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KeynotesFrançois Brémond, INRIA - Scene Understanding and Assisted Living Bio: François Brémond is leading the STARS team at INRIA Sophia Antipolis. He designs and develops generic systems for dynamic scene interpretation. The targeted class of applications is the automatic interpretation of indoor and outdoor scenes observed with various sensors and in particular with static cameras. These systems detect and track mobile objects, which can be either humans or vehicles, and recognize their behaviours. He is particularly interested in filling the gap between sensor information (pixel level) and recognized activities (semantic level). In 1997 he obtained his PhD degree at INRIA in video understanding and François Brémond pursued his research work as a post doctorate at USC on the interpretation of videos taken from UAV (Unmanned Airborne Vehicle). He also has participated to many European and industrial research projects in activity monitoring. François Brémond is author or co-author of more than 100 scientific papers published in international journals or conferences in video understanding. In 2005 he was a co-fonder of Keeneo, a company in intelligent video surveillance. Erol Sahin, Middle-East Technical University - Affordances and Concepts Bio: Erol Sahin is an Assist. Prof. at the Computer Engineering Department of METU, heading the KOVAN Research Laboratory. He has a Ph.D. in Cognitive & Neural Systems from Boston University, USA, where he worked with Prof. Paolo Gaudiano at the now-defunct Neurobotics Lab. His research on robotics is being funded by the ROSSI project (FP7-ICT-21625). Recently the group was awarded an iCub humanoid robot platform, being developed by the RobotCub project. The group is developing a neurocomputational model based on the notion of affordances in psychology and mirror and canonical neuron studies in neurophysiology. Dr. Sahin has edited a number of books and special issues on Swarm Robotics and is an associate editor of the Adaptive Behavior journal. Oussama Khatib, Stanford University - Robots and the Human Bio: Oussama Khatib received his Doctorate degree in Electrical Engineering from SupAero, Toulouse, France, in 1980. He is Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University. His work on advanced robotics focuses on methodologies and technologies on human-centered robotics including humanoid control architectures, human motion synthesis, interactive dynamic simulation, haptics, and human-friendly robot design. He is Co-Editor of the Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics series, and has served on the Editorial Boards of several journals as well as the Chair or Co-Chair of numerous international conferences. He coedited the Springer Handbook of Robotics, which received the PROSE Award for Excellence in Physical Sciences & Mathematics and was also the winner in the category Engineering & Technology. He is a Fellow of IEEE and has served RAS as a Distinguished Lecturer, as a member of the Administrative Committee, and as the Program Chair of ICRA 2000. He is the President of the International Foundation of Robotics Research (IFRR) and a recipient of the Japan Robot Association (JARA) Award in Research and Development. Professor Khatib received the 2010 IEEE RAS Pioneer Award in Robotics and Automation for his fundamental pioneering contributions in robotics research, visionary leadership, and life-long commitment to the field. |
