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
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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>