This year, we strongly encourage submissions on robotic systems and applications. Research papers are solicited in, but not limited to, the following topics:

• Deep learning hardware and software architectures for visual exploitation
• Analysis of vision problems specific to embedded systems
• Analysis of embedded systems issues specific to computer vision
• Large scale computer vision problems including object recognition, scene analysis, visual, industrial and medical applications
• Embedded vision for robotics (industrial, mobile, and consumer)
• Embedded vision for Unmanned Ground and Air Vehicles, including consumer drones
• Embedded visual navigation (mapping, localization, VSLAM, VO)
• New trends in programmable processors for vision and computational imaging
• Applications of and algorithms for embedded vision on:
• Massively parallel platforms such as GPUs (PC, embedded and mobile)
• Programmable platforms such as DSPs and multicore SoCs
• Reconfigurable platforms such as FPGAs and SoCs with reconfigurable logic
• Mobile devices, including smartphones and tablets
• Vision-based client devices for the Internet of Things (IoT)
• Embedded vision for 3D movies and TV
• Biologically-inspired vision and embedded systems
• Computer vision applications distributed between embedded devices and servers
• Social networking embedded computer vision applications
• Educational methods for embedded vision
• User interface designs and CAD tools for embedded vision applications
• Hardware enhancements (lens, imager, processor) that impact vision applications
• Software enhancements (OS, middleware, vision libraries, development tools) that impact embedded vision application
• Methods for standardization and measurement of vision functionalities
• Performance metrics for evaluating embedded systems
• Hybrid embedded systems combining vision and other sensor modalities