International Workshop on Crowd Understanding Call for Papers
The International Workshop on Crowd Understanding aims to bring
together people from academic/scientific and industrial/business
communities active in computer vision and video surveillance fields in
order to initiate a discussion regarding the state of the art,
outlooks and challenges in the field with an accent on the business
aspects of the technologies.
Fast increasing hardware capabilities, growing data bandwidth and
falling costs cause surveillance cameras to be deployed in large
quantities, inducing a strong need for automated processing with an
ultimate goal of scene understanding. Despite the significant effort
of the Computer Vision scientific community, the state of the art
video surveillance automation is based on tracking individual persons
in sparsely crowded environments while automated understanding of
crowded scenes remains an unsolved problem. Being an unsolved problem
in scientific research, it also represents a missing piece in
commercial automated video surveillance systems. There it also
represents a high potential for commercialization – the large
amount of surveillance cameras causes either cognitive overload of
security operators or increased operating costs creating a strong and
urgent need for automation.
We invite the submission of high quality manuscripts describing
unpublished work from researchers and practitioners who are active in
the following areas:
Novel Crowd Understanding Techniques
Detection and tracking of crowd
Recognition and detection of crowd behavior
Single camera people detection and tracking in crowded environments
Multi camera people detection and tracking in crowded environments
Abnormality detection in crowd
People re-identification in crowded scenes
Crowd analytics, such as density estimation
F-formation recognition
Novel sensors and surveillance system architecture for crowd understanding
Crowd datasets
Business and societal aspects of crowd surveillance
Other computer vision topics related to crowd monitoring
Papers describing novel solutions which have real potential for business exploitation are particularly encouraged.
Workshop Website
http://www.crowd-understanding.eu/
Important dates:
Submission deadline: 1st June 2016
Decision to authors: 4th July 2016
Camera-ready deadline: 25th July 2016
Workshop: tbd 8th-9th October 2016
Organizers:
François Brémond, INRIA Sophia Antipolis.
Vít Líbal, Honeywell ACS Global Labs Prague
Andrea Cavallaro, Queen Mary University of London.
Tomas Pajdla, Czech Technical University in Prague.
Petr Palatka, Neovision s.r.o