==================================================================== Workshop on Pattern Recognition and Crowd Analysis (PRCA12) Call for Papers: Crowd analysis is becoming a common framework for many multi-disciplinary studies ranging from surveillance, urban environmental monitoring, structure and building simulation and architectural design, sociology and people behavioral analysis. The video analysis of people in crowd is of straightforward importance, to understand single and social behaviors, to detect anomalies and suspicious events or objects in crowds scenes, to define first-aid and crisis support in areas where big events (stadium, sport exhibitions, concerts, large shows, political demonstrations..) are organized. Actually,until some years ago, experimental data were collected by human observations and manual data collection only, to support modeling and simulation of large crowds; these simulation are fundamental both for engineering and architectural studies of new urban environments, for crisis-management avoiding panic and dangerous situation, but also for handling design-for comfort of people leaving and walking in large populated areas. Therefore Crowd analysis is becoming an emerging, exciting and very multidisciplinary meeting point of different research fields; in pattern recognition, after the stable results of the last years in single or group of people detection, tracking and recognition, crowd analysis is still a frontier and reliable and satisfying solutions beyond the state-of-the-art- still miss. The PRCA workshop focuses on Pattern Recognition and analysis of Crowded scenes: crowd detection, recognition, quantification, environment analysis, large crowds analysis for people behavior understanding, crowd simulation and modeling are becoming popular topics in multidisciplinary research starting from Pattern Recognition and enlarging to computer vision, computer graphics, cellular automata simulation, artificial intelligence inference embracing other disciplines that include psychological and sociological theories of people collective behavior and people-to-people/people-to-environment patterns of interaction. The workshop will be held in conjunction with the ICPR 2012 conference in Tsukuba, Japan on November 11th 2012. Authors are encouraged to submit original works not previously submitted or published in other journals or conferences Topics of interest include but not limited to: * Pattern recognition solutions for Crowd Analysis * Single and Multi-camera Target Tracking in High Density Crowds * Event Analysis in Crowded and Cluttered Scenes * Simulation and Visual validation of Masses?Collective Behavior * Behavioral Pattern recognition in people Crowd * Socio Pattern detection for interacting Groups of people * Visual Crowd Analysis Systems and Architectures * Crowd Flow Analysis and Simulation * Computer Vision and Computer Graphics for crowd analysis * Data Driven Crowd Simulation & Behavior Understanding * Force based Models for Pedestrian Dynamics in Crowds. * Image and Video Features for Crowd Modeling and Detection * Multi Sensor Data Fusion for Crowd analysis in Sensor networks * Crowd analysis with social media information Papers should have a length of 4-6 pages and should adhere to the ICPR 2012 guidelines (http://www.icpr2012.org/submission.html). Papers MUST be submitted using the instructions at the workshop website (http://imagelab.ing.unimore.it/PRCA12) and will undergo to a single-blinded peer review by at least two experts of the field. Workshop Proceedings will be published and indexed and a journal special issue with a selection of extended versions of the most relevant works is planned. Additional information and news can be found at the workshop website: http://imagelab.ing.unimore.it/PRCA12 Important Dates: Paper submission Deadline: 20 June 2012 Notification of Acceptance: 20 July 2012