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