CALL FOR PAPERS Second IEEE Workshop on Perception for Mobile Agents Fort Collins, Colorado Sunday, June 26, 1999 Submission deadline: Feb. 26, 1999 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 '99, 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. The full-day workshop will include presentations by two 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. Selections from last year's WPMA are in the process of becoming a special issue of the journal Autonomous Robots. 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 Instructions for authors Please see http://www.cim.mcgill.ca/~dudek/wpma-authors.html PAPER SUBMISSION Four copies of complete manuscript should be received by Feb. 26, 1999 (extended dea dline) 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) Paper - limited to 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/wpma.html WORKSHOP CHAIRS Gregory Dudek, Centre for Intelligent Machines/School of Computer Science, McGill University Michael Jenkin, Dept. of Computer Science, York University Evangelos Milios, Dept. of Computer Science, York University