Like all RAS technical committees, Computer & Robot Vision TC attempts to follow current trends in its area, producing recent innovations summaries. Click here to download the current recent innocations summary.
The technical committee takes part in organizing workshops and conferences in its area.
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Schloss Dahstuhl seminar: From form to action
Conference October 18, 2009 - Dagstuhl, Germany
Contact Information: Danica Kragic (dani at kth dot se)The aim of this seminar is to bring together researchers from different fields related to the goal of advancing our understanding of human and machine perception of form and function. We set out to explore findings from different disciplines to build more comprehensive and complete models and methods. Neuroscientists and experimental psychologists will provide initial conceptual findings on the selective nature of sensor processing and on how action-relevant information is extracted. Cognitive scientists will tackle the modeling of knowledge of object function and task relations. Computer vision scientists are challenged to develop procedures to achieve context-driven attention and a targeted detection of relevant form features. All participants will profit from the ideas and findings in the related disciplines and contribute towards establishing a comprehensive understanding of brain and computing processes to extract object function from form features.
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ECCV 2008 WORKSHOP - Vision in Action: Efficient strategies for cognitive agents in complex environments
Workshop October 12, 2008 - Marseille, France
Contact Information: Danica Kragic (dani at kth dot se)As a continuation of the ECCV workshop series on Cognitive Vision, this workshop aims to bring together researchers from various programs and projects working on novel approaches for cognition in technical systems. The second objective of the workshop is to discuss ways of how to integrate biological and psychological findings from human and insect perception and action generation, their exploration and representation strategies. Recent results in combining biological insights into development of perception and action algorithms promise a large impact on research in several fields.
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From features to actions - Unifying perspectives in
computational and robot vision
Workshop April 11, 2007 - Rome, Italy
Contact Information: Danica Kragic (dani at kth dot se)The field of computer vision has developed significantly over the past few years and its importance for robotics is also growing. Due to many practical applications in a diverse variety of sub-disciplines, such as surveillance, robot control, and virtual environments, vision algorithms have a significant application impact. The robotics and computer vision communities have, however, remained largely separate. Dialog between the two communities would then contribute greatly to the progress in both disciplines. In many cases, methods available in the computer vision community are not in general use in the robotics community. On the other hand, the system level perspective is often neglected in the computer vision community, because the research is focused on individual problems and algorithms. There is consequently a need to bring the communities of robot and computer vision to a joint appreciation of the value of systems, where there is a need to consider all aspects from perception to action generation. This workshop is intended to highlight the problems and new approaches to the above issues by bringing together computer vision and robotics researchers.
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Video Surveillance Tutorial March 1, 2006 - Honeywell Labs
Contact Information: Nikos Papanikolopoulos (npapas at cs dot umn dot edu)A short tutorial on video surveillance to fifty engineers.
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Visual Tracking: 2D/3D Methods and Cue Integration
Tutorial April 18, 2005 - Barcelona
Contact Information: Danica Kragic (dani at kth dot se)Vision is one of the most powerful sensory modalities in the field of robotics. Longterm research in application areas such as service robotics, intelligent vehicles, medical robotics, surveillance, and human-robot interaction has resulted with different types of visual tracking algorithms. The aim of this tutorial is to present theoretical basics of visual tracking and overview some of the most common methods. We will spend time on issues such as the choice and estimation of visual cues and their integration for both 2D and 3D tracking.
Issues covered:
* visual tracking basics
* 2D visual cues
* visual tracking in 3-D
* cue integration
* motion models
* applications
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Tutorial on Video Surveillance Tutorial March 23, 2005 - USF, FL
Contact Information: Nikos Papanikolopoulos (npapas at cs dot umn dot edu)The tutorial had an audience of 40 engineers interested in homeland security applications.
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Special Issue on Panoramic Robotics Publication - Journal December 1, 2004 - Robotics and Automation Magazine
Contact Information: Kostas and Nikos Daniilidis and Papanikolopoulos (npapas at cs dot umn dot edu)The special issue involved papers on Panoramic Robotics, a quickly evolving area.
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Advances in Robot Vision - From Domestic Environments to Medical Applications
Workshop September 28, 2004 - Sendai, Japan
Contact Information: Danica Kragic (dani at kth dot se)This workshop aims at presenting state-of-the-art computer vision research and related problems such as algorithm design and modeling, underlying control methodologies, visual cues and their integration, real-time aspects, vision for autonomus navigation and cognitive aspects.
