ACVR – First International Workshop on Assistive Computer Vision and Robotics 

Program 

September 9, 2013

location: Conference Room - Villa Doria D'Angri

8:30                      Registration

14:30-15:30          Keynote Speech: Actions, Interactions and Re-Identification in Camera Networks 
                             Andrea Cavallaro (Queen Mary University of London)

15:30-15:50         A robust hand pose estimation algorithm for hand rehabilitation
                            Francesca Cordella, Francesco Di Corato, Loredana Zollo, Bruno Siciliano

15:50-16:20        Coffee Break

16:20-16:40        Natural User Interfaces in Volume Visualisation Using Microsoft Kinect
                           Anastassia Angelopoulou, Jose Garcia-Rodriguez, Alexandra Psarrou, Markos Mentzelopoulos, Bharat Reddy, Sergio Orts-Escolano, Jose Antonio Serra, Andrew Lewis
 
16:40-17:00        A fast and precise HOG-Adaboost based based visual support system capable to recognize Pedestrian and estimate their distance.
                           Takahisa Kishino, Sun Zhe, Ruggero Micheletto

17:00-17:20       Mobile Visual Assistive Apps:Benchmarks of Vision Algorithm Performance
                          Jose Rivera-Rubio, Saad Idrees, Ioannis Alexiou, Lucas Hadjilucas, Anil A. Bharath
 
17:20-17:40       Tracking posture and head movements of impaired people during interactions with robots
                          Salvatore Maria Anzalone and Mohamed Chetouani
 
17:40-18:00       Scene Perception and Recognition for Human-Robot Co-Operation
                          Nikhil Somani, Emmanuel Dean-Leon, Caixia Cai and Alois Knoll