<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Dear Neuromorphs,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">I would like to invite you to attend the IROS-2019 Workshop </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><b class="">“Cognitive Vehicles: Perception, learning and decision making under real-world constraints. Is bio-inspiration helpful?”</b></div><div class=""><b class=""><br class=""></b></div><div class=""><p class=""><a href="https://cogvehicles2019.github.io" class="">https://cogvehicles2019.github.io</a></p></div><div class=""><b class=""><br class=""></b></div><div class="">The topic of the workshop with its 11 invited talks is at the very core of themes that we have pursue in our Neuromorphic community:  what can be learn from biological neuronal and cognitive systems to make artificial cognition (or AI) more flexible, adaptive, agile and fit for the “real-world”, while also addressing the need for robustness, reproducibility, reliability, and safety of technological applications. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The workshop will take place on <b class="">8. November 2019 </b>as part of IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) in Macau, China. It is far for most of us, but if you are going to IROS anyway, you don’t want to miss it! </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The workshop will be endorsed by the NEUROTECH CSA (<a href="https://neurotechai.eu" class="">https://neurotechai.eu</a>) and European Society for Cognitive Systems EUCOG (<a href="https://neurotechai.eu" class="">https://neurotechai.eu</a>).</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">All the information about the Workshop is also summarised in the attached flyer. Please, spread the word and contribute yourself to our discussions! </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">>>>>> </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div title="Page 1" class="page"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><div class=""><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div style="text-align: center;" class=""><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 700;" class="">Workshop on Cognitive Vehicles:</span></div><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700;" class=""><div style="text-align: center;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class="">Perception, learning and decision making under real-world constraints. Is bio-inspiration helpful?</span></div></span><div class=""><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p style="text-align: center;" class=""><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: ArialMT;" class="">November 8, 2019 - IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems - Macau, China</span></p><p class=""><span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700; font-size: 14px;" class="">Workshop Description</span></p><p class=""><font size="2" class=""><span style="font-family: ArialMT;" class="">The goal of the workshop is to discuss potential benefits and pitfalls in applying bio- inspired approaches when developing intelligent real-world systems that perceive, interact, learn, and make decisions. We will focus on the application area of </span><span style="font-family: ArialMT;" class="">intelligent, “cognitive” vehicles. While biological inspiration has led to some of the </span><span style="font-family: ArialMT;" class="">most successful approaches in perception and machine learning in form of deep neural networks, their deployment in real-world, safety-critical settings is yet limited. We aim to explore and critically discuss what biological inspiration in perception, </span><span style="font-family: ArialMT;" class="">learning, and “cognition" could bring in the future for increasing intelligence of </span><span style="font-family: ArialMT;" class="">vehicles and other robotic systems. The workshop will stimulate discussion of the role of biological inspiration in the development of future AI systems in the context of real-world, safety-critical applications of robotic systems in environments shared with humans.</span></font></p><p class=""><a href="https://cogvehicles2019.github.io" class="">https://cogvehicles2019.github.io</a></p><p class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700;" class="">Call for Papers</span></p><p class=""><font size="2" class=""><span style="font-family: ArialMT;" class="">We invite contributions in the form of extended abstracts (min. 2 pages, max. 4 pages) in IEEE paper format to be presented at the workshop as posters and/or demos. Please follow the </span><a href="http://ras.papercept.net/conferences/support/support.php" class="">authors guidelines</a><span style="font-family: ArialMT; color: rgb(128, 0, 128);" class=""> </span><span style="font-family: ArialMT;" class="">and use the </span><a href="http://ras.papercept.net/conferences/support/tex.php" class="">LaTex</a><span style="font-family: ArialMT; color: rgb(128, 0, 128);" class=""> </span><span style="font-family: ArialMT;" class="">or </span><a href="https://www.iros2019.org" class=""></a><a href="http://ras.papercept.net/conferences/support/word.php" class="">MS</a><font color="#800080" face="ArialMT" class=""> </font><a href="http://ras.papercept.net/conferences/support/word.php" class="">Word</a> <span style="font-family: ArialMT;" class="">templates for the </span><a href="https://www.iros2019.org" class="">IROS conference</a><span style="font-family: ArialMT;" class="">. Outstanding contributions will be selected for oral presentations.</span></font></p><p class=""><font size="2" class=""><span style="font-family: ArialMT;" class="">We plan to publish extended versions of the papers accepted to the workshop as an article collection around the research topic of </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-style: italic;" class="">Towards Cognitive Vehicles: perception, learning and decision making under real-world constraints. Is bio- inspiration helpful? </span><span style="font-family: ArialMT;" class="">in </span><a href="https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/neurorobotics" class="">Frontiers in Neurorobotics</a><span style="font-family: ArialMT;" class="">. Additionally, accepted papers and eventual supplementary material will be made available on the workshop website.</span></font></p><p class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700;" class="">Important Dates</span></p><p class=""><span style="font-family: ArialMT;" class=""><font size="2" class="">Initial submission: 01.09.2019 Notification of acceptance: 10.09.2019 Camera-ready deadline: 20.09.2019 Workshop day: 08.11.2019</font></span></p><p class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700;" class="">Submission</span></p><p class=""><font size="2" class=""><span style="font-family: ArialMT;" class="">Please submit your contribution </span></font><a href="https://easychair.org/account/signin_timeout?l=OfdOYPcZK0ckDHfSd0SEs5" class="">via EasyChair</a><font size="2" class=""><span style="font-family: ArialMT;" class="">.</span></font></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>