7th IEEE AVSS 2010, Boston
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           Workshop proposals:                      19 March 2010
           Paper submission:                                5 April 2010
           Notifications to authors:                        1 June 2010
           Camera ready papers:                           2 July 2010
           Conference:            29 August - 1 September, 2010

The IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal-Based
Surveillance (AVSS) is a forum bringing together participants from the
worlds of research, industry and government agencies sharing interest
in various forms of surveillance. It was previously held in Genoa,
Italy (2009), Santa Fe, USA (2008), London, UK (2007) and Sydney,
Australia (2006).

AVSS focuses on underlying theory, methods, systems, and applications
of surveillance and welcomes contributions in areas listed below;
cross-disciplinary and game-changing contributions are of particular
interest. The list of topics of interest includes, but is not limited
to:

    * Sensors & data fusion
          o Sensor networks
          o Microphone arrays
          o Infrared/milliwave/terahertz/visible/3D imaging
          o Heterogeneous sensor processing
          o Multisensor calibration/association/estimation
          o Distributed/cognitive/bio-inspired data fusion

    * Processing, detection & recognition
          o Multidimensional signal processing
          o Change & motion detection
          o Feature extraction
          o Target tracking
          o Sound, object, scene recognition
          o Pattern recognition & machine learning

    * Analytics, behavior & biometrics
          o Sound, video, multimodal analytics
          o Activity analysis & monitoring
          o Event, situation, behavior, threat modeling/recognition
          o Analysis for static & mobile environments
          o Biometrics: face, iris, fingerprint, ear, gait, voice

    * Data management & human-machine interfaces
          o Metadata management
          o Archival & retrieval
          o Multimodal displays
          o Advanced interfaces & visualization tools
          o Object- & situation-based coding
          o Wireless, mobile interfaces

    * Applications
          o Reactive & preventive environments
          o Integrated physical & cyber security
          o Transports (rail, road, air, maritime)
          o Unmanned vehicles & robotics
          o Ambient intelligence
          o Protection of infrastructures

    * Systems, performances & privacy
          o Industrial, civilian, military systems
          o Research prototypes
          o Hardware & software architectures
          o User requirements
          o Performance evaluation
          o Privacy in surveillance

Full-length papers, 4-8 pages long, are being solicited. Detailed
submission instructions will be posted on the conference website in
due time. Each submission will be double-blind peer-reviewed by at
least two experts. The conference proceedings will be published by the
IEEE Computer Society.

Call for AVSS-NIST Challenge: AVSS 2010 will include a special session
covering an open evaluation. Video sequences, provided by NIST and
Home Office UK, will be distributed and performance evaluation will be
carried out. Motion tracks of a designated people as they traverse a
multi-camera field in airport surveillance videos will be judged.

PETS 2010 Workshop: This year Performance Evaluation of Tracking
Systems (PETS) workshop will be held in conjunction with the AVSS
2010. PETS is a full-day workshop on Sunday August 29. For
participation and contributions contact to James Ferryman.

Call for Workshops: AVSS 2010 will include a number of workshops
before the conference on Sunday August 29. Proposals for workshops
should be submitted to Andrea Cavallaro by March 19, 2010. Proposals
should include the list of authors who have agreed to participate the
workshop, the list of organizers, abstract of each paper, and
submission deadlines.

Organizing Committee:

General chair
Fatih Porikli, MERL

Program chairs
Janusz Konrad, Boston University
James Davis, Ohio State University

Area chairs
George Bebis, University of Nevada, Reno
Tsuhan Chen, Cornell
Isaac Cohen, Honeywell
Dariu Gavrilla, University of Amsterdam
Massimo Piccardi, University of Technology, Sydney
Stan Sclaroff , Boston University
Chris Stauffer, BAE Systems

Challenge chairs
Erik Blash, US AFRL
John Fiscus, NIST

Workshops chair
Andrea Cavallaro, Queen Mary, Univerisity of London

Industrial panel chair
Anthony Hoogs, Kitware

Panelists
Ajay Divakaran, Sarnoff
Niels Haering, ObjectVideo
Arun Hampapour, IBM
Swarup Medisani, HRL
Visvanathan Ramesh, Siemens
Steve Sablak, PELCO

Local arrangement chair
Prakash Ishwar, Boston University

Publication chair
Kuntal Sengupta, TYCO

Demo chair
Venkatesh Saligrama, Boston University

Finance chair
Senem Velipasalar, UNL

Web chair
Ioannis Tziakos, Queen Mary, University of London

Liasons
Enis Cetin, Bilkent University
Shiloh Dockstader, ITT
Kazuhiko Sumi, MELCO
Jian Zhang, NICTA

Honorary chair
Carlo Regazzoni, University of Genoa

Keynote Speakers:
Stephen Long, Office of the Secretary of Defense
Takeo Kanade, CMU
Harpreet Sawhney, Sarnoff
Mubarak Shah, UCF
Ram Nevatia, USC

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