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Frontier Series.  Bremen.  Leiden.

|   March  -  November 2026   |

   IJCAI-ECAI 2026 SPECIAL TRACK   >   HUMAN-CENTRED ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI). 3rd Track: IJCAI-ECAI 2026, Bremen Aug 15-21 2026   

   FRONTIER SERIES 2026   >   TRANSLATIONAL NEUROCOGNITIVE TECHNOLOGIES
Digital Talks  -  By leading researchers at the interface of neuroscience, cognitive science, psychology, and artificial inteligence.   

   TUTORIAL @ ESSAI (2026)   >   NEUROSYMBOLIC VISUAL COMMONSENSE
Vienna, Austria   

   EWIC 2026   >   19th EUROPEAN WORKSOP ON IMAGERY AND COGNITION
Leiden, The Netherlands   

Örebro University and Lund University (Sweden) present the Frontier 2026 Talk Series centralising the themes of translational clinical neuroscience and next-generation responsible neurocognitive technologies. The series brings together researchers from neuroscience, artificial intelligence, cognitive science, engineering, and data science to explore the mechanisms of brain function in health and disease.

The series emphasises interdisciplinary methodologies linking neuroimaging, molecular neuroscience, systems neuroscience, computational cognitive modelling, computer science, and cognitive science to drive innovation and societal impact with ecologically valid diagnosis, monitoring, and intervention in real-world clinical contexts.

This tutorial on neurosymbolic visual commonsense addresses computational cognitive vision at the interface of language, logic, cognition, and artificial intelligence. The tutorial highlights recent efforts in `Hybrid AI' aimed at the integration of methods from knowledge representation & reasoning and deep learning driven computer vision. The particular technical focus of the tutorial is on the integration of reasoning & learning about space, motion, and embodied multimodal interaction in naturalistic ``in-the-wild'' settings. Here, we demonstrate systematically formalised declarative neurosymbolic explainability supporting capabilities such as semantic (visual) question-answering, relational learning, non-monotonic (visuospatial) abduction, and commonsense simulation of embodied interaction. These computational capabilities will be presented in the backdrop of areas as diverse as autonomous driving, cognitive robotics / HRI, and AI for empirical/behavioural research in vision science, and humanities-centred media studies. With case-studies illustrating capabilities such as explainable visual perception, semantic video understanding, explainable language generation from video etc, the tutorial will position an outward looking and multi-faceted account of computational cognitive vision at the confluence of artificial and human intelligence, bringing together research methodologies encompassing Commonsense Reasoning, Computer Vision, Machine Learning, and Spatial Cognition and Computation.

   VIenna, Austria 2026 (part of: European Summer School on Artificial Intelligence)   

EWIC is a biennial workshop dedicated to the study of mental imagery and spatial cognition. Other topics of interest to the EWIC include (among others): perception, attention, working memory, language comprehension, impact of new technologies. Since the first workshop held in Orsay, Paris in 1986, the EWIC has given scientists from all over the world the chance to share their research in a friendly and scientifically inspiring atmosphere. This festive edition marks 40 years since the first meeting!