Third International Conference on Imaging for Crime Detection and Prevention (ICDP-09)

IET's Vision and Imaging Network

3rd December 2009 (full day), Kingston University, London UK

Call for Papers

SPONSORS
IET (The Institution of Engineering and Technology) - Vision and Imaging Network
UKIVA (UK Industrial Vision Association)
BMVA (British Machine Vision Association)
University College London's Centre for Security and Crime Science
IEEE (UK-IR Communications Chapter)
Kingston University (Digital Imaging Research Centre)
REASON Project (EPSRC funded)

Website
http://www.icdp-conf.org

Keynote
Director, UK Home Office Scientific Development Branch
(http://scienceandresearch.homeoffice.gov.uk/hosdb/)

Key dates
The conference papers will be published by the IET and made available
online via the IET Digital Library and the IEEE/IET Electronic Library
(available on IEEE Xplore). The conference papers will also be indexed
by Inspec.

Authors of exceptional papers may be invited to submit extended versions to be considered for publication in a journal and/or book.
There will be delegate fee discounts for authors, students and members of the IET and sponsoring organisations.

17 August 2009 	Submission of full papers (6 pages)
16 October 2009 	Notification of acceptance
06 November 2009 	Submission of camera-ready papers


AIMS AND SCOPE

Crime and anti-social behaviour have a significant cost for society
and business alike. Just in the UK anti-social behaviour alone
accounts annually for around £3.3 billion of taxpayers’ money with
incidents of graffiti and vandalism estimated to cost around £600
million/p.a. Surveillance systems of all kinds are thus being
increasingly deployed in public and private locations serving as
deterrence and/or for information gathering. World events have once
again highlighted the vulnerability of public spaces to
attacks. However, there are serious limitations to the use of
conventional monitoring systems where human operators are asked to
survey a large number of cameras with a wide geographical coverage or
go through enormous amounts of recorded material. Computer-based
technologies are increasingly becoming researched in what is becoming
popularly known as video analytics, propelled by recent advances in
processing power, fixed and wireless IP-networking technologies,
volume storage, cheap cameras, etc. The realisation of such advances
into working systems can have a major impact on society but also on
individual liberty. This conference follows the successful IDSS
(Intelligent Distributed Surveillance Systems) events held in 2003 and
2004 and ICDP 2005 and 2006, to bring together researchers, industry,
end-users, law-enforcing agencies and citizens groups to share
experiences and explore areas where additional research and
development are needed, identify possible collaboration and consider
the societal impact of such technologies.

Full papers are invited on all aspects of Imaging Surveillance
technologies, from academia, industry, NGOs and others, to be selected
for oral presentations or posters through a peer-review system (see
also: http://www.icdp-conf.org). An indicative, not exclusive, list of
relevant topics is:

    *

      Surveillance Systems and solutions (system architecture aspects,
    operational procedures, usability, scalability) *

      Multi-camera systems *

      Information fusion (e.g. from visible and infrared cameras,
    microphone arrays. etc.)  *

      Learning systems, Cognitive Systems Engineering and video mining
    *

      Robust computer vision algorithms (24/7 operation under variable
    conditions, object tracking, multi-camera algorithms, behaviour
    analysis and learning, scene segmentation) *

      Human Machine Interfaces, Human Systems Engineering and Human
    Factors *

      Compression, authentication, watermarking *

      Metadata generation, video database indexing, searching and
    browsing *

      Embedded systems, surveillance middleware *

      Gesture and posture analysis and recognition *

      Biometrics (including face recognition) *

      Forensics and crime scene reconstruction *

      Wireless and location-dependent services *

      X-Ray and Terahertz scanning *

      Case studies (shopping malls, railway stations, airport lounges,
    bank branches, etc) *

      Data protection, civil liberties and social exclusion issues


If you are interested in joining the Programme Committee to review
papers (up to 2-3/person), please register on the website and then
contact Dr Sergio A Velastin (mailto:sergio.velastin@iee.org)