PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PAPERS
Special Session on
MACHINE VISION FOR INTELLIGENT VEHICLES AND AUTONOMOUS ROBOTS
Dedicated Conference on Robotics, Motion, and Machine Vision
in the Automotive Industries
Florence, Italy - June 16-19, 1997
Papers are invited for the special session on ``Machine Vision for Intelligent
Vehicles and Autonomous Robots'' as part of the Dedicated Conference on
Robotics, Motion, and Machine Vision in the Automotive Industries at the 30th
ISATA Conference.
PURPOSES
Due to the reduced costs of image acquisition devices and to the increasing
computational power of current computer systems, Machine Vision has recently
become a very popular method to sense the surrounding environment. Its
powerful characteristics make Artificial Vision particularly suited for tasks
such as scene interpretation, obstacle detection and recognition, motion
computation, while the availability of low-cost processors and sensors
justifies the enormous interest it raises among scientists and industries.
The Dedicated Conference on Robotics, Motion, and Machine Vision in the
Automotive Industries will provide a forum for users, researchers, and
developers of robotics and machine vision systems with special emphasis on
automotive applications. The conference will address user needs as well as
cutting-edge research and development issues and accomplishments in a number
of relevant topics. The conference is set to bring together all the experts
worldwide on the subject of robots and their application to the automotive
industry.
ADDRESSED TOPICS
Papers are solicited on all major aspects of machine vision for autonomous
agents, including:
* Image Segmentation
* Image Sequence Analysis
* Active and Real-Time Vision
* Low-level Vision
* Object Recognition
* Pattern Analysis
* Vision-based Real-time Robot and Vehicle Navigation
* Massively Parallel Architectures for Low-level Vision
* Intelligent Sensors for Low-level Vision
* Vision-based Guidance of Unmanned Vehicles
* Hardware Neural Solutions
* Applications
SPECIAL SESSION COORDINATOR
Alberto BROGGI
Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'Informazione
Universita` di Parma
I-43100 Parma, Italy
Fax: +39 - 521 905723
Email: broggi@CE.UniPR.IT
ROBOTICS CONFERENCE COORDINATOR
Claire FARRUGIA
ISATA
32A Queen Street, Croydon
Surrey CRO 1SY, England
Fax: +44 - 181 686 1490
Email: 100270.1263@compuserve.com
FURTHER AND UP-TO-DATE INFORMATION
The special session on Machine Vision for Intelligent Vehicles and Autonomous
Robots will be held during the 30th ISATA conference. For more information
please contact:
ISATA Secretariat
32A Queen Street, Croydon, London, CRO 1SY, UK
Phone: +44 181 681 3069
Fax: +44 181 686 1490
Email: 100270.1263@compuserve.com
WWW: http://WWW.spincom.com/isata
Further information about the special session is available via WWW:
http://WWW.CE.UniPR.IT/isata
INSTRUCTIONS FOR SUBMITTING PAPERS
* Submit 6 (six) copies of the full paper, consisting of 8 single-spaced
typewritten pages including title page, abstract, references, and diagrams
to the conference secretariat.
* Each paper must have a tile page which includes the title, full name of all
authors, their complete address(es) including affiliation(s), telephone
number(s) and Email address(es).
* Electronic and fax submissions will not be considered.
DEADLINES
* OCTOBER 31, 1996
Submission of a preliminary abstract (title and summary) of about 150 words
* DECEMBER 20, 1996
Submission of draft manuscripts for refereeing
* FEBRUARY 15, 1997
Notification of accepted papers mailed to authors
* MARCH 15, 1997
Accepted manuscripts are due for inclusion in the conference proceedings
* JUNE 16-19, 1997
Conference venue
CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS
The conference Proceedings will be published and distributed by ISATA and will
be available at the conference.
Program Committee Chairman:
R. C. Mann, Head Intelligent Systems Section, Oak Ridge National Lab., USA
Program Committee Co-Chairman:
A. Goldenberg, Dept of Mechanical Engineering, Robotics and Automation
Laboratory, University of Toronto, Canada
Program Committee:
P. Bhattacharya, University of Nebraska, USA
W. Friedrich, Automation Technology, New Zealand
Y. Ishiguro, Toyota Motor Corporation, Japan
H. Cristensen, Swedish Centre for Autonomous Systems, Sweden
H. Asama, Institute of Physical and Chemical Research, Japan
A. Broggi, University of Parma, Italy
G. Dodds, The Queen's University of Belfast, UK
A-J. Baerveldt, Halmstead University, Sweden
C. Sun, CSIRO, Australia
S. Okuma, Nagoya University, Japan
Y. Sato, Tokyo University of Mercantile Marine, Japan
K. Itoh, Osaka University, Japan
L. Bennet, US Army, USA
N. Ahuja, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA
T. Roska, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary
Z. Ras, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA
M. J. Varga, Defence Research Agency, UK
W. Von Seelen, Ruhr University, Germany
L. Joskowicz, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
M. Profirescu, Politechnica University of Bucharest, Romania
M-K. Hor, Academia Sinica, Rebublic of China
E. Dragan, Romania