[visionlist] Call for Papers - 2nd Int'l Wks. on SOCIAL INTELLIGENT SURVEILLANCE and MONITORING, SISM 2011

[Vittorio Murino]

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2nd IEEE International Workshop on
SOCIALLY INTELLIGENT SURVEILLANCE and MONITORING, SISM 2011

12 November 2011
Barcelona, Spain
(in conjunction with ICCV 2011)

http://sspnet.eu/2011/03/sism/
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RATIONALE

In general terms, surveillance and monitoring technologies aim at 
understanding what people do in a given environment, whether this means 
to ensure the safety of workers on the factory floor, to detect crimes 
occurring in indoor or outdoor settings, or to monitor the flow of large 
crowds through public spaces. Computer vision & pattern recognition are 
the main technologies used for automatic monitoring of public spaces. 
Effective approaches for tracking people, recognizing poses, postures, 
gestures, collective crowd phenomena in public environments have been 
developed in the last years, especially in the video surveillance 
context, aimed at classifying (suspect, unusual, abnormal) behaviors.
However, surveillance and monitoring technologies rarely consider that 
they analyze human behavior, a phenomenon subject to principles and laws 
rigorous enough to produce stable and predictable patterns corresponding 
to social, affective, and psychological phenomena. On the other hand, 
these phenomena are the subject of other computing domains, in 
particular Social Signal Processing and Affective Computing, that 
typically neglect scenarios relevant to surveillance and monitoring 
technologies, especially when it comes to social and affective 
dimensions of space in human activities.
The mission of SISM is to fill this gap by gathering researchers active 
in computer vision and pattern recognition, human sciences and automatic 
behavior understanding, in the same spirit as it has been pursued in the 
first edition of the workshop.
Joint research across these communities will have a major impact on any 
technology that can benefit from automatic monitoring approaches, 
including video-surveillance, architecture, ambient intelligence, 
marketing, office space design, urbanism, etc..

Interested participants are invited to submit papers that should 
describe high-quality original research joining computer vision and 
pattern recognition, human sciences and automatic behavior understanding 
areas.
Research, application and position papers are welcome.

TOPICS of interest include (but are by no means limited to):

Proxemics
Human ethology
Kinesics
Spatial Empathy
Territoriality
Expressions and emotions
Tracking: multi-person, multi-camera, group/crowd
Motion segmentation and analysis
Crowd/group analysis and simulation
Social force models
Collective and emergent behaviour
Gesture/Action recognition
Activity analysis
Multi-person/group/crowd interaction analysis
Spatial and temporal reasoning
Sensory integration and data fusion
Situation awareness and understanding
Applications: Ambient Intelligence, Surveillance and Monitoring, 
Domotics, Intelligent, Perceptual Marketing


IMPORTANT DATES

***** June 20, 2011: Paper submission *****
August 1, 2011: Notification of acceptance
Camera-ready papers due: TBA


KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Frank E. Pollick
Department of Psychology, University of Glasgow, UK
Luc Van Gool
Computer Vision Laboratory, ETH Zentrum, Switzerland


VENUE

The workshop will take place in conjunction with the International 
Conference on Computer Vision ICCV 2011 in Barcelona.
Further details on the venue will be announced on the workshop site
http://www.iccv2011.org/workshops


SUBMISSION POLICY, INSTRUCTIONS, REVIEW PROCESS

In submitting a manuscript to the workshop, authors acknowledge that no 
paper with substantially similar content has been submitted to another 
conference or workshop. Double submission to ICCV 2011 and SISM is the 
only exception allowed.

Manuscripts have to be submitted in the ICCV 2011 paper format 
http://www.iccv2011.org/workshops.
Papers accepted for the workshop will be allocated 8 pages in the ICCV 
2011 Proceedings.

SISM reviewing is double blind. Reviewing will be made by members of the 
program committee, and each paper will receive at least two reviews. 
Acceptance will be based on relevance to the workshop, novelty, and 
technical quality.
The submission instructions are posted on the SISM 2011 web site.


WORKSHOP PROCEEDINGS

The proceedings of SISM 2011 will be published in the proceedings of the 
ICCV 2011 conference.


ORGANISATION

Vittorio Murino,
University of Verona/Italian Institute of Technology

Marco Cristani
University of Verona/Italian Institute of Technology

Alessandro Vinciarelli
University of Glasgow/ IDIAP Research Institute


PROGRAM COMMITTEE

A. Camurri (University of Genova)
R. Chellappa (University of Maryland)
I. Cohen (Honeywell)
R. Cucchiara (University of Modena Reggio-Emilia)
J. Ferryman (University of Reading, UK)
D. Gatica-Perez (IDIAP Research Institute, Switzerland)
S. Gong (Queen Mary, University of London)
K. Grammer (Ludwig-Boltzmann-Institute for Urban Ethology, Austria)
H. Högni Vilhjálmsson (Reykjavík University)
Y. Ivanov (MERL, USA)
J-M. Odobez (IDIAP Research Institute)
M. Pantic (Imperial College London/University of Twente)
C.Pelachaud (CNRS, Paris)
I.Poggi (Universita’ Roma Tre)
F. Pollick (University of Glasgow)
I. Reid (University of Oxford)
A. K. Roy Chowdhury (University of California, Riverside)
N. Sebe (University of Trento)
M. Turk (University of California, Santa Barbara)
T. Xiang (Queen Mary, University of London)



CONTACTS

vittorio.murino AT iit.it
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IIT Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
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