VS2008 The Eighth IEEE International Workshop on Visual Surveillance Friday October 17th 2008, Nice Dear Colleague VS 2008 This year the Eighth IEEE Workshop on Visual Surveillance (VS2008) will be held in conjunction with ECCV in Nice on October 17th 2008. Call for Papers Research into intelligent visual surveillance technologies has become one of the core problem areas of the computer vision research community. The field enjoys well-funded national and international funding programmes and boasts a plethora of start-up companies offering a wide range of intelligent CCTV products. Yet, despite the apparent success, the core problems remain as complex and varied as any in computer vision. The deployment of truly intelligent and robust surveillance systems face a number of specific challenges including the segmentation and tracking of individuals in crowded scenes; extracting body pose; characterization of threats; reduction in false alarm rates; automatic learning of human-oriented scene structure; and the semantic linkage between networks of cameras and other sensors. To address these challenges, contributions are particularly welcome in the following areas: * Background and environment modelling * Object tracking and classification * Behaviour analysis and recognition * Image database annotation and searching * Event and activity modelling * Analysis of groups and crowds * Multi-Camera and multi-sensor calibration * Performance evaluation * Image-based sensor networks * PTZ networks Important Dates Submission of full papers Friday June 6th 2008 (This date will be horribly strict!) Notification to authors Friday July 18th 2008 Submission of Camera Ready Friday August 15th 2008 (Plan ahead as you may be on holiday!!)