AAMS-PS 2013 - 3rd IEEE International Workshop on Advances in Automated Multimedia Surveillance for Public Safety

Automated multimedia surveillance systems utilize different tools and techniques in capturing, processing and analyzing multimedia data coming from heterogeneous sensors. These systems are often designed to support (semi-) automatic decision making, such as generating an alarm in response to a surveillance event, as well as to provide useful information to human decision makers for ensuring public safety. Many researchers in industry and academia are working on various aspects of automated surveillance - automatic analysis of media streams, real-time processing, event detection, system architecture, quality evaluation and so on, while some argue on the level of automation to be exercised in such systems.
This is the second edition of this workshop (after the first successful AAMS-PS’11 in Barcelona and AAMS-PS’12 in Melbourne) and it aims to report on the further developments in various aspects of automated surveillance, more specifically to the state-of-the-art techniques, methodologies and systems for protecting people and ensuring their safety. We seek high quality papers that were not published elsewhere and have scientific values. Some topics of interest include, but not limited to the following:
Automatic event detection based on multi-sensor data
Event handling and management
Architectural support for real-time surveillance
Quality of surveillance systems and information
Multi-sensor fusion in surveillance
Advances in military surveillance for public safety applications
Automatic decision making strategies in critical surveillance scenarios
Crowd-supported surveillance
Alert-response management
Risk assessment and handling of automated surveillance
Privacy and ethical issues in automated surveillance
General Co-chairs
M. Anwar Hossain, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia
Pradeep K. Atrey, University of Winnipeg, Canada
Senem Velipasalar, Syracuse University, NY, USA
Technical Program Committee (tentative)
Janusz Konrad (Boston University, USA)
Sk. Md. Mizanur Rahman (Irtedo, Ottawa, Canada)
Sergio Velastin (Kingston University, London, UK)
Faisal Z. Qureshi (University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Oshawa, Canada)
Jun Wang (University College London, UK)
K R Ramakrishnan (Indian Institute of Science, India)
Sabu Emmanuel (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
Huaxin Xu (The 3rd Eye Pty Ltd, Sydney, Australia)
Dewan Tanvir Ahmed (University of Ottawa, ON, Canada)
Jorge Parra (Ikerlan-IK4, Spain)
Andrea Prati (Reggio Emilia, Italy)
Md. Mehedi Masud (Taif University, KSA)
Namunu Maddage (RMIT, Melbourne, Australia)
Christopher Henry (University of Winnipeg, Canada)
Atsuo Inomata (NARA Institute of Science and Technology, Japan)
Raylin Tso (National Chengchi University, Taiwan)
Mukesh Saini (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
Chidansh Bhatt (Idiap Research Institute, Switzerland)