Video Surveillance Systems in Smart Cities Call for Papers

CALL FOR PAPERS - V3SC 2025 @ICIAP 2025

2nd International Workshop on Video Surveillance Systems in Smart Cities:
Synthetic Images and Foundation Models for Advanced Monitoring Technologies. 

Rome, Italy, September, 2025

https://sites.google.com/view/v3sc-iciap2025

AIMS AND SCOPE
As urban areas grow and evolve into smart cities, the need for
advanced, integrated surveillance systems becomes critical for
ensuring public safety and efficient city management. This workshop
aims to explore the latest technologies and methodologies for creating
a cohesive surveillance ecosystem that leverages multiple data sources
that can have a powerful impact on different applications, such as
monitoring the crowd flow, monitoring traffic, real-time anomaly
detection, behavioural analysis, fire detection and others utilising
both high-altitude (from drones and satellites) and ground-level
images and videos.  A further aim of this workshop is to promote the
study and development of this field to identify limitations, open
issues and further research directions.

The workshop will focus on the integration and deployment of various
surveillance technologies in smart cities. This includes traditional
CCTV cameras, high-altitude systems such as drones and satellites, and
advanced monitoring systems incorporating IoT sensors and AI
analytics.

TOPICS
The workshop calls for submissions addressing, but not limited to, the following topics:
 - Integration of traditional CCTV systems with high-altitude surveillance technologies (drones and satellites)
 - Innovations in urban monitoring using drone and satellite imagery
 - AI and machine learning applications in smart city surveillance
 - Data fusion and analytics for enhanced urban security
 - Privacy and ethical implications of widespread surveillance
 - Case studies of real-world implementations of urban surveillance
 - Real-time monitoring: applications in traffic management and anomaly detection (e.g., fires, critical events)
 - Future trends and challenges in urban surveillance
 - Use of synthetic images for training and testing surveillance algorithms
 - Foundation models and their applicability in video surveillance and analysis
 - Challenges and opportunities in using synthetic data to reduce bias and improve AI model accuracy

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES 
When preparing your contribution, please follow the guidelines
provided on the ICIAP main conference website. The maximum number of
pages is 12 including references. Each contribution will be reviewed
based on originality, significance, clarity, soundness, relevance and
technical content. The submission will be handled electronically via
the Conference's CMT Website:

https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/V3SCICIAP2025

Once accepted, the presence of at least one author at the event and
the oral presentation of the paper are expected. For more details
about the registration see the ICIAP main conference details.

IMPORTANT DATES
- Paper Submission : 15 June, 2025
- Notifications to Authors : 30 June 2025
- Camera Ready Papers Due : 10 July, 2025
- Workshop Event: 15/16 September, 2025

ORGANIZERS
Rita Delussu, University of Sassari
Naser Damer, Fraunhofer IGD
Giorgio Fumera, University of Cagliari
Emanule Ledda, University of Cagliari
Lorenzo Putzu, University of Cagliari
Fabio Roli, University of Genova