AAMS-PS 2012 - 2nd 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’2011 in Barcelona) 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
? Advances in military surveillance for public safety applications
? Automatic decision making strategies in critical surveillance scenarios
? Crowd-supported surveillance
? Alert-response systems
? Risk assessment and handling of automated surveillance
? Privacy and ethical issues in surveillance.
Advisory Committee
Mohan S. Kankanhalli, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Abdulmotaleb El Saddik, University of Ottawa, Canada
Organizing Co-chairs
Pradeep K. Atrey, University of Winnipeg, Canada
M. Anwar Hossain, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia
WeiQi Yan, Queen’s University Belfast, UK
Keynote Speaker
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Technical Program Committee (Tentative)
Abdullah Alghamdi, King Saud University, KSA
Andrea Prati. Università Iuav di Venezia. Italy
Atsuo Inomata, Inst. of Sc. and Tech., Japan
Bernhard Rinner, Klagenfurt Univ., Austria
Dewan Tanvir Ahmed, King Saud Univ., KSA
Faisal Z. Qureshi, University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Oshawa, Canada
Huaxin Xu, The 3rd Eye Pty Ltd, Sydney, Australia
Jun Wang, Univ. College London, UK
K R Ramakrishnan, Indian Institute of Science, India
Chaker Larabi, Université de Poitiers, France
Massimo Piccardi, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
Mukesh Saini, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Namunu Maddage, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia
Rita Cucchiara, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy
Sabu Emmanuel, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Sergio Velastin, Kingston University, UK
Sk. Md. Mizanur Rahman, Univ. of Ottawa, Canada
Paper Submission
Submission guidelines: Full-length papers of 6 pages in length reporting on original research are solicited. Detailed submission instructions are available at: http://www.icme2012.org/PaperSubmission_index.php
Submission website: https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/ICMEWS2012/
Technical Program
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Registration
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Contact: Pradeep: p.atrey-AT-uwinnipeg.ca, Anwar: mahossain-AT-ksu.edu.sa