Final Call for Papers
SPIE - the International Society for Optical Engineering
as part of
PHOTONICS EAST '95 's
International Symposium on Intelligent
Systems and Adavanced Manufacturing
Philidelphia, Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania Convention Center
October 22-26, 1995
*** Conference on SENSOR FUSION & NETWORKED ROBOTICS ***
Chairs: Paul S. Schenker, Jet Propulsion Lab.
Gerard T. McKee, Univ. of Reading (UK)
PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
Su-Shing Chen, Univ. of North Carolina/Charlotte
Toshio Fukuda, Nagoya Univ. (JP)*
Gregory D. Hager, Yale Univ.
Raymond W. Harrigan, Sandia National Laboratories*
Martin Herman, National Inst. of Standards and Technology
Terrance L. Huntsberger, Univ. of South Carolina
Ren C. Luo, North Carolina State Univ.
James M. Manyika, Oxford Univ.(UK)
Maja J. Mataric, MIT/AI Laboratory*
Evangelos E. Milios, York Univ. (CAN)
Robin R. Murphy, Colorado School of Mines
Eric D. Paljug, Jet Propulsion Lab.*
Bobby S. Y. Rao, UC Berkeley
W. Brent Seales, Univ. of Kentucky
Faina Shtern, MD, National Cancer Institute
Charles V. Stewart, Rennselaer Polytechnic Institute
Stelios C. A. Thomopoulos, The Pennsylvania State Univ.
David R. Wilkes, Univ. of Toronto (CAN)
This call for papers continues the SPIE Sensor Fusion conference series held
in Boston during recent years, and earmarks our 1995 meeting with a new and
important topic, Networked Robotics.
Sensor Fusion, the robust integration of data from multiple and distributed
data sources, provides improved machine perception and recognition in complex
automation & robotics environments. Advances in sensor fusion are important
to autonomous navigation, intelligent vehicle highway control, 3-D medical
image analysis & image guided procedures, remote sensing, surveillance &
automatic target recognition, and many other areas. We invite contributions
on new sensor fusion algorithms, systems architectures, and experiments
in real applications environments.
Networked Robotics, the second and new conference theme, also concerns robust
integration of multiple and distributed resources for automation & robotics
tasks. However, the integration problem is now generalized beyond sensing to
include also planning, control, and implementation of a physically distributed
system. Advances in networked robotics are important to control of multiple
observation platforms, scheduling & control of advanced manufacturing and
robotic servicing systems, cooperative workgroups & virtual prototyping
environments, telerobotic & supervisory control systems, and the engineering
of collective robotic behaviors. We invite contributions on new algorithms,
systems & communication architectures, system programming & development
tools, and concept demonstrations in real applications environments.
Authors are not required to distinguish which of the two topical conference
themes their submission best addresses, and indeed, we welcome papers with
strong impacts on both themes. Authors should however highlight the main
thrusts of their papers by including within the abstract a keyword list of
up to eight descriptive technical items. As an example, a submission on
a new technique for 3-D object recognition by fusing data from multiple
views might read -- keywords: computer vision, fusing multiple views, 3-D
recognition, invariant linear features, polyhderal models, Bayesian statistics.
Submit Abstracts to SPIE
EMAIL: abstracts@mom.spie.org
FAX: (206) 647-1445
or, mail copies (4) to
SPIE
Attn: Photonics East'95 abstract - Sensor Fusion
P.O. Box 10
Bellingham, WA 98227-0010
Your abstract should include the following information:
1. Title
2. Author Listing (full names, affiliations, principal author first)
3. Mailing Address, Phone, FAX, Email (*all* authors)
4. Conference Title and Chair
5. "Oral" or "Poster" Presentation (your preference)
6. Abstract Text (250 words)
7. Brief Biography (50-100 words, principal author only)
Submission Schedule
Abstract Due March 13, 1995
Acceptance July 3, 1995
Paper Due July 31, 1995
Questions? -- contact SPIE at Phone (206) 676-3290 or EMAIL: annie@mom.spie.org