******************************************************** CFP - Apologies for multiple copies ******************************************************** ACVR 2014 - 2nd Workshop on Assistive Computer Vision and Robotics Zürich, 12th September 2014 In conjunction with ECCV 2014 Web: http://www.ino.it/ACVR2014 ******************************************************** _________________ IMPORTANT DATES _________________ Paper Submission: June 25, 2014 Notification of acceptance: July 20, 2014 Camera-Ready paper due: 31 July 2014 Workshop: 12th September 2014 ________________ CALL FOR PAPERS ________________ Assistive technologies provide a set of advanced tools that can improve the quality of life not only for disabled, patients and elderly but also for healthy people struggling with everyday actions. After a period of slow but steady scientific progress, this scientific area seems to be mature for new research and application breakthroughs. The rapid progress in the development of integrated micro-mechatronic and computer vision tools has boosted this process. In addition, the interest in this research field has further recently increased due to the affordable fallouts of the technologies and methodologies involved in both traditional challenging related problems (such as monitoring of car drivers, behaviors analysis in surveillance contexts) and pioneering topics (such as customer behavior analysis, innovative sales strategies). However, many problems remain open especially as regards to environment perception and interaction of these technological tools with people. The goal of the workshop is then to give an overview of the state of the art of perception and interaction methodologies involved in this area with special attention to aspects related to computer vision and robotics. In particular, the International Workshop on Computer Vision and Robotics subsidiaries (ACVR) aims to bring together researchers working on problems of robotics and vision related to developing assistive technologies. Research papers are solicited in, but not limited to, the following areas topics: - Augmented and Alternative Communication - Smart Environments - Human - Robot Interaction - Safety and Security - Mobility Aids - Quality of Life Technologies - Rehabilitation Aids - Navigation Systems - Home Healthcare - Sensory Substitution - Technology for Cognition - Mobile and Wearable Systems - Personalised Monitoring - Scene Understanding - Life-logging - Video summarization - Visual Attention and Visual Saliency - Egocentric and First-Person Vision - Activity Monitoring Systems - Automatic Emotional Hearing and Understanding - Applications for the Visually Impaired - Applications for the Ageing Society - Vision Systems for Autism Spectrum Disorder Understanding and Monitoring - Manipulation Aids - Datasets and Evaluation Procedures _________________ INVITED SPEAKERS _________________ Prof. Amnon Shashua, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Talk: Computer Vision for the Visually Impaired: Challenges and Lessons Learned from the OrCam Project Prof. Roberto Manduchi, University of California - Santa Cruz Talk: Maximizing Abilities through Technology, Education, and Research ____________ SUBMISSION ____________ Submissions should conform to the ECCV 2014 proceedings style. Please follow instructions on the ECCV 2014 website http://eccv2014.org/author-instructions/ Papers must be submitted online through the ECCV 2014 CMT submission system. ACVR reviewing will be double-blind. Each submission will be reviewed by at least three reviewers for originality, significance, clarity, soundness, relevance and technical contents. Submission Deadline: 25 June 2014 _____________________ JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUE _____________________ The authors of the accepted papers could be invited to submit an extended version (at least 40+% different than the workshop versions) of their papers to a Journal Special Issue (with open call and peer review). More information will be soon available. _________________ WORKSHOP CHAIRS _________________ - Giovanni Maria Farinella, University of Catania, IT - Marco Leo, CNR-Institute of Optics, IT - Gerard G. Medioni, University of Southern California, US - Mohan Trivedi, University of California San Diego, US ______________________________ TECHNICAL PROGRAMME COMMITTEE ______________________________ - Anil Anthony Bharath, Imperial College of London,UK - Salvatore Anzalone, Cité Internationale University de Paris, FR - Sebastiano Battiato, University of Catania, IT - Serge J. Belongie, University of California, US - Bir Bhanu, University of California, US - Alessandro Capra, STMicroelectronics, IT - Antonio Chella, University of Palermo, IT - Donald Chiarulli, University of Pittsburgh, US - Roberto Cipolla, University of Cambridge, UK - Francesca Cordella, University of Naples, IT - James Coughlan, Smith-Kettlewell Institute, US - Donato Di Paola, Institute of Intelligent Systems, IT - Cem Direkoglu, Dublin City University, IE - Cosimo Distante, Institute of Optics, IT - Kristen Grauman, University of Texas, Austin, US - Giovanni Indiveri, University of Salento, IT - Takeo Kanade, Carnegie Mellon University,US - Henry Kautz, University of Rochester, US - Liliana Lo Presti, Boston University, US - David Looney, Imperial College of London, UK - Danilo P. Mandic, Imperial College of London, UK - Maja Mataric, University of Southern California, US - Pier Luigi Mazzeo, Institute of Optics, IT - Markos Mentzelopoulos, University of Westminster, UK - Ruggero Micheletto, Yokohama City University, JP - Annalisa Milella, Institute of Intelligent Systems, IT - Maja Pantic, Imperial College of London, UK - Eli Peli, Harvard Medical School, US - Giovanni Pioggia, Institute of Clinical Physiology, IT - John Quarles, University of Texas, US - Cameron Riviere, Carnegie Mellon University, US - Mikel Rodriguez, INRIA/ENS, FR - Silvio Savarese, University of Michigan,US - Davide Scaramuzza, University of Zurich, CH - Nikhil Somani, University of Munchen, DE - Paolo Spagnolo, Institute of Optics, IT - Giuseppe Vizzari, University of Milano-Bicocca,IT - Jamie Ward, University of Sussex,UK - Zhigang Zhu, City College of New York, US - Andrew Ziegler, Georgia Tech, US _________________ SPONSORS _________________ Toshiba Research Europe Ltd http://www.toshiba.eu/eu/Toshiba-Research-Europe/ STMicroelectronics http://www.st.com/ GIRPR http://www.girpr.org/ _________ Contacts _________ Email: ACVR2014@gmail.com Website: http://www.ino.it/ACVR2014/