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    <tt>Dear Researcher,</tt><tt><br>
    </tt><tt><br>
    </tt><tt>due to multiple requestes, we kindly inform you that the
      deadline for the Special Issue on <a
href="http://www.journals.elsevier.com/robotics-and-autonomous-systems/call-for-papers/emerging-spatial-competences-machine-perception/">“Emerging
        Spatial Competences: From Machine Perception to Sensorimotor
        Intelligence”</a> for the RAS - Robotics and Autonomous Systems,
      has been extended to February 15, 2014.</tt> <br>
    <br>
    <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. </span><br>
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                lang="EN-US">                              Robotics and
                Autonomous
                Systems Journal</span></b></td>
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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”<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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            lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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          style="font-size:
18.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:24.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;
          mso-fareast-language:IT" lang="EN-US">CALL FOR PAPERS</span><span
          style="font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times
          New Roman";
          mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:IT" 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;line-height:normal"><b
          style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><u><span
              style="font-size:12.0pt;
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><b
          style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span
            style="font-size:10.0pt;
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      <p class="MsoNormal"
        style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:normal"><span
style="mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;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-bidi-font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:IT"
          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;line-height:normal"><span
style="mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;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>
          <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:normal"><span
style="mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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          mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:IT" lang="EN-GB">The
          <b>action-perception loop</b>
          has never been so close!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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              EN-US;mso-fareast-language:IT" lang="EN-US">Paper
              Submission</span></u></b><b
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          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:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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            lang="EN-US">Theoretical
            or practical aspects of machine sensing (for computer
            vision, robot audition,
            artificial touch, etc.)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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            lang="EN-US">Multisensory
            data fusion, processing, learning and integration<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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            lang="EN-US">Computational
            neural modeling<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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            lang="EN-US">Embodied
            robotics: perception, cognition, and behaviors<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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            style="mso-bidi-font-size:
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            lang="EN-US">Machine
            learning for sensorimotor control and intelligence<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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            style="mso-bidi-font-size:
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            lang="EN-US">Neural
            networks: models, theories, learning algorithms and
            applications<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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            lang="EN-US">Engineering
            application of sensorimotor intelligence to pattern
            recognition, computer
            vision, speech recognition, human-robot interactions.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:normal;mso-outline-level:
        3"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;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"> <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal"
        style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:normal;mso-outline-level:
        3"><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;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:
          IT" lang="EN-GB">). <o:p></o:p></span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal"
        style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:5.0pt;
text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:normal"><b
          style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><u><span
              style="font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Verdana;color:navy;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:
              IT" lang="EN-GB">Important Dates<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>
      <p class="ListParagraph"
        style="margin-top:5.0pt;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
        text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:
normal;mso-outline-level:3;mso-list:l0
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          style="font-family:Wingdings;mso-fareast-font-family:Wingdings;
mso-bidi-font-family:Wingdings;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:
          IT" lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">§<span
              style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">      
            </span></span></span><st1:date year="2014" day="15"
          month="2"><b><span
              style="font-family:Verdana;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:
              IT" lang="EN-GB">February 15, 2014</span></b></st1:date><b><span
style="font-family:Verdana;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:IT"
            lang="EN-GB"> </span></b><st1:date year="2014" day="31"
          month="1"><s><span style="font-family:Verdana;
              mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:IT"
              lang="EN-GB">January 31, 2014</span></s></st1:date><span
          style="font-family:Verdana;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:
          IT" lang="EN-GB">: Paper submission deadline<o:p></o:p></span></p>
      <p class="ListParagraph"
        style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:
        auto;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-indent:-18.0pt;
line-height:normal;mso-outline-level:3;mso-list:l0
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          IT" lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">§<span
              style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">      
            </span></span></span><st1:date 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<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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        style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:
        auto;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-indent:-18.0pt;
line-height:normal;mso-outline-level:3;mso-list:l0
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mso-bidi-font-family:Wingdings;color:navy;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:
          IT" lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">§<span
              style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">      
            </span></span></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 style="color:navy"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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        auto;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-indent:-18.0pt;
line-height:normal;mso-outline-level:3;mso-list:l0
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          style="font-family:Wingdings;mso-fareast-font-family:Wingdings;
mso-bidi-font-family:Wingdings;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:
          IT" lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">§<span
              style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">      
            </span></span></span><span dir="LTR"><span
            style="font-family:
            Verdana;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:IT"
            lang="EN-GB">Late Spring 2014:
            Expected publication date<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal"
        style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:normal;mso-outline-level:
        3"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><u><span
              style="font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:navy;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:
              IT" lang="EN-GB">Guest editors</span></u></b><b
          style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span
            style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
            Roman";color:navy;
            mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:IT"
            lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal"
        style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:
        justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:normal"><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><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal"
        style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:
        justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:normal"><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<o:p></o:p></span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal"
        style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:
        justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:normal"><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="font-family:Verdana;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:IT"
          lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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        <p class="MsoNormal"
          style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:
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solid
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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)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"
          style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:
          justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:normal;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="font-family:Verdana;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:IT"
            lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"
          style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:
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style="font-family:Verdana;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:
            IT" lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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        <p class="MsoNormal"
          style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:
          justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:normal;border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt:
solid
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          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.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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      <p class="MsoNormal"
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        justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:normal"><i
          style="mso-bidi-font-style:
          normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;
            mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal"
        style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:
        justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:normal"><span
          style="font-family:Verdana;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"
          lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal"
        style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:
        justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:normal"><a
          href="http://www.pspc.unige.it/"><b><span
              style="font-family:Verdana;
color:windowtext;mso-fareast-language:IT;text-decoration:none;text-underline:
              none">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><span
          style="font-family:Verdana;mso-fareast-language:IT"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal"
        style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:
        justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:normal"><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<o:p></o:p></span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal"
        style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:
        justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:normal"><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="font-family:Verdana;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:IT"
          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="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:
          justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:normal;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="color:blue;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"
          style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:
          justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:normal;border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt:
solid
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style="font-family:Verdana;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:
            IT" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
      </div>
      <div style="border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext
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        <p class="MsoNormal"
          style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:
          justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:normal;border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt:
solid
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          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.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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          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"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal"
        style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:
        justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:normal"><span
style="font-family:Verdana;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:IT"
          lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal"
        style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:
        justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:normal"><a
          href="http://people.isir.upmc.fr/argentieri"><b><span
style="font-family:Verdana;color:windowtext;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:IT;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none"
              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><o:p></o:p></span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal"
        style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:
        justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:normal"><span
style="font-family:Verdana;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:IT"
          lang="EN-GB">Institute
          for Intelligent Systems and Robotics (ISIR)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal"
        style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:
        justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:normal"><span
          style="font-family:Verdana;mso-ansi-language:FR;mso-fareast-language:IT"
          lang="FR">Université
          Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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        <p class="MsoNormal"
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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="color:blue;mso-ansi-language:FR" lang="FR"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"
          style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:
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style="font-family:Verdana;mso-ansi-language:FR;mso-fareast-language:
            IT" lang="FR"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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        <p class="MsoNormal"
          style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:
          justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:normal;border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt:
solid
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          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;
                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">University</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-GB;mso-fareast-language:IT"
              lang="EN-GB"> since
              2008. He also obtained in 2002 the highest teaching
              diploma in </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">France</span></i></st1:place></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">
              (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.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
      </div>
      <p class="MsoNormal"
        style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:
        justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:normal"><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"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal"
        style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:
        justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:normal"><span
style="font-family:Verdana;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:IT"
          lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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        <p class="MsoNormal"
          style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:
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            style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span
              style="font-family:Verdana;
              mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:IT"
              lang="EN-GB">Zhengping Ji</span></b><span
            style="font-family:Verdana;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:
            IT" lang="EN-GB">, </span><a
            href="mailto:jizhengp@gmail.com"><span
style="font-family:Verdana;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:IT;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none"
              lang="EN-GB">jizhengp@gmail.com</span></a><span
            style="font-family:Verdana;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:
            IT" lang="EN-GB"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"
          style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:
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style="font-family:Verdana;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:
            IT" lang="EN-GB">Advanced Image Research Laboratory (AIRL) <o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"
          style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:
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style="font-family:Verdana;mso-ansi-language:ES;mso-fareast-language:
            IT" lang="ES">Samsung, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A <o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"
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style="font-family:Verdana;mso-ansi-language:ES;mso-fareast-language:
            IT" 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><o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"
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style="font-family:Verdana;mso-ansi-language:ES;mso-fareast-language:
            IT" lang="ES"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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      <div style="border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext
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        <p class="MsoNormal"
          style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:
          justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:normal;mso-list:none;
border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid
          windowtext .75pt;padding:0cm;
          mso-padding-alt:0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm"><span dir="LTR"><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">Zhengping Ji received his B.S.
                degree in Electrical Engineering from Sichuan University</span></i></span><i
            style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span
              style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Verdana;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN"
              lang="EN-US">, </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
                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">Carnegie</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">Mellon</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">, 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.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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          normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;
            mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:IT"
            lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
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