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)
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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