Special Session on Computer Vision for Robotics
The 9th International Conference on Intelligent Robotics and Applications

Brief Description:
Vision plays an essential role in human life especially in understanding the surrounding environment. In computer vision, digital images have been utilized to learn the visual surrounding concepts with the help of machine learning and computational intelligence algorithms. However, researches that apply state-of-the-art computer vision algorithms in robotics applications are still fairly limited, as different robotics applications have different mechanical settings and challenges.

Objectives and Topics:
This special session invites new research in computer vision domain that is applicable in robotics applications. In particular, we encourage researchers to integrate state-of-the-art computer vision algorithms from top-tiered conferences and journals (e.g. PAMI, ICCV, CVPR, ECCV, NIPS) to current robotics environment.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
• Humanoid Robot Vision
• Human-Robot Interaction
• Robotics Navigation
• Object Detection and Recognition for Robotics Applications
• Image Classification and Scene Understanding for Robotics Applications
• Vision-Based Control and Manipulation in Robotics
• Motion Analysis and Tracking
• Visual SLAM
• Face and Gesture
• Advanced Image Features and Descriptors for Robotics Applications
• Machine Learning Techniques
• Computational Intelligence
• Human Pose Estimation
• Image Processing and Pattern Recognition for Robotics Applications

Organizers and Contact Information:
Ryad Chellali
Nanjing Robotics Institute, Nanjing Tech University, China
roboticsrchellali at njtech edu cn

Wai Lam Hoo
University of Malaya, Malaysia
wlhoo at um edu my

Napoleon Reyes
Massey University, New Zealand
n.h.Reyes at massey ac nz

Chee Seng Chan
University of Malaya, Malaysia
cs.chan at um edu my