**************************************************************************** Special Issue Pattern Recognition and Crowd Analysis on IAPR Pattern Recognition Letters CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS Submission Deadline Feb 28 2013 NEW DEALINE *************************************************************************** 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 PRCA special Issue on Elsevier Pattern Recognition Letters Journal 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. Authors are encouraged to submit original works not previously submitted or published in other journals or conferences or extension of previously published work with a relevant amount of novelty. 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 -Visual Crowd Analysis Systems and Architectures -Computer Vision and Computer Graphics for crowd analysis -Data Driven Crowd Simulation & Behavior Understanding -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 -Discrete and agent-based models for pedestrian and crowd simulation -Experiment design for crowd and pedestrian data acquisition and calibration Submission Deadlines Feb 28 2013 Paper Submission Deadline May 2013 Final decision The special issue is strongly connected to the ICPR 2012 workshop on Pattern Recognition and Crowd Analysis (PRCA). Submission can be made through the Elsevier editorial system specifying the special issue SIPRCA in the submission type menu http://ees.elsevier.com/prletters/default.asp Guest Editors Rita Cucchiara: Full Professor at Department of Information Engineering University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy. Stefania Bandini: Full Professor Complex systems & artificial intelligence research center - University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy Simone Calderara: Assistant Professor at Department of Information Engineering University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy. For additional information please contact Simone Calderara simone.calderara@unimore.it