{"id":439,"date":"2022-04-27T13:41:18","date_gmt":"2022-04-27T13:41:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med-control.org\/med2022\/?page_id=439"},"modified":"2022-06-29T17:26:46","modified_gmt":"2022-06-29T17:26:46","slug":"t1-workshop-on-active-vision-methods-in-autonomous-navigation","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.med-control.org\/med2022\/t1-workshop-on-active-vision-methods-in-autonomous-navigation\/","title":{"rendered":"T1: Workshop on Active Vision Methods in Autonomous Navigation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>T1: Active Vision Methods in Autonomous Navigation<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h4><strong>Tuesday, June 28, 2022, 9:00 AM \u2013 5:15 PM<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Organizers<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr.&nbsp;Konstantinos Tsintotas, <em>Democritus University of Thrace, Greece<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Nitin J. Sanket, <em>University of Maryland, College Park, USA<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Prof. Antonios Gasteratos, <em>Democritus University of Thrace, Greece<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Prof. Yiannis Aloimonos, <em>University of Maryland, College Park, USA<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3>Workshop Summary<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>In applications involving deployment of mobile robots, it is a fundamental requirement for the robot to perceive its environment and to decide about its ability to navigate, as well as how to navigate in general. &nbsp;Currently, every mobile robot is equipped with on-board sensors that contribute to observing the working environment and to collect and process data. However, when any mobile robot starves from computational and sensing resources, simple approaches using passive perception, such as building a 3D map of the environment, fall apart. It is noted that active vision, which involves building algorithmic engines around the perception-action synergy loop, offers a promising solution as it allows for the mobile robot to actively use its sensors towards specific viewpoints according to a specific scanning strategy. Thus, the challenge in active vision&nbsp;systems is that the robot must decide &#8220;where to look&#8221; following a plan. Thus, vision sensors must be purposefully configured and placed at several positions with the aim to observe a target by taking actions linked with robotic perception, which, in turn, introduces active and purposeful behaviors. In particular, four modes of activeness have been formally identified: By moving the agent itself; By employing an active sensor; By moving a part of the agent&#8217;s body; By hallucinating active movements. The Workshop covers several challenging areas including Autonomous navigation; Perception-Action coupling; Driverless cars; UAVs; SWAP-Aware design; Semantic mapping and navigation; SLAM; Loop-closure detection; Visual odometry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3>Schedule<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<table id=\"tablepress-4\" class=\"tablepress tablepress-id-4\">\n<tbody class=\"row-hover\">\n<tr class=\"row-1 odd\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">09:00 \u2013 09:15<br \/>\n<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">Welcome<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-2 even\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">09:15 \u2013 10:15<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">Invited talk: <em>Active Perception with Foveal Sensors: a bio-inspired strategy for resource constrained robots<\/em>, <br \/>\nProf. Alexandre Bernardino, Instituto Superior T\u00e9cnico, Portugal (virtual)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-3 odd\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">10:15 \u2013 11:00<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">Coffee Break<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-4 even\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">11:00 \u2013 12:00<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">Invited talk: <em>Resilient Robotic Autonomy \u2013 Technologies and Lessons Learned from the DARPA Subterranean Challenge<\/em>, <br \/>\nProf. Kostas Alexis, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway (virtual)<br \/>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-5 odd\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">12:00 \u2013 13:00<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">Paper presentations<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-6 even\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">13:00 \u2013 14:00<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">Lunch break<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-7 odd\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">14:00 \u2013 15:00<br \/>\n<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">Invited talk: <em>Learning to Fly: From perception to action<\/em>, <br \/>\nProf. Davide Scaramuzza, University of Zurich, Switzerland (virtual)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-8 even\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">15:00 -16:00<br \/>\n<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">Invited talk: <em>Navigation During Visuospatial Problem Solving<\/em>, <br \/>\nProf. John K. Tsotsos, York University, Canada (virtual)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-9 odd\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">16:00 \u2013 16:45<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">Coffee Break<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-10 even\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">16:45 \u2013 17:15<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">Panel Discussion and Concluding Remarks<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-11 odd\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\"><\/td><td class=\"column-2\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<!-- #tablepress-4 from cache -->\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>This schedule is also available for download in <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.med-control.org\/med2022\/wp-content\/uploads\/MED22_T1_Workshop-schedule.pdf\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"http:\/\/www.med-control.org\/med2022\/wp-content\/uploads\/MED22_T1_Workshop-schedule.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">printer-friendly (PDF) format<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>T1: Active Vision Methods in Autonomous Navigation Tuesday, June 28, 2022, 9:00 AM \u2013 5:15 PM Organizers Dr.&nbsp;Konstantinos Tsintotas, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece Dr. Nitin J. Sanket, University of Maryland, College Park, USA Prof. Antonios Gasteratos, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece Prof. Yiannis Aloimonos, University of Maryland, College Park, USA Workshop Summary In applications [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med-control.org\/med2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/439"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med-control.org\/med2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med-control.org\/med2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med-control.org\/med2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med-control.org\/med2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=439"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.med-control.org\/med2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":611,"href":"https:\/\/www.med-control.org\/med2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/439\/revisions\/611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med-control.org\/med2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}