RGBD 2013 - Special Session on Probabilistic RGBD Data Fusion

Since the launch of Kinect in 2010, setting up an RGBD Sensor Network has become within easy reach. In contrast to one single sensor, the combination of multiple cameras has many advantages such as simultaneous coverage of a large environment, increased resolution, redundancy, and robustness against occlusion. However, with these great benefits, there arise several challenges: one has to deal with synchronization, calibration, registration, multisensor fusion, large amount of data, interference issues, and last not least with sensor-specific stochastic and set-valued uncertainties. This Special Session addresses fundamental techniques, recent developments and future research directions in the field of probabilistic RGBD data fusion.