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<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="" lang="EN-US">Dear
Researcher,<br>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US"></span><span
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<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="" lang="EN-US">We would
like to remind you the Special
Issue on <b>“Emerging Spatial Competences: From Machine
Perception to Sensorimotor
Intelligence”</b>, <span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>organized
by the PSPC
Lab (<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.pspc.unige.it">www.pspc.unige.it</a>) for the journal <a
href="http://www.journals.elsevier.com/robotics-and-autonomous-systems/">RAS
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Robotics and Autonomous Systems</a>.<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span
style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">The Special Issue
(see below for a
more detailed description) aims to investigate how the mutual
influence between
the perception of the environment and the interaction with it
can be extended
to support co-evolution mechanisms of perceptual and motor
processes.
Considering your expertise in the topics<b> </b>we would be
glad to receive a
contribution from you. All the received contributions will be
refereed by a
panel of experts according to the policies of the </span><st1:stockticker><span
style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">RAS</span></st1:stockticker><span
style="" lang="EN-US"> journal.<br>
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lang="EN-US">Robotics
and Autonomous Systems Journal</span></b><span
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style="font-size:18.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:28.0pt;font-family:Verdana;
color:navy;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:IT" lang="EN-US">Special
Issue on
“Emerging Spatial Competences: From Machine Perception to
Sensorimotor
Intelligence”</span></b><span
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CALL
FOR PAPERS</span><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"
lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-top:6.0pt;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><b
style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal"><u><span
style="mso-bidi-font-size:16.0pt;font-family:Verdana;
color:navy;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:IT" lang="EN-US">Aims
and Objectives</span></u></b><span
style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span
style="font-family:Verdana;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:IT"
lang="EN-US">Following
the recent evolution of robotics and AI in different fields of
application, the
increasing complexity of the <b>actions</b> that an
artificial<b> </b>agent
needs to perform, is directly dependent on the complexity of
the <b>sensory
information </b>that it can acquire and <b>interpret</b>,
<i>i.e.</i> <b>perceive</b>.
</span><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span
style="font-family:Verdana;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:IT"
lang="EN-US">From
this point of view, an efficient and internal representation
of the sensory
information is at the base of a robot to <span
style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
bold">develop a </span><b
style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">human-like
capability</b> of interaction with the surrounding
environment. Particularly,
in the space at a <b>reachable distance</b>, not only visual
and auditory, but
also tactile and proprioceptive information rise to be
relevant to gain a
comprehensive spatial cognition. This information, coming from
different
senses, can be in principle integrated and used to experience
an <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">awareness of the
environment</span> both to
actively <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">interact</span>
with it, and
to <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">calibrate</span>
the interaction
itself. Besides, the early sensory and sensorimotor
mechanisms, that at a first
glance may appear simple processes, are grounded on highly
structured and
complex algorithms that are far from being understood and
modeled. <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">By
exploiting an early synergy between </span><b
style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">sensing modules</b><span
style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
bold"> and </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">motor
control</b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">, the
loop between action and perception
comes to be not just closed at system level, but shortened
at an inner one.
