NOTE: NEW DEADLINE - FRIDAY, MARCH 26, 1999
 
                            CALL FOR PAPERS
 
      IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
 
                            SPECIAL SECTION
                                  on
                          VIDEO SURVEILLANCE AND MONITORING
 
(http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~ajl/pami.html)
 
With the advent of low-cost/high performance video sensors and
computational equipment, it has become increasingly possible to
process video streams in real-time on affordable computational
platforms. A major application of these technologies is in the field
of video surveillance and monitoring. Only recently, has the potential
for this technology begun to be realised. Automated video
understanding technology can enhance monitoring systems beyond
what is possible for human operators alone. Computational systems can
be implemented to maintain long-term surveillance on large numbers
of video streams without getting tired, bored, or "overloaded".
In addition, automated systems can coordinate multiple cameras and
provide "synopsis" views of activities that can be used to
analyze events after the fact.
 
Authors are invited to submit papers about quality research on (but
not limited to) the topics of interest below:
 
- Target identification and tracking from video streams
- Airborne video surveillance
- Activity recognition, either of individual or group activities
- Context-based site surveillance
- Long-term surveillance
- Fusion of video with other sensing modalities
- Video databases and retrieval for facilitating monitoring
- Visualization and data dissemination from surveillance systems
 
Guest editors for this special section are Takeo Kanade, Robert
Collins and Alan Lipton (CMU). Authors are invited to submit five (5)
copies of their manuscript to the address given below. Papers must be
received by March 26, 1999.
 
Send submissions to:
 
Dr Alan Lipton
The Robotics Institute/Smith Hall
Carnegie Mellon University
5000 Forbes Ave
Pittsburgh, PA, 15213
USA