Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 14472
Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 14472
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Randy Goebel, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Wolfgang Wahlster, DFKI, Berlin, Germany
Zhi-Hua Zhou, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
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Tongliang Liu · Geoff Webb · Lin Yue ·
Dadong Wang
Editors
AI 2023: Advances in
Artificial Intelligence
36th Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AI 2023
Brisbane, QLD, Australia, November 28 – December 1, 2023
Proceedings, Part II
Editors
Tongliang Liu Geoff Webb
The University of Sydney Monash University
Darlington, NSW, Australia Clayton, VIC, Australia
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This volume contains the papers presented at the 36th Australasian Joint Conference
on Artificial Intelligence, AJCAI 2023. The conference was held during November
28 – December 1, 2023, and was hosted by the University of Queensland in Brisbane,
Australia. This annual conference is one of the longest running conferences in artificial
intelligence, with the first conference held in Sydney in 1987. The conference remains the
premier event for artificial intelligence in Australasia, offering a forum for researchers
and practitioners across all subfields of artificial intelligence to meet and discuss recent
advances.
AJCAI 2023 received 213 submissions and each submission was reviewed by at
least two Program Committee (PC) members or external reviewers in a double-blind
process (over 90% of the submissions had three reviews). After a thorough discussion and
rigorous scrutiny by the reviewers, 24 papers were accepted for long oral presentation and
58 papers were accepted for oral presentation at the conference. In total, 82 submissions
were accepted for publication as full papers in these proceedings with an acceptance
rate of 38% (the acceptance rate of the long oral presentations was 11%). AJCAI 2023
had six keynote talks by the following distinguished scientists: Ling Chen from the
University of Technology Sydney, Australia; Manik Varma from Microsoft Research
India, India; Peter Soyer from the University of Queensland, Australia; Maria Garcia De
La Banda from Monash University, Australia; Mengjie Zhang from Victoria University
of Wellington, New Zealand; and Dadong Wang from Data61, Australia.
The following are notable aspects of the AJCAI 2023 conference:
• AJCAI 2023 was jointly held with the Defence Artificial Intelligence 2023 Sym-
posium (November 27, 2023). The Defence Artificial Intelligence Symposium is an
exciting opportunity for Defence and AI researchers to come together and explore
priorities, opportunities, and commonalities.
• AJCAI 2023 included a day with a special industry focus. Panel discussions allowed
industry and academia to share challenges and research directions.
• AJCAI 2023 included four workshops, held on November 28: Foundations for
Robust AI: Self-Supervised Learning, organised by Saimunur Rahman, David
Hall, Stephen Hausler, and Peyman Moghadam; Federated Learning in Australasia:
When FL Meets Foundation Models, organised by Guodong Long, Han Yu, and
Tao Shen; Artificial Intelligence Enabled Trustworthy Recommendations, organised
by Shoujin Wang, Rocky Tong Chen, Hongzhi Yin, Lina Yao, and Fang Chen; and
Machine Learning for Data-Driven Optimization, organised by Xilu Wang, Xiangyu
Wang, Shiqing Liu, and Yaochu Jin.
• AJCAI 2023 included three tutorials, held on November 28: Reinforcement Learning
for Automated Negotiation Supply Chain Management League as an Example, pre-
sented by Yasser Mohammad; Towards Communication-Efficient and Heterogeneity-
Robust Federated Learning, presented by Guodong Long and Yue Tan; and Decoding
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the Grammar of DNA Using Natural Language Processing, presented by Tyrone Chen
and Sonika Tyagi.
• AJCAI 2023 included a PhD Forum, held on November 28, to mentor and assist post-
graduate students developing their research, with mentorship provided by research
leaders. Limited travel support was provided.
We especially appreciate the work of the members of the Program Committee and the
external reviewers for their expertise and tireless effort in assessing the papers within a
strict timeline. We are also very grateful to the members of the Organising Committee for
their efforts in the preparation, promotion, and organisation of the conference, especially
the General Chairs, Dacheng Tao, Sally Cripps, and Janet Wiles, for coordinating the
whole event.
Lastly, we thank the National Committee for Artificial Intelligence of the Australian
Computer Society; Springer, for the professional service provided by the Lecture Notes
in Artificial Intelligence editorial and publishing teams; and our conference sponsors:
the Australian Computer Society; the Defence Artificial Intelligence Research Network;
Pioneer Computers; the School of Computer Science at the University of Sydney; the
School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Queensland;
the Human Technology Institute at the University of Technology Sydney; the Adelaide
University; and the UNSW AI Institute.
General Chairs
Program Chairs
Proceedings Chairs
Program Committee
Sponsors
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Contents – Part II
S5TR: Simple Single Stage Sequencer for Scene Text Recognition . . . . . . . . . . . 133
Zhijian Wu, Jun Li, and Jianhua Xu
Explainable AI
Reinforcement Learning
Toward a Unified Framework for RGB and RGB-D Visual Navigation . . . . . . . . 363
Heming Du, Zi Huang, Scott Chapman, and Xin Yu
Genetic Algorithm
Computer Vision
Deep Learning
Optimization
Medical AI