RGB-D: Advanced Reasoning with Depth Cameras
CALL FOR PAPERS 2nd Workshop on RGB-D: Advanced Reasoning with Depth Cameras June 27, 2011 @ Los Angeles, CA, USA (full day) In conjunction with RSS (Robotics: Science and Systems) 2011 --Workshop Website-- http://www.cs.washington.edu/ai/Mobile_Robotics/rgbd-workshop-2011/ --Workshop Motivation-- The arrival of Microsoft Kinect, with $150 a unit and 8 million sales in two months, is leading a revolution across robotics research landscapes. Affordable RGB-D cameras, with real-time synchronized color and dense depth, are to dramatically improve and fundamentally change robots' capabilities to perceive and interact with people and environments. We have been witnessing a fast growth of RGB-D based research and applications from object recognition, 3D modeling to manipulation and human-robot interaction. Last year's RGB-D workshop at RSS successfully brought together experts from multiple research fields with converging interests and discussed major RGB-D opportunities and challenges in robotics. This year, the main purpose of this workshop is to understand the scope and impact of the rapidly growing RGB-D based research activities, to solicit and showcase in-progress RGB-D based systems and applications, to clarify a research agenda for depth camera perception, and to coordinate efforts across communities to lead the emerging RGB-D revolution. --Call for Contributions-- We encourage and welcome contributions over a wide range of topics and in a variety of forms, on the use of RGB-D cameras in robotics and its connections to related fields such as computer vision, graphics, and machine learning. 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 * People and activity recognition * Human-robot / human-computer interaction * Teleoperation * Sensor integration and fusion * Empirical studies and benchmarks * Applications * DEMO (see below) 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. The submission site is now open at https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/RGBD2011/ The submissions should be in the standard RSS format. Instructions and templates (Latex and Word) can be found on the RSS 2011 website: http://www.roboticsconference.org/authors.html We encourage the submissions of live demos and working systems. A demo submission should be in the format of an extended abstract with recorded videos, under the DEMO category, separate from the main paper if any. Given sufficient interests, a special demo session will be organized. --Important Dates-- Submission site Open: April 5, 2011 Submissions Due: May 9, 2011 Decisions and Final Program: May 30, 2011 Camera-Ready: June 13, 2011 --Confirmed Speakers-- Martial Hebert, Carnegie Mellon University Johny Lee, Google --Workshop Organizers-- Dieter Fox, University of Washington Kurt Konolige, Willow Garage Jana Kosecka, George Mason University Xiaofeng Ren, Intel Labs Seattle --Contact Information-- For submission-related questions, please contact the workshop organizers through CMT. For general information, please contact: Xiaofeng Ren xiaofeng.ren at intel.com Computer Science and Engineering University of Washington Seattle, WA 98195 Phone: 1-206-543-2421 Fax: 1-206-543-2969