Dear All, I am pleased to announce the ============= FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS 2nd European Workshop on Advanced Video-based Surveillance Systems September 4, 2001 Kingston upon Thames London, UK www.kingston.ac.uk/avbs2001 This one-day workshop aims to bring together academic researchers from the fields of engineering, computer vision and artificial intelligence with industrial developers working in the field of visual surveillance. There is a great diversity of scientific problems that must be solved including reliable image capture and detection, efficient use of communications bandwidth, knowledge acquisition and classification, intelligent storage and querying, as well as intelligent interfaces. Applications for this technology include transport safety, security of public space, crime prevention and commercial analysis. Moreover, some projects are designed to deliver an increase in operator efficiency, while others are expected to operate autonomously. Particularly welcomed in the following areas: * Detection and tracking of pedestrians and vehicles * Recognition of specific and generic objects * Modelling and recognition of actions, gestures and behaviour * Coding for low bandwidth systems * Fusion of data from multiple sensors * Database storage and retrieval of surveillance data * System training and learning * Context-based video retrieval IMPORTANT DATES Submission Feb 16th 2001 Five A4 page full length paper Notification Apr 13th 2001 Camera Ready May 25th 2001 SPONSORS Siemens Corporate Research Sarnoff Corporation Honeywell Research Center Philips Research Department of Biophysical and Electronic Engineering, University of Genova Digital Imaging Research Centre, Kingston University Associazione Italiana per l'Intelligenza Artificiale PROGRAMME Oral Session on Tracking and Scene Understanding Invited Speaker: Prof. Yoshinori Kuno, Saitama University Oral Session on Communications and Distributed Processing Invited Speaker: Prof. Pramod Varshney, Syracuse University Oral Session on Visual Surveillance from an Industrial Perspective Invited Speaker: Dr Nikos Paragios, Siemens Corporate Research Invited Speaker: Dr Rakesh Kumar, Sarnoff Corporation Invited Speaker: Dr Ioannis Pavlidis, Honeywell Laboratories Invited Speaker: Dr Thomas Bordsky, Philips Research Centre CONFERENCE CHAIRS Dr Paolo Remagnino, School of Computing and Information Systems, Kingston University Prof. Carlo Regazzoni, Department of Biophysical and Electronic Engineering, University of Genova Dr Nikos Paragios, Imaging and Visualization Department, Siemens Corporate Research SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE Prof Petri Mahonen, VTT Elektroniika, Finland Prof Touradj Ebrahimi, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) Prof Murat Kunt, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) Dr Didier Aubert, French National Institute for Transport and Safety Research (INRETS), France Dr Cordelia Schmid, French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control (INRIA), France Dr Etienne M�min, French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control (INRIA), France Prof Ioannis Pitas, University of Thessaloniki, Greece Dr Mauro Barni, University of Siena, Italy Prof Alberto Broggi, University of Pavia, Italy Prof Gian Luca Foresti, University of Udine, Italy Prof Fernando Ramos, Aveiro University, Portugal Eng. Isabel Martins, Engineering Institute of Porto (ISEP)/INESC Porto, Portugal Dr Neil Johnson, InfraRed Integrated Systems Ltd, UK Dr Tim Ellis, City University, UK Dr James Ferryman, University of Reading, UK Prof A. Murat Tekalp, University of Rochester, US Dr R. Ismail Haritaoglu, University of Maryland, US ======== For queries please contact either any of the conference chairs or the Workshop secretary Dr Graeme A. Jones Digital Imaging Research Centre School of Computing and Information Systems Kingston University, Penrhyn Road, Kingston, KT1 2EE Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tele: +44 (0)20-8547-7669 Fax: +44 (0)20-8547-7824 Web: www.kingston.ac.uk/dirc/ thank you Dr Paolo Remagnino
