Call for Papers – ACM AREA 2008 http://www.telecom.ntua.gr/acmmm2008 2008 ACM International Conference on Analysis and Retrieval of Events, Actions, and Workflows in Video Streams October 31, 2008, Vancouver, Canada colocated with ACM Multimedia Send questions/requests by email to adoulam@cs.ntua.gr Poster Available in the conference official Web site at: www.telecom.ntua.gr/acmmm2008 DEADLINES - July 7, 2008: Submission of full paper - July 22, 2008: Notification of acceptance - August 1, 2008: Camera-ready full paper - October 31, 2008: Conference Call For Papers Cognitive video supervision and event analysis in video sequences is a critical task in many multimedia applications. Methods, tools and algorithms that aim to detect and recognize high level concepts and their respective spatio-temporal and causal relations in order to identify semantic video activities, actions and procedures have been in the focus of the research community over the last years. This research area has strong impact on many real-life applications such as service quality assurance, compliance to the designed procedures in industrial plants, surveillance of people-dense areas (e.g., thematic parks, critical public infrastructures), crisis management in public service areas (e.g., train stations, airports), security (detection of abnormal behaviors in surveillance videos) semantic characterization and annotation of video streams in various domains (e.g., broadcast or user-generated videos), etc. The traditional approaches for event detection in videos assume well structured environments and they fail to operate in largely unsupervised way under adverse and uncertain conditions from those on which they have been trained Another drawback of current methods, is the fact that they focus on narrow domains using specific concept detectors such as “human faces”, “cars”, “buildings”. This workshop seeks original high innovative research in the area of self configurable cognitive video supervision in several domains. The goals of this workshop are: (i) fundamental research in the area of multimedia, in the scope of detecting/identifying high level concepts, actions, events and procedures in video streams using largely unsupervised algorithms without the need for external re-programming, re-configuring and re-adjusting (ii) robust solutions to targeted problems of high impact in real-life applications. (iii) ongoing research/progress on national and international research projects (e.g., USA, European, Asian, Australia, etc) Papers of this workshop are encouraged to address a wide range of topics cognitive video supervision and event detection in video streams; these topics include (but are not limited to): -Methods for robust detection of high level concepts in video streams in adverse and uncertain conditions in relation to those they were trained to. -Identification of spatio-temporal and causal relations of primitive events (single or multiple) in order to detect complex activities and procedures in video streams -Extraction of single or multiple humans’ behaviors or video events under single or multiple cameras -Enhancement of events analysis with attention models and/or multiscale/multisource data fusions -Semantic and event-based summarization of monitored video data -Video activities matching/retrieval algorithms -Event-oriented relevance feedback algorithms Full Papers should be submitted using the paper submission web system at http://www.edas.info (preferably 6-8 pages in the ACM Conference style in English). All papers will be peer-reviewed. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE General Chairs: Anastasios Doulamis (Technical University of Crete) email adoulam@ergasya.tuc.gr Luc Van Gool (ETH Zurich) - email vangool@vision.ee.ethz.ch Mark Nixon (University of Southampton) - email msn@ecs.soton.ac.uk Theodora Varvarigou (National Technical University of Athens) email dora@telecom.ntua.gr Nikolaos Doulamis (National Technical University of Athens) email ndoulam@cs.ntua.gr Technical Program Committee Prof. Werner Haas (Austria) email werner.haas@joanneum.at Prof. Jos Dumortier (Belgium) email jos.dumortier@law.kuleuven.be Prof. Thomas Sikora (Germany) email sikora@nue.tu-berlin.de Dr. Santi Ristol (Spain) email santi.ristol@atosresearch.eu Dr. Ignacio Soler (Spain) email ignacio.solerjubert@atosresearch.eu Dr. Emilio Ibanez Martinez (Spain) email Emilio.Ibanez@nmisa.es Dr. Georg Thallinger (Austria) email georg.thallinger@joanneum.at Dr. Matthew Addis (UK) email mja@it-innovation.soton.ac.uk Dr. Emmanuel Sardis (Greece) email sardis@telecom.ntua.gr