Call for Papers Computer Vision and Image Understanding Journal (CVIU) Special Issue on Event Mining: The Detection and Recognition of Events in Video http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/~hismail/cvim_cfp.htm Guest Editors Tanveer Syeda-Mahmood, IBM Almaden Research Tom Huang, University of Illinois, Urbana Ismail Haritaoglu, IBM Almaden Research With recent advances in the analysis of digital video, it is now becoming possible to look for high-level semantic events in video. The analysis of events is important in a variety of applications including surveillance, vision-based human-computer interaction, and content-based retrieval. Several challenges exist with regard to the detection and recognition of events. First, a good definition of what constitutes an event itself is lacking. Both salient changes as well as the states surrounding such changes are often termed as events in time- varying data. Secondly, understanding events seems to involve the detection and recognition of objects, actions, and their evolving 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 individual cues will continue to exhibit poor robustness in the foreseeable future on account of high detection errors. Further, the localization of events through multi-modal fusion will continue to face problems due to conflicting indications given by the individual cues. Event mining is a new field of research dedicated to addressing the above problems. The purpose of this special issue is to highlight the state of the art research in this emerging field. We are soliciting original papers that address a range of issues in event detection and recognition in digital video including: -Event detection: Object detection, action detection, tracking. -Event recognition: Object recognition, action recognition, activity recognition. -Multi-modal events Auditory events, audio-visual events, multi-modal fusion. -Event understanding: Event labeling, computational theories of event perception. -Event retrieval: Event representations, querying for events. -Applications: Applications of event detection in areas such as surveillance, human computer interaction, content-based retrieval, etc. All submitted papers will be reviewed according to the guidelines and standards of the Computer Vision and Image Understanding Journal. Prospective authors concerned about their paper falling under the scope of this special issue, should send an abstract to the guest editors for a preliminary evaluation prior to the due date. We prefer that the authors submit electronic versions of their papers in postscript or pdf. Alternately, six hardcopies of the paper should be mailed to: Dr. Tanveer Syeda-Mahmood, IBM Almaden Research Center K57/B2, 650 Harry Road San Jose, CA 95120, USA Deadlines Manuscript submission: March 15, 2002 First reviews: July 1, 2002 Revised manuscript due: Sept. 1, 2002 Accept/reject notification : November 15, 2002 Publication issue: March 2003 For further information please contact Ismail Haritaoglu ( mailto:ismailh@almaden.ibm.com ) or Tanveer Syeda-Mahmood ( mailto:stf@almaden.ibm.com ).