CALL FOR PAPERS

 2nd European Workshop
   on 
  Advanced Video-based Surveillance Systems



  4 September, 2001
  Kingston upon Thames
   Surrey, UK






Following the success of the first workshop, this one day workshop aims to
bring together academic researchers from the fields of engineering, 
computer vision and artificial intelligence with industrial developers
working  in the field of visual surveillance. There is a great diversity
of scientific  problems that must be solved including reliable image
capture and  detection, efficient use of communications bandwidth,
knowledge acquisition and classification, intelligent storage and
querying, as well as intelligent  interfaces. Applications for this
technology include transport safety,  security of public space, crime
prevention and commercial analysis.  Moreover, some projects are designed
to  deliver an increase in operator  efficiency, while others are 
expected to operate autonomously. Papers are  particularly  welcomed in
the areas of 

* Detection and tracking of pedestrians and vehicles 
* Recognition of specific and generic objects 
* Modelling and recognition of actions, gestures and behaviour 
* Coding for low bandwidth systems 
* Fusion of data from multiple sensors 
* Database storage and retrieval of surveillance data 
* System training and learning 
* Context-based video retrieval 

Important dates

Submission              FOUR A4 page  paper                     Feb 16th
2001
Notification                                                                    
Apr 13th 2001
Camera Ready            Electronic Submission           May 25th 2001

Workshop Website
http://www.kingston.ac.uk/AVBS2001



Contact



AVBS Secretariat
School of Computing and Information Systems
Kingston University
Penrhyn Road
Kingston upon Thames
Surrey, KT1 2EE, United Kingdom

Tel:    +44 (0)20 8547 7669
Fax:    +44 (0)20 8547 7824
Email:  AVBS@kingston.ac.uk 

Conference Chairs

Dr Paolo Remagnino
School of Computing and Information Systems
Kingston University

Professor Carlo Regazzoni
Department of Biophysical and Electronic Engineering
University of Genoa
Scientific Committee



Prof Petri Mahonen VTT Elektroniika, Finland
Prof Touradj Ebrahimi Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL)
Prof Murat Kunt Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL)
Dr Didier Aubert French National Institute for Transport and Safety
Research (INRETS)
Dr Cordelia Schmid French National Institute for Research in Computer
Science and Control (INRIA)
Dr Etienne Mémin French National Institute for Research in Computer
Science and Control (INRIA)
Prof Ioannis Pitas University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Dr Nikos Paragios Siemens Corporate Research
Dr Mauro Barni University of Siena, Italy
Prof Alberto Broggi University of Pavia, Italy
Prof Gian Luca Foresti University of Udine, Italy
Prof Fernando Ramos Aveiro University, Portugal
Eng. Isabel Martins Engineering Institute of Porto (ISEP)/INESC Porto
Dr Neil Johnson InfraRed Integrated Systems Ltd
Dr Tim Ellis City University, UK
Dr James Ferryman University of Reading, UK
Prof A. Murat Tekalp University of Rochester, US
Dr R. Ismail Haritaoglu University of Maryland, US