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