Fifth International Workshop on Assistive Computer Vision and Robotics
Venice, Italy – October 28th, 2017

The workshop will be held in sala Amici (Palazzo del Casinò, Second Floor).

The workshop proceedings are available here.

ACVR2017 Program at a Glance
08:30Welcome
08:45Invited Talk - Barbara Caputo, University of Rome La Sapienza, IT
09:30Oral Session I
10:00Morning Break
10:30Oral Session II
11:15Poster Session I
12:15Lunch break
13:45Invited Speaker - Kris Kitani, Carnegie Mellon University, US
14:30Oral Session III
15:00Afternoon Break
15:30Oral Session IV
16:15Poster Session II
17:15Closing Remarks
ACVR 2017 Detailed Program
08:30Welcome
08:45Invited Talk - Barbara Caputo, University of Rome La Sapienza, IT
09:30Oral Session I
09:30A long short-term memory convolutional neural network for first-person vision activity recognition
Girmaw Abebe Tadesse, Andrea Cavallaro
09:45BEHAVE - Behavioral analysis of visual events for assisted living scenarios
Carlos Fernando Crispim Junior, Jonas Vlasselaer, Anton Dries, Francois Bremond
10:00Morning Break
10:30Oral Session II
10:30Recurrent Assistance: Cross-Dataset Training of LSTMs on Kitchen Tasks
Toby Perrett, Dima Damen
10:45Robust Human Pose Tracking For Realistic Service Robot Applications
Manolis Vasileiadis, Sotiris Malassiotis,Dimitrios Giakoumis, Christos-Savvas Bouganis, Dimitrios Tzovaras
11:00A Vision-Based System for In-Bed Posture Tracking
Shuangjun Liu, Sarah Ostadabbas
11:15Poster session I
A long short-term memory convolutional neural network for first-person vision activity recognition
Girmaw Abebe Tadesse, Andrea Cavallaro
BEHAVE - Behavioral analysis of visual events for assisted living scenarios
Carlos Fernando Crispim Junior, Jonas Vlasselaer, Anton Dries, Francois Bremond
Recurrent Assistance: Cross-Dataset Training of LSTMs on Kitchen Tasks
Toby Perrett, Dima Damen
Robust Human Pose Tracking For Realistic Service Robot Applications
Manolis Vasileiadis, Sotiris Malassiotis,Dimitrios Giakoumis, Christos-Savvas Bouganis, Dimitrios Tzovaras
A Vision-Based System for In-Bed Posture Tracking
Shuangjun Liu, Sarah Ostadabbas
Adaptive Binarization for Weakly Supervised Affordance Segmentation
Johann Sawatzky, Jürgen Gall
DSD: Depth Structural Descriptor for Edge-Based Assistive Navigation
David Feng, Shaodi You, Nick Barnes
Non Invasive Approach for Understanding Emotional Involvements in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders
Marco Del Coco, Marco Leo, Pierluigi Carcagnì, Paolo Spagnolo, Pier Luigi Mazzeo, Flavia Marino, Massimo Bernava, Giovanni Pioggia
Postural Assessment in Dentistry Based on Multiple Markers Tracking
Marco Marcon, Alberto Pispero, Nicola Pignatelli, Giovanni Lodi, Stefano Tubaro
Use of Thermal Point Cloud for Thermal Comfort Measurement and Human Pose Estimation in Robotic Monitoring
Kaichiro Nishi, Mitsuhiro Demura, Jun Miura, Shuji Oishi
Using Technology Developed for Autonomous Cars to Help Navigate Blind People
Manel Martinez, Alina Roitberg, Daniel Koester, Rainer Stiefelhagen, Boris Schauerte
Vision-Based Fallen Person Detection for the Elderly
Markus D Solbach, John Tsotsos
12:15Lunch
13:45Invited Speaker - Kris Kitani, Carnegie Mellon University, US
14:30Oral Session III
