CALL FOR PARTICIPATION 1st Short Spring School on Surveillance (S4) Modena, Italy - May 17-19 2011 Endorsed by: Video Surveillance & Video Analytics - GIRPR Technical committee Sponsored by: EU CIPS project THIS =================================================== http://imagelab.ing.unimore.it/s4 IMPORTANT DATES: SCOPE This short 3-day school is meant to provide a full immersion into the state of the art of theory and practice of modern video surveillance. The school is open to PhD and undergraduate students, researchers and scholars in the field of surveillance and security, and is conceived also for technicians from both industries and public entities. The courses of the school will be taught by very distinguished scientists of the field, representatives of the main university research centers and companies worldwide. The envisioned lessons will tackle the problems related to surveillance from different perspectives, ranging from system installation issues to basic algorithmic components, to state-of-the-art of proposals in people detection and identification, behavior and crowd monitoring, to surveillance and forensics applications. The scope is to provide also the capabilities to build from scratch a simple video surveillance system (from object extraction to high-level scene understanding so that technical sessions in lab will be coupled to the theory sessions. During the school, also a meeting of the TC committee and a presentation of Video Surveillancy in Italy (VISIT) projects are scheduled. School location The school will be held in the Faculty of Engineering "Enzo Ferrari" in Modena, Italy. More information about the venue and accomodation will be found here: http://imagelab.ing.unimore.it/s4/Venue.asp Lecturers: Arun Hampapur - IBM TJ Watson Research Center, USA Andrea Cavallaro - Queen Mary University, UK Marcel Worring - University of Amsterdam, Netherlands Maja Pantic - Imperial College, UK Jiri Matas - Czech Technical University, Prague, Czech Rep. Mubarak Shah - University of Central Florida, USA An updated program of the school can be found here: http://imagelab.ing.unimore.it/s4/program.asp School director: Rita Cucchiara Imagelab - University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy Program chair Andrea Prati Imagelab - University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy Local chair & Website manager Simone Calderara Imagelab - University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy VISIT 2011 chair Alfredo Petrosino University Pathenope of Napoli, Italy PhD forum chair Marco Cristani University of Verona, Italy Lab chair Federico Pernici University of Firenze, Italy Scientific Committee: Marco Cristani, University of Verona Tiziana D'Orazio, ISSIA CNR Marco La Cascia, University of Palermo Oswald Lanz, FBK, Trento Christian Micheloni, University of Udine Federico Pernici, University of Firenze Alfredo Petrosino, University of Naples Parthenope Gabriella Sanniti di Baja, ICIB CNR Federico Tombari, University of Bologna