The Fourth International Workshop on Human Brain and Artificial Intelligence (HBAI 2024)

Welcome to HBAI 2024, joint workshop of the 33rd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, which is planned to be held in Jeju Island, South Korea, from August 3rd to August 9th, 2024. (IJCAI 2024)! The quest for brain research is to uncover the nature of brain cognition, consciousness, and intelligence. Simultaneously, Artificial Intelligence (AI) strives to craft intelligence within machines. The development of these two fields is undergoing a continuous trend of crossvergence and convergence. To bring together active researchers and practitioners in the frontiers of Artificial Intelligence and Human Brain Research for the presentation of original research results and to provide an opportunity for the exchange and dissemination of innovative research ideas relevant to both fields, we propose this workshop, called Human Brain and Artificial Intelligence (HBAI). HBAI will contribute to answering the following two questions: How can AI techniques help to human brain research (AI- inspired/powered brain research)? And, how can human brain research inspire the study of AI (brain-inspired computing)? The discussion on the workshop will clearly be greatly helpful to the brain and cognitive science, neural computation and artificial general intelligence, brain-machine interface, data science, and their applications.

Aims and Scope

The advent of cutting-edge technologies for recording brain has catalyzed the creation of extensive data sets, known as "big data." In this landscape, AI has become indispensable for the analysis of sequences, structures, and functional patterns found in human brain data. Such advancements in AI equip us with potent tools and models essential for unraveling the complexities of the brain, significantly enhancing our understanding of human cognition and brain disorders. AI not only facilitates the exploration and understanding of the brain's mechanisms but also, conversely, insights derived from brain research can propel brain-inspired AI studies, offering unique avenues for the development of innovative AI methodologies. This workshop aims to unveil the latest discoveries at the nexus of human brain research and AI, highlighting the synergetic potential that bridges these two domains.

Workshop topics

We encourage papers with important new insights and experiences on artificial intelligence from the modeling and simulation of human brain systems. Those contributions should shed light on one of the two questions mentioned above. Topics of interest lie at the intersection of AI and computational brain science. They include, but are not limited to, the following inter-linked topics:


AI for brain science:

  • Brain network modeling

  • Neural decoding and encoding

  • Brain function analysis

  • Neuroinformatics

  • Brain structures

  • Cognitive functions

  • Brain activity and behavior

  • Genetic and circuit mechanisms

  • Neuropharmacology

  • Neural biomarker identification

  • Disease prediction and diagnosis

  • Brain development and aging

  • Cross-species brain analysis

AI for brain technology:

  • Brain-computer interface

  • Brain image processing

  • Neural signal processing

  • Brain stimulation

  • Cognitive rehabilitation

  • Task related data analysis

  • Brain imaging genomics

  • Neurosurgery

  • Neuroprosthetics

  • Neurotechnology

  • Diagnosis of brain disorders

Brain-inspired AI:

  • Neuromorphic engineering

  • Spiking neural networks

  • Emotional AI

  • Embodied AI

  • Biologically plausible models

  • Sensory integration and processing

  • Memory systems

  • Synaptic plasticity

  • Learning algorithms

  • Neural architecture optimization

  • Energy-efficient computing

Program for HBAI 2024:

At the 2024 HBAI workshop, we will be selecting and awarding the Best Poster and Best Paper. For the Best Poster, participants are requested to print and bring their posters, preferably in A0 size (841 x 1189 mm). For the Best Paper presentation, please prepare a 10-minute presentation and bring your PPT to the conference. Below are links to download templates for both the poster and the presentation for your reference. ( ppt template download and poster template download)

