------------------------------------------- The Wiley-Blackwell Journal Expert Systems: The Journal of Knowledge Engineering ------------------------------------------- Special Issue on Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence for Human Behaviour Analysis (http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/117963144/home) 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 Special Issue is meant to bring together researchers which address the problem of HBA from the PR and/or the AI perspective. High-quality original papers are solicited for this special issue. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): - 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 This special issue follows from a very successful workshop, the first Workshop on Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence for Human Behaviour Analysis (PRAI*HBA - http://imagelab.ing.unimore.it/prai4hba/) hold in Reggio Emilia (Italy) on December 12, 2009 during the AI*IA 2009 Conference. We now invite members of the research community to submit original articles covering these issues. Although articles must be based on original research, extended versions of workshop papers may be acceptable if they contain at least 30% of new material. Authors should follow the Expert Systems Journal format described at http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/117963144/home. Prospective authors should submit an electronic copy of their complete manuscripts through the Manuscript Central system at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/exsy, according to the following timetable: ---------------------------------------------------- * Manuscript Due: April 1, 2010 * First Round of Reviews: September 1, 2010 * Final Decision: December 1, 2010 ---------------------------------------------------- Guest Editors Rita Cucchiara, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (Italy) Luca Iocchi, University “La Sapienza” – Rome (Italy) Andrea Prati, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (Italy) Roberto Vezzani, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (Italy)