Call for Papers

Workshop on Visual Localization for Mobile Platforms

28 June 2008, Anchorage, Alaska

To be held in conjunction with CVPR 2008

http://www.ai.sri.com/conf/cvpr08/   

Recent advances have shown the possibility of doing real time vision based localization over extended regions, indoors and outdoors. There has been an explosion of research in visual localization driven from both the fields of robot mapping and vision research for mobile robots. This workshop will be useful in bringing together researchers to talk about the successes and limitations of their techniques, and how they will  approach the significant problems still remaining.


A particular motivation is to see how different systems perform on standard datasets, since it is often difficult to judge comparative performance from separate papers. We will provide several types of datasets, both indoor and outdoor to the researchers. We will ask presenters to exercise their systems on the datasets, and fill out a performance worksheet, which will be analyzed and distributed at the workshop.

Relevant Topics

Visual Odometry

Visual SLAM

Monocular and multi camera localization

Mapping using omni directional cameras

Features for visual tracking

Wide baseline scene matching

Landmarks recognition

Visual loop closure in small and large environments

Integration of vision sensors with exogenous sensors (IMUs, motion constraints,etc.)

Stability and robustness of SLAM in small environments

Large-scale and outdoor mapping













People

Program Co-Chairs

Motilal Agrawal, SRI International

Kurt Konolige, SRI International

Program Committee

Andrew Comport, LASMEA Clermont Ferrand

Andrew Davison, Imperial College, London

Andrew Howard, Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Anurag Mittal, IIT Chennai

Gamini Dissanayake, University of Technology, Sydney

Gregory Dudek, McGill University

Jayan Eledath, Sarnoff Corporation

Jim Little, University of British Columbia

Paul Newman, Oxford University

Raja Chatilla, LAAS-CNRS

Ruediger Dillmann, Universität Karlsruhe

Stergios Roumeliotis, University of Minnesota

Wolfram Burgard,  Institut für Informatik, Germany

Dates

Paper submission: Mar 14, 2008

Acceptance notification: April 14, 2008

Final papers due: April 30, 2008

Workshop: June 28, 2008