The Workshop on Movement Analytics and Gesture Recognition for Human-Machine Collaboration in Industry Call for Papers

The Workshop on Movement Analytics and Gesture Recognition for
Human-Machine Collaboration in Industry 4.0 will be hosted by the 12th
International Conference on Computer Vision Systems (ICVS 2019), which
will be held in Thessaloniki, Greece, on 23-25 September 2019.

Context and general objectives

A collaborative robot is an autonomous machine that is able to share
 workspace with the worker without physical barriers, following health
 and safety standards. Collaborative robotics have created the
 appropriate conditions for designing a Human-Robot Collaboration
 (HRC) that can associate the human intelligence with the power of the
 robot by following a simple criterion: the complementarity of
 skills. Nevertheless, in industries, « we always start with manual
 work » as said the Executive Vice-President of Toyota. Today, even
 though we have made significant progress in training robots by
 demonstration, the simple automatisation of tasks, within mixed
 workspaces, still remains a priority. But, mixed workspaces are not
 necessarily collaborative. For example, if a robot is able to
 anticipate the professional gestures of the worker, then, the robot
 would be able to dynamically move in space and time, and the worker
 would be able to obtain more ergonomically « green postures ?!  ?.
 Computer Vision Systems together with the recent progress in
 Deep/Machine Learning opens a broad potential for innovation by
 re-thinking collaborative robots as real partners. The robot must be
 able to detect not only the human presence (e.g. worker or
 maintenance engineer), but also recognise and predict specific
 actions and/or gestures the worker performs (e.g. to screw, to
 assembly, etc.). To achieve this goal, human pose estimation, object
 detection and scene understanding in general are beneficial in order
 to augment the perception level of the robot. But beyond humanoid
 robots, Automated Guided Vehicles in factories should also be able to
 detect the human intentions (e.g.  stop when a human tends to cut the
 motion trajectory, detect collaborative workspaces and identify them
 etc.) as well as understand human commands (e.g.  to charge or not a
 palette, to go back to the starting point, etc.).

Topics

This workshop will focus on the most recent advances in the area of
pose estimation, gesture recognition and movement analytics in
Human-Machine Collaboration in Industry 4.0. This workshop aims to
bring together researchers from different disciplines, such as
robotics, computer vision, data analysis, intelligent systems,
ergonomics, intelligent vehicles to share their experiences on these
aspects and how they can be beneficial in Human- Machine
Collaboration.

Papers are solicited on all areas, including but not limited to the
following research topics:

Deep learning for pose estimation
Human modelling
Professional gesture recognition

Scene understanding for smart workspaces Vision-based automatic
ergonomic assessments Extraction and visualisation of movement
analytics Vision-based gestural interaction with automated guided
vehicles or drones Human-robot rhythmic interaction Internet of things
and computer vision in industry 4.0 Contactless robot learning through
gestures Human style learning for robotics Benchmarks, methods and
datasets for professional gestures Gestures and bio-inspired systems
and robots Machine learning for human data Augmented capabilities for
workers and machines Important dates

EXTENDED: Paper Submission :20 June 2019 Notification acceptance : 
1 July 2019 Camera-Ready papers : 15 July 2019 Conference : 23-25 September 2019

Procedure

Please email your submission before 20th June 2019 23:59 CET following
the instructions below:

Submission to: info@aimove.eu  Subject:
"Movement analytics and gesture recognition for Human-Machine
Collaboration in Industry 4.0" Include authors names, affiliations
and contact information Attached file: pdf Additional links or
illustrations are welcome.  At least one author of an accepted
submission is required to attend the workshop and must register for
the main ICVS conference. Accepted papers will be published in the
adjunct conference proceedings.

Workshop Organizers

Sotiris Manitsaris, Senior Researcher, S/T Project Leader, Centre for
Robotics, MINES ParisTech, PSL Université Paris Alina Glushkova,
Postdoctoral Fellow, Centre for Robotics, MINES ParisTech, PSL
Université Paris Dimitrios Menychtas, Postdoctoral Fellow, Centre
for Robotics, MINES ParisTech, PSL Université Paris

Acknowledgements

We acknowledge support from the CoLLaboratE project
https://www.linkedin.com/company/collaborate-project-h2020/
(H2020-FoF, grant agreement No. 820767), which is funded by the
EU's Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme.

Cordialement | Regards | 
Dr. Sotiris Manitsaris