ICDSC 2013: Seventh ACM/IEEE International Conference on Distributed Smart Cameras October 29 - November 1, 2013 Palm Springs, California, USA http://icdsc.org Technological developments in imaging, processing, and networking have created an opportunity for multi-disciplinary approaches to applications based on distributed computer vision. The extensive availability and use of cameras in various application domains calls for the study of new embedded processing systems and algorithms. After the successful 6th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Distributed Smart Cameras (ICDSC) in Hong Kong in 2012 and the previous ones in Vienna (2007), Stanford(2008), Como (2009), Atlanta (2010), and Ghent (2011), the seventh edition of the ICDSC will be held in Palm Springs, California, USA. The conference will attract researchers from multiple fields such as computer vision, pervasive computing, embedded systems, and sensor networks. Papers are invited in the following and related areas: Smart camera and network architectures: Camera system designs and architectures Image sensing and processing for smart cameras Architectures and protocols for camera networks Embedded vision programming Image processing with network security Visual sensor networks Resource management in camera networks Auto reconfiguration of sensor networks Wireless and mobile image sensor networks Multi-modal sensor networks Learning and information fusion in sensor network Visual sensor network applications Distributed computer vision and fusion Distributed capture and vision processing algorithms 3D scene analysis Multi-view vision for Human-Computer Interfaces Distributed appearance modeling and object view-angle coverage Multi-sensor data aggregation Collaborative extraction, information fusion Image processing with computational and energy constraints 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 Quality papers will be selected for special issues in the relevant journals such as IEEE Journal of Special Topics in Signal Processing, IEEE Transaction on Circuits and Systems in Video Technology, and the ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks. The conference also invites researchers and industry-based developers to participate in a demo session and present the latest results implemented in related areas. As with the previous editions, ICDSC 2013 will feature a PhD Forum where students present and defend their research topics and receive feedback from an academic jury. Accepted papers (including demo and PhD forum papers) will be published and catalogued at the IEEEXplore. Special Session proposal deadline: May 20, 2013 Abstract submission deadline: June 3, 2013* Paper submission deadline: June 10, 2013* PhD Forum and demo papers deadline: August 19, 2013 * Abstract submission is required for submitting the full paper. People Steering Committee Hamid Aghajan, Stanford Univ., USA & Ghent Univ., Belgium Bernhard Rinner, Klagenfurt Univ., Austria Richard Kleihorst, Xetal NV & Ghent Univ., Belgium General Chair Bir Bhanu, Univ. of California, Riverside, USA Abbas Bigdeli, NICTA, Australia Technical Program Committee Chairs Andrea Prati, Univ. Iuav di Venezia, Italy Faisal Qureshi, Univ. of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada Finance and Local Social Chair Ninad Thakoor, Univ. of California, Riverside, USA Publication Chair Christophe Bobda, Univ. of Arkansas, USA Demo Chair Farhad Dadgostar, NICTA, Australia Tutorial and Special session Chair Amit Roy-Chowdhury, Univ. of California, Riverside Christian Micheloni, Univ. Degli Studi di Udine, Italy Industrial Liaison Peter Tu, General Electric PhD Forum Chair Senem Velipasalar, Syracuse Univ. Publicity Chairs Mohan Kankanhalli, National Univ. of Singapore, Singapore Markus Quaritsch, TU Graz, Austria Ming-Hsuan Yang, Univ. of California, Merced Chair for Sponsorship Sek Chai, SRI International, USA