<div dir="ltr"><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span>BMVA</span> Workshop on Visual, tactile and force
sensing for robot
manipulation</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">One Day <span>BMVA</span> symposium in London, UK
on Wednesday 9th December,
2015 </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Chairs: Lorenzo Jamone & Serena Ivaldi</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Keynote speakers: <span> </span>Kaspar
Althoefer (King's College London, UK). Jeremy Wyatt (University of
Birmingham,
UK). Bruno Siciliano (University of Naples Federico II, Italy).</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.bmva.org/meetings" target="_blank">www.<span>bmva</span>.org/meetings</a></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.bmva.org/meetings" target="_blank"><br></a>
</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Call for contributions:</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">We invite contributions to the workshop in the
form of a
one-page abstract, to be submitted via email to
<a href="mailto:ljamone@isr.ist.utl.pt" target="_blank">ljamone@isr.ist.utl.pt</a> (please,
insert the [<span>BMVA</span> meeting] tag in the subject), by the 22nd of July
2015.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Topic</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Robotic manipulation has received considerable
attention in
the last decades, as witnessed by a large number of international
projects
(e.g. Handle, Grasp, DARPA's ARM, Poeticon) and scientific
publications (see
Sahbani et al. 2012 for a recent review). Robots can perform
repetitive tasks
with high speed and accuracy in industrial settings (e.g. car
manufacturing).
However, their applications in semi-structured environments is
still very
limited due to their poor adaptation capabilities: examples are
situations in
which accurate object models cannot be obtained (e.g. food,
fabrics), or in
which complex manipulation is required (e.g. electronics
assembly). Most of the
state of the art solutions for robotic manipulation rely on vision
more than on
tactile/force sensing, and only a few integrate different sensory
modalities
(e.g. Grzyb et al. 2009, Geng et al. 2011, Felip et al. 2014).
While both
technologies can be improved in isolation, it is their combined
used that can
have a tremendous impact on the manipulation skills of robots.
Indeed,
multisensory integration is fundamental to achieve robot autonomy
and
robustness: visual, proprioceptive, tactile and force sensing must
be consider
together, and fused in an optimal way that allows taking the best
control
decisions.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The workshop will bring together researchers
that are
investigating data-driven strategies for learning and control of
robotic
manipulation, as well as specialists from academia and industry
that are
working on the development of novel sensing technologies that are
relevant for
grasping and manipulation, e.g. 2D and 3D vision, depth sensors,
soft tactile
sensors, compliant force sensing.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The workshop will consist in a mixture of oral
presentations, poster/interactive sessions and/or live
demonstrations, and a
final panel discussion.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Topics of interest include, but are not limited
to:</p>
<br>
3D object reconstruction<br>
object segmentation/recognition/classification<br>
visual attention for object exploration and manipulation<br>
new tactile/force sensors technologies<br>
sensors and robot automatic calibration<br>
haptic exploration of rigid and compliant objects<br>
multimodal object exploration and representation<br>
data fusion techniques<br>
hierarchical sensory representations<br>
motor primitives for sensor-based grasping and manipulation<br>
grasping and in-hand manipulation of non-modeled objects<br>
teleoperation for complex manipulation<br>
dynamic simulation of robotic hands with tactile/force
sensors models<br>
challenges in learning from high-dimensional, multi-modal
sensor data<br>
combined visual and tactile/force sensing for manipulation
control<br><br></div>The Organizers,<br></div>Lorenzo & Serena<br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><span><font color="#888888">===================================================================<br>
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Lorenzo Jamone - Research Associate<br><a href="http://lorejam.blogspot.pt/" target="_blank">http://lorejam.blogspot.pt/</a></font></span><br><span><font color="#888888"><span><span><font color="#888888"> <a href="mailto:Tecnicojasv@isr.tecnico.ulisboa.pt" target="_blank">ljamone@isr.tecnico.ulisboa.pt</a></font></span></span><br></font></span><br><span><font color="#888888">VisLab - </font></span><span><font color="#888888"><span><span><font color="#888888"><a href="http://vislab.isr.ist.utl.pt" target="_blank">http://vislab.isr.ist.utl.pt</a></font></span></span> </font></span><span><span><font color="#888888"><br></font></span></span><span><font color="#888888"><span><span><font color="#888888">Instituto Superior Técnico - <a href="http://tecnico.ulisboa.pt/" target="_blank">http://tecnico.ulisboa.pt/</a></font></span></span> </font></span><span><font color="#888888"><br></font></span><br><span><font color="#888888"><span><span><font color="#888888"><span><span><span><font color="#888888">Institute for Systems and Robotics, </font></span><span><font color="#888888"><span><span><font color="#888888">Torre Norte (7th floor</font></span></span>).<br></font></span></span></span></font></span></span>Av. Rovisco Pais, 1<br>
1049-001 Lisbon, Portugal</font></span><br><span><font color="#888888"><span><span><span><font color="#888888"><br></font></span></span></span>Office (room 7.25): +351218418299 <br>
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