One Day Meeting: BMVA Symposium: Robotics Foundation World Models

Wednesday 30 October 2024

Chairs: Rudra Poudel (Toshiba Europe Ltd), Dimitrios Kanoulas (University College London) Maria Koskinopoulou (Heriot-Watt University), Thomas George Thuruthel (University College London)

Invited Speakers

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To contact the chairs

Dr. Rudra P.K. Poudel Toshiba Europe Ltd, rudra.poudel@gmail.com

Assoc. Prof. Dimitrios Kanoulas University College London, d.kanoulas@ucl.ac.uk

Asst. Prof. Maria Koskinopoulou Heriot-Watt University, M.Koskinopoulou@hw.ac.uk

Asst. Prof. Thomas George Thuruthel University College London, t.thuruthel@ucl.ac.uk

Call for Presentations

We invite academic and industry presentations, bringing together researchers interested in all aspects of learning world models and foundational models for robotics, including but not limited to, world models, robotic foundation models, efficient foundation models, planning, manipulation, navigation, multimodal representation learning, vision-and-language for robotics, etc.

If you are unsure about the suitable of your topic, please contact the chairs.

Presentations will take the form of one of two types: poster, talk. When applying for a presentation, you are welcome to choose any combination of the options. You can apply to give a presentation using the form below. Note that this will NOT be a hybrid event, therefore we expect presenters to attend the event in person.

**The deadline for submitting a presentation is the Sunday 15th September 2024 **

Meeting Location

The meeting will take place at:

British Computer Society (BCS), 25 Copthall Avenue, London EC2R 7BP

Registration

We keep the cost of attending these events as low as possible to ensure no barriers from the whole computer vision community attending. The registration costs are as follows

• BMVA Members: £20

• Non BMVA Members £40 (Includes membership to the BMVA for 2025)

Both include lunch and refreshments for the day