[Imageworld] CfP: The 1st International Workshop on Video Event Categorization, Tagging and Retrieval, in conjunction with ACCV 2009

[Ling Shao]

  The 1st International Workshop on Video Event Categorization, Tagging and
Retrieval (VECTaR2009)  *In Conjunction with ACCV
2009<http://www.accv2009.org/>
*  Xi'an, China, Sep. 24, 2009
http://www.cs.qub.ac.uk/~J.Zhang/VECTaR2009.htm

 Call for Papers

One of the remarkable capabilities of human visual perception system is to
interpret and recognize thousands of events in videos, despite high level of
video object clutters, different types of scene context, variability of
motion scales, appearance changes, occlusions and object interactions. As an
ultimate goal of computer vision system, the interpretation and recognition
of visual events is one of the most challenging problems and has
increasingly become very popular for decades. This task remains exceedingly
difficult because of several reasons: 1) there still remain large
ambiguities in the definition of different levels of events. 2) A computer
model should be capable of capturing the meaningful structure for a specific
event. At the same time, the representation (or recognition process) must be
robust under challenging video conditions. 3) A computer model should be
able to understand the context of video scenes to have meaningful
interpretation of a video event. Despite those difficulties, in recent
years, steady progress has been made towards better models for video event
categorisation and recognition, e.g., from modelling events with bag of
spatial temporal features to discovering event context, from detecting
events using a single camera to inferring events through a distributed
camera network, and from low-level event feature extraction and description
to high-level semantic event classification and recognition.

The goal of this workshop is to provide a forum for recent research advances
in the area of video event categorisation, tagging and retrieval. The
workshop seeks original high-quality submissions from leading researchers
and practitioners in academia as well as industry, dealing with theories,
applications and databases of visual event recognition. Topics of interest
include, but are not limited to:

   - Motion interpretation and grouping
   - Human Action representation and recognition
   - Abnormal event detection
   - Contextual event inference
   - Event recognition among a distributed camera network
   - Multimodal event recognition
   - Spatial temporal features for event categorisation
   - Hierarchical event recognition
   - Probabilistic graph models for event reasoning
   - Machine learning for event recognition
   - Global/local event descriptors
   - Metadata construction for event recognition
   - Bottom up and top down approaches for event recognition
   - Event-based video segmentation and summarization
   - Video event database gathering and annotation
   - Efficient indexing and concepts modelling for video event retrieval
   - Semantic-based video event retrieval
   - Online video event tagging
   - Evaluation methodologies for event-based systems
   - Event-based applications (security, sports, news, etc.)

Important Dates

   - Submission deadline: *July 06, 2009*
   - Notification of acceptance: *July 31, 2009*
   - Camera-ready papers: *August 12, 2009*
   - Workshop: *September 24, 2009*

Workshop Co-Chairs

   - Dr. Jianguo Zhang, *Queen's University Belfast, U*K
   - Dr. Ling Shao, *Philips Research Laboratories, The Netherlands*
   - Dr. Lei Zhang, *Microsoft Research Asia, China*
   - Prof. Graeme A. Jones,* Kingston University, UK*

Paper Submission

   -

   When submitting manuscripts to this workshop, the authors acknowledge
   that the manuscripts or papers substantially similar in content have NOT
   been submitted to another conference, workshop, or journal.
   -

   The format of the paper is the same as the ACCV main conference paper.
   Please follow the instructions on the website http://www.accv2009.org/.
   -

   For the paper submission, please follow the Submission Website
   (https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/VECTAR2009/)<https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/VECTAR2009/>
   .

Review

Each submission will be reviewed by at least three reviewers from program
committee members and external reviewers for originality, significance,
clarity, soundness, relevance and technical contents. Accepted papers will
be published together with the proceedings of ACCV 2009 in electronic format
by Springer. High-quality papers will be invited to submit in an extended
form to an edited book or a special issue of a top computer vision journal
(e.g. CVIU) after the conference.
Program Committee (alphabetical order)

    - Rama Chellappa, *University of Maryland, USA*
      - Roy Davies, *Royal Holloway, University of London, UK*
      - James W. Davis, *Ohio State University, USA*
      - Ling-Yu Duan, *Peking University, China*
      - Tim Ellis, *Kingston University, UK*
      - James Ferryman, *University of Reading, UK*
      - GianLuca Foresti, *University of Udine, Italy*
      - Shaogang Gong, *Queen Mary University London, UK*
      - Kaiqi Hang, *Chinese Academy of Sciences, China*
      - Winston Hsu, *National Taiwan University*
      - Yu-Gang Jiang, *City University of Hong Kong, China*
      - Graeme A. Jones, *Kingston University, UK*
      - Ivan Laptev, *INRIA, France*
      - Jianmin Li, *Tsinghua University, China*
      - Xuelong Li, *Birkbeck College, University of London, UK*
      - Zhu Li, *Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China*
      - Marcin Marszalek, *Unviersity of Oxford, UK*
      - Tao Mei, *Microsoft Research Asia*
      - Paul Miller, *Queen's University Belfast, UK*
      - Ram Nevatia, *University of Southern California, USA*
      - Yanwei Pang, *Tianjin University, China*
      - Federico Pernici, *Università di Firenze, Italy*
      - Carlo Regazzoni, *University of Genoa, Italy*
      - Shin'ichi Satoh, *National Institute of Informatics, Japan*
      - Dan Schonfeld, *University of Illinois at Chicago, USA*
      - Ling Shao, *Philips Research Laboratories, The Netherlands*
      - Yan Song, *University of Science and Technology of China*
      - Peter Sturm, *INRIA, France*
      - Dacheng Tao, *Nanyang Technological University, Singapore*
      - Xin-Jing Wang, *Microsoft Research Asia*
      - Tao Xiang, *Queen Mary University London, UK*
      - Dong Xu, *Nanyang Technological University, Singapore*
      - Li-Qun Xu, *BT exact UK*
      - Hongbin Zha, *Peking University, Beijing China*
      - Jianguo Zhang, *Queen's University Belfast, UK*
      - Lei Zhang, *Microsoft Research Asia*

Contacts

   - Dr. Jianguo Zhang, Email: *Jianguo.zhang at
qub.ac.uk*<jianguo.zhang at qub.ac.uk>
   - Dr. Ling Shao, Email: *l.shao at philips.com* <l.shao at philips.com>
   - Dr. Lei Zhang, Email: *leizhang at microsoft.com*<leizhang at microsoft.com>
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