AFPAC'97: Algebraic Frames for the Perception-Action Cycle
Anmerkung des GK-Schriftführers:
Mitvorsitzender von diesem Workshop ist GK-Mitglied Prof. Dr. Gerald Sommer
Call for Papers
International Workshop
AFPAC'97
ALGEBRAIC FRAMES FOR THE PERCEPTION-ACTION CYCLE
Trends in conceptualization, design, and implementation
of artificial autonomous systems
Kiel, Germany, September 8-9, 1997
Workshop Co-Chairs
G. Sommer, Germany
J.J. Koenderink, The Netherlands
Program Committee
and Invited Speakers
Y. Aloimonos, USA
R. Cipolla, UK
O. Faugeras, France
G. M. Granlund, Sweden
D. Hestenes, USA
J.J. Koenderink, The Netherlands
J.M. McCarthy, USA
H. Ritter, Germany
G. Sommer, Germany
L. Van Gool, Belgium
Y. Zeevi, Israel
Organizing Committee
G. Sommer (Chair)
E. Bayro-Corrochano (Program)
J. Bruske (Accom., Publicity)
M. Hansen (Local Arrangement)
U. Mahlmeister (Tech. Supp.)
F. Maillard (Secretary)
J. Pauli (Finance)
A growing interest exists currently in the analysis and design of
autonomous artificial systems which should interact in the world
according to a behavior or a perception-action cycle (PAC).
This cycle, which expresses the dynamic competence of any animal,
constitutes also the core of animate perception, cognition, and
action. Considering such capabilities as simple isolated processes
we can neither understand them properly nor mature for the
design of artificial systems with such properties as robustness,
stability, or adaptability. New research trends are calling for
studying the variety of involved competences and integrating the
perceptual components with learning and action modules.
Related disciplines developed their methodical and theoretical
basis concerning representations, modelling and algorithms in isolation.
As a result a dispersion of efforts is taking place delaying the desired
unification process. Such incompleteness can be seen also within each
discipline as for example the signal-symbol transformation or the gap
between signal representations and geometric entities. In
computational neuroscience and cognitive psychology there is a
ongoing debate on the algebraic frame of perceptual, cognitive, and
motoring processes.
The goal of the workshop AFPAC'97 is to re-animate this discussion
and to enforce the establishment of common theoretical roots in the
field of artificial PAC-systems. The workshop should bring together
interested scientists from different disciplines not only to present
the scope of their discipline but to evaluate PAC systems from their
point of view and to give any hints for conceptualization, design and
implementation.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
basis functions for early visual processes
representation of geometry in signal theory and neural networks
unifying geometry for vision and robotics
invariances emerging from the perception-action cycle
representation bias versus ability of learning invariances
symmetry in visual recognition and action
group theoretical frames in robotics, vision and neurocomputing
taxonomy of behavior
metrics, scale and causality in physical and perceptual space-time
structural primitives of visual perception and action
representation gap -- continuous to discrete
symbolic versus numeric complexity in PAC representations
Submission of Papers
Five copies of full-length papers should be received by February 1,
1997 at the address of the General Chair. The paper beginning with
title, authors, affiliation, abstract and keywords should be no more
than 30 pages (doubled-spaced, 12-point fonts) including text,
figures, and references. Each paper will be reviewed by three members
of the program committee.
Dates at a Glance
February 1, 1997 Submission of full papers
April 15, 1997 Notification of acceptance
June 20, 1997 Submission of final camera-ready papers
Sept. 8-9, 1997 AFPAC'97 Workshop
Sept. 10-12, 1997 CAIP'97 Conference
Events of the Workshop
The AFPAC'97 Workshop will be accompanied by 7th International
Conference CAIP'97 Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns on
Sept. 10-12. A separate Call for the CAIP'97 will be issued
(see also the special WWW-page below).
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. The accepted papers will appear
as a special issue of a prestigious journal and separately from the
CAIP'97 papers they will be also published by the Kiel University
and distributed at the conference.
Location and Time of the Conference
The venue of the AFPAC'97 workshop and the CAIP'97 conference will be
Kiel. Kiel is the capital of Schleswig-Holstein, the most northern
state of the Federal Republic of Germany. Kiel is located at the
Baltic Sea and is well-known from the international sailing regattas
attracting thousands of sailors every year. The weather in Kiel in
September is rather mild with temperatures 15-20 C and a typical
refreshing breeze. The workshop will take place at the Auditorium
Maximum of the Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel from Monday,
Sept. 8 till Tuesday, Sept. 9, 1997.
Kiel can be easily reached by train or car from Hamburg in about one
hour or by ferry from Goteborg, Oslo, or St'Petersburg. National
flights connect Frankfurt and Berlin with Kiel. The nearest
international airport is in Hamburg and is directly connected
with Kiel by the airport bus "Kielius".
Registration Fee and Accommodation
The organizers plan to follow the same policy of former CAIP conferences
supporting participation of Eastern and Central European
countries. There will be several possibilities for stipends of
participants with accepted papers and discounts for participation in
both meetings AFPAC'97 and CAIP'97. Furthermore students from any
country with accepted papers may apply for financial support as soon
as they receive the notification of acceptance. The final policy of
registration fees and up-to-date information on the conference can
be found in the AFPAC-WWW-page.
Address
Prof. Dr. Gerald Sommer
Institut für Informatik
Christian-Albrechts Universitat Kiel
Preusserstr. 1-9
24105 Kiel, Germany
Tel: +49 431 560473
Fax: +49 431 560481
e-mail: afpac@informatik.uni-kiel.de
WWW-CAIP: http://www.informatik.uni-kiel.de/~caip97/
WWW-AFPAC: http://www.informatik.uni-kiel.de/~caip97/afpac/