7th IET International Conference on Imaging for Crime Detection and Prevention (ICDP-16) Call for Papers

7th IET International Conference on Imaging for Crime Detection and Prevention (ICDP-16)

Web site: http://www.icdp-conf.org
Madrid, Spain 23-24 November 2016
Deadline to submit full papers: 15th August 2015

Organised by: IET's Vision and Imaging Professional Network
Local Organisers: Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
Co-Sponsors: BMVA, IEEE, LASIE EU Project, U. Politecnica de Madrid

AIMS AND SCOPE
Crime and anti-social behaviour have a significant cost for society and 
business alike. Just in the UK anti-social behaviour alone accounts 
annually for around £3.4 billion of taxpayers’ money with incidents of 
graffiti and vandalism estimated to cost around £600 million/p.a. 
Surveillance systems of all kinds are thus extensively deployed in 
public and private locations to deter, prevent and control. The last 
years have also seen an increased awareness on the vulnerability of 
public spaces to attacks. However, there are serious limitations to the 
use of conventional monitoring systems where human operators are asked 
to survey a large number of cameras or go through enormous amounts of 
recorded material for forensic investigations. Computer-based 
technologies are increasingly becoming researched in what is now known 
as video analytics, propelled by advances in processing power, embedded 
computing, IP-networking technologies, volume storage, cheap cameras, 
etc. The realisation of such advances into working systems can have a 
major impact on society but also on individual liberty. This conference 
follows the successful IDSS (Intelligent Distributed Surveillance 
Systems) events held in 2003 and 2004 and ICDP 2005, 2006, 2009, 2011, 
2013 and 2015 to bring together researchers, industry, end-users, 
law-enforcing agencies and citizens groups to share experiences and 
explore areas where additional research and development are needed, 
identify possible collaboration and consider the societal impact of such 
technologies.

As per previous years we expect to have a range of keynote and invited 
speakers from end-users, industry and EU-funded research projects.

Full papers are invited on all aspects of Imaging Surveillance 
technologies, from academia, industry, NGOs and others, to be selected 
for oral presentations or posters through a peer-review system (see 
also: http://www.icdp-conf.org). An indicative, not exclusive, list of 
relevant topics is:

Surveillance Systems and solutions (system architecture aspects, 
operational procedures, usability, scalability)
Multi-camera systems
Information fusion (e.g. from visible and infrared cameras, microphone 
arrays. etc.)
Learning systems, Cognitive Systems Engineering and video mining
Robust computer vision algorithms (24/7 operation under variable 
conditions, object tracking, multi-camera algorithms, behaviour analysis 
and learning, scene segmentation)
Human Machine Interfaces, Human Systems Engineering and Human Factors
Wireless communications and networks for video surveillance, video 
coding, compression, authentication, watermarking, location-dependent 
services
Metadata generation, video database indexing, searching and browsing
Embedded systems, surveillance middleware
Gesture and posture analysis and recognition
Biometrics (including face recognition)
Forensics and crime scene reconstruction
X-Ray and Terahertz scanning
Case studies, practical systems and testbeds
Data protection, civil liberties and social exclusion issues

Accepted papers will be published on the IET's Digital Library, indexed 
by Inspec/IEEE Xplore, only if at least one author registers and 
presents the work. Authors of exceptional papers may be invited to 
submit extended versions to be considered for publication in one of the 
following  peer-reviewed Journals (IET Computer Vision, IET Image 
Processing or IET Biometrics). There are delegate fee discounts for 
authors, students and members of the IET and sponsoring organisations.

General Chair
Sergio A Velastin
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
sergio.velastin@ieee.org

Co-Chair
Dimitrios Makris
Kingston University London, UK

Local Chair
Jesús García Herrero
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain