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Preface ThesecondOAGMandARWJointWorkshopon“Vision,AutomationandRobotics”held inVienna, at Palais Eschenbach, from May 10 to 12, 2017, provides a platform bringing together researchers, students, professionals and practitioners from both research directions to discuss new and emerg- ing technologies in the field of machine driven perception and automated manipulation/autonomous movement. TheOAGMandARWworkshopshavealongtraditionsince1980and2011, respectively, also stimulated by the Austrian RoboCup workshops (since 2006). Due to the highly overlapping in- terests of both communities the first joint event was organized in 2016. This second joint workshop will further strengthen the interactionof scientistsworking invision, automationand robotics. 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 andhowthecombinationofdifferent technologiescouldbebeneficial. 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 43 submissions, where finally according to the reviews of an international programme committee 37 contributions (23 talks, 14 posters) have been selected for presentation at the workshop. To highlight outstanding contributions, there prizes will be awarded during the joint workshop: The OAGM Best Paper Award sponsored by the Austrian ComputerSociety (OCG)and the IEEERASAustriaBestStudentPaperAward. The goal of the workshop, bridging the gap between the Austrian Visual Computing and Robotics communities, is also supported by inviting three internationally established researchers representing both field:,Daniel Cremers (TU Munich, Germany), Pedro Sanz (Universitat Jaume I, Spain) and HeroldArte´s (RobArtGmbH,Austria), representingbothareas. MarkusVincze (General chairof theworkshop) WilfriedKubinger (ChairmanARW) PeterM.Roth (ChairmanOAGM) Vienna,May2017 v