Robotic perception based on conventional sensing (visual cameras and LIDARs) has lead to significant realizations in relatively restricted situations, while showing important limitations in challenging environments. The future of robotic perception lies in “alternative sensing modalities” and their intelligent combination and fusion. Examples of alternative sensing modalities include: radars, sonars and acoustic sensors, cameras sensing outside of the visible spectrum (e.g. thermal cameras or hyperspectral cameras), cameras using alternative acquisition processes (e.g. event-based or light-field cameras), or odor sensors. Operating at distinct electromagnetic frequencies, or sensing other physical properties altogether, alternative sensors have recently opened many new possibilities for robotics, such as: automatic geological analysis using hyperspectral cameras, obstacle detection through smoke or heavy dust using mm-wave radar, or robotic deep-sea exploration with sonars.
This workshop aims at exploring and discussing how alternative sensing and original combinations of sensor data induce new perspectives and challenges, which may require rethinking conventional perception and data fusion algorithms, and how they will open new robotic applications and put the next great robotic achievements within reach. It follows up on a first workshop held at the Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS) 2012 conference, and a special issue of the Journal of Field Robotics published in January 2015.
The workshop is supported by the IEEE RAS Technical Committee on Computer and Robot Vision.
We invite submissions of extended abstracts (2-3 pages) in PDF, using the standard IROS conference paper format. Optionally, short supporting videos can be submitted; the url to the video should be cited in the paper. All submissions should be submitted via easychair WASRoP2015.
Submissions will be reviewed by the technical committee. Accepted contributions will be archived on the workshop website and presented at the workshop either as an oral presentation or as a poster along with a short spotlight. After the workshop, the organizing committee will consider pursuing publication of a special issue in a journal or book including extended versions of the best papers.
Submission deadline: 24 July 2015 31 July 2015
Notification of acceptance: 28 August 2015 4 September 2015
Final version due: 11 September 2015
Workshop: 2 October 2015
The topics of interest to the workshop include, but are not limited to, the following.
Robotic perception systems making use of alternative sensors, including:
Challenges, methods and lessons learned:
Prof. Martin Adams, Universidad de Chile
Dr. Larry Matthies
Dr. Kazuhiro Nakadai, Honda Research Institute Japan
Prof. Davide Scaramuzza, University of Zurich
Time |
Talk |
8:30 - 8:40 |
Welcome Remarks: Organisers |
8:40 – 9:30 |
Invited Talk: Dr. Larry Matthies |
9:30 – 9:55 |
Contributed Paper #4: Dushyant Rao |
10:00 - 10:30 |
Coffee Break |
10:30 – 11:20 |
Invited Talk: Dr. Kazuhiro Nakadai (abstract) |
11:20 – 11:45 |
Contributed Paper #2: Sabine Thuerauf |
11:45 – 12:05 |
Spotlight Presentations |
12:05 – 12:45 |
Interactive Poster Session |
12:50 - 14:00 |
Lunch Break |
14:00 – 14:10 |
Afternoon session opening remarks: organisers. |
14:10 – 15:00 |
Invited Talk: Prof. Davide Scaramuzza (abstract)
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15:00 – 15:25 |
Contributed Paper #5: Peter Corke |
15:30 - 16:00 |
Coffee Break |
16:00 – 16:50 |
Invited Talk: Prof. Martin Adams (abstract) |
16:50 – 17:50 |
Panel Discussion |
17:50 |
Closing Remarks: Organisers |
Dr. Thierry Peynot, Queensland University of Technology
Dr. Sildomar Monteiro, Rochester Institute of Technology
Dr. Teresa Vidal-Calleja, University of Technology Sydney
Prof. Peter Corke, Queensland University of Technology