Session August 3, 2024(KST, UTC +9) Topic
Opening Remarks 8:50 - 9:00
Oral Presentation 9:00 - 9:20 Difference of brain visual cortex and CNN under continuous object property space
9:10 - 9:20 Understanding human concept representation by generating visual stimuli
9:20 - 9:30 How Do Transformers Integrate Meanings? An Investigation Using Interpretable Brain-Based Componential Semantics in Two-Word Phrases
9:30 - 9:40 Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning of ChatGLM to Mitigate Hallucinations in Chinese Abstractive Summarization
9:40 - 9:50 A Brain-Inspired Distributed Long-Term Memory Guided Online Continual Learning Method
9:50 - 10:00 Memory Sequence Length of Data Sampling Impacts the Adaptation of Meta-Reinforcement Learning Agents
10:00 - 10:10 SVFormer: A Direct Training Spiking Transformer for Efficient Video Action Recognition
10:10 - 10:20 BL-BERT: Extracting Body Language from Behavior Sequences in Freely Moving Mice
10:20 - 10:30 Uncovering cognitive taskonomy through transfer learning in masked autoencoder-based fMRI reconstruction
Break & Poster Presentation 10:30 - 11:00
Oral Presentation 11:00 - 11:10 Group-specific fusion model and its application in identifying multimodal co-varying diagnostic patterns for psychiatric disorders
11:10 - 11:20 Multi-category Brain Tumor Segmentation via Multi-scale and Cross-category Relation Modeling
11:20 - 11:30 Consistent Brain Age Difference in Childhood Autism Spectrum Disorder and its Subtypes
11:30 - 11:40 Brain-Aware Readout Layers in GNNs: Advancing Alzheimer's early Detection and Neuroimaging
11:40 - 11:50 The co-varying multimodal pattern in treatment-resistant and non-treatment-resistant schizophrenia
11:50 - 12:00 TSICNet:  Importance of Connectome Information for Epilepsy Classification
12:00 - 12:10 Investigating the Dynamics of Seizure Neuroactivities Using Hidden Markov Model
12:10 - 12:20 Suppressing seizure via optimal electrical stimulation to the hub of epileptic brain network
11:20 - 12:30 Convolutional Neural Networks Based on Axial Counting Attention for Deburring Cross-sectional Images of Aluminum Profiles with Burrs
Lunch Break 12:30 - 14:00
Oral Presentation 14:00 - 14:10 Interpersonal Relationship Analysis with Dyadic EEG Signals via Learning Spatial-Temporal Pattern
14:10 - 14:20 Effect of Music Training in Neural Responses to Emotional Speech Prosody: Insights from EEG and Brain Network Analysis
14:20 - 14:30 Potential Indicator for Continuous Emotion Arousal by Dynamic Neural Synchrony
14:30 - 14:40 Exploring EEG-Based Neural Correlates of Multivariate Ordinal Emotion Representations
14:40 - 14:50 Enhanced Local Attention with Deep Neural Networks for EEG Decoding
14:50 - 15:00 Mirror contrastive loss based sliding window transformer for subject-independent motor imagery based EEG signal recognition
15:00 - 15:10 Benchmarking Neural Decoding Backbones towards Enhanced On-edge iBCI Applications
15:10 - 15:20 Active Urinary Detection using EEG Based on FBCNet
15:20 - 15:30 D2CAN: Domain-guided contrastive adversarial network for EEG-based cross-subject cognitive workload decoding
Break & Poster Presentation 15:30 - 16:00
Oral Presentation 16:00 - 16:10 Assessing the feasibility of using AI models to simplify brain imaging reports for patients: a comparative analysis of four large language models
16:10 - 16:20 Spatial Filtering Effect of Graph Signal Processing on Alpha Oscillations During Timing Process
Talk 16:20 - 16:30 How to publish with Springer Nature (Assistant Publisher at Springer Nature Group: Xin Guo)
Panel Discussion 16:30 - 17:20 Panelist: Bin Hu, Kevin Wenliang Li, Yu Qi, Haiyan Wu
Closing Remarks 17:20 - 17:30 Best Paper Award & Best Poster Award

Call for Papers

The Fourth International Workshop on Human Brain and Artificial Intelligence (HBAI 2024)

Held in Conjunction With IJCAI 2024

August 3 to 9, 2024 - Jeju, South Korea

Important Dates

Submission Deadline: May 14, 2024 May 20, 2024
Author Notification: June 4, 2024
Camera Ready Deadline: June 11, 2024
Workshop: August 3, 2024
All deadlines are set to 11:59 PM Korean Standard Time (KST), UTC +9.

