance: Audio Dataset Curation and Cross-Domain Evaluation

Quoc Vo

#116
Can Event Cameras Replace RGB for Violence Recognition? An Empirical Study

Mira Adra

#175
PTZ Patrol Preset Selection for Forensic Augmentation in Large-Venue Surveillance

Winter Clinckemaillie

#103
TraRA: Trajectory-level Recognition Aggregation for Video Text Spotting in Urban Surveillance

Trung Thanh Nguyen

ORAL SESSION VIIntelligent Urban Ecosystems: Smart Infrastructure and Environmental Intelligence
#40
Enhancing Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) for Traffic Monitoring through Fiber Stacking

Kilian Wohlleben

#133
SpectralRepNet: Real-Time Image Dehazing for Edge Surveillance via Structural Reparameterization and Spectral Frequency Gating

Sachi Nandan Mohanty

#174
Multi-frame Flow-guided Monocular Metric Depth Estimation

Mourtaza Abbasbhay

#74
Vibro-Acoustic Leak Detection in Gas Pipelines via Weakly-Supervised Time–Frequency Models

Marco Marcon

#167
An Analysis of Untrained Deep Reservoir Networks for Audio Surveillance

Corrado Baccheschi; Patrizio Dazzi

ORAL SESSION VIIVideo Surveillance & Analytics
#71
A Real-Time Pose-Based Spatio-Temporal Model for Shoplifting Detection

Samuel Gnanaseelan

#78
FuseMamba-VD: Dual Branch VideoMamba with Gated Class Token Fusion for Violence Detection

Damith Senadeera; Awais Rauf; Shibo Li; Dimitrios Kollias; Gregory Slabaugh

#124
DirectVAD: Online Explainable Video Anomaly Detection via Direct Visual Understanding and Visual Memory Retrieval

Jinyoung Moon

#142
Teacher-Student Visual Speech Recognition with Reliability-Aware Fusion and Uncertainty-Aware LLM Adaptation

Ruxandra Tapu

#162
Robust Zero-Shot Generalization for Open-Vocabulary Action Recognition via Task Arithmetic

Angelo Porrello

#219
Parser-Free VLM Verification for Federated Weakly Supervised Video Anomaly Detection

Sébastien Thuau

Poster Sessions

POSTER SESSION I33 accepted contributions
#5
Stabilized Adversarial Graph Neural Networks for Robust DDoS Detection in Dynamic Network Environments

Suneeta Satpathy; Pratik Kumar Swain; Sachi Nandan Mohanty; Khasim Syed

#56
Steering Transparent Generation via Concept Bottlenecks on Energy Landscapes

Sangwon Kim; Kyoungoh Lee; Jeyoun Dong; Kwang-Ju Kim

#10
Learning-Driven Feature Selection via Incremental mRMR and Skill Optimization for Cancer Microarray Classification

Bibhuprasad Sahu; Amruitanshu Panigrahi; Abhilash Pati; Ming Yang; Sachi Nandan Mohanty

#63
Toward Remote Monitoring of Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients via sEMG-Based Activity Recognition

Immacolata Esposito; Defne Eken; James Galloway; Egidio De Benedetto; Letizia Gionfrida

#68
Transformer-Based Multi-Label Classification of Radiology Reports: A Controlled Study on MIMIC-CXR

Visalakshi Annepu; Ammisetty Prathyusha; Swetha V Padmavathi Polisetty; Deepthi Godavarthi; Sirisha Charugulla; Jainabbi Banda

#17
BioSLM-Interpret: Interpretable Small Language Model Reasoning for Multimodal Biometric

Abhishek Tiwari; Deepak Kumar Jain; Marco Leo

#55
Calibration-Free Multi-Object Tracking via Scale-Invariant Topological Depth and Adaptive Uncertainty Gating

Jin Hong; Yoojin Han; Junseok Kwon

#59
Cattle Behavior Recognition Based on a Lightweight Multi-View System

Roua Mkadmi; Rabaa Youssef-Douss; Amel Benazza-Benyahia

#120
RFD-YOLO: Representation-Based Feature Design for Illumination-Robust Object Detection Without Low-Light Training Data

