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January 2017

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[RoboCup@Home2017] First Call for Participation
by Mauricio Matamoros 05 Jan '17

05 Jan '17

Call for Participation RoboCup 2017 RoboCup@Home League July 25 - 30, 2017 (Nagoya, Japan) http://www.robocup2017.org http://www.robocupathome.org http://wiki.robocup.org/wiki/@Home_League/ RoboCup is an international scientific initiative with the goal to advance the state of the art of intelligent robots through competitions (RoboCup@Home, RoboCup Soccer, RoboCup Rescue, RoboCup@Work and RoboCup Junior). The RoboCup@Home league aims to develop service and assistive robot technology with high relevance for future personal domestic applications. It is the largest international annual competition for autonomous service robots and is part of the RoboCup initiative. A set of benchmark tests is used to evaluate the robots' abilities and performance in a realistic home environment setting. Focus lies on the following domains but is not limited to: Human-Robot-Interaction and Cooperation, Navigation and Mapping in dynamic environments, Computer Vision and Object Recognition under natural light conditions, Object Manipulation, Adaptive Behaviours, Behaviour Integration, Ambient Intelligence, Standardization and System Integration. The RoboCup@Home league is itegrated by three sub-leagues officially referred as - Domestic Standard Platform sub-league (Toyota HSR) - Social Standard Platform sub-league (Aldebaran/Softbank Pepper) - Open Platform sub-league This message describes the preregistration and qualification procedure for RoboCup@Home League 2017. Important dates: Feb 5, 2017 Intention of Participation Mar 12, 2017 Preregistration and Deadline for qualification material (Team Description Paper, Team Video, Team Website, Information in @Home Wiki). Mar 26, 2017 Qualification announcement The qualification procedure consists of the following two steps: *Step 1) Intention of Participation (strongly recommended)* The team sends an email to the Oranizing Committee <oc(a)robocupathome.org> to indicate your intention to participate in the RoboCup@Home 2017 event, including the following basic information: Team Name: Sub-league: Platform: Country: Affiliation: Team Leader Name: Contact information (E-mail): Web site: Only one platform can be specified per team. The e-mail subject should be: [@Home2017-Participation] (YourTeamName) Please check the email is encoded in UTF-8 using only the ISO-8859-1 character set. ***** Deadline: Sunday, 5th Feb. 2017 23:59 GMT ****** *Step 2) Qualification Material Submission (mandatory)* The team ***MUST*** send an email to the Oranizing Committee < oc(a)robocupathome.org> to participate in the qualification process for the RoboCup@Home 2017 event. Please fill in the following information: Team Name: Sub-league: Country: Affiliation: Team Leader Name: Contact information (E-mail): Link to a team video: Link to a team web site devoted to their efforts: Team Description Paper (TDP) attached to the email based on the official template. The e-mail subject should be: [@Home2017-Qualification] (YourTeamName) Considerations: - Only one platform can be specified per team. - All the publications and software to be evaluated for qualification ***MUST*** be in the team’s website. - The email must be encoded in UTF-8 using only the ISO-8859-1 character set. *Important Notice: * As platforms are independent, you must send an application email for each platform you want to compete in, specifying different team names in each. Qualification Material (e.g. video and TDP) must match the robot to qualify. ***** Deadline: Sunday, Mar. 12, 2017 23:59 GMT ****** Instructions for the Team Video =========================== As a proof of running hardware, each team has to provide a qualification video. As a minimum requirement for qualification, we consider showing the robot(s) successfully solving at least one test of the current or last year's rulebook. *[Standard Platforms Only]* The robot shown in the video must not be altered or modified in any way. Instructions for the TDP =========================== The TDP is an 8-pages long scientific paper, detailing information on the technical and scientific approach of the team’s research, while including also the following: - Innovative technology and scientific contribution - Photo(s) of the robot - Focus of research/research interests - Re-usability of the system for other research groups - Applicability of the robot in the real world - Brief, compact list of the 3rd party robot's software (e.g. ROS vision should be included, but not OpenCV). - *[Open Platform Only] *Brief, compact description of the robot's hardware. - *[Standard Platforms Only] *Specify all external computing devices, if any. For the TDP, please use the Springer LNAI format <http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0> used in the RoboCup Symposium submissions and limit yourself to 8 pages without altering margins or spacing. You may download a template for the TDP from here <https://github.com/RoboCupAtHome/TDPTemplate>. Instructions for the Web site =========================== While the TDP goes into detail about the technical and scientific approach of the team’s research, the website should be designed for a broader audience, including: - Photos of the robot(s) - Videos of the robot(s) - Description of the approaches and information on scientific achievements - Relevant publications (last 5 years, preferably available to download) - Link to repositories with software for the community - Team members - Previous participation in RoboCup Evaluation criteria: =========================== Qualification materials will be judged by the following criteria: - Team description paper (clarity, scientific contributions, re-usability by the league, applicability in real world) - Qualification Video (navigation, human-robot interaction, people/object recognition, object manipulation and new features) - Website (multimedia, publications from last 5 years, downloadable content, open-source software and other contributions) - Relevant Scientific contribution/publications (downloadable papers and open-source software) - Novelty of approach (what you do is new for @Home) We encourage teams to produce self-explicative videos for a general audience where complex tasks are solved. For Team Description Papers focus on the scientific contribution and avoid brief descriptions of the overall system. *Note to experienced competitors:* Major changes are being done in the rulebook. You may download the latest version from: https://github.com/RoboC upAtHome/RuleBook With kind regards, and looking forward to see your team in Nagoya, The 2017 RoboCup@Home Organizing and Technical Committees

