VSS 2007 Call for Papers London, United Kingdom, 5-7 September 2007 Paper submission deadline: 28 February 2007 Special session proposal deadline: 15 February 2007 Paper submission deadline: 15 March 2007 *** NEW *** AVSS 2007 will include 8 Special Sessions * 3D face recognition -- Organizer: Ioannis Kakadiaris, University of Houston * i-LIDS bag and vehicle detection challenge -- Organizer: Paul Hosmer, Home Office Scientific Development Branch * Industrial special session -- Organizer: Li-Qun Xu, BT * Vision-based gesture and human action recognition -- Organizers: Ioannis Patras, QMUL; Edwin Hancock, The University of York * Video systems for retail applications -- Organizer: Andrew Senior, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center * Wireless sensor surveillance -- Organizer: Rong Zheng, University of Houston * Video tracking in complex scenes -- Organizer: Fatih Porikli, Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories * Multimodal signal understanding for surveillance -- Organizer: Ching-Yung Lin, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center Special sessions submission guidelines available at http://www.avss2007.org *** NEW *** The dataset for the AVSS 2007 i-LIDS bag and vehicle detection Challenge is available for download at http://www.elec.qmul.ac.uk/staffinfo/andrea/avss2007_d.html AVSS is the IEEE conference series on video and signal based surveillance. AVSS is a forum of reference for the field and has a tradition of participation from the worlds of research, industry, and relevant government agencies. AVSS welcomes contributions in traditional disciplines such as signal processing, image and video processing, audio processing, pattern recognition, and computer vision, and it also gives unique emphasis to cross-disciplinary and visionary papers. High-quality contributions are sought on underlying theory, methods, systems, and applications. The list of topics of interest includes, but is not limited to: - Sensors and early vision; Infrared imaging; 3D vision for surveillance applications; Omnidirectional vision; - Multi-sensor/distributed data fusion; Heterogeneous sensor processing; - Sensor networks for surveillance applications; Multi-camera calibration; - Motion detection and object tracking; Object-background segmentation; Statistical methods and learning; - Object classification and recognition; Video analysis and event recognition; Gesture and action recognition; - Activity monitoring; Interaction modelling; Behaviour analysis; Pattern recognition for surveillance applications; - Face detection and recognition; - Performance evaluation of surveillance systems; - Audio surveillance; - Visualization tools for surveillance applications; Perceptual interfaces; - Image and video archival and retrieval; Digital watermarking; - Threat assessment; Chemical/biological signal processing; Bio-inspired cognitive surveillance; - Civilian applications; Military applications; Hardware and software architectures. Paper Submission: Full length-papers between four (4) and six (6) A4 pages in length are solicited. Papers will be accepted only by electronic submission at www.avss2007.org Important Dates: Special sessions proposal: 15 February 2007 Paper submission: 28 February 2007 Notification to authors: 15 May 2007 Camera ready papers due: 10 June 2007 Special Sessions: AVSS 2007 will include a number of special sessions. Proposal for special sessions must include a title, rationale, session outline, contact information for the session chairs(s), a list of authors who have agreed to present paper in the session, and abstract of each paper. Proposals for special sessions should be submitted to: special@avss2007.org before February, 15 2007 Further information: http://www.avss2007.org