RGB-D: Advanced Reasoning with Depth Cameras
CALL FOR PAPERS Workshop on RGB-D: Advanced Reasoning with Depth Cameras June 27, 2010 @ Zaragoza, Spain (full day) In conjunction with RSS (Robotics: Science and Systems) 2010 --Workshop Website-- http://www.seattle.intel-research.net/RGBD/RGBD-RSS2010/ --Workshop Motivation-- The last years have seen dramatic improvements in the capabilities of depth cameras (RGB-D), which provide per pixel RGB and Depth information. The combination of high-resolution depth and visual information opens up new challenges and opportunities for some of the most fundamental research areas in robotics, including 3D mapping and localization, object and activity recognition, people tracking, and object manipulation. Different research communities have made substantial progress in dealing with either 3D depth scans or camera images; it is time to leverage these advances and examine the combination of both. The goal of this workshop is to bring together leading researchers from robotics, computer vision, and machine learning to present and discuss recent advances in 3D perception techniques developed by these communities. We welcome contributions not only in working with variants of depth cameras but also in all related fields, such as 3D shape matching, 3D reconstruction and SLAM. The key outcomes of the workshop will be a better understanding of, (1), the state of the art in 3D perception, (2), the possible applications of RGB-D cameras, and, (3), the key challenges and opportunities for research in this domain. --Call for Contributions-- We encourage and welcome contributions over a wide range of topics and in a variety of forms. Subjects of interest include, but not limited to: * 3D shape analysis and matching * 3D reconstruction and modeling * Object and articulated tracking * Object recognition and pose estimation * Mobile manipulation * Navigation, mapping and localization * Scene understanding and segmentation * Human-robot / human-computer interaction * Teleoperation * Sensor integration and fusion * Applications Electronic submissions can be in the form of both extended abstracts (1-2 pages) and full papers (up to 6 pages). They can be either a presentation of work in progress or a summary of recent research advances. Video supplemental materials are encouraged. Selected contributions will be presented at the workshop as talks, spotlights and/or posters, and be included on the RSS conference flash drive. The submission site is open at https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/RGBD2010/ The submissions should be in the standard RSS format. Instructions and templates (Latex and Word) can be found on the RSS 2010 website: http://www.roboticsconference.org/authors.html --Important Dates-- Submission site Open: April 5, 2010 Submissions Due: May 5, 2010 Decisions and Final Program: May 15, 2010 Camera-Ready: May 25, 2010 --Invited Speakers-- Paul Newman, Oxford University Christian Plagemann, Stanford University Christian Theobalt, Max Planck Institute Radu Rusu, Willow Garage --Workshop Organizers-- Dieter Fox, University of Washington, Intel Labs Seattle Kurt Konolige, Willow Garage Jana Kosecka, George Mason University Xiaofeng Ren, Intel Labs Seattle --Contact Information-- For more information, please contact: Xiaofeng Ren Intel Labs Seattle 1100 NE 45th Street, 6th Floor Seattle, WA 98105 U.S.A. Email: xiaofeng.ren@intel.com Phone: 1-206-545-2523 Fax: 1-206-633-6504