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Visual Mapping and Navigation in Outdoor Environments. The problem of navigation and mapping using vehicles equipped with sensors has been an extremely active research area in robotics during the last 20 years. Excellent results have been reported by many researchers, but until recently the most successful systems required the use of laser range-finder sensors and predominantly aimed to build 2D maps of planar environments. More recently, researchers have started to tackle larger and less structured environments by taking their vehicles outdoors. At the same time, the price of digital cameras has fallen steeply with a comparable increase in resolution and speed, opening the possibility of using such information rich sensors to obtain much more detail from the environments, beyond the capabilities of bulkier and more expensive laser sensors. The proposed full-day workshop seeks to gather some of the most prominent researchers in this field, who are currently investigating the use of visual sensors for navigation and mapping in challenging outdoor environments: urban, suburban, offroad, underwater, and airborne.  
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