HIS 2014 - Workshop on Human Identification for Surveillance (HIS)

Human (re)identification is a critical process for tracking, understanding a person's activity and security authentication in a large space monitored by a camera network. Great progress has been made in this area, focusing on heterogeneous cues (face, body (2d appearance and 3D volume), other unimodal biometrics such as finger and palm, gait, behavioral cues in general) which do not require user's collaboration. However, this problem is far from being completely solved, particularly in real-world applications under uncontrolled environments, where a large number of factors hinder the identification performance, including lighting variations, different types of occlusion, large pose and view change. The mission of the workshop is to explore the cutting edge research in non-collaborative (re)identification, with a particular emphasis on the fusion of different modalities. For example, the face recognition and the re-identification communities, even though they share many objectives, they rarely have interacted to hybridize novel recognition applications, where both the biometric patterns (face and body) can be jointly exploited. This holds true also for the communities of gait recognition and body-reidentification, thermal body recognition, visual body recognition and other biometrics cues such as Iris Recognition at a distance. The HIS workshop, in this sense, will be highly interdisciplinary, encouraging papers (even preliminary), where the modality fusion plays a primary role.
The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
Face, Finger, Iris, Palm Recognition
Person Re-identification
Gait analysis
Novel biometrics sensing methods
People Detection and Tracking
Soft Biometrics
Human identification with multiple cues and multi-modality fusion
Mobile Modelling for human identification
Large scale search and matching for identification
Performance modeling, prediction and evaluation of identification/biometrics systems
Security improvement assessment for multi-identification/biometrics systems
Privacy enhancements in identification/biometrics
Authors are invited to submit a full paper according to the guidelines available on the ACCV2014 conference website. Submitted papers will be reviewed by the workshop program committee in a double blind manner. Only electronic submissions will be accepted. In submitting a manuscript to this workshop, the authors acknowledge that no paper substantially similar in content has been submitted to another conference or workshop during the review period. Accepted papers must be registered and presented; otherwise they will not be included in the workshop proceedings. The proceedings will be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series.
Special announcement from ACCV2014 Organizing Committee on main conference and workshop paper submission
ACCV2014 will continue the "fall back" strategy used successfully in ACCV2012, which can connect some rejected main conference papers to appropriate workshops. The papers rejected by the main conference but connected to a workshop by the author(s) will be automatically passed to the workshop organizers, together with the main conference review comments. The workshop organizers will see the paper and the reviews, based on which they can decide whether the paper can be accepted or not by the workshop.
For this purpose, when potential ACCV2014 authors submit a paper to the main conference, they will be allowed to select a workshop as a “backup” option in case that the paper is not accepted by the main conference.
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