IEEE AVSS 2006 IEEE Int'l Conference on Advanced Video and Signal based Surveillance 2006 Sydney, NSW, Australia, 22-24 November 2006 - http://conferences.computer.org/avss06/ Call for Papers: Submission deadline: 1 June 2006 NEW!!! Best Paper Award: AVSS 2006 will present the author(s) of the paper receiving the best score from the reviewing procedure with a monetary award of AUD3,000 and a recognition plaque. You are cordially invited to submit a paper to IEEE AVSS 2006, the IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal based Surveillance 2006 to be held in Sydney, Australia, on 22-24 November 2006. AVSS is the IEEE conference series on video and signal based surveillance. It welcomes contributions in traditional disciplines such as image processing, video processing, signal processing, audio processing, pattern recognition, and computer vision, but it also gives unique emphasis to cross-disciplinary and visionary papers. AVSS targets participation from the worlds of research, industry, and relevant government agencies, offering them the opportunity to meet and foster collaboration. This conference series was started in 1998 in Genoa. Following meetings held in Kingston, UK, in 2001, Miami in 2003 and Como, Italy, in 2005 have seen increasing levels of participation and have established AVSS as a forum of reference for the field. AVSS 2006 will be held in Sydney, a beautiful and vibrant city boasting one of the most spectacular harbours in the world. The month of November typically enjoys pleasant, warm weather with average maximum temperatures around 24-25 °C. High-quality contributions are sought on underlying theory, methods, systems, and applications. The list of topics of interest includes, but is not limited to: * Object-background segmentation * Motion detection and object tracking * Object classification and recognition * Gesture and action recognition * Activity monitoring * Interaction modelling * Behaviour analysis * Video analysis and event recognition * Threat assessment * Face detection and recognition * Multi-camera calibration * 3D vision for surveillance applications * Pattern recognition for surveillance applications * Statistical methods and learning * Heterogeneous sensor processing * Multi-sensor data fusion * Sensor networks for surveillance applications * Omnidirectional vision * Infrared imaging * Chemical/biological signal processing * Audio surveillance * Performance evaluation of surveillance systems * Perceptual interfaces * Visualization tools for surveillance applications * Military applications * Civilian applications * Image and video archival and retrieval * Digital watermarking * Hardware and software architectures IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission: 1 June 2006 Notification to authors: 1 August 2006 Camera ready papers due: 31 August 2006 Early registration: 31 August 2006 Conference dates: 22-24 November 2006 PAPER SUBMISSION AND PROCEEDINGS PUBLICATION Full length-papers between 4 and 6 A4 pages in length are solicited. >>> Submission instructions are now available on the conference website <<<. Each submission will be peer-reviewed in full length by at least two experts. The conference proceedings will be published by the IEEE Computer Society. CONFERENCE WEBSITE AND FURTHER INFORMATION http://conferences.computer.org/avss06/ Sincerely, The AVSS 2006 Organising Committee