IEEE Conference on Advanced Video and Signal Based Surveillance Miami, Florida, July 21-22, 2003 The Biltmore Hotel, Coral Gables, Florida http://ithaki.vcl.uh.edu/~pavlidis/AVSS2003/index.html The Conference covers the areas of video and signal based surveillance. It focuses on underlying theory, methods, systems, and applications areas. It includes but is not limited to the following topics: -Motion Detection, Motion Tracking, -Multi-Camera Calibration, Omni-directional Vision -Activity Monitoring, Object Recognition -Face Detection/Recognition in Unconstrained Environments -Infrared Imaging, Fusion, Archival & Retrieval of Video Data -Threat Assessment, Military Applications, Civilian Applications -Hardware and Software Architectures, Signal Intelligence Paper Submission The paper in pdf format should be received by February 1. Please send your submission to: mailto:nikos@scr.siemens.com Papers should include: (a) A title page containing title and abstract only, to allow for double blind reviewing, and (b) The paper, limited to 24 double-spaced pages (12 points, 1 inch margins), including figures and references. The authors should also fill an electronic form with their names and affiliations. Accepted papers will be published in the AVSS proceedings. Also, selected papers from the Conference will be published in a special journal issue. GENERAL CHAIRS: - Ioannis Pavlidis (University of Houston) - Carlo Regazzoni (University of Genoa) TECHNICAL PROGRAM CHAIRS: - Visvanathan Ramesh (Siemens Corporate Research) - Pramod Varshney (Syracuse Corporate University) INDUSTRIAL CHAIR: - Nikos Paragios (Siemens Research) PROGRAM COMMITTEE - J. Aggarwal (University of Texas at Austin) - George Bebis (University of Nevada, Reno) - Bir Bhanu (University of California, Riverside) - Terry Boult (Lehigh University) - Shih-Fu Chang (Columbia University) - Rama Chellappa (University of Maryland) - Robert Collins (Carnegie Mellon University) - Dorin Comaniciu (Siemens Research) - Kostas Daniilidis (University of Pennsylvania) - Trevor Darrell (MIT) - Larry Davis (University of Maryland) - James Ferryman (Reading University) - Gian Luca Foresti (University of Udine) - Shaogang Gong (Queen Mary) - Ismail Haritaoglu (IBM Almaden) - Graeme Jones (Kingston University) - Ioannis Kakadiaris (University of Houston) - Rakesh Kumar (Sarnoff Corporation) - Murat Kunt (EPFL) - Damian Lyons (Fordham University) - Dimitris Metaxas (Rutgers University) - Justus Piater (INRIA) - Ioannis Pitas (Aristotle University) - Kostas Plataniotis (University of Toronto) - Olli Silven (University of Oulu) - Murat Tekalp (University of Rochester) - Panos Trahanias (University of Crete) - Mohan Trivedi (University of California at San Diego) - Harry Wechsler (George Mason University) - Larry Wolff (Johns Hopkins University)