Call For Paper

                IEEE  ICCV Workshop  on
     "Detection and Recognition of Events in Video"
                 Vancouver, Canada
                 July 8, 2001
     http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/~hismail/Event2001

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Program

With the recent advancements in the analysis of digital video, it
is now becoming possible to look for high-level semantic events in
video. The detection of such events is important in a variety of
applications including surveillance, vision-based human-computer
interaction, and content-based retrieval. The automatic detection
of events, however, is a challenging problem, involving the detection
and recognition of objects, actions, and their inter-relationships.
Moreover, events are often multi-modal requiring the gathering of
evidence from information available in multiple media sources such
as video and audio. Even with the best techniques for visual or audio
scene analysis, event detection using the individual cues will continue
to possess robustness problems due to detection errors. This makes the
problem of localizing events through multi-modal fusion difficult using
the conflicting indications given by the individual cues. This workshop
is being organized to bring together researchers working on one or more
aspects of event detection and recognition in digital video, that have
been facing the above challenges. Original papers are solicited in, but
not restricted to, the following topics:

Object detection, recognition and tracking.
Action recognition.
Activity recognition.
Auditory event detection.
Audio-visual event detection.
Multi-modal/multi-sensor  fusion techniques.
Applications of event detection in areas such as surveillance,
human computer interaction, content-based retrieval, etc.

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Organizing Committee

Tanveer Syeda-Mahmood, IBM Almaden Research
Ismail Haritaoglu, IBM Almaden Research

Program Committee:

Robert Collins  CMU
James Crowley  INRIA, France
Jim Davis  Ohio State University
David Doerman  University of Maryland, College Park
Irfan Essa  Georgia Tech
W.Eric  Grimson  MIT
Tom Huang  University of Illinois, Urbana
Steve Maybank  Reading University, UK
Jun Ohya  Waseda University, JAPAN
James Rehg  COMPAQ Research
Yong Rui  Microsoft Research
Stan Sclaroff  Boston University
Mubarak Shah  University of Central Florida
Malcom Slaney  IBM  Almaden Research
Yaser Yacoob  University of Maryland, College Park
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Submission:
A  complete paper in PDF or Postscript format , not longer than
eight pages including figures and references, should be submitted
electronically in camera-ready IEEE 2-column format of single-spaced
text in 10 point Times Roman (or closely resembling), with 12 point
interline space. A paper should not include any information which
allows the authors to be identified. The authors are encouraged to use
the style files in latex or word which are pointed to at the ICCV 2001
web pages (http://www.cs.ubc.ca/conferences/ICCV/), for latex or word.
All reviewing will be carried out double blind by the  Program Committee.
Accepted papers will be published in a printed proceedings by the IEEE
Computer Society.

To ensure proper handling of your paper, before submitting the paper
authors must fill the paper registration form to get a paper number
and further electronic submission instructions.  Each paper will be
automatically assigned a submission number. This submission number
will be used to identify and track your paper.

Manuscript submission  January 29, 2001
Notification of acceptance  March 15, 2001
Final manuscript due  April  30, 2001
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For further information please contact Ismail Haritaoglu
(ismailh@almaden.ibm.com)
or  Tanveer Syeda-Mahmood (stf@almaden.ibm.com).