Chair: Arturo de la Escalera Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
Computer Vision has developed significantly over the past few years and its importance for Robotics and Automation has increased significantly. Vision algorithms have a remarkable application impact due to many practical applications in a diverse variety of sub-disciplines, such as surveillance, navigation, and virtual environments, etc. This special session will provide a dialog between the vision and robotics communities and will contribute to the progress in both disciplines, as it intends to highlight new approaches by bringing together computer vision and robotics researchers. Therefore it will provide an excellent environment for interdisciplinary interaction as well as for networking of students and scientists in automation, computer vision, robotic vision, robotics, image understanding and pattern recognition.
The topics covered in the special session may include, but are not limited to, recent advances and challenges in: Cognitive vision systems for robots Computer vision in robotics Image-Guided Robot Interventions Learning from Sensor/Visual Data Multi-Robot Systems with Vision Sensors Object and action recognition Range Imaging Real-time Sensing and Control Robot Visual Tracking Software Tools for Robot Vision Tracking Vision for Aerial Robotics Vision for Underwater Robotics Vision-Based Navigation Visual Servoing and Servo Control Visual SLAM and Structure-and-Motion
Chair: Ana Mendonça Universidade do Porto, Portugal
Breast cancer is one of the most mediated malignant diseases, because of its high incidence and prevalence, but principally because of its physical and psychological invasivity. It is therefore natural that it has attracted the attention of the image research community. Advanced image processing methods have been used to address different aspects of the treatment procedure. Firstly, to facilitate the screening and diagnosis phases; secondly, to assist in the surgery pre-planning; thirdly, to evaluate the aesthetic output of the treatment.
The topics covered in the special session may include, but are not limited to, recent advances and challenges in: Mammogram image analysis Ultrasound image analysis Magnetics resonant image processing 3D reconstruction of the breast Treatment pre-planning with individual data from the patient Aesthetic evaluation of breast cancer treatments