This would allow not only the emergence of <b>spatial
competences</b> but also
their </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">continuous
adaptation</b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight:bold"> to
changes in the environment or in the
body, which could modify its interactions with the world.</span>
</span><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span
style="font-family:Verdana;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:IT"
lang="EN-US">The
aim of this special issue is to survey a state of the art of
methodologies,
concepts, algorithms and techniques that would serve as bricks
on which to
build and develop artificial agents with such a <span
style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
bold">spatial competence</span>; perceptual and cognitive
understanding of
space should emerge from sensorimotor exercise.</span><span
style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
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text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;mso-outline-level:3"><span
style="font-family:Verdana;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:
IT" lang="EN-GB"><br>
The <b>action-perception loop</b> has never been so close!</span><span
style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal"><u><span
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color:navy;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:IT" lang="EN-US"><br>
Paper Submission</span></u></b><span
style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;mso-outline-level:3"><span
style="font-family:Verdana;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:
IT" lang="EN-US">We invite original contributions that provide
novel solutions to address
the relevant topics including but not limited to:</span><span
style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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lang="EN-US">-</span><span
style="font-size:7.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:Wingdings;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:IT"
lang="EN-US"> </span><span
style="font-family:Verdana;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:
IT" lang="EN-US">Theoretical or practical aspects of
machine sensing (for computer vision,
robot audition, artificial touch, etc.)</span><span
style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;
text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-outline-level:3"><span
style="font-family:
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mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:IT"
lang="EN-US">-</span><span
style="font-size:7.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:Wingdings;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:IT"
lang="EN-US"> </span><span
style="font-family:Verdana;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:
IT" lang="EN-US">Multisensory data fusion, processing,
learning and integration</span><span
style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;
text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-outline-level:3"><span
style="font-family:
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mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:IT"
lang="EN-US">-</span><span
style="font-size:7.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:Wingdings;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:IT"
lang="EN-US"> </span><span
style="font-family:Verdana;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:
IT" lang="EN-US">Computational neural modeling</span><span
style="mso-ansi-language:
EN-GB" lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;
text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-outline-level:3"><span
style="font-family:
Wingdings;mso-fareast-font-family:Wingdings;mso-bidi-font-family:Wingdings;
mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:IT"
lang="EN-US">-</span><span
style="font-size:7.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:Wingdings;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:IT"
lang="EN-US"> </span><span
style="font-family:Verdana;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:
IT" lang="EN-US">Embodied robotics: perception, cognition,
and behaviors</span><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"
lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;
text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-outline-level:3"><span
style="font-family:
Wingdings;mso-fareast-font-family:Wingdings;mso-bidi-font-family:Wingdings;
mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:IT"
lang="EN-US">-</span><span
style="font-size:7.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:Wingdings;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:IT"
lang="EN-US"> </span><span
style="font-family:Verdana;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:
IT" lang="EN-US">Machine learning for sensorimotor control
and intelligence</span><span
style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="listparagraph"
style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;
text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-outline-level:3"><span
style="font-family:
Wingdings;mso-fareast-font-family:Wingdings;mso-bidi-font-family:Wingdings;
mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:IT"
lang="EN-US">-</span><span
style="font-size:7.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:Wingdings;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:IT"
lang="EN-US"> </span><span
style="font-family:Verdana;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:
IT" lang="EN-US">Neural networks: models, theories,
learning algorithms and applications</span><span
style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="listparagraph"
style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;
text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-outline-level:3"><span
style="font-family:
Wingdings;mso-fareast-font-family:Wingdings;mso-bidi-font-family:Wingdings;
mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:IT"
lang="EN-US">-</span><span
style="font-size:7.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:Wingdings;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:IT"
lang="EN-US"> </span><span
style="font-family:Verdana;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:
IT" lang="EN-US">Engineering application of sensorimotor
intelligence to pattern
recognition, computer vision, speech recognition,
human-robot interactions.</span><span
