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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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mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:IT"
lang="EN-US"> </span></b><span
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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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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;
mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman";color:navy;mso-ansi-language:
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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>
<p class="MsoNormal"
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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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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">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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3"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;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:<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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lang="EN-US">Machine
learning for sensorimotor control and intelligence<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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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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level1 lfo1"><span
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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>
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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>
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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>
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</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>
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IT" lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">§<span
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</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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</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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style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:
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line-height:normal;mso-outline-level:3;mso-list:l0
level1 lfo2"><span
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:
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"><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)<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:
justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:normal;border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt:
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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>
</div>
<div style="border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext
1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:
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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:
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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>
</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" 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
1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:
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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
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"><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>
</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-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>
<div style="border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext
1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:
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<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:
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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="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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solid
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style="font-family:Verdana;mso-ansi-language:FR;mso-fareast-language:
IT" lang="FR"><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
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;
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
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style="font-size:10.0pt;
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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>
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style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span
style="font-family:Verdana;
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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>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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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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