*********** FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS ***********
Third International Workshop on Visual Surveillance
(in conjunction with ECCV'2000)
Dublin, Ireland
1 July 2000
(http://www.ia.ac.cn/nlpr/nationallabofp/Surveillance/call_for_paper.htm)
NEW DEADLINE: 21 February 2000
Visual surveillance of wide area scenes can provide statistics about
scene
activity and high level descriptions of the behaviours of objects and
people. Typical scenes include shopping malls, city centres, mass
transportation networks and major road networks.
Visual surveillance raises important scientific and technical problems:
can high level interpretations of behaviours be obtained automatically?
what is the best way to coordinate and use thousands of cameras linked
by a communications network? how robust can a network based vision
system
be? can visual surveillance meet the constraints on cost and complexity
necessary for success in a mass market? In addition, there is an
enormous
potential market, ranging from mass transport operators who wish to
monitor and control the huge numbers of people passing through the
different nodes of a transport network, to department stores and
supermarkets who wish to collect the statistics about customer behaviour
needed for planning the layout of their stores. There are also
applications in policing and security. The different groups involved
(e.g., transport operators, supermarket companies, police and security
operators, etc.) are already informed about the potential of visual
surveillance, and there have been numerous articles in the press and in
popular scientific magazines.
The first two visual surveillance workshops were successfully held at
ICCV'98 in Bombay and CVPR'99 in Fort Collins, Colorado, both under
the sponsorship of the IEEE Computer Society. The third in the series
will be held on July 1st 2000, in Dublin, Ireland, just after ECCV'2000.
Papers are invited on any theoretical or practical aspects of visual
surveillance. Topics include but are not limited to
* Accident prevention and the detection of hazards
* Tracking and handover from one camera to another
* Segmentation of moving objects and people
* Posture, action and behaviour recognition
* Multi-camera data fusion
* Visual surveillance on wide area camera networks
* Learning and artificial intelligence in visual surveillance
All papers will be reviewed by the programme committee. Accepted papers
will be presented at the workshop and also included in the workshop
proceedings. Fuller versions of the best papers will be considered for
publication in a special issue of a leading computer vision journal.
Papers should be at most 8 pages, single spaced and with 3-4 keywords.
Please send THREE copies by post or an electronic copy in postscript
format
to Dr. Steve Maybank at the address given below, to arrive by 21
FEBRUARY
2000 (deadline extended from 7 February).
For further information, please contact Steve Maybank
([log in to unmask]) or Tieniu Tan ([log in to unmask]).
PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
CO-CHAIRS
Steve Maybank Tieniu Tan
Department of Computer Science National Laboratory of Pattern
Recognition
The University of Reading Institute of Automation
Whiteknights, PO Box 225 Chinese Academy of Sciences
Reading, Berkshire, RG6 6AY, UK PO Box 2728, Beijing 100080, China
COMMITTEE MEMBERS
J.K. Aggarwal (Texas, USA) S.Z. Li (NTU,
Singapore)
T. Boult (Lehigh, USA) S.D. Ma (CAS, China)
R. Collins (CMU, USA) S.J. Maybank (Reading, UK)
J. Crowley (Grenoble, France) H.-H. Nagel (Karlsruhe,
Germany)
L. Davis (Maryland, USA) G. Sandini (Genoa, Italy)
D. Gavrila (Daimler-Chrysler, Germany) Y. Shirai (Osaka, Japan)
W.E.L. Grimson (MIT, USA) T.N. Tan (CAS, China)
E. Hancock (York, UK) M. Thonnat (INRIA, France)
J. Heikkila (Oulu, Finland) G. West (Curtin,
Australia)
J. Kittler (Surrey, UK)
IMPORTANT DATES
Full paper due 21 Feb 2000 (extended
deadline)
Notification to authors 24 Mar 2000
Camera ready copy 7 Apr 2000
Workshop 1 July 2000
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The University of Reading
Department of Computer Science
Research Fellow in Computer Vision
A one year appointment as a post-doctoral Research Fellow in Computer
Vision
is available. The research involves the design and implementation of
methods
for the classification of road vehicles using stereo pairs of images.
The
project is funded by the EPSRC under the LINK Inland Surface Transport
Programme. It will involve collaboration with a local company, Computer
Recognition Systems Ltd, and with Reading Borough Council who will
provide
facilities in Reading town centre for the collection of data. The aim
is to build and test a prototype system for classifying vehicles as they
enter a restricted area. The project will build on previous work on
model based vehicle classification carried out by the Computational
Vision
Group in the Department of computer Science.
Candidates should have a background in computer vision, with good
programming
and mathematical skills. The salary is 23,000 ukp per year.
Please send a cv, either electronically, by post or by fax, with the
names
of at least two referees to
Dr S.J. Maybank
Department of Computer Science
The University of Reading
Whirteknights
Reading
Berkshire
RG6 6AY
UK
email: [log in to unmask]
tel: +44 (0)1189 316757'
fax: +44 (0)1189 751994
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