FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS Second IEEE International Workshop on Visual Surveillance (in conjunction with CVPR'99) Fort Collins, Colorado, USA 26 June 1999 (http://www.ia.ac.cn/nlpr/nationallabofp/Surveillance/to-whole.htm) = ******** EXTENDED DEADLINE: 1 MARCH 1999 ********* *************************************************** Visual surveillance is both a challenging scientific problem and an important application of computer vision. Road traffic, for example, can be monitored to detect accidents, congestion or erratic driver behaviour. Surveillance combined with number plate recognition can ascertain traffic flows over large areas. The surveillance and tracking of people have great social and economic benefits, for example in crime prevention, in customer behaviour analysis at department stores, and in secure sites' protection. Visual surveillance is also used to monitor the growth and feeding behaviour of farm animals. There are numerous similar applications. The effectiveness of a surveillance system is increased if the user can obtain from it high level information in a familiar verbal form. A statement like `the man in the red shirt is walking leftwards' is preferable to a table of numbers. To obtain such information it is necessary to employ well established methods in computer vision and image processing such as segmentation, object detection and recognition, motion analysis, model fitting and filtering as well as more recent methods such as Bayesian nets, machine learning, hidden Markov models and principal component analysis. Following a very successful first one-day workshop on visual surveillance at ICCV'98, the second will be held on June 26 1999, just after CVPR'99. Papers are invited on any theoretical or practical aspects of visual surveillance. Typical topics are * High level scene interpretation * Tracking * Modelling and recognition of gestures and actions * Multi-camera data fusion * Detection of abnormal or unusual behaviour * System training and learning * Object detection and recognition All papers will be reviewed by the program 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 Image and Vision Computing Journal. Papers should be at most 8 pages, single spaced and with 3-4 keywords. Please send THREE copies to Dr. Steve Maybank at the address given below, to arrive by 1 March 1999. Authors should include an email address where possible. For further information please contact Steve Maybank (S.J.Maybank@reading.ac.uk) or Tieniu Tan (Tieniu.Tan@nlpr.ia.ac.cn). PROGRAMME COMMITTEE CO-CHAIRS Steve Maybank Tieniu Tan Department of Computer Science National Laboratory of Pattern Recognition The Universty of Reading Chinese Academy of Sciences Whiteknights, PO Box 225 P O Box 2728, Beijing 100080 Reading, Berkshire RG6 6AY, UK China COMMITTEE MEMBERS R. Collins (CMU, USA) S.J. Maybank (Reading, UK) J. Crowley (Grenoble, France) H.-H. Nagel (Karlsruhe, Germany) L. Davis (Maryland, USA) A. Pentland (MIT, USA) E. Hancock (York, UK) G. Sandini (Genoa, Italy) R. Hartley (GE, USA) Y. Shirai (Osaka, Japan) J. Kittler (Surrey, UK) T.N. Tan (CAS, China) S.Z. Li (NTU, Singapore) S. Tsuji (Wakayama, Japan) A. Lipton (CMU, USA) G. West (Curtin, Australia) S.D. Ma (CAS, China) IMPORTANT DATES Full paper due 1 MAR 1999 Notification 10 Apr 1999 Camera ready copy 21 Apr 1999 Workshop 26 June 1999