CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
 
 
            IEEE International Workshop on Visual Surveillance
                     (in conjunction with ICCV'98)
               Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India
                             2 January 1998
 
Visual Surveillance concerns the analysis and understanding of dynamic scenes.
It is a major application of computer vision and is of great importance for
security, law enforcement, military applications, intelligent transportation
systems, remote sensing, etc. Surveillance cameras are installed all around
us, for example along major roads, in city centres, in shops, at airports and
at railway and bus stations. By analyzing information from such cameras it is
possible to monitor, understand and hence control activities in large, complex 
and spatially distributed regions. 
 
The response to the Call for Papers was very encouraging and the quality of 
the submitted papers was generally high. Each paper was reviewed by at least 
two members of the Programme Committee. In total we received 53 papers of which
only 12 have been accepted for presentation at the workshop. 
 
We are confident that workshop participants will find the papers interesting 
and intriguing.  Registration information for the workshop may be found at
https://secure.computer.org/conf/iccv/register.htm
 
We look forward to meeting you at the Workshop in Bombay!
 
Steve Maybank and Tieniu Tan
Co-Chairs
 
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                           WORKSHOP PROGRAMME
 
(Each paper has been allocated 30 minutes, 20-25min. for presentation and
 5-10min. for questions/discussions)
 
SESSION 1:  Monitoring and Surveillance of People
TIME:       10:00 - 12:00, 2 Jan 1998
CHAIR:      Tieniu Tan, NLPR, China.
 
     Y. Cui, S.Samarasekera, Q.Huang and M.Greiffenhagen
     (Siemens Corporate Research Inc., USA)
     Indoor Monitoring via the Collaboration between a Peripheral Sensor and a 
     Foveal Sensor.
 
     Y. Ye, J.K. Tsotsos, K. Bennet and E. Harley
     (IBM T.J.Watson Research Center, USA)
     Tracking a Person with Pre-Recorded Image Database by a Pan, Tilt and
     Zoom Camera.
 
     J. Batista, P. Peixoto and H. Araujo 
     (University of Coimbra, Portugal)
     Real-Time Active Visual Surveillance by Integrating Peripheral Motion
     Detection with Foveated Tracking.
 
     T. Darrell, G.Gordon, J.Woodfill and M.Harville
     (Interval Research Corp., USA)
     Robust, Real-Time People Tracking in Open Environments Using Integrated
     Stereo, Color, and Face Detection.
 
 
TIME:       12:00 - 13:00   LUNCH
 
 
SESSION 2:  Image Processing for Visual Surveillance
TIME:       13:00 - 15:00, 2 Jan 1998
CHAIR:      Steve Maybank, University of Reading, UK
 
     L. Wixson, K. Hanna and D. Mishra
     (Sarnoff Corp., USA)
     Improved Illumination Assessment for Vision-Based Traffic Monitoring
 
     A. Tankus and Y.Yeshurun
     (Tel-Aviv University, Israel)
     Detection of Regions of Interest and Camouflage Breaking by Direct
     Convexity Estimation. 
 
     Y. Ivanov, A.Bobick and J.Liu
     (MIT, USA)
     Fast Lighting Independent Background Subtraction
 
     R. Deriche, C. Bouvin and O. Faugeras
     (INRIA, France)
     Front Propagation and Level-Set Approach for Geodesic Active Stereovision.
 
 
TIME:       15:00 - 15:30   COFFEE/TEA BREAK
 
 
SESSION 3:  Monitoring and Surveillance of Traffic Scenes
TIME:       15:30 - 17:30, 2 Jan 1998
CHAIR:      Steve Maybank, University of Reading, UK
 
    H.-H. Nagel, T.Schwarz, H.Leuck and M.Haag
    (IITB, Germany)
    T3WT: Tracking Turning Trucks with Trailers.
 
   J.M. Ferryman, S.J. Maybank and A.D. Worrall
    (University of Reading, UK)
    Visual Surveillance for Moving Vehicles
 
    R.J. Morris and D.Hogg
    (University of Leeds, UK)
    Statistical Models of Object Interaction.
 
    R.J. Howarth and H.Buxton
    (University of Sussex, UK)
    Attentional Control for Visual Surveillance
 
 
TIME:       17:30     CLOSE 
 
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                    THE ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
 
                            Co-Chairs
 
       Steve Maybank                             Tieniu Tan
 Department of Computer Science      National Lab. of Pattern Recognition
   The University of Reading             Chinese Academy of Sciences
            UK                                       China
 
 
                        Program Committee
 
                         H. Buxton   (UK)
                         J. Crowley  (France)
                         E. Hancock  (UK)
                         R. Hartley  (USA)
                         T. Kanade   (USA)
                         S. D. Ma    (China)
                         J. Malik    (USA)
                         S. Maybank  (UK)
                         H.-H. Nagel (Germany)
                        A. Pentland (USA)
                         G. Sandini  (Italy)
                         Y. Shirai   (Japan)
                         T. Tan      (China)
                         S. Tsuji    (Japan)
 
                      Additional Reviewers
 
                         R. Curwen   (USA)
                         R. Howarth  (UK)
                         Y. Kuno     (Japan)
                         Y. Li       (China)
                         J. Miura    (Japan)
                         J. Mundy    (USA)
                         P. Remagnino (UK)
                         N. Shimada  (Japan)