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