Second Short Spring School on Surveillance (S5) Modena, Italy - May 7-9 2013 Endorsed by: Video Surveillance & Video Analytics - GIRPR Technical committee =================================================== http://imagelab.ing.unimore.it/s5 IMPORTANT DATES: - Pre-Registration deadline: 15th March 2013 - Demo session proposal: 31st March 2013 SCOPE Given the big success of the first edition of the Short Spring School on Surveillance (S4) held in Modena in May 2011, a second edition of the school will be organized in 7-9 May 2013. This short 3-day school is meant to provide a self-contained comprehensive introduction to modern video surveillance methods and techniques, with a good balance between theory and practical applications. This school is open to researchers, PhD and undergraduate students, 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 distinguished scientists of the field worldwide working in the video surveillance research. For this reason, the envisioned lessons will tackle the problems related to surveillance from different perspectives, ranging from tracking systems, behavior analysis, sensor networks to basic algorithmic components to state-of-the-art high-level techniques. 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). For this purpose, a demo session willl be organized where different research algorithms may be tested on your own data. A demo challenge will be organized where the best demo will be awarded with a money prize, sponsored by GIRPR. The course will be taught in english and a final exam is available on request. For companies attendants a certificate of participation will be provided. School location The school will be held in the Departement of Engineering "Enzo Ferrari" in Modena, Italy. More information about the venue and accomodation will be found here: http://imagelab.ing.unimore.it/s5/Contact.aspx Confirmed speakers: - Arnold Smeulders - CWI Amsterdam, the Netherlands - Bernhard Rinner - Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Austria - Francois Bremond - INRIA, France - Greg Mori - Simon Fraser University, Canada - Horst Bischof - Institute for Computer Graphics and Vision, Inffeldgasse Graz, Austria - Larry Davis - Institute for Advanced Computer Studies, Univ. of Maryland, USA - Shmuel Peleg - The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel An updated program of the school can be found here: http://imagelab.ing.unimore.it/s5/Program.aspx School organizers: - Rita Cucchiara, DIEF University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy - Andrea Prati, IUAV University of Venezia, Italy - Simone Calderara, DIEF University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy