Call for Papers
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology
Special Issue on Event Analysis in Videos
(http://www.ee.columbia.edu/~dongxu/T-CSVT_SI_CFP_Event.pdf)
Event analysis in videos is a critical task in many
applications. Activity recognition that aims to recognize actions from
video and in particular abnormal event recognition in surveillance
video has received significant attention from the research
community. In this special issue, we focus on event analysis in broad
problem domains. Event recognition in specific domains, such as
highlight detection in sports videos, has attracted much interest in
the past decade. Recently, due to the emergence of online video
search, the research community has become interested in event content
analysis for both broadcast and user-generated videos. For news
videos, Large-Scale Concept Ontology for Multimedia (LSCOM) has
defined 56 event/activity concepts, covering a broad range of events
such as airplane flying, car crash, riot, people marching, and so
on. Researchers have also started to investigate event recognition
from other video sources, such as education videos and medical
videos. For these applications, we have witnessed the effectiveness of
using both static and temporal information.
This special issue seeks original research in video event analysis for
all domains. The goals of this special issue are twofold: (1)
presenting novel fundamental techniques applicable to more than one
problem domains, and (2) showcasing robust solutions to targeted
problems in news video, sports video, education video, personal video,
web video, and other applications.
Manuscripts are solicited to address a wide range of topics in video
event analysis, including but not limited to the following:
² General framework for event analysis
² Normal and reoccurring event detection
² Video pattern discovery
² Abnormal and rare event detection
² Event clustering and classification
² Motion action classification
² Human centered event recognition
² Video search and retrieval by event
² Spatial-temporal modeling and object trajectory analysis for event recognition
² Video-based biometrics
² Robust systems: news, sports, etc.
Guidelines for authors can be found at
http://tcsvt.polito.it/authors.html. Papers submitted to this special
issue should have a distinctive title using the format:
SIEAV
. All papers including invited papers will be reviewed by
experts in the field.
* Important Dates *
Manuscript submission: 15th February 2008
Preliminary results: 15th May 2008
Revisions due: 15th June 2008
Notification: 15th July 2008
Final manuscripts due: 15th August 2008
Anticipated publication: November 2008
* Guest Editors *
Prof. Shih-Fu Chang
Dr. Jiebo Luo
Prof. Steve Maybank
Columbia University
Kodak Research Lab
University of London
sfchang@ee.columbia.edu
jiebo.luo@kodak.com
sjmaybank@dcs.bbk.ac.uk
Prof. Dan Schonfeld
Prof. Dong Xu
University of Illinois at Chicago
Nanyang Technological University
dans@uic.edu
dongxu@ntu.edu.sg