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 Mémin 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