Huynh Nguyen-Ngoc

#72
PMOF: A Dataset and Benchmark for Passenger Monitoring Using Overhead Fisheye Cameras

Stella Katharina Wermuth; Qazi Arbab Ahmed; Klaus Neumann; Thorsten Jungeblut

#42
RecTTA: Reconstruction-based Test-Time Adaptation for Robust Human Trajectory Prediction

Chiranthana Rampura; Sen Wang; Yang Wang; Xinxin Zuo

#41
On-the-Fly Homographies Calibration for Multi-Camera Tracking

David Voihanski; Mor Sinai; Benzi Bobrovsky

#44
HyTAR: Robust rPPG Extraction pipeline for Deepfake Detection in Unconstrained Surveillance Environments

David Voihanski; Mor Sinai; Benzi Bobrovsky

#50
Memory-Constrained Pruning via Hybrid Gradient–Curvature Optimization

Hyunsu Lee; Yong-Hyuk Moon

#65
An Improved Variational Method for Image Denoising

Jing-En Huang; Jia-Wei Liao; Ku-Te Lin; Yu-Ju Tsai; Mei-Heng Yueh

#69
ARES: A Memory-Augmented Visual-Semantic Framework for Adaptive Real-time Video Anomaly Detection via Distributed Foundation Models

Shanmukha Rapeti; Prathibha P.G; Tamizharasan P.S

#49
BayPOS: Bayesian Pareto-Optimal Scaling for Sparse Learning

Yong-Hyuk Moon

#109
SPCA-AD: Supervised Anomaly Detection with Dimension Reduction for Industrial Images

Teng-Yok Lee; Akira Minezawa

#141
Context-structured Video Anomaly Detection with Large Vision-Language Models

Dongjun Kim; Changjae Oh; Andrea Cavallaro; Jeonghoon Mo

#155
HICA: Hierarchical Temporal Clustering with Scene-Dynamic Compatibility for Consistent Video Anomaly Detection

Jiye Won; Jinhyeong Park; Soon Ki Jung

#172
Mitigating Shortcut Learning: Texture-Penalized Prototype Networks

Akshay Anilkumar Girija; Elena Hoemann; Frank Köster; Sven Hallerbach

#181
Multiplier-Free Approximate VVC Transform Accelerator with Simplified Butterfly Reordering

Yeong-Kang Lai; Cheng-Yu Hsieh

#194
Federated Binary Gating with Server-Side Vision-Language Inference for Surveillance Anomaly Classification

Côme-Alexis Puech; Sébastien Thuau; Amira Gran; Arthur Mennessier; Siba Haidar; Rachid Chelouah

#221
Vision–Language Multi-Context Driving Scene Recognition under Few-Shot Learning on the SmartDrive30 Benchmark

Soumya A; Linga Reddy Cenkeramaddi; Krishna Mohan Chalavadi

#227
Who Caused the Anomaly? Actor-Centric Attribution for Video Anomaly Understanding

Muhammad Shahzaib Khan; Jinhyeong Park; Soon Ki Jung

#246
Detecting ATM Money Mule Activities via LVLM-Guided Forensic Analysis

Ni Xu; Ming-Ching Chang

#145
Fairness-Aware Mixture-of-Experts via Subgroup Reweighting and Gate Regularization

Sunhee Hwang

#147
An Efficient Inner Product Functional Encryption Library for Privacy-Preserving Neural Architecture Search

Yi-Chuan Liang; Yu-Te Ku; Shih-Hao Hung

#156
SemantiGuard: Explainable Adversarial Detection via Semantic Similarity of Knowledge

Gyuyeong Kim; Sohee Park; Daeseon Choi

#157
Logo-Conditioned Backdoor Attacks: Repurposing Natural Car Logos as Semantic Triggers in Object Detection

