Call for Participation Intelligent Visual Surveillance http://www.bmva.ac.uk/meetings One Day BMVA Colloquium to be held at British Institute of Radiology, London, UK on 8th March 2000 Selected papers will also have the possibility of inclusion in a Special Issue of IVC Despite the enormous and growing number of cameras installed in our public spaces, today's visual surveillance systems enjoy neither intelligent behaviour nor provide facilities for complex querying of past or current events. Applications for such intelligent systems include transport safety, security of public space, crime prevention and commercial analysis. To achieve greater sophistication, there is a great diversity of scientific problems that must be solved including reliable image capture, robust and accurate event detection and object tracking, efficient use of communications bandwidth, knowledge acquisition and classification, as well as the development of intelligent storage and querying. Papers are particularly welcomed in the following areas: * Detection and tracking of pedestrians and vehicles * Classification of objects and events * Modelling and recognition and actions, gestures and behaviour * Coding for low bandwidth systems * Fusion of data from multiple sensors * Database storage and Context-based retrieval of surveillance data * System training and learning Invited speakers include * Dr Carlo S. Regazzoni, Department of Biophysical and Electronic Engineering, University of Genova * Geoff Thiel, Primary Image (Vision)Ltd Submission date Jan 14th for special issue of IVC on Visual Surveillance (full paper). for colloquium only (abstract). Notification of Acceptance Feb 7th Contact: Dr Graeme A. Jones, Dr Paolo Remagnino Digital Imaging Research Centre, School of Computer Science and Electronic Systems Kingston University, Kingston upon Thames, Penrhyn Rd, KT1 2EE, UNITED KINGDOM Tel +44 181 547 7669, Fax +44 181 547 7824 {g.jones,p.remagnino}@kingston.ac.uk