<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>(<i>Please distribute this call for participation among colleagues, students, friends and people interested on robotics</i>)</div><div>(<i><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#ff0000">Deadline for registration: Nov. 29th, 2012</font></i>)</div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4">Last Call for Participation<o:p></o:p></font></span></b></p><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><br></span></div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">The IEEE RAS Summer School on "Robot Vision and Applications" will be held on December 3-7, 2012 at the School of Engineering of the Universidad de Chile, in Santiago, Chile. </span>The summer school is co-funded by the recently created <b>IEEE RAS Summer School Program</b>, and it is technically sponsored by the <b>IEEE RAS Technical Committee on Computer & Robot Vision</b> and the <b>IEEE RAS </b><b>Education Committee</b>. The official language of the summer school is English, and it will include tutorial courses, keynote lectures, a student poster competition, and live demonstrations (autonomous vehicle, robot soccer, domestic robots, quad-copters).</div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br></div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Summer school website: <a href="http://www.amtc.cl/summerschool/">http://www.amtc.cl/summerschool/</a></div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Summer school program: <a href="http://amtc.uchile.cl/summerschool/program.php">http://amtc.uchile.cl/summerschool/program.php</a></div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br></div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><b>The technical program includes</b>: </div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br></div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">- 5 tutorial courses: "Visual Servoing" (Francois <b>Chaumette, </b>INRIA), "Robotics and Machine Vision using MATLAB" (Peter <b>Corke, </b>QUT), "Real-Time Visual SLAM" (Andrew <b>Davison, </b>Imperial College), "Open Source 3D Processing with the Point Cloud Library" (Radu <b>Rusu, </b>Open Perception), "Strategies for Efficient Object Detection" (Rodrigo <b>Verschae</b>, UCH).</div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><br></div><div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">- 7 plenary talks: "Cooperative Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) with Multiple Robots" (Keith <b>Leung</b>, UCH), "Analysis of Multiple Views in Computer Vision" (Domingo <b>Mery</b>, PUC), "Visual recognition using machine learning" (Alvaro <b>Soto</b>, PUC), "Sensing and Computer Vision Techniques for Driver Assistance and Autonomous Vehicles" (Miguel <b>Torres</b>, PUC), "Rigid body landmarks for SLAM" (Patricio <b>Loncomilla</b>, UCH), "Active Vision" (Pablo <b>Guerrero</b>, UCH).</div><div><br></div><div>- a <b>student poster competition</b> with participanta from Argentine, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Equator, Italy, Mexico, Russia, Slovakia, Switzerland, Uruguay and USA.</div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "></div></div></div></div><div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br></div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">- live demonstrations of four different robotic projects: a <b>humanoid service robot</b>, a <b>soccer team of two-legged robots</b> (NAO), an <b>autonomous vehicle</b>, and a <b>hexacopter</b>.</div> <br></div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br></div></div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Best regards,</div></div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br></div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Javier</div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br></div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">General Chair</div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">IEEE RAS Summer School on "Robot Vision and Applications"</span></div></div></body></html>