British Machine Vision Association and Society for Pattern Recognition (BMVA) technical meeting on Vision for Language and Manipulation bmva.org/meetings Friday July 11th 2014, at the British Computer Society, 5 Southampton Street, London, Chairs: Nick Hockings, Walterio Mayol-Cuevas Registration: Book online at bmva.org/meetings £10 for BMVA Members, £30 for Non Members, including lunch Programme Abstracts are available from tinyurl/BMVA-Manip-Abs 9:00 ----------- Coffee ----------- 9:15 Keynote talk Angelo Cangelosi Universities of Plymouth Vision, Action and Language Unified by Embodiment - A Developmental Robotics Approach 9:45 Robert Haschke , University of Bielefeld 3D Vision and Interactive Disambiguation for Grasping 10:15 Miao Li and Aude Billard, EPFL Vision and Haptic Guided Fine Manipulation of Objects 10:30 Gerardo Aragon-Camarasa, Universiy of Glasgow Active Binocular Range Sensing and Interpretation for Clothing Manipulation 10:45 Nicoletta Noceti, University of Genova Biological Motion Understanding for Human-Robot Interaction 11am ----------- Coffee ----------- 11:15 Keynote talk Sinan Kalkan, METU, Ankara Vision Language and Manipulation 11:45 Norbert Kruger, Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller Institute From Early Vision to Symbols 12:15 Frank Foerster, University of Hertfordshire Language Grounding in Linguistically Unconstrained Human-Robot-Interaction 12:30 Austin Gregg-Smith and Walterio Mayol Cuevas, University of Bristol Exploring Interaction Issues Between Users and Cognitive Handheld Robots 1pm ----------- Lunch ---------- 1:30 Keynote talk Marco Davare, UCL Brain Networks for Sensorimotor Integration During Skilled Hand Movements 2pm Giorgio Metta, Italian Institute of Technology The Use of Motor Invariants Can Improve Action Discrimination 2:30 Giovanni Saponaro, Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon A Probabilistic Approach to Visual Object Affordances Experiments on the iCub Robot 2:45 John Darby, Manchester Metropolitan University Tracking Object Poses in the Context of Robust Body Pose Estimates 3pm Vincenzo Lippiello, University of Naples. Exploiting Image Moments for Aerial Manipulation Control 3:15 ----------- Coffee ----------- 3:30 Keynote talk Jan Peters, T.U. Darmstadt Motor Skill Learning: From Simple Skills to Table Tennis and Manipulation 4pm Jeremy L Wyatt, University of Birmingham Uncertainty, Parts and Active Sensing for Manipulation 4:10 Patricia Shaw, Mark Lee, Olalekan Lanihun, Bernard Tiddeman and Elio Tuci, Aberystwyth University Learning Reaching Control for Pre-reach Grasping 4:20 Panos Trahanias, University of Crete & Foundation for Research & Technology - Hellas (FORTH) Robust Model-based 3D Upper-body Pose Estimation in RGB-D Sequences 4:30 Pietro Falco, Second University of Naples A Sensor Fusion Architecture for Observation and Interpretation of Human Manipulation 4:40 Antonis Argyros, University of Crete & Foundation for Research & Technology - Hellas (FORTH) Tracking Hands and Hand-Object Interactions 4:50 - 5pm ----------- End of the formal meeting ----------- 5:30-6:30 Optional Supper in Covent Garden
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