-------------------------------------------------------------------------- Announcement First ACM Workshop on Vision Networks for Behaviour Analysis (VNBA-08) in conjunction with ACM Multimedia 2008 conference http://imagelab.ing.unimore.it/vnba08/ October 31, 2008 Vancouver, BC (Canada) -------------------------------------------------------------------------- This workshop marks a new era of the successful series of the Video Surveillance and Sensor Networks (VSSN) workshops, held until 2006 in conjunction with ACM Multimedia conference (Berkeley 2003, New York 2004, Singapore 2005, and Santa Barbara, 2006). This new version of the workshop inherits from VSSN the experienced Technical Program Committee as well as the interests of its community, but shifts the focus to cover higher level topics and applications under the common framework of "behaviour analysis", hence aiming to adapt to the evolved directions of interest in the field, and reaching out to other research communities with overlapping interests. The workshop topics will include, but are not limited to, the following: A) Surveillance Track: - People tracking in extreme conditions - Multi-person gesture, behaviour, and interaction analysis - Multi-camera coordination for behaviour analysis - Event recognition for security applications (abandoned luggage, restricted area violation, ...) - Crowd analysis for behaviour monitoring and alerting - Aggressive behaviour detection B) Smart Environments Track: - People-to-people interactions in smart environments - Object and environment discovery via user interactions - Abnormal behaviour / accident detection for patient/elderly monitoring - Occupancy sensing for automation and control - Gesture analysis for HCI - Applications in virtual reality, multimedia, gaming Accepted papers for oral and poster presentations at the workshop will be included in the workshop's proceedings, which will be published together with the proceedings of the ACM Multimedia Conference 2008. In addition, a special issue or an edited volume will be organized after the workshop by recommending to the authors of a selection of the best presented papers to submit a substantially extended version of their workshop papers. *Important dates* Full Paper Submission: June 28, 2008 Decision: July 15, 2008 Camera ready: August 1, 2008 *Organization* General chairs Hamid Aghajan Stanford University, USA Andrea Prati University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy Honorary chairs J. K. Aggarwal University of Texas, USA Rita Cucchiara University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy Program Committee Rama Chellappa, University of Maryland, USA Isaac Cohen, Honeywell Labs, USA Massimo Piccardi, University of Technology at Sydney Australia Sergio Velastin, Kingston University, UK Larry Davis, University of Maryland, USA Francois Bremond, INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France Nicu Sebe, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Antonis Argyros, University of Crete, Greece Mohan Trivedi, University of California at San Diego, USA Davide Brunelli, University of Bologna, Italy Demetri Terzopolous, University of California at Los Angeles, USA Pradeep Atrey, University of Winnipeg, MB, Canada James Davis, University of California at Santa Cruz, USA Abtin Keshavarzian, Bosch Research Center, USA