Call for Papers: Special Issue on
Intelligent Monitoring of Complex Environments
Monitoring of public and private spaces has become widespread. Many
countries are practicing tighter security at public and private places
such as railway and bus stations, concourses, hospitals, nursing
homes, and playgrounds. More monitoring sensors, surveillance
networks, and platforms have been deployed, generating huge volumes of
data waiting to be processed. This has generated demand for
intelligent monitoring systems that provide automatic understanding of
events, anomaly detection, immediate response to emergencies, and
intelligent archiving for postevent analysis and future system
retraining.
This special issue aims to provide a new perspective on intelligent
monitoring for complex indoor and outdoor environments on
comprehensive surveillance networks. This task, comprising the
deployment of many different types of heterogeneous sensors, demands
fusion of knowledge from many different domains, such as ambient
intelligence and pervasive computing. Consequently, we welcome
research in the analysis, fusion, and visualization of information
from networks of homogeneous and heterogeneous sensors for the
automatic understanding of complex scenes.
Topics of interest include, but aren’t limited to,
understanding of crowded and cluttered scenes;
machine learning methods for scene and video understanding and event mining;
information sharing and data fusion;
semantic interpretation modeling;
optimal sensor deployment and active camera reconfiguration;
people and object tracking with sensor networks;
posture, gesture, and interaction analysis;
information display and visual languages; and
applications (for example, crime prevention, traffic control, aquatic
safety, and coastal security).
Submission Guidelines
Submissions are due 11 Sept. 2009.
Submissions should be 3,500 to 7,500 words (counting a standard figure
or table as 200 words) and should follow the magazine’s style and
presentation guidelines at
www.computer.org/portal/pages/intelligent/mc /author.html. References
should be limited to 15 citations.
To submit a manuscript, access the IEEE Computer Society Web-based
system, Manuscript Central, at https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/cs-ieee.
Questions?
Contact Guest Editors 
Christian Micheloni, christian.micheloni@dimi.uniud.it; 
Paolo Remagnino, p.remagnino@kingston.ac.uk; 
How-Lung Eng, hleng@i2r.a-star.edu.sg;
Jason Geng, jason.geng@ieee.org.