[robocup-nao] Workshop on Active Robot Vision - WARV 2014

[Fabio Previtali]

Workshop on Active Robot Vision - WARV 2014
http://www.visigrapp.org/WARV.aspx

In conjunction with the 9th International Joint Conference on Computer
Vision,
Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - VISIGRAPP 2014

5 - 8 January, 2014 - Lisbon, Portugal

CO-CHAIRS
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Domenico Bloisi Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
bloisi at dis.uniroma1.it
Federico Tombari University of Bologna, Italy
federico.tombari at unibo.it

SCOPE
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Visual perception is a fundamental step for robotic systems. Vision
algorithms
are used by robotic platforms to accomplish tasks such as navigating the
environment and grabbing and manipulating specific objects. However, visual
detection and recognition is often affected by limitations like occlusions
and
viewpoint changes.
"Active vision" refers to the possibility of improving visual sensing by
collecting information from sensors that can be conveniently moved in
space, so
as to acquire 3D data, to better deal with occlusions, and to establish
relationships between the elements present in the environment.
The experience of recent Robocup competitions demonstrates that robots
operating in real world settings will be able to accomplish complex tasks
only
if their ability to carry out semantic perception and mapping is improved.

The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers in the field of
computer vision and robotics for discussing vision-based applications aimed
at
  * object manipulation;
  * moving objects in order to remove occlusions;
  * recognizing objects and semantically relevant elements (semantic
labeling,
    object recognition);
  * detecting people by means of mobile robots or mixed (robot/fixed
sensors)
    networks to cope with occlusions;
  * exploiting context for object and scene understanding.

IMPORTANT DATES
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Paper Submission: October 8, 2013
Authors Notification: November 11, 2013
Camera Ready and Registration: December 4, 2013

INVITED SPEAKERS
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Manuela M. Veloso, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University,
Pittsburgh (USA)
Pedro U. Lima, Instituto de Sistemas e Robotica, Instituto Superior Tecnico,
Lisbon (Portugal)

PAPER SUBMISSION
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Instructions for preparing the manuscript (in Word and Latex formats) are
available at
http://www.visigrapp.org/GuidelinesTemplates.aspx#paper_templates

Please also check
http://www.visigrapp.org/GuidelinesTemplates.aspx#workshop_formats

Papers should be submitted electronically via the web-based submission
system
at http://www.insticc.org/Primoris

PUBLICATIONS
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All papers presented at the conference venue will be available at the
SCITEPRESS Digital Library (http://www.scitepress.org/DigitalLibrary).
SCITEPRESS is member of CrossRef (http://www.crossref.org)

SECRETARIAT CONTACTS
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VISIGRAPP Workshops - WARV 2014
e-mail: visigrapp.secretariat at insticc.org
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