AVSS 2012 - IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal Based Surveillance (AVSS)

AVSS is the IEEE conference series on video and signal based surveillance. AVSS was started in 1998 (Genoa, Italy). Following meetings were held in 2001 (Kingston, UK), in 2003 (Miami, USA), in 2005 (Como, Italy), in 2006 (Sydney, Australia), in 2007 (London, UK), in 2008 (Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA), in 2009 (Genoa, Italy), in 2010 (Boston, USA), and in 2011 (Klagenfurt, Austria). AVSS 2012 will be held in Beijing on 18-21 September 2012. AVSS is a forum of reference for the field and offers the opportunity to meet and foster collaboration. AVSS has a tradition of participation from the worlds of research, industry, and relevant government agencies. The conference focuses on underlying theories, methods, systems, and application areas.

The list of topics of interest includes, but is not limited to:
Sensors & data fusion
Sensor networks
Microphone arrays
Infrared /visible/3D imaging
Heterogeneous sensor processing
Multi-sensor calibration
Distributed/cognitive/ data fusion
Data management & HCI
Metadata management
Archival & retrieval
Multimodal displays
Interfaces & visualization tools
Object & situation-based coding
Wireless, mobile interfaces
Processing, detection & recognition
Multidimensional signal processing
Change & motion detection
Feature extraction
Target tracking
Sound, object, scene recognition
Pattern recognition
Applications
Reactive & preventive environments
Integrated physical & cyber security
Transports (rail, road, air, maritime)
Unmanned vehicles & robotics
Ambient intelligence
Protection of infrastructures
Analytics, behavior & biometrics
Sound, video, multimodal analytics
Activity analysis & monitoring
Event modeling/recognition
Static & mobile environments
Biometrics
Systems, performances & privacy
Industrial, civilian, military systems
Research prototypes
Hardware & software architectures
User requirements
Performance evaluation
Privacy in surveillance

Paper Submission and Proceedings Publication

Full-length papers between 4 and 6 A4 pages are solicited. Detailed submission instructions will be posted on the conference website in due time. Each submission will be double blindly peer-reviewed by at least three experts. The conference proceedings will be published by the IEEE Computer Society. See http://www.avss2012.org for further details.
AVSS Challenge

The AVSS challenge will be organized within the AVSS2012 Conference. Details will appear in http://www.avss2012.org
Call for Tutorials

Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit proposals for tutorials to be held in conjunction with the AVSS 2011 conference. Proposals should be submitted to the tutorial chair at the following email address: qji-AT-ecse.rpi.edu before 25 February, 2012.