style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;mso-outline-level:3"><span
style="font-family:Verdana;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:
IT" lang="EN-GB">As a follow-up of the IJCNN 2013 special
session, we invite in particular
the special session participants to submit profoundly extended
versions of
their conference submission to go through a new peer review
process, together
with contributions not published in the conference
proceedings. </span><b><span
style="font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;
mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:IT"
lang="EN-GB"> </span></b><span
style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span
style="font-family:Verdana;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:
IT" lang="EN-GB">Papers should be typeset according to the
format instructions for the
Robotics and Autonomous Systems <a name="_GoBack"></a>Journal,
available on the
Elsevier web site (</span><a
href="http://www.elsevier.com/journals/robotics-and-autonomous-systems/0921-8890/guide-for-authors"><span
style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">http://www.elsevier.com/journals/robotics-and-autonomous-systems/0921-8890/guide-for-authors</span></a><span
style="font-family: Verdana;" lang="EN-GB">). <br>
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IT" lang="EN-GB"></span><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"
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normal"><u><span
style="font-family:Verdana;color:navy;mso-ansi-language:
EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:IT" lang="EN-GB">Important
Dates</span></u></b><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"
lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:IT" lang="EN-GB">§</span><span
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EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:IT" lang="EN-GB"> </span><st1:date
year="2014" day="31" month="1"><span
style="font-family:Verdana;
mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:IT"
lang="EN-GB">January 31, 2014</span></st1:date><span
style="font-family:Verdana;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:
IT" lang="EN-GB">: Paper submission deadline</span><span
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EN-GB" lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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year="2014" day="31" month="3"><span
style="font-family:Verdana;
mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:IT"
lang="EN-GB">March 31, 2014</span></st1:date><span
style="font-family:Verdana;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:
IT" lang="EN-GB">: Notification of paper acceptance</span><span
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EN-GB" lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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lang="EN-GB">§</span><span
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</span><st1:date year="2014" day="30" month="4"><span
style="font-family:Verdana;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:IT"
lang="EN-GB">April 30, 2014</span></st1:date><span
style="font-family:Verdana;
mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:IT" lang="EN-GB">:
Camera ready paper
submission</span><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"
lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="listparagraph"
style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;
text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-outline-level:3"><span
style="font-family:
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mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:IT" lang="EN-GB">§</span><span
style="font-size:7.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:Wingdings;mso-ansi-language:
EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:IT" lang="EN-GB"> </span><span
style="font-family:Verdana;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:
IT" lang="EN-GB">Late Spring 2014: Expected publication date</span><span
style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;mso-outline-level:3"><b
style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><u><span
style="font-family:
Verdana;color:navy;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:IT"
lang="EN-GB">Guest
editors</span></u></b><span
style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;text-align:justify;
text-justify:inter-ideograph"><b><span
style="font-family:Verdana;mso-fareast-language:
IT">Agostino Gibaldi</span></b><span
style="font-family:Verdana;mso-fareast-language:
IT">, <span style="color:blue"><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:agostino.gibaldi@unige.it">agostino.gibaldi@unige.it</a></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;text-align:justify;
text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span style="font-family:Verdana;
mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:IT" lang="EN-GB">Department
of Informatics,
Bioengineering, Robotics and System Engineering</span><span
style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;text-align:justify;
text-justify:inter-ideograph"><st1:place><st1:city><span
style="font-family:Verdana;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:IT"
lang="EN-GB">University of Genoa</span></st1:city><span
style="font-family:Verdana;
mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:IT"
lang="EN-GB">, </span><st1:country-region><span
style="font-family:Verdana;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:
IT" lang="EN-GB">Italy</span></st1:country-region></st1:place><span
style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<div style="border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext
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<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;text-align:justify;
text-justify:inter-ideograph;border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid
windowtext .5pt;
padding:0cm;mso-padding-alt:0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm"><span
style="font-family:Verdana;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:IT"
lang="EN-GB">Advanced
</span><st1:place><st1:placename><span
style="font-family:Verdana;
mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:IT"
lang="EN-GB">Research</span></st1:placename><span
style="font-family:Verdana;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:
IT" lang="EN-GB"> </span><st1:placetype><span
style="font-family:Verdana;
mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:IT"