Paper Submission

HBAI will not accept any paper that, at the time of submission, is under review for, has already been published in, or has already been accepted for publication in, a journal or another venue with formally published proceedings.

At least one author of each accepted paper is required to participate and present the work. We are looking forward to the community meeting in person.

All new papers will be peer-reviewed in a double-blind manner.

All papers for the review should be submitted through the Conference Management Toolkit (CMT): https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/HBAI2024.

Formatting guidelines:
(Formatting guidelines: LaTeX styles and Word template: download)
Full paper: no less than 12 pages, excluding references (accepted as oral presentation and published in conference proceedings, indexed by EI)
Abstract: 1—2 pages (accepted as poster presentation, abstract template: download)

Contact:
Quanying Liu: liuqy@sustech.edu.cn

Organizing Committee

Quanying Liu Southern University of Science and Technology liuqy@sustech.edu.cn
Haiyan Wu University of Macau haiyanwu@um.edu.mo
An Zeng Guangdong University of Technology zengan@gdut.edu.cn
Dan Pan Guangdong Polytechnic Normal University pandan@gpnu.edu.cn
Yu Qi Zhejiang University qiyu@zju.edu.cn
Youzhi Qu Southern University of Science and Technology quyz@mail.sustech.edu.cn

Program Committee

(Including full names and affiliations, in alphabetical order by the member's first name)

Amy Wenxuan Ding EMLYON Business School, France
An Zeng Guangdong University of Technology, P. R. China
Aniruddha Sinha Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India
Benjamin Becker The University of Hongkong, P. R. China
Bin Hu Beijing Institute of Technology, P. R. China
Bo Hong Tsinghua University, P. R. China
Camillo Porcaro University of Padova, Italy
Changsong Zhou Hong Kong Baptist University, P. R. China
Dan Pan Guangdong Polytechnic Normal University, P. R. China
Dante Mantini KU Leuven, Belgium
Daqing Guo University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, P. R. China
Dezhong Yao University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, P. R. China
Dong Ming Tianjin University, P. R. China
Gang Pan Zhejiang University, P. R. China
Haiyan Wu University of Macau, P. R. China
Huiguang He Chinese Academy of Science, P. R. China
Jia Liu Tsinghua University, P. R. China
Jian Liu University of Birmingham, UK
Juyang Weng Michigan State University, U.S.A
Kai Du Peking University, P. R. China
Nicole Wenderoth ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Quanying Liu Southern University of Science and Technology, P. R. China
Qunxi Dong Beijing Institute of Technology, P. R. China
Si Wu Peking University, P. R. China
Tianzi Jiang Chinese Academy of Science, P. R. China
Wanzeng Kong Hangzhou Dianzi University, P. R. China
Xiaolin Hu Tsinghua University, P. R. China
Xiaowei Song Simon Fraser University, Canada
Xiaowei Xu Guangdong Provincial People's Hospital, P. R. China
Yalin Wang Arizona State University, U.S.A
Yang Zhan Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Science, P. R. China
Yina Wei Zhejiang Lab, P. R. China
Yiwen Wang Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, P. R. China
Yiyu Shi University of Norte Dame, U.S.A
Yong He Beijing Normal University, P. R. China
Youzhi Qu Southern University of Science and Technology, P. R. China
Yu Hu Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, P. R. China
Yu Qi Zhejiang University, P. R. China
Yuanyuan Mi Tsinghua University, P. R. China
Yueming Wang Zhejiang University, P. R. China
Zhiguo Zhang Harbin Institute of Technology, P. R. China
Zhuliang Yu South China University of Technology, P. R. China