14:30Mind the Gap: Virtual Shorelines for Blind and Partially Sighted People
Daniel Koester, Maximilian Awiszus, Rainer Stiefelhagen
14:45Seeing without sight – An automatic cognition system dedicated to blind and visually impaired people
Ruxandra G Tapu, Bogdan Mocanu, Titus Zaharia
15:00Afternoon Break
15:30Oral Session IV
15:30Estimating Position & Velocity in 3D Space from Monocular Video Sequences using a Deep Neural Network
Arturo Marban, Vignesh Srinivasan, Wojciech Samek, Josep Fernández, Alicia Casals
15:45To Veer or Not to Veer: Learning How to Stay Within the Crosswalk from Experts
Manfred Diaz, Roger Girgis, Thomas Fevens, Jeremy Cooperstock
16:00Computer Vision for the Visually Impaired: the Sound of Vision System
Simona Caraiman, Anca Morar; Mateusz Owczarek, Adrian Burlacu; Dariusz Rzeszotarski, Nicolae Botezatu, Piotr Skulimowski, Paul Herghelegiu, Florica Moldoveanu, Paweł Strumiłło, Alin Moldoveanu
16:15Poster session II
Mind the Gap: Virtual Shorelines for Blind and Partially Sighted People
Daniel Koester, Maximilian Awiszus, Rainer Stiefelhagen
Seeing without sight – An automatic cognition system dedicated to blind and visually impaired people
Ruxandra G Tapu, Bogdan Mocanu, Titus Zaharia
Estimating Position & Velocity in 3D Space from Monocular Video Sequences using a Deep Neural Network
Arturo Marban, Vignesh Srinivasan, Wojciech Samek, Josep Fernández, Alicia Casals
To Veer or Not to Veer: Learning How to Stay Within the Crosswalk from Experts
Manfred Diaz, Roger Girgis, Thomas Fevens, Jeremy Cooperstock
Computer Vision for the Visually Impaired: the Sound of Vision System
Simona Caraiman, Anca Morar; Mateusz Owczarek, Adrian Burlacu; Dariusz Rzeszotarski, Nicolae Botezatu, Piotr Skulimowski, Paul Herghelegiu, Florica Moldoveanu, Paweł Strumiłło, Alin Moldoveanu
A Shared Autonomy Approach for Wheelchair Navigation based on Learned User Preferences
Yizhe Chang, Mohammed A Kutbi, Nikolaos Agadakos, Bo Sun, Philippos Mordohai
A Wearable Assistive Technology for the Visually Impaired with Door Knob Detection and Real-Time Feedback for Hand-to-Handle Manipulation
Liang Niu, Cheng Qian, John-Ross Rizzo, Todd Hudson, Zichen Li, Shane Enright, Eliot Sperling, Edward Wong, Yi Fang
An Innovative Salient Object Detection Using Center-Dark Channel Prior
Chunbiao Zhu, Ge Li, Wenmin Wang, Ronggang Wang
Depth and motion cues with phosphene patterns for prosthetic vision
Alejandro Perez Yus, Jesus Bermudez-Cameo, Gonzalo Lopez-Nicolas, Josechu Guerrero
Diabetes60 - Inferring Bread Units From Food Images Using Fully Convolutional Neural Networks
Patrick Christ, Sebastian Schlecht, Florian Ettlinger, Felix Grün, Christoph Heinle, Sunil Tatavatry, Ahmad Ahmadi, Klaus Diepold, Bjoern Menze
Inertial-Vision: cross-domain knowledge transfer for wearable sensors
Girmaw Abebe Tadesse, Andrea Cavallaro
Improved strategies for HPE employing learning-by-synthesis approaches
Andoni Larumbe, Mikel Ariz, Jose J. Bengoechea, Ruben Segura, Rafael Cabeza, Arantxa Villanueva
17:15closing remarks
University Of Catania University of Southern California Consiglio Nazionale Ricerche Institute of Applied Sciences and Intelligent Systems University of California, San Diego
ACVR2017 / Contact: ACVR.workshop@gmail.com