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 **************************************************************************** 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 **************************************************************************** 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)