Chanseuk Oh; Jaehwan Jeong; Seokhwan Choi

#166
Diffusion-Based Multi-Class Normality for OOD Detection: An Application to CDP Authentication

Bolutife Atoki; Iuliia Tkachenko; Bertrand Kerautret; Carlos Crispim-Junior

#127
MAESTRO: Multi-Anchor and Dual-Constraint Enhanced Sequential Training for Robust Optimization in Image Editing

Pei-Tong Ku; Jun-Wei Hsieh; Yi Kuan Hsieh; Yi-Tang Hsieh; Chi-Chia Sun; Ming-Ching Chang; Xin Li

POSTER SESSION II35 accepted contributions
#217
Sim-to-Sim Quadruped Autonomy via VLM-based Semantic Memory, Modular Planning, Navigation, and Perception

Nikhil Nanda; Peter Tu; Arjun Krishna; Subin Kim; Dinesh Jayaraman; Jinhong Ni; Dylan Campbell; Jing Zhang; Zhaoyuan Yang

#229
User-Centric Knowledge Graphs: Grounding Language Models for Context-Aware Social Robotics

Alessia Saggese; Mario Vento; Francesco Rosa; Luca Greco

#150
Skeleton-Based Isolated Recognition in LIS via Spatio-Temporal Graph Neural Networks

Rosario Licciardello; Georgia Fargetta; Alessandro Ortis; Sebastiano Battiato

#178
When Art Meets Forensics: Exploring the Authentication of Shikishi Artworks

Giovanni Piccinini; Alessandro Tomarchio; Georgia Fargetta; Luca Guarnera; Sebastiano Battiato

#234
Subject-Level Unknown-Identity Identification from Leap Motion Controller 2 Hand Landmarks

Bahar Moharrer; Susanna Cifani; Marco Raoul Marini; Luigi Cinque; Maria De Marsico

#241
Leveraging Text-to-Video Diffusion Models for Synthetic Gait Dataset Generation and Appearance-Robust Person Recognition

Federico Boscolo; Fabrizio Lamberti

#245
ForensiText: ROI-Guided Multimodal Forensics for Scene Text Tampering Detection and Localization

Abhineet Kumar Pandey; Ming-Ching Chang

#123
Foundation Model-Guided RGB-to-RAW Generation with Spectral Supervision for RAW-Domain Detection

Seongmoon Jeong; Yulhwa Kim; Jong Hwan Ko

#143
WaspMOT: A Benchmark for Long-Term Multi-Object Tracking of Trichogramma Wasp

Tomasz Stanczyk; Yuan Gao; Hardik Agarwal; Seongro Yoon; Tiantao Zhang; Vincent Calcagno; Francois Bremond

#151
A Multi-Task One-Stage Framework for Axial and Directional Object Detection

Mohamed Ben Hamdoune; Najib Gadi; Stéphane Gazut

#160
CATA: Count-Aware Tracking and Association for Real-Time Multi-Camera Tracking in Overlapping Indoor Scenes

Kyoungoh Lee; Sangwon Kim; Kwang-ju Kim

#189
Real-Time Detection-First Infrared Multi-Target Tracking with Size-Adaptive Parameter Selection

Burak Özdemir

#208
Conflict-Aware Homography Refinement for Multi-Camera Association under Calibration Drift

Sanghoon Lee

#135
Quantifying Scene Dependency Across Action Classes in Human Action Recognition

Sehwan Heo; Jinhyeong Park; Soon Ki Jung

#158
TC-MAE: Unsupervised Video Anomaly Detection Using Lightweight Temporal Context Masked Autoencoder

Uma P Balaraju; Prithwijit Guha

#238
MV-FallNet: A Multi-View MIMO Radar based Edge-Deployable Fall Detection Network in Assisted Living

Ashish Gaurav; Pratham Saxena; Aman Singh; Konrad Wartke; Praveen Khosla; Satish Kumar; Visvanathan Ramesh

#107
Improving Long-Range Object Detection in Video Surveillance Using a Spatio-Temporal Distortion Strategy

