CALL FOR PAPERS
Third International Workshop on Visual Surveillance
(in conjunction with ECCV'2000)
Dublin, Ireland
1 July 2000
(http://www.ia.ac.cn/nlpr/nationallabofp/Surveillance/call_for_paper.htm)
NEW DEADLINE: 21 February 2000
Visual surveillance of wide area scenes can provide statistics about
scene activity and high level descriptions of the behaviours of objects
and people. Typical scenes include shopping malls, city centres, mass
transportation networks and major road networks.
Visual surveillance raises important scientific and technical problems:
can high level interpretations of behaviours be obtained automatically?
what is the best way to coordinate and use thousands of cameras linked
by a communications network? how robust can a network based vision
system be? can visual surveillance meet the constraints on cost and
complexity necessary for success in a mass market? In addition, there is
an enormous potential market, ranging from mass transport operators who
wish to monitor and control the huge numbers of people passing through
the different nodes of a transport network, to department stores and
supermarkets who wish to collect the statistics about customer behaviour
needed for planning the layout of their stores. There are also
applications in policing and security. The different groups involved
(e.g., transport operators, supermarket companies, police and security
operators, etc.) are already informed about the potential of visual
surveillance, and there have been numerous articles in the press and in
popular scientific magazines.
The first two visual surveillance workshops were successfully held at
ICCV'98 in Bombay and CVPR'99 in Fort Collins, Colorado, both under the
sponsorship of the IEEE Computer Society. The third in the series will
be held on July 1st 2000, in Dublin, Ireland, just after ECCV'2000.
Papers are invited on any theoretical or practical aspects of visual
surveillance. Topics include but are not limited to
* Accident prevention and the detection of hazards
* Tracking and handover from one camera to another
* Segmentation of moving objects and people
* Posture, action and behaviour recognition
* Multi-camera data fusion
* Visual surveillance on wide area camera networks
* Learning and artificial intelligence in visual surveillance
All papers will be reviewed by the programme committee. Accepted papers will
be presented at the workshop and also included in the workshop proceedings.
Fuller versions of the best papers will be considered for publication in a
special issue of a leading computer vision journal.
Papers should be at most 8 pages, single spaced and with 3-4 keywords.
Please send THREE copies by post or an electronic copy in postscript format
to Dr. Steve Maybank at the address given below, to arrive by 21 FEBRUARY
2000 (deadline extended from 7 February).
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 University of Reading Institute of Automation
Whiteknights, PO Box 225 Chinese Academy of Sciences
Reading, Berkshire, RG6 6AY, UK PO Box 2728, Beijing 100080, China
COMMITTEE MEMBERS
J.K. Aggarwal (Texas, USA) S.Z. Li (NTU, Singapore)
T. Boult (Lehigh, USA) S.D. Ma (CAS, China)
R. Collins (CMU, USA) S.J. Maybank (Reading, UK)
J. Crowley (Grenoble, France) H.-H. Nagel (Karlsruhe, Germany)
L. Davis (Maryland, USA) G. Sandini (Genoa, Italy)
D. Gavrila (Daimler-Chrysler, Germany) Y. Shirai (Osaka, Japan)
W.E.L. Grimson (MIT, USA) T.N. Tan (CAS, China)
E. Hancock (York, UK) M. Thonnat (INRIA, France)
J. Heikkila (Oulu, Finland) G. West (Curtin, Australia)
J. Kittler (Surrey, UK)
IMPORTANT DATES
Full paper due 21 Feb 2000 (extended deadline)
Notification to authors 24 Mar 2000
Camera ready copy 7 Apr 2000
Workshop 1 July 2000