Croatian Robotics Conference (CRC) took place on May 15-16, 2025 in Čakovec, Croatia. The AIFORS team had a strong presence at the conference, with multiple team members participating in various activities. Luka Petrović participated in the panel "How to PhD", while Tin Mišić and Karlo Koledić gave talks with the titles "Active Inference and Attention in Robotics" and "Enhancing Generalization in Monocular Depth Estimation for Autonomous Systems".
The whole team also maintained the stand at the second day of the conference, that was open to the general public, Borna Paro, Tin Mišić, Karlo Koledić, and Luka Petrović engaged with visitors and inspired visitors with live robot demonstrations.
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The first day of CRC 2025 conference which was organized by the Robotics Association DOF (composed of PhD students from the UNIZG-FSB and UNIZG-FER) was intended for professionals and was closed to the general public, there was a panel discussion and fourteen lectures, aiming to create a platform for the exchange of knowledge, experiences, and ideas among researchers, PhD students, professors, engineers, and industry representatives.
Luka Petrović participated in the panel "How to PhD?", where postdoctoral researchers shared their insights and experiences on navigating the PhD journey and the transition beyond.
Tin Mišić gave a talk "Active Inference and Attention in Robotics," presenting the AIFORS team's approach to modelling visual attention within the active inference framework, where they model both top-down, goal-directed attention and bottom-up, sensory-driven attention.
Karlo Koledić presented his research with a talk titled "Enhancing Generalization in Monocular Depth Estimation for Autonomous Systems", introducing a novel approach that leverages the fixed relationship between the camera and the ground plane in autonomous systems, enabling depth regression via perspective geometry constraints.
On the second day, the conference was open to the general public where all interested citizens were able to participate in workshops, practical robot demonstrations, presentations by technology companies, and follow a panel discussion on the topic of technology transfer from academia to industry. The AIFORS team inspired visitors with live robot demonstrations at the AIFORS/LAMOR stand where Borna Paro, Tin Mišić, Karlo Koledić, and Luka Petrović together with LAMOR's Jelena Rogina and Vlaho Josip Štironja engaged with visitors.
The conference attracted many young researchers as well as representatives from Croatian robotic companies such as Gideon and Probotica, also from DOK-ING, Visage, SICK, Jungheinrich, Framos, Orqa, Calirad, B<<Robotized, Autron and RBT, providing excellent networking opportunities and visibility for the AIFORS project within the Croatian robotics community.
