<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"> *** Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP ***<br>==========================================================<br>CALL FOR PAPERS<br>******************************************************************<br>IEEE SMC Workshop on Brain-Machine Interface (BMI) Systems<div>October 6-9, 2024<br>Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia</div><div><a href="https://sites.google.com/view/smc-bmi-workshop2024" target="_blank">https://sites.google.com/view/smc-bmi-workshop2024 </a></div><div>Full and Special Session Papers Submission Deadline<u>: <b>April 8, 2024</b></u><a href="https://sites.google.com/view/smc-bmi-workshop2024" target="_blank"><br></a>******************************************************************</div><div><p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-ligatures:none;margin:12pt 0px;outline:none;text-decoration-line:inherit;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-family:Roboto;line-height:1.38;padding:0pt;background-color:transparent;border-width:initial;border-style:none;border-color:initial"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">We invite contributions reporting the latest advances, innovations, and applications in all fields related to BMI, including new neuroimaging modalities and sensor technologies, interfaces, protocols, signal enhancement and multimodal fusion, integration of BMIs with virtual/augmented reality, affective BMI, hybrid BMI, deep learning for BMI, neurorehabilitation, serious gaming, and emerging applications. These topics offer tremendous opportunity for collaborative and multi-disciplinary research, involving not only peers with expertise in the field of BMI and other neurotechnologies and those with expertise in systems engineering, human-machine systems, cybernetics, neuroscience, robotics, and artificial intelligence. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-ligatures:none;margin:12pt 0px;outline:none;text-decoration-line:inherit;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-family:Roboto;line-height:1.38;background-color:transparent;border-width:initial;border-style:none;border-color:initial;padding:0pt"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline">Full papers (Regular or Special Session)</span><span style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> should describe advanced research and report original findings. Papers are typically between <b>4-6 pages. </b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-ligatures:none;margin:12pt 0px;outline:none;text-decoration-line:inherit;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-family:Roboto;line-height:1.38;background-color:transparent;border-width:initial;border-style:none;border-color:initial;padding:0pt"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline">Abstract submissions (1-page)</span><span style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> will also be allowed. Abstracts </span><span style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">describe works-in-progress and late breaking BMI research findings not yet in a mature state for a full paper. Note that abstracts </span><span style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-weight:700;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">will not appear</span><span style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> in IEEE Xplore (but will be listed on the Workshop website) and will be presented as posters at the Workshop. Full registrations are needed to cover an abstract presentation.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-ligatures:none;margin:12pt 0px;outline:none;text-decoration-line:inherit;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-family:Roboto;line-height:1.38;background-color:transparent;bord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:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline"><b>here</b></span></a><font color="#000000" face="Arial"> </font></p></div><div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><font color="#000000" face="Helvetica">Sincerely,</font><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(136,136,136)"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica">Xiang Zhang, Ph.D. </span><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(136,136,136)"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica">Assistant Professor | </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica">Computer Science</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(32,33,36)"><font color="#000000" face="Helvetica">University of North Carolina at Charlotte</font><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(136,136,136)"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica">9201 University City Blvd. | Charlotte, NC 28223</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(136,136,136)"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica"><a href="mailto:xiang.zhang@uncc.edu" target="_blank">xiang.zhang@charlotte.edu</a> | <a href="mailto:xiang.alan.zhang@gmail.com" target="_blank">xiang.alan.zhang@gmail.com</a> </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(136,136,136)"><a href="http://www.xiangzhang.info/" target="_blank">http://www.xiangzhang.info</a></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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