CALL FOR PAPERS IEEE Workshop on Perception for Mobile Agents University of California, Santa Barbara June 26, 1998 Extended submission deadline: Feb. 27, 1998 Vision has been characterized as the leveraging technology for robotic systems. While mobile agents can provide excellent testbeds for vision algorithms, they also entail substantial and unique challenges. In particular, vision systems for mobile robots must cope with substantial variability in their environments, hard real time constraints, and a need for strong performance guarantees. Specific questions that often arise are: how to trade off robustness against liveness, how to integrate data across large spatial extents, and how to accommodate a highly variable environment. The purpose of this workshop, to be offered in conjunction with CVPR '98, is to provide a venue for the comparison and discussion of approaches to the use of vision for mobile robot systems, either manually guided or autonomous. Accepted papers will appear in the proceedings of the workshop. The full-day workshop will include presentations by invited speakers complemented by the presentation of reviewed papers, and will be concluded with a panel. Proceedings will be produced and will be available on-site. Accepted papers will be invited to submit an extended manuscript for review for a special issue of Autonomous Robots to be based on the workshop. Topics ====== Papers are solicited for, but not limited to, the following areas: Architectures for vision-based mobile robotics Vision-based position estimation Sensor-based navigation Sensor fusion over large-scale space Visual environment modeling Sensor-based exploration Vision-based telerobotic systems Case studies of successful vision-based mobile systems Proceedings will be produced and will be available on-site. Accepted papers will be invited to submit an extended manuscript for review for a special issue of Autonomous Robots to be based on the workshop. PAPER SUBMISSION Four copies of complete manuscript should be received by **** Feb. 27, 1998 ***** (revised deadline) at the following address: Professor Gregory Dudek Centre for Intelligent Machines McGill University 3480 University Street Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3A 2A7 Submissions must include: (a) A title page containing the names and addresses of the authors (including e-mail and telephone), an abstract of up to 200 words, and a list of relevant keywords, (b) The paper, maximum length 16 double-space pages (12 point text, 1 inch margin) including figures, references, etc. For more information, please check http://www.cim.mcgill.ca/~dudek/mobile/mobilevision.html WORKSHOP CHAIRS: Gregory Dudek, Centre for Intelligent Machines/School of Computer Science, McGill University (dudek@cim.mcgill.ca) Michael Jenkin, , Dept. of Computer Science, York University (jenkin@cs.yorku.ca) Evangelos Milios, Dept. of Computer Science, York University (eem@cs.yorku.ca) Invited Speakers ----------------------- Invited speakers will include: Eric Krotkov Program Manager, DARPA Senior Research Scientist, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University Larry Matthies, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology Further Information http://www.cim.mcgill.ca/~dudek/mobile/mobilevision.html>