[Imageworld] 7th IEEE AVSS 2010, Boston

[Dr. Fatih Porikli]

--- Deadline is one month away! Multiple Best Paper Awards! ---

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Workshop proposals:            19 March 2010
Paper submission:              **26 March 2010**
Notifications to authors:      1 June 2010
Camera ready papers:           2 July 2010
Conference:                    29 August - 1 September, 2010

Call For Papers:

The IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal-Based 
Surveillance (AVSS) is a forum bringing together participants from the 
worlds of research, industry and government agencies sharing interest in 
various forms of surveillance. It is financially and technically 
co-sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society (PAMI TC) and IEEE Signal 
Processing Society (IVMSP TC), with in-kind contributions from Boston 
University.

AVSS focuses on underlying theory, methods, systems, and applications of 
surveillance and welcomes contributions in areas listed below; 
cross-disciplinary and game-changing contributions are of particular 
interest. The list of topics of interest includes, but is not limited to:
     * Sensors & data fusion
           o Sensor networks
           o Microphone arrays
           o Infrared/milliwave/teraherz/visible/3D imaging
           o Heterogeneous sensor processing
           o Multisensor calibration/association/estimation
           o Distributed/cognitive/bio-inspired data fusion
     * Processing, detection & recognition
           o Multidimensional signal processing
           o Change & motion detection
           o Feature extraction
           o Target tracking
           o Sound, object, scene recognition
           o Pattern recognition & machine learning
     * Analytics, behavior & biometrics
           o Sound, video, multimodal analytics
           o Activity analysis & monitoring
           o Event, situation, behavior, threat modeling/recognition
           o Analysis for static & mobile environments
           o Biometrics: face, iris, fingerprint, ear, gait, voice
     * Data management & human-machine interfaces
           o Metadata management
           o Archival & retrieval
           o Multimodal displays
           o Advanced interfaces & visualization tools
           o Object- & situation-based coding
           o Wireless, mobile interfaces
     * Applications
           o Reactive & preventive environments
           o Integrated physical & cyber security
           o Transports (rail, road, air, maritime)
           o Unmanned vehicles & robotics
           o Ambient intelligence
           o Protection of infrastructures
     * Systems, performances & privacy
           o Industrial, civilian, military systems
           o Research prototypes
           o Hardware & software architectures
           o User requirements
           o Performance evaluation
           o Privacy in surveillance

Paper Submission:
Full-length papers, 4-6 pages long, are being solicited. Detailed 
submission instructions will be posted on the conference website in due 
time. Each submission will be double-blind peer-reviewed by at least two 
experts. The conference proceedings will be published by the IEEE 
Computer Society.

Call for AVSS-NIST Challenge:
AVSS 2010 will include a special session covering an open evaluation. 
Video sequences, provided by NIST and Home Office UK, will be 
distributed and performance evaluation will be carried out. Motion 
tracks of a designated people as they traverse a multi-camera field in 
airport surveillance videos will be judged.

PETS 2010 Workshop:
This year Performance Evaluation of Tracking Systems (PETS) workshop 
will be held in conjunction with the AVSS 2010. PETS is a full-day 
workshop on Sunday August 29. For participation and contributions 
contact to James Ferryman.

Call for Workshops:
AVSS 2010 will include a number of workshops before the conference on 
Sunday August 29. Proposals for workshops should be submitted to Andrea 
Cavallaro by March 19, 2010. Proposals should include the list of 
authors who have agreed to participate the workshop, the list of 
organizers, abstract of each paper, and submission deadlines.

Location:
Currently, in its 7th edition, the conference will be held in Boston, 
Massachusetts, one of the premier academic hubs in the world, at Boston 
University's Photonics Center.


Organizing Committee:

General chair
Fatih Porikli, MERL

Program chairs
Janusz Konrad, Boston University
James Davis, Ohio State University

Area chairs
George Bebis, University of Nevada, Reno
Tsuhan Chen, Cornell
Isaac Cohen, Honeywell
Dariu Gavrilla, University of Amsterdam
Massimo Piccardi, University of Technology, Sydney
Stan Sclaroff , Boston University
Chris Stauffer, BAE Systems

Challenge chairs
Erik Blash, US AFRL
John Fiscus, NIST

Workshops chair
Andrea Cavallaro, Queen Mary, Univerisity of London

Industrial panel chair
Anthony Hoogs, Kitware

Panelists
Ajay Divakaran, Sarnoff
Niels Haering, ObjectVideo
Arun Hampapour, IBM
Swarup Medisani, HRL
Visvanathan Ramesh, Siemens
Steve Sablak, PELCO

Local arrangement chair
Prakash Ishwar, Boston University

Publication chair
Kuntal Sengupta, TYCO

Demo chair
Venkatesh Saligrama, Boston University

Finance chair
Senem Velipasalar, UNL

Web chair
Ioannis Tziakos, Queen Mary, University of London

Liasons
Enis Cetin, Bilkent University
Shiloh Dockstader, ITT
Kazuhiko Sumi, MELCO
Jian Zhang, NICTA

Honorary chair
Carlo Regazzoni, University of Genoa

Keynote Speakers:
Takeo Kanade, CMU
Harpreet Sawhney, Sarnoff
Mubarak Shah, UCF
Ram Nevatia, USC

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