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Vision has been characterized as the leveraging technology for robotic systems. While mobile agents can provide excellent testbeds for vision algorithms, they also entail substantial and unique challenges. In particular, vision systems for mobile robots must cope with substantial variability in their environments, hard real time constraints, and a need for strong performance guarantees. Specific questions that often arise are: how to trade off robustness against liveness, how to integrate data across large spatial extents, and how to accommodate a highly variable environment.
The purpose of this workshop, to be offered in conjunction with CVPR '99, is to provide a venue for the comparison and discussion of approaches to the use of vision for mobile robot systems, either manually guided or autonomous.
The full-day workshop will include presentations by two invited speakers, complemented by the presentation of reviewed papers, and will be concluded with a panel. Proceedings will be produced and will be available on-site. Selections from last year's WPMA are in the process of becoming a special issue of the journal Autonomous Robots.
Four copies of complete manuscript should be received by
Feb. 26, 1999 (extended deadline)
at the following address:
Submissions must include:
For more information, please check <http://www.cim.mcgill.ca/~dudek/wpma.html>
Gregory Dudek, Centre for Intelligent Machines/School of Computer Science, McGill University
Michael Jenkin, Dept. of Computer Science, York University
Evangelos Milios, Dept. of Computer Science, York University
Each paper should be introduced by three to five keywords as well as by a selfcontained abstract of no more than 100 words not counting the formulas. Please make sure that the paper is submitted in its final form. Corrections in the proof stage other than printer's errors should be avoided: costs arising from such corrections will be charged to the authors. Footnotes should be avoided if possible and be brief. They should be numbered consecutively.
References should be listed alphabetically, as in the following examples: books [1], articles in journals [2]
* [1] Lenstra, A K and Lenstra H W, Algorithms in number theory, in: Leeuwen J, ed., Handbook of Computer Science, A (Elsevier, Amsterdam, 1990) 673-715. * [2] Knuth D E, A combinatorial Optimization Approach, Theoret. Comput. Sci. 90 (1991) 1-15.
Figures should be provided in a form suitable for photographic reproduction and reduction. Lettering should be uniform of size corresponding to the anticipated reduction. Handwritten lettering on figures is not acceptable. Figures should be identified by arabic numerals and the captions should be typed, double-spaced, on a separate sheet rather than lettered on the figures themselves. Photographs and coloured pictures must be of impeccable quality. The journal also publishes colour photographs where these are essential to the understanding of the paper. A final accepted manuscript can be submitted in paper only (typed on one side in doublespacing with wide margins). An accepted article can also be submitted in electronic form (a LaTeX file, or as a file from other word processers).
Please see http://www.cim.mcgill.ca/~dudek/wpma-authors.html