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From: srsuresh@laser1.engr.utk.edu (Marapane Suresh)
Subject:  Workshop on   Active and Purposive Systems
Message-ID: <1992Oct14.142912.9582@utkux1.utk.edu>
Keywords: Active Vision, Robot Heads, Active Perception, Animate Vision
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Organization: University of Tennessee ECE dept.
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			 TECHNICAL PROGRAM
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   		   Workshop on Intelligent Robotic Systems:
	       	        Active and Purposive Systems
  
                         Monday, November 16,  1992

                       	  Hynes Convention Center
                        Boston, Massachusetts, USA 
	     

Sponsored by:
        The International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE)
In Cooperation with:
	IEEE Computer Society
	IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society
Held in Conjunction with:
	SPIE's International Symposium and Exhibition in Intelligent Robotics
	November 15-20, 1992


Program Committee: Mohan Trivedi, Tennessee, Chair; Peter Allen, Columbia;
David Casasent, CMU; Martin Herman, NIST; Ramesh Jain, Michigan; Avi Kak, 
Purdue; Takeo Kanade, CMU; Paul Schenker, JPL/NASA.

Registration Fee:  One Day:     $165 (SPIE Member)        $ 190  (Non-Member) 
		                   $ 60  (Student-Member)  $ 70  (Student)
		Full Week:  $ 355 (SPIE Member)        $ 415  (Non-Member)

Contact: Ms. Carley Dunn, Phone: (206) 676-3290; Fax: (206) 647-1445;
		             Email: carley@mom.spie.org

 
		SESSION 1 : Methodology and Architecture

	            Chair: Mohan Trivedi, University of Tennessee


8:15 - 8:20 am: Introductory Comments

8:20 - 9:00 am: A Small-Team Architecture for Multiagent Robotic Systems,
Ruzena Bajcsy, Vijay Kumar, Max Mintz, Richard Paul, and Xiaoping Yun,
University of Pennsylvania

9:00 - 9:45 am: Task Oriented Vision and Action in Dynamic Domains,
Christopher Brown, University of Rochester

9:45 - 10:30 am:  Active Vision as a Methodology, Jan-Olof Eklundh, 
Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden

Coffee Break :  10:30 to 10:45 am


		SESSION 2: Active Perception: Applications

		     Chair:  Martin Herman, NIST


10:45 - 11:25 am: Active Perception of Material Properties, Eric Krotkov, CMU

11:25 - 12:00 noon: Active Visual Pose Estimation of a Grasped Object,
Lynn Abbott, VPI

Lunch Break : 12:00 noon to 1:00 pm


		SESSION 3: Robot Head Control

		Chair: Eric Krotkov, CMU


1:00 - 1:40 am: Aspects of Attention for Eye/Head Control, 
John Tsotsos, University of Toronto

1:40 - 2:20 pm: Harvard Robot Head, Jim Clark, Harvard University

2:20 - 3:00 pm:  Active Depth Extraction, Narendra Ahuja, University of
Illinois

3:00 - 3:15 pm:  Discussions

Coffee Break : 3:15 to 3:30 pm


		 SESSION 4 : Mobile Systems

	      Chair: Suresh Marapane, University of Tennessee

3:30 - 4:10 pm : Visual Navigation Using Relevant 2-D Image Motion Cues,
Martin Herman, Tsai-Hong Hong, and Daniel Raviv, NIST

4:10 - 4:50 pm:  Purposive Vision for Mobile Robot Navigation,Henrik
Christensen, Claus S. Andersen, Niels O. S. Kirkeby, Lars Knudsen, and 
Claus B. Madsen, Aalborg University, Denmark

4:50 - 5:30 pm: Integrating High-Speed Obstacle Avoidance and 
Long-Range Sensing to Accomplish a Find and Visit Task, 
David Kortenkamp, Marcus Huber, Clint Bidlack, Charles Cohen, Frank Koss, 
Ulrich Raschke and Terry Weymouth, University of Michigan

Reception, Refreshments, and Poster Session: 6:00 to 7:30 pm
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