Academia day at the European Robotics Forum 2012 in Odense, Denmark.

• Jürgen Sturm
• Dejan Pangercic
• Michael Beetz
• Daniel Cremers

With the market launch of the Microsoft Kinect and ASUS Xtion Pro Live, the availability of low-cost RGB-D cameras has led to a significant impact on robotics and computer vision research. Since then, we have witnessed a large grow of novel approaches using such cameras ranging from object recognition, manipulation, 3D reconstruction and human robot interaction. The goal of this workshop is to provide a forum for researchers in robotics and computer vision who work with RGB-D sensors to present and discuss their recent results. The event builds upon the very successful RGB-D workshop at the European robotics forum 2011.

Topics include, but are not limited to:

• feature descriptors and feature matching
• object segmentation, detection and tracking
• visual odometry
• localization, mapping and navigation
• 3D reconstruction
• human robot interaction
• benchmarking and evaluation

The workshop is planned as a half-day event. We solicit the submission of extended abstracts (1-2 pages). We expect between 10-20 submissions, of which we will select 6-8 for oral presentations. Furthermore, we will organize an interactive poster and demo session to stimulate discussion between the participants.

• 6-8 talks of contributed papers, 20 minutes each
• 2-3 invited talks, 30 minutes each
• optionally: poster session (up to 10 posters, 45 minutes)

• Lennart Witzke/Christian Perwass, Raytrix GmbH, CEO (on lightfield cameras)
• Victor Eruhimov, Itseez, Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer (on Kinect Fusion in PCL)
• Andreas Wedel, Daimler - Scene Flow (3d vision for cars)

We solicit the submission of extended abstracts (up to two pages). A call for abstracts will be disseminated on the relevant mailing lists (robotics-worldwide, euron-dist, germrob, imageworld). From the submitted papers, we will select six to eight papers for oral presentation, and, if we receive enough good contributions, offer an interactive poster session. Both for the talks and the poster session, we will encourage authors to provide live demonstrations.

The proceedings of the workshop will be published on our workshop website. Furthermore, we currently consider to propose a special issue on RGB-D perception in an internationally renowed computer vision or robotics journal.