===================================================================== WORKSHOP on Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence for Human Behaviour Analysis (PRAI*HBA) 12 December 2009 – Reggio Emilia (Italy) Satellite workshop of the AI*IA 2009: International Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence ===================================================================== * * * CALL FOR PAPERS - Deadline October 4, 2009 * * * ===================================================================== Special issue of The Wiley-Blackwell Journal Expert Systems: The Journal of Knowledge Engineering connected to the workshop ===================================================================== We apologize for any cross-posting of this announcement. Please, forward this CFP to other potentially interested people. Thanks! ===================================================================== LOCATION AND DATE The Workshop on Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence for Human Behaviour Analysis (PRAI*HBA) will take place in Reggio Emilia (Italy) on December 12, 2009, following the AI*IA 2009: International Conference (9-11 December 2009) The conference and all the workshops will be hosted in the new building of the Department of Social, Cognitive and Quantitative Sciences and of the Faculty of Communication and Economics, located in the centre of Reggio Emilia Address: via Allegri 9, I 42100 Reggio Emilia WORKSHOP WEBSITE Updated information can be found on the workshop section of the conference website, http://imagelab.ing.unimore.it/prai4hba CALL FOR PAPERS Pattern Recognition (PR) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) scientific communities have tried to join their efforts and share knowledge in order to obtain more effective solutions for many different research areas. However, although the techniques and approaches are somewhat similar, the two communities often tackle problems from rather different perspectives. Among these research areas, Human Behaviour Analysis (HBA) has recently become a very popular topic in computer science, because of its relevance in many surveillance applications. For instance, with the increasing use of cameras for video surveillance, it is getting almost unfeasible for security personnel to monitor scenes or to watch recorded videos looking for a particular event or visual item. Automatic interpretation of actions, gestures, and interactions among people as well as automatic situation recognition and assessment would be extremely useful. Actually, methods for Human Behaviour Analysis have this specific aim and they are attracting more and more researchers and ICT industries. Nevertheless, the recognition and interpretation of human behaviour is still a challenging problem. Given these premises, this workshop is meant to bring together researchers which address the problem of HBA from the PR and/or the AI perspective. Hopefully, this workshop will be the first of a long series of events in which these two communities actively work together to achieve effective and efficient solutions to complex tasks in HBA related fields. TOPICS Following the above considerations, the workshop topics include, but are not limited to, the following: • Gesture and activity classification • Multi-person interactions • Multi-camera coordination and data fusion for HBA • Event recognition and abnormal behaviour detection • Crowd analysis for behaviour monitoring and alerting • Machine learning methods for HBA • Statistical pattern recognition methods for HBA • Semantic video annotation • Semantic scene representation and interpretation • Situation classification and assessment • Datasets and metrics for performance evaluation of HBA systems PAPER SUBMISSION FORMAT Papers not exceeding 8 pages, written in English and complying with the LNCS Springer-Verlag format (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-7-72376-0) should be submitted electronically. Submissions are due in PDF format attached to an email sent to the following email address: prai4hba@unimore.it Accepted papers will be published on the official CD-Rom of the AI*IA2009 International conference with regular ISBN number. ***In addition, best selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version of their paper (at least 30% of new material) for The Wiley-Blackwell Journal Expert Systems: The Journal of Knowledge Engineering (http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/117963144/home) - impact factor 2008: 0.717. IMPORTANT DATES * Paper submission: October 4, 2009 * Camera-ready of accepted papers: November 11, 2009 * Workshop day: December 12, 2009 WORKSHOP AND CONFERENCE FEE Attendance to the conference and to the workshops IS limited to members of AI*IA. Participants are kindly requested to register before the conference, although on-site registration will also be offered. Attendance to the workshops only (including participation in all the workshops, coffee-breaks and a CD-ROM with the Proceedings of all Workshops; it does not include membership to AI*IA): Advance registration: 100 Euro On-site registration: 200 Euro Regular conference fee (including participation in the conference and all the workshops, a copy of the proceedings volume, the conference CD-Rom, coffee breaks for all 4 days; it does not include membership to AI*IA): Early registration, before August 31, 2009: 350 Euros. Late registration, since September 1, 2009: 400 Euros. On-site registration: 500 Euro Student fee (including proceedings volume and participation to the workshops, not including conference dinner): 130 Euro ** NOT AVAILABLE ON-SITE ** CHAIRS Luca Iocchi (http://www.dis.uniroma.it/~iocchi) - University “La Sapienza” - Rome Andrea Prati (http://www.dismi.unimo.it/Members/aprati) - University of Modena and Reggio Emilia Roberto Vezzani (http://imagelab.ing.unimore.it/imagelab/~vezzani/index.asp) - University of Modena and Reggio Emilia PROGRAM COMMITTEE Preliminary list of confirmed program committee members: Francois Bremond, INRIA (FR) Simone Calderara, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (I) Isac Choen, Honeywell (MN) Rita Cucchiara, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (I) Luigi Di Stefano, University of Bologna (I) Tiziana D'Orazio, CNR (I) Michela Farenzena, University of Verona(I) Jordi Gonzalez, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (ES) Oswald Lanz, Fondazione Bruno Kessler (I) Christian Micheloni, University of Udine (I) Krystian Mikolajczyk, University of Surrey (UK) Massimo Piccardi, University of Technology, Sydney (AU) Carlo Regazzoni, University of Genoa (I) Paolo Remagnino, Kingston University (UK)