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Call for Papers
Currently there is a growing interest in understanding autonomous behaviour of biological systems and in designing autonomous artificial systems. The attractive capabilities of autonomous systems acting in real world environments are rooted in the so called perception-action cycle (PAC). To gain system properties such as robustness and adaptivity, competences have to be learned. Thus, the design of behaviour based systems based on a heterarchy of PACs calls for embedding disciplines such as computer vision, multidimensional signal theory, robotics and neural computing in a common mathematical frame. This frame has to be of algebraic nature, rich enough to subsume or to couple the mentioned disciplines, to guarantee pragmatic completeness, and to gain real-time capability.
Not only are the contributing disciplines limited yet with respect to this unification aspect, but they are also limited with respect to diverse aspects of representation such as higher order entities, higher order correlations, non-linearity, etc. The embedding of related tasks in powerful algebraic frames results in considerable advantages such as linear access to higher order effects, completeness of representation, reduced symbolic complexity, and insight to otherwise hidden phenomena.
AFPAC 2000 is the second international workshop dedicated to the problem of the algebraic embedding of engineering tasks for the design and implementation of autonomous systems. We found that after the first workshop AFPAC´97, which had a very positive resonance, the interest in this field has kept growing. Therefore, the goal of the workshop AFPAC 2000 is to bring together interested scientists from different disciplines to report on their work and to exchange ideas in an open-minded atmosphere.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- basis functions for early visual processes
- representation of geometry in signal theory and neural networks
- manifold based embedding
- unifying geometry for vision and robotics
- invariances emerging from the perception-action cycle
- symmetry in visual recognition and action
- group theoretical frames in robotics, vision and neurocomputing
- higher order statistics and multilinear correlations
- non-linear metrics and linearization
- metrics, scale and causality in physical and perceptual space-time
- structural primitives of visual perception and action
- symbolic versus numeric complexity in PAC representations
Submission of Papers
Please send four copies of your full-length paper to the given contact address. Papers should be received by March 31, 2000 and have no more than 10 pages (10pt, single spacing) including figures, tables and references. Unfortunately, colour pictures cannot be accepted. Papers should start with title, authors, affiliation and keywords. Each paper will be reviewed by two members of the program committee.
Please follow the information provided by the Springer-Verlag for the preparation of contributions to LNCS/LNAI proceedings. You can also download the instructions as a pdf-file. Note that we are only able to accept papers prepared in LaTeX. The latex style file can either be found on the Springer webpage or you can follow this link.
Dates at a Glance
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31.3.
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Submission of full papers
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19.5.
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Notification of acceptance
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9.6.
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Submission of final camera-ready papers
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10.-11.9.
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AFPAC 2000
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12.9.
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Vision Based Robotics Tutorial
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13.-15.9.
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DAGM 2000
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Events of the Workshop
The scientific program of the workshop will consist of oral and poster presentations as well as a plenary session. The official language of the conference is English. Accepted papers will be published in the LNCS series (Springer-Verlag) and distributed at the conference.
The AFPAC 2000 Workshop will be accompanied by the DAGM 2000, the 22. Symposium für Mustererkennung of the German chapter of IAPR. A separate Call for the DAGM 2000 will be issued.
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