AI*IA 2001 Workshop on

Artificial Intelligence, Vision and Pattern Recognition

Monday, 24 September 2001

joint with
7^th Congress of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AI*IA 2001)
Dipartimento di Informatica, Università di Bari

Aim

An intelligent agent which operates in the real world, be it a robot or a software system, should be able to perceive and interact with moving objects, people, etc., in unstructured and unpredictable environments. In order to accomplish its own task, the agent must be able to understand its workspace, meaning that it should be able to generate an internal high-level description of what is perceived. Generating this description requires sensory data processing by means of Pattern Recognition techniques; it also requires the generation of bi and tri-dimensional reconstructions by means of Computer Vision techniques, and it lastly requires symbolic computation which are typically provided by Artificial Intelligence techniques. Building an agent able to understand its environment is a demanding task that can be achieved only by means of the joint application of techniques, methodologies and experiences from several advanced research fields. The workshop is among the events of the Congress AI*IA 2001; the aim is to encourage the cooperation between Italian researchers working in the fields of Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, who are interested in exploring opportunities for cross-fertilization of theories and methodologies, and laying foundations for new intelligent agents that interact with the surrounding world at high level.

Topics

Researchers are invited to submit contributions concerning methodology and application issues raised by the joint application of Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition techniques. Preliminary work highlighting innovative and promising research directions is encouraged. In particular, contributions addressing the following topics are welcome (the list is not exhaustive):

AI Techniques in Pattern Recognition
AI Techniques in Computer Vision
Cognitive Architectures in Computer Vision
Generation of symbolic representations from sensory data
Reasoning Techniques on sensory data
Symbolic Systems for Computer Vision
Cognitive Models for Focus of Attention

Submission

A selection of the accepted contributions will be published in the journal AI*IA Notizie. A summary of one page maximum (A4 format) should be sent, preferably by e-mail, by 15 May 2001 to the following address:

Antonio Chella
Dipartimento di Ingegneria Automatica e Informatica
Università di Palermo - Viale delle Scienze
90128 Palermo
E-mail: chella@unipa.it

Important dates

Submission:	May 15, 2001
Final version:	June 1, 2001
Workshop:	September 24, 2001

Scientific Committee

Giovanni Adorni, Università di Parma
Virginio Cantoni, Università di Pavia
Antonio Chella, Università di Palermo e CERE-CNR, Palermo
Luigi P. Cordella Università di Napoli
Vito Di Gesù, Università di Palermo
Arcangelo Distante, IESI-CNR, Bari
Donato Malerba, Università di Bari
Vito Roberto, Università di Udine
Guido Tascini, Università di Ancona

Organizing Committee

Antonio Chella,Università di Palermo e CERE-CNR, Palermo

Donato Malerba, Università di Bari

Donato Malerba

Last update: Friday, 21 September 2001