VS2009 - The Ninth IEEE International Workshop on Visual Surveillance Saturday 3rd October 2009 in Kyoto, Japan (Held in conjunction with ICCV) Submission Deadline - Friday 12th June 2009 VS2009 Website: http://dircweb.king.ac.uk/vs2009/ 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 - Human body modelling - Analysis of groups and crowds - Multi-Camera and multi-sensor calibration - Image-based sensor networks - PTZ networks IMPORTANT DATES Submission of full papers Friday June 12th 2009 (Horribly strict as usual!) Notification to authors Monday July 13th 2009 Submission of Camera Ready Friday July 31st 2009 CHAIRS Tieniu Tan, National Lab of Pattern Recognition, China Rama Chellappa, University of Maryland, US James Orwell, Kingston University, UK CONTACT DETAILS Prof Graeme A. Jones VS2009 Workshop Organiser Digital Imaging Research Centre Kingston University Email: g.jones@kingston.ac.uk Tel: +44 (0)208 8547 7669