It can be quite challenging to keep an overview of the multitude of different AI Expert gatherings across the globe, ranging from small-scale meetups to international conferences with thousands of attendees. Therefore, we have gathered the most important conferences below, based on scientific relevance. The relevance is indicated by the h5-index which Google Scholar computes for the publications of each conference, based on the authors H-indices.

Below you will find introductions to the following segments:

1. Top Computer Vision Conferences
2. Top General Machine Learning Conferences
3. Top AI Conferences on Specific Topics

Top Computer Vision Conferences 2022

CVPR · IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition

19.-24. June 2022   Location: New Orleans, USA   h5-index: 356   Website: cvpr2022.thecvf.com   Focus: Computer Vision

"The Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) is an annual conference on computer vision and pattern recognition, which is regarded as one of the most important conferences in its field."

Pricing: $510 regular / $430 students (from previous years)

CVPR Paper Submission Deadline: 17. November 2021

ECCV · European Conference on Computer Vision

24.-28. October 2022   Location: Tel Aviv, Israel   h5-index: 197   Website: eccv2022.ecva.net

The European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) is a biennial research conference. It is considered to be one of the top conferences in computer vision, alongside CVPR and ICCV, and it is held on years in which ICCV is not. Like most conferences in Computer Science, ECCV includes tutorials, technical sessions and poster sessions.

Previous publications from the conference include the popular real-time object detector SSD Single Shot MultiBox Detector and the amazing high-resolution scene synthesizer NeRF, introduced at ECCV 2016 and 2020, respectively.

Pricing: $630 regular / $300 students (from previous years)

ECCV Paper Submission Deadline: 7. March 2022

Top Machine Learning Conferences 2022

ICLR · International Conference on Learning Representations

25.-29. April 2022   Location: Virtual   h5-index: 253   Website: iclr.cc   Focus: Deep Learning

"ICLR is one of the fastest growing artificial intelligence conferences in the world. The International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) is the premier gathering of professionals dedicated to the advancement of the branch of artificial intelligence called representation learning, but generally referred to as deep learning.

ICLR is globally renowned for presenting and publishing cutting-edge research on all aspects of deep learning used in the fields of artificial intelligence, statistics and data science, as well as important application areas such as machine vision, computational biology, speech recognition, text understanding, gaming, and robotics."

The conference is presided by "Godfather of AI" Yann LeCun.

Pricing: $100 regular / $50 students (from previous years) · Registration opens 22. February 2022

ICLR Paper Submission Deadline: 6. October 2021

NeurIPS · Neural Information Processing Systems

26. November - 4. December 2022   Location: New Orleans, USA   h5-index: 245   Website: nips.cc

"The conference was founded in 1987 and is now a multi-track interdisciplinary annual meeting that includes invited talks, demonstrations, symposia, and oral and poster presentations of refereed papers. Along with the conference is a professional exposition focusing on machine learning in practice, a series of tutorials, and topical workshops that provide a less formal setting for the exchange of ideas."

Landmark publications in the past include object detector Faster R-CNN and the Attention Is All You Need paper that introduced the Transformer architecture.

Pricing: $175 regular / $25 students (from previous years)

NeurIPS Paper Submission Deadline: 28. May 2022

ICML · International Conference on Machine Learning

17.-23. July 2022   Location: Virtual   h5-index: 204   Website: icml.cc

"The International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) is the premier gathering of professionals dedicated to the advancement of the branch of artificial intelligence known as machine learning.

ICML is globally renowned for presenting and publishing cutting-edge research on all aspects of machine learning used in closely related areas like artificial intelligence, statistics and data science, as well as important application areas such as machine vision, computational biology, speech recognition, and robotics.

ICML is one of the fastest growing artificial intelligence conferences in the world. Participants at ICML span a wide range of backgrounds, from academic and industrial researchers, to entrepreneurs and engineers, to graduate students and postdocs."

Pricing: $100 regular / $25 students (from previous years)

ICML Paper Submission Deadline: 28. January 2022

AAAI · AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence

22. February - 1. March 2022   Location: Virtual   h5-index: 157   Website: aaai.org

"The purpose of the AAAI conference is to promote research in artificial intelligence (AI) and scientific exchange among AI researchers, practitioners, scientists, and engineers in affiliated disciplines. AAAI-22 will have a diverse technical track, student abstracts, poster sessions, invited speakers, tutorials, workshops, and exhibit and competition programs, all selected according to the highest reviewing standards. AAAI-22 welcomes submissions on mainstream AI topics as well as novel crosscutting work in related areas."

Pricing: $410 regular / $205 students

AAAI Paper Submission Deadline: 9. September 2021

Top AI Conferences on Specific Topics in 2022

CHI · ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

30. April - 6. May 2022   Location: New Orleans, USA   h5-index: 101   Website: chi2022.acm.org   Focus: Human Computer Interaction (HCI)

The ACM CHI Virtual Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems is the premier international conference on Human-Computer Interaction. CHI – pronounced ‘kai’ – is a place where researchers and practitioners gather from across the world to discuss the latest in interactive technology. CHI is generally considered the most prestigious in the field of HCI and attracts thousands of international attendees annually.

Pricing: $360 regular / $180 students (from previous years)

CHI Paper Submission Deadline: 9. September 2021

ACL · Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

22.-27. May 2022   Location: Dublin, Ireland   h5-index: 157   Website: 2022.aclweb.org   Focus: Language Processing

ACL is the premier conference of the field of computational linguistics, covering a broad spectrum of diverse research areas that are concerned with computational approaches to natural language.

Pricing: $125 regular / $50 students (from previous years)

ACL Paper Submission Deadline: 16. November 2021

SIGKDD · ACM International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining

14.-18. August 2022   Location: Washington DC, USA   h5-index: 104   Website: kdd.org/kdd2022   Focus: Data Mining

The Special Interest Group for Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining of the Association for Computing Machinery hosts the annual premier forum for data mining researchers and practitioners from academia, industry, and government to share ideas, research results and experiences.

Pricing: $250 regular / $50 students (from previous years)

SIGKDD Paper Submission Deadline: 9. February 2022

What Now

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