lang="EN-GB">Center</span></st1:placetype></st1:place><span
style="font-family:Verdana;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:
IT" lang="EN-GB"> on Electronic Systems (ARCES)</span><span
style="mso-ansi-language:
EN-GB" lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;text-align:justify;
text-justify:inter-ideograph;border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid
windowtext .5pt;
padding:0cm;mso-padding-alt:0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm"><st1:place><st1:city><span
style="font-family:Verdana;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:
IT" lang="EN-GB">University of Bologna</span></st1:city><span
style="font-family:
Verdana;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:IT"
lang="EN-GB">, </span><st1:country-region><span
style="font-family:Verdana;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:
IT" lang="EN-GB">Italy</span></st1:country-region></st1:place><span
style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div style="border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext
1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:
solid windowtext .75pt;padding:0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm">
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;text-align:justify;
text-justify:inter-ideograph;border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid
windowtext .75pt;
padding:0cm;mso-padding-alt:0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm"><i
style="mso-bidi-font-style:
normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;
mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">Agostino Gibaldi
received his degree in Biomedical
Engineering from the University of Genoa, Italy, in 2007,
and his Ph.D. in
2011. Since the master thesis he is with the Physical
Structure of Perception
and Computation (PSPC) Group where he is actually a post
doc. Recently, he
joined the Computer Vision Group of the </span></i><i
style="mso-bidi-font-style:
normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;
mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:IT"
lang="EN-GB">Advanced Research Center on
Electronic Systems (ARCES), working on data analysis
computer aided diagnosis
for CT perfusion related to tumour lesions. </span></i><i
style="mso-bidi-font-style:
normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;
mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">His research
interests are related to cortical models
of V1, MT and MST areas, in relation with the estimation
of disparity, the
control of vergence eye movements, and the optic flow
analysis for navigation,
for their real-time implementation on robot platforms so
to obtain active
behaviours and adaptation to the environment. Aside, he
also worked on neural
networks and learning, eye tracking algorithms, camera
calibration, 3D data
modelling for virtual reality, CT perfusion and image
registration.</span></i><span
style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;text-align:justify;
text-justify:inter-ideograph"><i
style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"
lang="EN-GB"> </span></i><span
style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;text-align:justify;
text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span style="font-family:Verdana;
mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB"> </span><span
style="mso-ansi-language:
EN-GB" lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;text-align:justify;
text-justify:inter-ideograph"><a
href="http://www.pspc.unige.it/"><b><span
style="font-family:Verdana;mso-fareast-language:IT">Silvio
P. Sabatini</span></b></a>,
<span
style="font-family:Verdana;color:blue;mso-fareast-language:IT"><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:silvio.sabatini@unige.it">silvio.sabatini@unige.it</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;text-align:justify;
text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span style="font-family:Verdana;
mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:IT" lang="EN-GB">Department
of Informatics,
Bioengineering, Robotics and System Engineering</span><span
style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;text-align:justify;
text-justify:inter-ideograph"><st1:place><st1:city><span
style="font-family:Verdana;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:IT"
lang="EN-GB">University of Genoa</span></st1:city><span
style="font-family:Verdana;
mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:IT"
lang="EN-GB">, </span><st1:country-region><span
style="font-family:Verdana;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:
IT" lang="EN-GB">Italy</span></st1:country-region></st1:place><span
style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<div style="border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext
1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:
solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm">
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;text-align:justify;
text-justify:inter-ideograph;border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid
windowtext .5pt;
padding:0cm;mso-padding-alt:0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm"><a
href="http://www.pspc.unige.it/%7Esilvio/home/"><span
style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">http://www.pspc.unige.it/~silvio/home/</span></a><span
style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;text-align:justify;
text-justify:inter-ideograph;border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid
windowtext .5pt;
padding:0cm;mso-padding-alt:0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm"><span
style="font-family:Verdana;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:IT"
lang="EN-US"> </span><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"
lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div style="border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext
1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:
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<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;text-align:justify;
text-justify:inter-ideograph;border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid
windowtext .75pt;
padding:0cm;mso-padding-alt:0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm"><i
style="mso-bidi-font-style:
normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;
mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:IT"
lang="EN-US">Silvio P. Sabatini received
the Laurea Degree in Electronics Engineering and the Ph.D.
