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<br style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">In conjunction with the 9th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision,</span><br style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">
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<span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Domenico Bloisi Sapienza University of Rome, Italy </span><br style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">
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<span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Federico Tombari University of Bologna, Italy </span><br style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">
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<br style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">SCOPE</span><br style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">
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<span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Visual perception is a fundamental step for robotic systems. Vision algorithms</span><br style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">
<span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">are used by robotic platforms to accomplish tasks such as navigating the</span><br style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">
<span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">environment and grabbing and manipulating specific objects. However, visual</span><br style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">
<span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">detection and recognition is often affected by limitations like occlusions and</span><br style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">
<span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">viewpoint changes.</span><br style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">"Active vision" refers to the possibility of improving visual sensing by</span><br style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">
<span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">collecting information from sensors that can be conveniently moved in space, so</span><br style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">
<span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">as to acquire 3D data, to better deal with occlusions, and to establish</span><br style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">
<span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">relationships between the elements present in the environment.</span><br style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">
<span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">The experience of recent Robocup competitions demonstrates that robots</span><br style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">
<span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">operating in real world settings will be able to accomplish complex tasks only</span><br style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">
<span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">if their ability to carry out semantic perception and mapping is improved.</span><br style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">
<span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span><div><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers in the field of</span><br style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">
<span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">computer vision and robotics for discussing vision-based applications aimed at</span><br style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">
<span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> * object manipulation;</span><br style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> * moving objects in order to remove occlusions;</span><br style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">
<span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> * recognizing objects and semantically relevant elements (semantic labeling,</span></div><div><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> object recognition);</span><br style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">
<span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> * detecting people by means of mobile robots or mixed (robot/fixed sensors)</span></div><div><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> networks to cope with occlusions;</span><br style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">
<span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> * exploiting context for object and scene understanding.</span><br style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">
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<span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Paper Submission: October 8, 2013</span><br style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Authors Notification: November 11, 2013</span><br style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">
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<span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Pittsburgh (USA)</span><br style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Pedro U. Lima, Instituto de Sistemas e Robotica, Instituto Superior Tecnico,</span><br style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">
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