Juan D Amato; Alejandro Rozenfeld

#122
You Only Landmark Once: Lightweight U-Net Face Super Resolution with YOLO-World Landmark Heatmaps

Riccardo Carraro; Anna Briotto; Endi Hysa; Marco Fiorucci; Lamberto Ballan

#184
LA-INR: Variance-Guided Locally Adaptive Implicit Super-Resolution for Aerial Surveillance

Minyoung Jeon; Jaehyup Lee

#202
UICAM: A Codec-Transferable Adapter for Machine-Oriented Image Compression

Seongmoon Jeong; Sangwoon Kwak; Soon-heung Jung; Hyon-Gon Choo; Jong Hwan Ko

#212
RAFM-SER++: A Lightweight Multimodal Emotion Recognition Framework for Real-Time Behavioral Monitoring in Surveillance Systems

Dinh Ngo Truong; Lam Bui Tung; Trung Duong Chi; Vien Nguyen Thi; Anh Nguyen Viet; Lu Le

#222
Toward Perceptual Realism in Aerial Imagery: An Uncertainty-Guided INR Approach

Seunghyun Kim; Minyoung Jeon; Jaehyup Lee

#248
Robust Physiological Signal Enhancement for Wearable Health Monitoring under Severe Real-World ECG Noise

Lu Le; Lam Bui Tung; Tai Vo Tan; Thuc Nguyen Dinh

#179
Rolling and Standing: Multimodal Curb-to-Cabin Exposure Sensing for SSA Transit

Nthenya Kyatha; Jay Taneja

#243
RoadSense: Unsupervised Road Anomaly Segment Detection from Low-Rate Trailer Telemetry

Mohammad Hasan Karami; Onno Huijgen; Erwin Folmer; Igo Besselink; Jos van Hillegersberg

#140
Coarse-to-Fine Coronary Vessel Segmentation with Topology-Aware Refinement

Xue-Qing Lai; Shih-Hao Hung; Yu-Te Ku; Tzung-Dau Wang

#152
RF-HiT: Rectified Flow Hierarchical Transformer for General Medical Image Segmentation

Marouane Djouama; Abir Belaala; Abdellah Zakaria Sellam; Salah Eddine Bekhouche; Cosimo Distante; Abdenour Hadid

#239
Context-Aware Prompts for Liver and Tumor Segmentation in CT

Muhammad Salman Khan; Shahzad Ali; Thi Thanh Thuy Nguyen; Soon Ki Jung

#153
Bounding-Box-Supervised Spatial Attention with Temporal Modeling for Early Wildfire Smoke Detection from Surveillance Cameras

Hana Afra; Aissa Boulmerka; Abderrezak Rachedi; Omar Sami Oubbati; Ahmed Mebarki

#46
Pose-Consistent Night-to-Day Translation via Retrieval-Guided Pseudo-Pairs for Robust Wildlife Surveillance

Yan-Ying Li

#240
Bridging the Nocturnal Data Gap via Cycle-Consistent Domain Translation for Illumination-Invariant Semantic Segmentation in UAV Disaster Imagery

Iyed Dhahri; Mahmoud Golabi; Karim Hammoudi; Lhassane Idoumghar

#253
Improving Plant and Weed Segmentation Using Contrast Enhancement, Composite Losses, and Edge-aware Mirror Networks

Minahil Fatima; Musaib Ahmed; Fezan Rasool; Murtaza Taj

#259
Encoder-decoder Architecture for Soil Moisture Forecasting Using Historical and Forecast Weather Data

Marco Del Coco; Pierluigi Carcagni; Marco Leo

#226
SAKURA: System for Augmented Kinetics and Unified Rehabilitation Assessment

Daniele Di Mauro; Michele Mazzamuto; Giovanni Maria Manduca; Giovanni Maria Farinella; Francesco Ragusa

#254
A Multi-Modal Approach for Remote Heart Rate Monitoring Using Vision and Audio Signals

Keshav Kaushik

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