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Preface The OAGM and ARW Joint Workshop on Computer Vision and Robotics provides a platform bring- ing together researchers, students, professionals and practitioners from both research directions to discuss new and emerging technologies in the field of machine driven perception and automated ma- nipulation/autonomous movement. Even though there is a long tradition for OAGM workshops (we are celebrating the 40th workshop since 1980) and the ARW workshops (since 2011), which have their roots in theearlydaysof theAustrianRoboCupworkshops(2006), this is thefirst timethatboth communities areorganizing a joint event. Computer Vision tries to perceive the physical world from image or video data resulting in applica- tions such as scene understanding, object detection and tracking and 3D reconstruction. Thus, the main problems are to find suitable representations and to design and implement efficient (learning) algorithms. Incontrast,Roboticsaimsatdealingwithmovingarms,graspers, andeventuallymoving vehicles. Thereareoneormoreactuatorswhichhavetobecontrolledaccordingly inaplannedmatter for fulfillinggiven jobs. Someof themconsistofadditional sensors, e.g., graspersget somefeedback for theycancorrectlycatchandholdobjectwithout losingordestroying it;or themobiledevicestops in front of an obstacle. These examples clearly demonstrate the relations between both fields. The outer world/the actual scenery is perceived by cameras; a consistent set of knowledge is modeled for the actuator for operating successfully either in a planned or even in an unplanned – standalone – strategy. Thus, there is a considerable interest in describing approaching features and possibilities andhow thecombination ofdifferent technologiescould bebeneficial. The aim of the joint workshop is to discuss latest academic and industrial approaches and to demon- strate the recent progress. The call for papers resulted in 28 full paper submissions and additional 9 paperssubmittedtotheindustrial/featuredtalkandposter track,wherefinallyaccordingtothereviews ofan internationalprogrammecommittee34contributions(26talks,8posters)havebeenselectedfor presentationat theworkshop. Thegoalof theworkshop isalsosupportedby invitingfive internation- ally established researchers, i.e., Oliver Bimber (JKU Linz), Ales Leonardis (BHAM, UK), Laurent Resquet (TIMA, FR), Andreas Mu¨ller (JKU Linz), Andreas Nu¨chter (JMU, DE), representing both areas. KurtNiel (General chair of the workshop) PeterM.Roth (ChairmanOAGM) MarkusVincze (ChairmanARW) Wels,May1,2016 i