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Fifth ACM/IEEE International Conference on Distributed Smart Cameras
August 23—26, 2011, Ghent, Belgium

http://www.icdsc.org/home

Technological developments in imaging, processing, and networking
have created an opportunity for multi-disciplinary approaches to
applications based on vision. The extensive availability and use of
cameras in various application domains calls for the study of new
embedded and distributed processing systems and algorithms. After
the successful meetings in Vienna (2007), Stanford (2008), Como
(2009) and Atlanta (2010), the fifth edition of the ACM/IEEE
International Conference on Distributed Smart Cameras will be held
in the ancient and lively city of Ghent. The conference will attract
researchers from multiple fields such as computer vision, pervasive
computing, embedded systems and sensor networks. ICDSC 2011 will be
co-located with Advanced Concepts for Intelligent Vision Systems
(ACIVS 2011), a vision systems conference. Attendance to both
conferences is possible by subscribing to one.

Quality papers will be selected for a special issue of ACM
Transactions on Sensor Networks.

Topics include but are not limited to

1. Smart camera and network architectures:
    • Camera node architectures
    • Image sensing techniques for smart cameras

2. Visual sensor networks:
    • Resource management in camera networks
    • Automatic reconfiguration of sensor networks
    • Wireless and mobile image sensor networks
    • Multi-modal sensor networks

3. Distributed computer vision and fusion:
    • Distributed vision processing algorithms
    • 3D scene analysis
    • Multi-view vision for HCI
    • Distributed appearance modeling
    • Multi-sensor data fusion
    • Collaborative extraction, information fusion

4.Emerging applications and case studies:
    • Vision-based smart environments
    • Surveillance and tracking applications
    • Distributed multimedia and gaming applications
    • Position discovery and middleware applications
    • Context-aware networks
    • Sports and other emerging applications

Next to regular paper submission, the conference also invites
researchers and industry-based developers to participate in a demo
session and present their latest results in related areas. Written
material can be submitted as a 2 page demo paper and will be
published as well. As with the previous editions, ICDSC 2011 will
feature a PhD Forum where students present and defend their research
topics and receive feedback from an academic jury. 2 page PhD forum
submissions will be published as well. All authors are invited to
send in additional material such as images, videos, programs and
schematics. Accepted papers will be published and catalogued at
IEEEXplore.  Authors of high-quality articles will be invited to
submit an extended version to ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks.

Important Dates
    Workshop proposal deadline: March 27, 2011
    Workshop proposal acceptance: April 10, 2011

    Paper submission deadline: March 27, 2011
    Paper notification of acceptance: June 1, 2011
    Paper camera ready: June 30, 2011

    PhD forum/demo paper deadline: June 19, 2011
    PhD forum/demo paper acceptance: June 30, 2011

    Deadline for author registration: June 30, 2011

Steering committee:
    Hamid Aghajan, Stanford University, USA and Ghent University, Belgium
    Bernhard Rinner, Klagenfurt University, Austria
    Richard Kleihorst, VITO NV, Belgium and Ghent University, Belgium

Advising committee:
    Yiannis Aloimonos, University of Maryland, USA
    Tsuhan Chen, Cornell University, USA
    David Forsyth, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
    Mubarak Shah, University of Central Florida, USA
    Marilyn Wolf, Georgia Tech, USA (Chair)
    Feng Zhao, Microsoft Research, USA

General chair:
    Richard Kleihorst, VITO NV, Belgium and Ghent University, Belgium

Local chair:
    Wilfried Philips, Ghent University, Belgium

Program Committee chairs:
    Senem Velipasalar, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA
    Andrea Prati, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy


Publicity chairs US:
    Sen-ching Samson Cheung, University of Kentucky, USA
    Sek Chai, Sarnoff Corporation / SRI International, USA


Publicity chairs Asia-Pacific:
    Abbas Bigdeli, NICTA, Australia
    Akio Kosaka, Purdue University, USA and Olympus Corp., Japan

Publicity chairs Europe:
    Björn Gottfried, University of Bremen, Germany
    Luca Fanucci, University of Pisa, Italy
PhD forum chair:
    Abbas Bigdeli, NICTA, Australia

Web chair:
    Chris Poppe, Ghent University, Belgium