IEEE Workshop on Visual Surveillance - Call for Papers
 
                           January 2, 1998
         Tata Institute for Fundamental Research, Bombay, India
                   (In conjunction with ICCV'98)
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Visual Surveillance is a major application of computer vision and is of great 
societal importance. By analyzing information from one or more cameras it is
possible to monitor and hence control activities in large, complex and 
spatially distributed regions such as city centres, airports, road and rail 
networks, and even individual buildings. Visual surveillance involves
traditional computer vision research areas such as image analysis, object
recognition and data fusion as well as newer areas such as system wide
autocalibration, AI based scene analysis and learning.
 
A one day workshop on visual surveillance will be held on January 2 1998,
just before ICCV'98. Papers are invited on any theoretical or practical aspects
of visual surveillance. Typical topics are
 
 o  Motion segmentation and analysis     o  Rigid and non-rigid object tracking
 o  Object detection and recognition     o  Spatial and temporal reasoning
 o  Behaviour modelling and analysis     o  Semantics recovery
 o  Action understanding                 o  Multi-camera data fusion
 o  Context recovery and representation  o  System training and learning
 
All papers will be reviewed by the programme committee. Accepted papers will be
presented at the workshop and also included in the proceedings to be published
by the IEEE. Fuller versions of the best papers will be considered for
publication in a special issue of the International Journal of Computer Vision.
 
Papers should be at most 8 pages, single spaced and with 3-4 keywords.
Please send 3 copies to Dr Steve Maybank at the address given below, 
to arrive by August 15, 1997. Authors should include an email address where
possible.
 
For further information please contact Steve Maybank or Tieniu Tan.
 
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                                 Co-Chairs
 
           Stephen J. Maybank                   Tieniu Tan
         S.J.Maybank@reading.ac.uk           T.Tan@reading.ac.uk
 
                    Department of Computer Science
                       The University of Reading
                       Whiteknights, PO Box 225
                     Reading, Berkshire, RG6 6AY, UK
      
 
                            Programme Committee
        H. Buxton    (Sussex, UK)             J. Malik     (UC Berkeley, USA)
        J. Crowley   (Grenoble, France)       S.J. Maybank (Reading, UK)
        E. Hancock   (York, UK)               H.-H. Nagel  (Karlsruhe, Germany)
        R. Hartley   (GE, USA)                A. Pentland  (MIT, USA)
        D. Hogg      (Leeds, UK)              G. Sandini   (Genoa, Italy)
        T. Kanade    (CMU, USA)               Y. Shirai    (Osaka, Japan)
        J. Kittler   (Surrey, UK)             T.N. Tan     (Reading, UK)
        S.D. Ma      (CAS, China)             S. Tsuji     (Wakayama, Japan)
 
 
IMPORTANT DATES:
  
          Full paper due:       15 AUGUST    1997
          Notification:         18 SEPTEMBER 1997
          Camera ready copy:    15 OCTOBER   1997
          Workshop:              2 JANUARY   1998