*************** CALL FOR PAPERS *************** Eighth edition of the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Distributed Smart Cameras ACM/IEEE ICDSC 2014 http://www.icdsc.org/ Nov. 4-7, 2014 Venice -ITALY *************** IMPORTANT DATES *************** Paper submission deadline: May 4, 2014 Notification of acceptance: June 15, 2014 Camera ready and early registration deadline: June 30, 2014 PhD Forum and demo papers deadline: August 20, 2014 ***** Theme ***** With progressive deployment of smart cameras into conventional camera networks and emerging mobile applications, new research and development opportunities have arisen. Open issues in resource management and task allocation, embedding video analytics into low power devices, organizing the sensor network, efficient video communication, edge/cloud computing, distributed analysis, etc., require the commitment of researchers in different fields for a multidisciplinary approach. Papers will be expected in, but not limited to, the following topics: 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 • Distributed video coding Mobile Vision • Crowdsourcing • Sensing for mixed/augmented reality • Structure-from-motion from mobile devices • Visual landmark localization • Object recognition • Egovision Distributed computer vision • Distributed video analytics • Resource management and task allocation • Multi-sensor data aggregation • Collaborative extraction, information fusion • Edge and cloud computing Visual sensor networks • Active vision • Self-reconfiguring camera networks • Wireless and mobile image sensor networks • Topology discovery • Social media and big data 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 ************* SPECIAL ISSUE ************* Authors of high quality papers will be invited to extend their work and submit it for the special issue on a high-ranked journal. More information will be posted on the conference website when available. ********* COMMITTEE ********* General Chair - Andrea Prati, Università Iuav di Venezia, Italy Technical Program Committee Chairs - Christian Micheloni, Università degli Studi di Udine, Udine, Italy - Senem Velipasalar, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, USA - Roberto Vezzani, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy