=============================================== VISION FOR INTERACTION: From humans to robots One Day BMVA symposium - London, UK on October 19, 2016 Website: www.bmva.org/meetings ================================================ **************** Keynote Speakers: **************** + Prof. Antonia Hamilton  (UCL) and + Prof. Yiannis Aloimonos (Univ. of Maryland). **************** Abstract: **************** Since early infancy, the ability of humans at interacting with each other is substantially strengthened by vision, with several visual processes tuned to support prosocial behaviour. For instance, a natural predisposition to look at human faces or to detect biological motion is present at birth. More refined abilities — as the understanding and anticipation of others' actions — progressively develop with age, leading, in a few years, to a full capability of interaction based on mutual understanding, joint coordination and collaboration. A key challenge of robotics research nowadays is to provide artificial agents with similar advanced visual perception skills, with the ultimate goal of designing humanoid robots able to recognize and interpret both explicit and implicit communication cues embedded in human movements.  These achievements pave the way for the large-scale use of Human-Robot Interaction based applications on a variety of contexts, ranging from the design of personal robots, to physical, social and cognitive rehabilitation. ******************* Call for contributions: ******************* In this highly interdisciplinary one-day workshop we aim at bringing together contributions from the fields of cognitive science, robotics, machine vision and artificial intelligence, to corroborate the discussion on the potential guidelines to design and develop biologically-inspired computational vision models that may favour a natural interaction between artificial systems and humans.  Please submit a short abstract summarizing your contribution, you may include links or pointers to web-based illustrations, demonstration material or papers giving more details. The work can be “in progress” or recently published, in addition to novel research. If you would like to give a talk, please contact Noceti  (nicoletta.noceti@unige.it ) and Sciutti (alessandra.sciutti@iit.it ) by email by July 6, 2016. Areas of interest include but are not limited to: •             Vision neuroscience for interaction •             Computational vision models •             Vision for Robotics and Artificial intelligence •             Human robot interaction •             Vision in Social sciences This workshop is supported by the European Project CODEFROR  (FP7-PIRSES-2013-612555) ************** Important dates: ************** + July 6, 2016 – Deadline for abstract submission October 19, 2016 – + BMVA symposium at BCS (British Computer Society) in London, UK. *********** Chairs: *********** + Nicoletta Noceti (Università degli Studi di Genova) - + nicoletta.noceti@unige.it Alessandra Sciutti (Istituto Italiano di + Tecnologia) - alessandra.sciutti@iit.it