IEEE Computer Society Inter. Conf. on Information Technology (ITCC) Special Session on Networked Physical Security and Surveillance http://www.cs.uccs.edu/~tboult/itcc_cfp.html October 17, 2003 Submission deadline November 14, 2003 Author Notification December 19, 2003 Camera Ready Copy Video and other sensors have long been used as a part of physical security. Physical security has been largely immune to the IT revolution -- the data, if it is looked at all, was usually sent to video monitors and LED displays where a security guard are supposed to "notice" significant events in those flickering displays. But the days of issolated CCTV systems is closing fast, as IP-based cameras and integrated networked physical security systems being to displace coax-and-crt systems. Networked physical security systems can be viewed as a special case of sensor networks, however the key research issues are often different. Video cameras place significant demands on both the processors and network bandwidth and hence requires special attention. Since the primary goal is security, unlike other sensor networked issues of cybersecurity and encryption must be addressed. This special session, the first of its kind, will address these topics: * Networked Video surveillance * Interaction of CyberSecurity with physical security * Network technology for physical security "First * Responders"(i.e. police/fire/EMT) * Sensor fusion for security systems * Codeing/compression of networked video for security. * Automated video detection/tracking in physical security systems