First International Workshop on Computer Vision for Autonomous Driving

In conjunction with ICCV 2013, Sydney, Australia

December 2, 2013

 

 

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US Lawmakers have recently passed legislation that allows fully autonomous vehicles to share public roads. With their potential to revolutionize the transport experience — and to improve road safety and traffic efficiency — there is a strong push by vehicle manufacturers and government agencies to bring autonomous to the broad market. The recent demonstrations at the DARPA Grand Challenges and by industry leaders has established that the core technical barrier to achieving autonomous vehicles is road scene understanding. However, although vehicle infrastructure, signage, and rules of the road have been designed to be interpreted fully by visual inspection, the use of computer vision in current autonomous vehicles is minimal. There is a perception that a wide gap exists between what is needed by the automotive industry to successfully deploy camera-based autonomous vehicles and what is currently possible using computer vision techniques.

The goal of this workshop is to bring together leaders from both academia and industry to determine the true extent of this gap, to identify the most relevant aspects of computer vision problems to solve, and to learn from others about proposed avenues and solutions. Within the scope of the workshop will be core computer vision tasks such as dynamic 3D reconstruction, pedestrian and vehicle detection, and predictive scene understanding — all required capabilities for an autonomous vehicle. In particular, we will cover (but not limit ourselves to) the following questions in this workshop:

• Are current methods and representations adequate to hand over the wheel to computer vision algorithms?
• Are current benchmarks and datasets sufficient to support the on-going research?
• What are the mission-critical problems that need to be addressed by priority?

Call for Papers (pdf) 

Papers should describe original and unpublished work about the above or closely related topics. Each paper will receive double blind reviews, moderated by the workshop chairs. Authors should take into account the following:

• All papers must be written in English and submitted in PDF format.
• Papers must be submitted online through the CMT submission system.
• The maximum paper length is 8 pages. The workshop paper format guidelines are the same as the Main Conference papers.
• Submissions will be rejected without review if they: contain more than 8 pages, violate the double-blind policy or violate the dual-submission policy.
• All accepted papers will be allocated up to 8 pages in the proceedings and will be charged a flat fee of US$200. That is, there is no savings for using fewer than 8 pages. This fee helps cover the cost of the publishing process and will be paid after paper acceptance, at the time of registration for the conference.
• Authors will be expected to have the opportunity to submit supporting material (space permitted).

The author kit provides a LaTeX2e and Word template for submissions, and an example paper to demonstrate the format. Please refer to this example for detailed formatting instructions.

• Example submission with detailed instructions
• Author Kit (gzipped tar file)
• Author Kit (zip file)

A paper ID will be allocated to you during submission. Please replace the asterisks in the example paper with your paper's own ID before uploading your file.

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