VIEW-BASED ROBOT LOCALIZATION USING ILLUMINATION-INVARIANT SPHERICAL HARMONICS DESCRIPTORS Topics: Active and Robot Vision; Early Vision and Image Representation; Illumination and Reflectance Modeling; Image Formation, Acquisition Devices and Sensors; Implementation of Image and Video Processing Systems; Real-Time Vision; Recognition and Indexing; Statistical Approach; Visual Learning; Visual Navigation; Visually Guided Robotics In Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 1: VISAPP, 543-550, 2008 , Funchal, Madeira, Portugal