First ACM International Workshop on
       Video Surveillance
      in conjunction with
 
 11th ACM International Conference on Multimedia
    November 2-8, 2003, Berkeley, CA, USA 
 
 WEB: http://www.mmdb.ece.ucsb.edu/~echang/acmmm-iwvs03.htm 
 
 Workshop Date: November 7, 2003
 
 With the proliferation of inexpensive cameras and the deployment of
 high-speed, wired/wireless networks, it has become economically and
 technically feasible to employ multiple cameras for security
 surveillance.  In a surveillance system, video signals are generated by
 multiple cameras with or without spatially and temporally overlapping
 coverage.  These signals need to be transmitted, processed, fused,
 stored, indexed, and then summarized as semantic events to allow
 efficient and effective queries and mining by security personnel and law
 enforcement officers. 
 
 This workshop will bring together researchers, developers and
 practitioners from academia and industry to discuss various issues
 involved in developing a large-scale video surveillance system: e.g.,
 from low-level feature extraction to high-level object and motion
 description, from camera control to networks to storage and indexing,
 and from theory to practice. 
 
 The workshop will cover a variety of research issues on video
 surveillance. It will focus on the underlying theory, methods, systems,
 and applications. The topics will include, but are not limited to, the
 following:
 
 WORKSHOP TOPICS
 Video Content Analysis
         o  Multi-Camera Calibration
         o  Motion Detection and Tracking
         o  Face Detection and Recognition in Unconstrained Environments
         o  Object Recognition
         o  Multi-camera/-sensor Fusion
 Video Event Modeling and Mining
         o  2D/3D Multi-level Scene/Patten Representations
         o  Machine Learning Techniques for Event Mining
         o  Spatio-temporal Data Mining
         o  Threat Assessment
 Video Indexing and Storage
         o  Spatio-temporal Data Indexing
         o  Archival/Retrieval of Video Data
         o  Query Paradigms and Languages
         o  Mobile Architectures
 Surveillance Applications
         o  Military Applications
         o Civilian Applications
 
 WORKSHOP STRUCTURE AND ATTENDANCE
    The one-day workshop will open with a special session consisting of
    three to four papers that will introduce and overview the research
    area. Presentations will then be organized into several sessions
    corresponding roughly to the categories identified above. The
    workshop will conclude with a round-table discussion on future
    research directions. The accepted papers will be available
    electronically from the workshop website, and also as printed
    workshop notes (published by ACM Multimedia).  A special issue of ACM
    Multimedia journal or IEEE Transaction on Multimedia (under
    discussion) will publish selected papers. 
 
 WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS
    Edward Chang, UC, Santa Barbara 
    Yuan-Fang Wang, UC, Santa Barbara
 PROGRAM COMMITTEE
 J. K. Aggarwal,           University of Texas
 Shih-Fu Chang,            Columbia University
 Nevenka Dimitrova,        Philips Research
 Yihong Gong,              NEC Research
 Ajay Divakaran,           Mitsubishi Research
 Forouzan Golshan,         Arizon State University
 Ioannis Kakadiaris,       University of Houston
 Rainer Lienhart,          Intel Research
 Chen Li,                  UC, Irvine 
 Chung-Sheng Li            IBM T.J. Watson Research
 Richard Muntz,            UCLA
 N. Nandhukamar,           Triveni Digital
 Youngchoon Park,          MP7TV
 Thomas Plagemann,         Univ of Oslo, Norway
 Stan Sclaroff,            Boston University
 Cyrus Shahabi,            USC
 Prashant Shenoy,          Univ of Massachusetts, Amherst
 John Smith,               IBM T.J. Watson Research
 Mohan Trivedi,            UC, San Diego
 Hong-Jiang Zhang,         Microsoft Research, China 
  
 IMPORTANT DATES
    July 15, 2003: Submissions Due 
    August 18, 2003: Acceptance Notice 
    August 31, 2003: Camera Ready  
 
 SUBMISSION
    Authors are invited to submit papers on the outlined topics or on
    other related issues. Submissions should not exceed 8 pages, and
    should conform to the ACM style sheet. Electronic submissions, in PDF
    format, are required and should be sent to Prof. Edward Chang at
    echang@ece.ucsb.edu. 
 
 Sponsors: ACM SIGMM, UC Discovery Program (pending)