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CFP PAAMS 2017- Special Session on Computer vision in Multi-Agent Robotics
by António J. R. Neves 02 Jan '17

02 Jan '17

* Special Session on Computer vision in Multi-Agent Robotics * 15th International Conference on Practical Applications of Agents and Multi-Agent Systems Polytechnic of Porto - Porto (Portugal) 21st-23rd June, 2017 http://paams.net/special-sessions/rv ***************************************** [Apologies for any cross-posting] Dear Colleague, The 15th International Conference on Practical Applications of Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (PAAMS -http://www.paams.net/) will take place next June in Porto, Portugal, and will include several special sessions, namely one on Computer Vision in Multi-Agent Robotics. This thematic session will provide an opportunity to bring together researchers with interests in computer and robot vision applied to multi-agent systems. This special session aims to receive contributions relevant to the use of vision and related sensors in robotics, as well as all issues related to robot perception. As chairs of that special session, we would like to invite you to submit papers in the following and related areas: * distributed sensing * multimodal sensor fusion * real-time and efficient solutions for multi-agent robotics * localization and mapping * vision based control * object detection, segmentation and categorization * semantic scene understanding and categorization * perceptual strategies for human robot interaction * robustness and generalization of algorithms to conditions and environments * sensor calibration *PRELIMINARY DATES* Paper submission: 6th February, 2017 Notification of acceptance: 13th March, 2017 Camera ready: 27th March, 2017 * REVIEW PROCESS * PAAMS welcomes the submission of application papers with preference to the topics listed in the call for papers. All submitted papers will undergo a thorough review process; each paper will be refereed by at least three experts in the field based on relevance, originality, significance, quality and clarity. The papers must consist of original, relevant and previously unpublished sound research results related to any of the topics of the conference * SUBMITTING PAPERS * PAAMS papers must be formatted according to the Springer LNCS Template, with a maximum length of 12 pages in length, including figures and references. All proposed papers must be submitted in electronic form (PDF format) using the Paper Submission Page. * PUBLICATION * Accepted papers will be included in PAAMS Proceedings. At least one of the authors will be required to register and attend the symposium to present the paper in order to include the paper in the conference proceedings.All accepted papers will be published by LNCS/LNAI series of Springer Verlag. * SPECIAL ISSUES * Authors of selected papers from PAAMS 2017 will be invited to submit an extended and improved version to special issue in diffetent journals. - Special Issue on Journal of Data Science and Analytics Authors of selected papers from PAAMS 2017 and Co-located Events will be invited to submit an extended and improved version to a special issue published on Journal of Data Science and Analytics. - Authors of selected papers from PAAMS 2017 and Co-located Events will be invited to submit an extended and improved version to a Special Section published in Neurocomputing (JCR Impact Factor: 2.392). - Authors of selected papers from PAAMS 2017 and Co-located Events will be invited to submit an extended and improved version to a Special Issue published in the International Journal of Knowledge and Information Systems -KAIS- (JCR Impact Factor: 1.702). Our best Regards, Antonio J. R. Neves <an(a)ieee.org> Angel D. Sappa <sappa(a)ieee.org>

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