Call for papers: Workshop on Interactive Human Behavior Analysis in Open or Public Spaces In the past years, a lot of efforts in surveillance and open space analysis have focused on traditional computer vision problems like scene modeling or object detection and tracking. Not much work however has been done on human behavior recognition; exceptions are predefined simple activities (running, jumping, left luggage...) and single-person trajectory-based analysis. However, in open spaces, whether public or private, humans exhibit a much larger and interesting range of behaviors, from their interaction with the environment (how groups of people occupy the space or how they manipulate/use objects within it) to the way they communicate with each other. The advancement in video sensor technology in terms of resolution for automatically understanding and recognizing these behaviors enables also improvements in the types of automated analysis that can be done. Such analysis will provide useful information to retailers, sociologists, public planning authorities, architects, as well as surveillance and security applications. We are soliciting paper submissions on automated human interactive behavior analysis in public spaces. During the workshop, we will bring together experts and researchers from different fields (computer scientists, psychologists, sociologists, and industry) to share their experience and expertise about the opportunities on the development of tools for automated social analysis in public spaces. The workshop will be held in conjunction with AmI 2011 (http://www.ami-11.org/). Come and join us to present your work and to shape the future of research in this area! For more information, please visit: http://www.idiap.ch/workshop/interhub2011/ Paper submission deadline: 25 July Organisers: Hayley Hung (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands) Dariu Gavrila ( Daimler, Germany & University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands) Jean-Marc Odobez (Idiap Research Institute, Switzerland) The workshop seeks contributions addressing the workshop theme, using single or multiple sensors, including but not limited to the following research topics: * person detection and tracking * interactive action detection, recognition and analysis (between people and/or with the environment) * communicative behavior analysis; * group and crowd analysis (formation, interactions) * open spaces monitoring applications (e.g. restaurant, museum, retail shops, public libraries, * Architecture and Housing, Urban and Mobility Studies, health care environments, e.g. nursing homes) * large-scale social analysis of human behavior and interactions * social/antisocial behavior recognition; * trajectory analysis; * body and head pose estimation * visual focus estimation * sub-pixel behavior analysis; Invited Speakers: * David Forsyth (University of Illinois at Urbana Champagne) * Lucas Noldus (Noldus Information Technology) * Elisabeth Oberzaucher (University of Vienna) * Eric Laurier (University of Edinburgh)