in Computer Science
from the </span></i><st1:place><st1:placetype><i
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;
mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:IT"
lang="EN-US">University</span></i></st1:placetype><i
style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Verdana;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:IT"
lang="EN-US"> of </span></i><st1:placename><i
style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Verdana;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:IT"
lang="EN-US">Genoa</span></i></st1:placename></st1:place><i
style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Verdana;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:IT"
lang="EN-US"> in 1992
and 1996. He is currently Associate Professor of
Bioengineering at the
Department of Informatics, Bioengineering, Robotics and
System Engineering of
the </span></i><st1:place><st1:placetype><i
style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-ansi-language:
EN-US;mso-fareast-language:IT" lang="EN-US">University</span></i></st1:placetype><i
style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Verdana;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:IT"
lang="EN-US"> of </span></i><st1:placename><i
style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Verdana;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:IT"
lang="EN-US">Genoa</span></i></st1:placename></st1:place><i
style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Verdana;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:IT"
lang="EN-US">. In 1995
he promoted the creation of the “Physical Structure of
Perception and
Computation” (PSPC) Lab to develop models that capture the
“physicalist” nature
of the information processing occurring in the visual
cortex, to understand the
signal processing strategies adopted by the brain, and to
build novel
algorithms and architectures for artificial perception
machines. His research
interests relate to visual coding and multidimensional
signal representation,
early-cognitive models for visually-guided behavior, and
robot vision. He is
author of more than 100 papers in peer-reviewed journals,
book chapters and
international conference proceedings.</span></i><span
style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;text-align:justify;
text-justify:inter-ideograph"><i
style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;
mso-fareast-language:IT" lang="EN-US"> </span></i><span
style="mso-ansi-language:
EN-GB" lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;text-align:justify;
text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span style="font-family:Verdana;
mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:IT" lang="EN-GB"> </span><span
style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;text-align:justify;
text-justify:inter-ideograph"><a
href="http://people.isir.upmc.fr/argentieri"><b><span
style="font-family:Verdana;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:
IT" lang="EN-GB">Sylvain Argentieri</span></b></a><span
style="font-family:Verdana;
mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">, <span
style="color:blue"><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:sylvain.argentieri@upmc.fr">sylvain.argentieri@upmc.fr</a></span></span><span
style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;text-align:justify;
text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span style="font-family:Verdana;
mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:IT" lang="EN-GB">Institute
for Intelligent
Systems and Robotics (ISIR)</span><span
style="mso-ansi-language:
EN-GB" lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;text-align:justify;
text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span style="font-family:Verdana;
mso-ansi-language:FR;mso-fareast-language:IT" lang="FR">Université
Pierre et Marie Curie,
Paris, France</span><span style="mso-ansi-language:FR"
lang="FR"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<div style="border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext
1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:
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<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;text-align:justify;
text-justify:inter-ideograph;border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid
windowtext .5pt;
padding:0cm;mso-padding-alt:0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm"><a
href="http://www.isir.upmc.fr/index.php?op=view_profil&id=113&old=N%E2%8C%A9=fr"><span
style="mso-ansi-language:FR" lang="FR">http://www.isir.upmc.fr/index.php?op=view_profil&id=113&old=N&lang=fr</span></a><span
style="mso-ansi-language:FR" lang="FR"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;text-align:justify;
text-justify:inter-ideograph;border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid
windowtext .5pt;
padding:0cm;mso-padding-alt:0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm"><span
style="font-family:
Verdana;mso-ansi-language:FR;mso-fareast-language:IT"
lang="FR"> </span><span style="mso-ansi-language:FR"
lang="FR"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div style="border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext
1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:
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<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;text-align:justify;
text-justify:inter-ideograph;border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid
windowtext .75pt;
padding:0cm;mso-padding-alt:0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm"><i
style="mso-bidi-font-style:
normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;
mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:IT"
lang="EN-GB">Sylvain Argentieri received
his Master's degrees in Robotics from the Pierre et Marie
Curie University,
Paris, and in Electronics from Ecole Normale Supérieure,
Cachan, France, in
2003. He then received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from
the </span></i><st1:place><st1:placename><i
style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Verdana;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:IT"
lang="EN-GB">Paul</span></i></st1:placename><i
style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Verdana;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:IT"
lang="EN-GB"> </span></i><st1:placename><i
style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Verdana;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:IT"
lang="EN-GB">Sabatier</span></i></st1:placename><i
style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Verdana;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:IT"
lang="EN-GB"> </span></i><st1:placetype><i
style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Verdana;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:IT"
lang="EN-GB">University</span></i></st1:placetype></st1:place><i
style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Verdana;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:IT"
lang="EN-GB">, </span></i><st1:place><st1:city><i
style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Verdana;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:IT"
lang="EN-GB">Toulouse</span></i></st1:city><i
style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Verdana;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:IT"
lang="EN-GB">, </span></i><st1:country-region><i
style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Verdana;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:IT"
lang="EN-GB">France</span></i></st1:country-region></st1:place><i
style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Verdana;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:IT"
lang="EN-GB">, in 2006.
