Special issue on Visual SLAM

A special issue of the IEEE Transactions on Robotics

Introduction

In recent years there have been spectacular advances in the solution of the simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) problem for indoor and outdoor environments, with systems capable of building large 2D models of the environment using laser scanners. A current trend in SLAM is to use standard, low-cost, compact and information-rich cameras to sense the environment rather than more specialized sensors.

The IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ROBOTICS invites you to submit papers on this rapidly progressing subject, in response to a call for a Special Issue on Visual SLAM. Techniques that contribute to close the gap between 'traditional' SLAM techniques and computer vision techniques will be of special interest.

Scope, description and more information

Regular and short papers for this Special Issue should be submitted in the usual way to T-RO (see details on www.ieee-ras.org/tro/for_authors). Essentially, papers (in PDF) should be submitted by FTP to the site address ftp://ftp.dis.uniroma1.it/pub/ieeetro/incoming. The cover page of the paper should contain the paper title, authors’ names and full addresses, abstract, keywords (index terms), and paper type (Regular Paper, Short Paper). The corresponding author should be clearly indicated. A submission letter has to be sent by email to ieeetro@dis.uniroma1.it including (as plain text in the message) all information contained in the cover page of the paper and the name of the uploaded file(s). In the submission email, please specify that the paper is intended for the Special Issue on Visual SLAM.

T-RO considers also multimedia material (typically, videos) accompanying the submission of a paper. Instructions on the preparation of this material can be found on www.ieee-ras.org/tro/for_authors. Multimedia will appear side-by-side to the accepted paper in the electronic version of the Special Issue within IEEE Xplore.

The Call for Papers is going to be published also in the August 2007 issue of T-RO, in the September 2007 issue of the IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine (RAM), as well as in the October 2007 issue of the IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering (T-ASE).

Download the call for papers for the T-RO Special Issue on Visual SLAM

Guest editors

Jose Neira

Guest editor

	Universidad de Zaragoza, Departamento de Informática e Ingeniería de Sistemas
	Zaragoza, Spain
			http://webdiis.unizar.es/~neira/
	jneira@unizar.es

Andrew Davison

Guest editor

	Imperial College, Department of Computing
	London, United Kingdom
			http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~ajd/
	ajd@doc.ic.ac.uk

John Leonard

Guest editor

	Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering
	Cambridge (MA), United States
	+1 617 253 8125		http://cml.mit.edu/~jleonard/
	jleonard@mit.edu