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