From schenker@robotics.jpl.nasa.gov Wed Mar 2 18:17:38 EST 1994 Article: 20881 of comp.ai Xref: glinda.oz.cs.cmu.edu comp.ai:20881 Path: honeydew.srv.cs.cmu.edu!das-news.harvard.edu!noc.near.net!MathWorks.Com!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!howland.reston.ans.net!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!robotics.jpl.nasa.gov!schenker From: schenker@robotics.jpl.nasa.gov (Paul Schenker) Newsgroups: comp.ai Subject: CFP -- SPIE Sensor Fusion VII -- Boston'94 Date: 1 Mar 1994 01:52:48 GMT Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory Lines: 149 Distribution: world Message-ID: <2ku75g$36d@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov> NNTP-Posting-Host: 128.149.1.113 Keywords: AI, robotics, automation, computer vision, signal processing =========================================================================== Call for Papers SPIE - the International Society for Optical Engineering SENSOR FUSION VII Conference 31 October - 4 November 1994 Hynes Convention Center Boston, Massachusetts Chair: Paul S. Schenker, Jet Propulsion Lab. PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Terrance E. Boult, Columbia Univ. Su-Shing Chen, Univ. of North Carolina/Charlotte David B. Cooper, Brown Univ. Gregory D. Hager, Yale Univ. Martin Herman, National Inst. of Standards and Technology Terrance L. Huntsberger, Univ. of South Carolina Ren C. Luo, North Carolina State Univ. James M. Manyika, Oxford Univ.(UK) Suresh B. Marapane, Univ. of Tennessee/Knoxville Gerard T. McKee, Univ. of Reading (UK) Evangelos E. Milios, York Univ. (CAN) Robin R. Murphy, Colorado School of Mines Bobby S. Y. Rao, UC Berkeley Michael Seibert, MIT/Lincoln Lab. W. Brent Seales, Univ. of Kentucky Charles V. Stewart, Rennselaer Polytechnic Institute Stelios C. A. Thomopoulos, The Pennsylvania State Univ. This conference presents novel techniques for robustly integrating and inter- preting data from multiple sources. The applications emphasis is automated and robotic systems; such systems often include multiple-and-moving cameras, range and proximity detctors, force and touch feedback, etc. A typical system requirement is to use the sensors, plus prior knowledge, to efficiently locate, identify, and track objects; more advanced applications may require a detailed inspection and mapping of the environment, including global determination of robot position and state of task completion. Technical challenges include multi-sensor registration and calibration, combining sensor information over space-and-time, 3-D shape modeling and shape recovery, 3-D object recognition and localization et al. One important problem is how to intelligently plan and control sensors to achieve a task-specific sensing objective, in the practical implementation context of maximized information with minimized computation. For example, "active vision" addresses how to purposively direct camera gaze, vergence, and focus, analagous to human viewing. "Exploratory sensing" expands this paradigm to cooperative fusion of vision, range, touch, and other sensory modes, and may include the use of multiple distributed robot agents, e.g. to develop environmental maps, and perform cooperative work. Implementing such active, exploratory sensing has foundations in both machine and biological behavior, and both perspectives are welcome. Another problem of fundamental importance is effective techniques for distributed detection & decision, e.g., as applies to asynchronous data fusion in spatially dispersed sensor arrays; automated production scheduling and system health monitoring; command-control- communication within distributed information networks such as automated highway systems; human-machine shared control of telerobotic systems, et al. In summary, we invite papers on multi-sensory fusion and its applications. Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following areas: o modeling and calibration of multiple sensors o 3-D object modeling-and-recognition from multiple sensor views o recovery of scene structure from time-sequence sensor data o fusion of passive-active sources: vision-range, IR-microwave, etc. o remote sensing, automated inspection, and target recognition o robotic sensor fusion: visual, range, force, tactile, & kinematic data o task-driven robotic sensing and strategic planning of sensor activity o high-level robot task planning & control based on multi-sensor inputs o multiple robot agents and cooperative sensing strategies o distributed detection & decision networks and their applications o human-machine shared control of automation and robotic systems o novel sensor fusion architectures and programming environments ABSTRACT SUBMISSION ___________________ Abstract Due Date: 4 April, 1994 Manuscript Due Date: 8 August, 1994 (Proceedings at Meeting) Abstracts may be submitted by electronic mail, FAX, *or* postal mail. If you do submit by Email, please send a simple ASCII text only. EMAIL: abstracts@mom.spie.org (SPIE) schenker@telerobotics.jpl.nasa.gov (Chair's email cc:) FAX: 206 647 1445 (SPIE) MAIL: Photonics East/Boston'94 (SPIE) Attn: Submissions (Sensor Fusion VII) SPIE, P. O. Box 10, Bellingham, WA 98227-0010 USA SUBMISSION FORMAT --- Enter Text in the Following Order 1. "Photonics East 94 / Sensor Fusion VII / P. Schenker" 2. "Preferred Presentation: ORAL (or) POSTER" 3. Paper Title 4. Authors full names and affiliations 5. Full correspondence addresses, all authors (mailing address, telephone, FAX and E-mail) 6. Abstract text (250 words max.) 7. Brief biography of principal author (50-100 words) FURTHER INFORMATION ___________________ The above conference is being held as part of the SPIE Symposium on Photonic Sensors & Controls for Commercial Application. The Symposium includes some 20 conferences in the following tracks: - Photonic Devices & Materials - Smart Highways - Agriculture, Forestry & Biological Processing - Automated Inspection - Intelligent Robots & Computer Vision Overall Symposium activities include these conferences, short courses, product exhibitions, and related SPIE technical working group meetings. For further information, contact SPIE as follows: Phone: (206)-676-3290 FAX: (206)-647-1445 EMail: spie@mom.spie.org and request announcements for SPIE Photonics East '94 ===========================================================================