The IEEE Biometrics Council is happy to announce a series of webinars that will cover different topics related to biometrics. The inaugural webinar in the series will be given by Prof. Arun Ross (Michigan State University) on January 27th, 2022, at 9am EST on »Face Recognition and Surveillance: Enhancing Privacy and Fairness«. The webinar will […]

Biologically Inspired Vision Mechanisms for Resource-Constrained Robotics Applications Keywords: Resource-constrained Vision, Selective and Divided Attention Mechanisms, Biologically Inspired Vision, Active Vision Specialty Sections: Robot and Machine Vision; Bio-inspired Robotics, Humanoid Robotics https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/29200/biologically-inspired-vision-mechanisms-for-resource-constrained-robotics-applications I. Background Attention mechanisms are the fundamental processes in biological systems, responsible for prioritizing the elements of the visual scene to be attended, […]

Dear All, After the success of the recently concluded First International Conference on Emerging Techniques in Computational Intelligence, ICETCI 2021 (proceedings live on IEEE Xplore), with multiple tutorial sessions, competitions, ten keynote lectures by internationally acclaimed specialists, and technical paper presentations, we are now getting into the second edition of the Conference in the coming […]

The 5th UG2+ Workshop and Prize Challenge: Bridging the Gap between Computational Photography and Visual Recognition.In conjunction with CVPR 2022, June 19 Website: http://www.ug2challenge.org/Challenge Registration: https://forms.gle/Td6DQuAJuuoLptN58CMT: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/UG2CHALLENGE2022Contact: cvpr2022.ug2challenge@gmail.com Track 1: Object Detection in Haze ConditionsA dependable vision system must reckon with the entire spectrum of complex unconstrained and dynamic degraded outdoor environments. It is highly desirable to study to what […]

Dear All,  The Center for Robotics and Neural Systems (CRNS) at Plymouth University is pleased to announce the talk of Dr. Alessandra Sciutti from the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT) on Wednesday February 2nd at 11:00 am – 12:30 pm (BST) over Zoom. Registration is required and free: Registration Form. Title of the talk:  Cognitive robots for more humane interactions Abstract: A cognitive robot is a robot […]