After two years as an Assistant Professor at LAAS-CNRS
(Laboratory for Analysis
and Architecture of Systems) in the same University, he is
now Associate
Professor at the "Active Multimodal Perception" group in
the
Institute for Intelligent Systems and Robotics of the </span></i><st1:city><st1:place><i
style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Verdana;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:IT"
lang="EN-GB">Pierre</span></i></st1:place></st1:city><i
style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Verdana;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:IT"
lang="EN-GB"> et </span></i><st1:place><st1:placename><i
style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Verdana;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:IT"
lang="EN-GB">Marie</span></i></st1:placename><i
style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Verdana;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:IT"
lang="EN-GB"> </span></i><st1:placename><i
style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Verdana;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:IT"
lang="EN-GB">Curie</span></i></st1:placename><i
style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;
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style="font-size:10.0pt;
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lang="EN-GB">University</span></i></st1:placename></st1:place><i
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style="font-size:10.0pt;
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lang="EN-GB"> since
2008. He also obtained in 2002 the highest teaching
diploma in </span></i><st1:country-region><st1:place><i
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style="font-size:10.0pt;
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(Agrégation externe) in Electronical Science. His research
interests relate to
artificial audition in a robotics context, from array
processing methods to
binaural approaches, for sound source localization,
speaker recognition,
human-robot interaction, etc. He is also interested in
active approaches to
multimodal perception and sensorimotor integration.</span></i><span
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lang="EN-GB">, </span><a href="mailto:jizhengp@gmail.com"><span
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Image Research Laboratory (AIRL) </span><span
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U.S.A </span><span style="mso-ansi-language:ES" lang="ES"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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lang="ES"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://cnls.lanl.gov/External/people/Zhengping_Ji.php">http://cnls.lanl.gov/External/people/Zhengping_Ji.php</a></span><span
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mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:IT"
lang="EN-GB">Zhengping Ji received his B.S.
degree in Electrical Engineering from Sichuan University</span></i><i
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</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:
normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;
mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:IT"
lang="EN-GB">China, in 2003 and the Ph.D.
in Computer Science from Michigan State University, USA,
in 2008. From 2009 to
2010, he held a postdoctoral fellow position at the Center
for the Neural Basis
of Cognition, </span></i><st1:place><st1:placename><i
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style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;
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lang="EN-GB">Carnegie</span></i></st1:placename><i
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lang="EN-GB">Mellon</span></i></st1:placename><i
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style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Verdana;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:IT"
lang="EN-GB">University</span></i></st1:placetype></st1:place><i
style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Verdana;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:IT"
lang="EN-GB">, working
on the DARPA RealNose Project. After that, he spent two
years in Los Alamos
National Laboratory, where he was a Research Associate
conducting researches on
computational modelling of the brain’s visual pathways. He
is now a Senior
Research Scientist at Advanced Image Research Laboratory
of Samsung
Electronics. His current research interests lie in
computer vision,
computational neuroscience and machine learning.
Specifically, he seeks to
develop a series of deep learning models to generate
cortex-like hierarchical
sparse representation for a variety of tasks in vision,
including generic
object recognition, object detection and segmentation,
image denoising and
compression, and vision-based autonomous navigation. He is
a Vice Chair of Task
Force on Bio-Inspired Self-Organizing Collective Systems
at IEEE Computational
Intelligence Society, and a committee member of the
Brain-Mind Institute, USA.</span></i><span
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