AAMSPS Workshop

Important Dates

Paper submission due:

~~February 20, 2011~~

March 7, 2011 (extended)

Notification of acceptance:

April 10, 2011

Camera ready submission:

April 20, 2011

Updated: June 30, 2011

IEEE International Workshop on

Advances in Automated Multimedia Surveillance for Public Safety

(AAMS-PS 2011)

July 15, 2011, Barcelona, Spain

In conjunction with

IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME 2011)

Keynote on

“Observing people and their behaviours with multiple cameras”

by Prof. Andrea Cavallaro, Queen Mary University of London, UK .

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 workshop aims to report on the recent 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 systems

· Risk assessment and handling of automated surveillance

· Privacy and ethical issues in automated surveillance

The selected papers from this workshop are expected to be invited at the Special Issue in a reputed journal.

General Co-chairs

Mohan S. Kankanhalli, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Pradeep K. Atrey, University of Winnipeg, Canada

M. Anwar Hossain, King Saud University, KSA

Program Co-chairs

Sk. Md. Mizanur Rahman, University of Ottawa, Canada

WeiQi Yan, Queen’s University Belfast, UK

Publicity Co-chairs

Rita Cucchiara, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy

Faisal Z. Qureshi, University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada

Keynote Speaker

Andrea Cavallaro, Queen Mary University of London, UK

Technical Program Committee

Sergio Velastin, Kingston Univ., London, UK

Bernhard Rinner, Klagenfurt Univ., Austria

Janusz Konrad, Boston Univ., USA

Abdullah Alghamdi, King Saud Univ., KSA

Jun Wang, Univ. College London, UK

Andrea Prati, Univ. of Modena and Reggio, Italy

Ankush Mittal, College of Engineering Roorkee, India

Sabu Emmanuel, Nanyang Technological Univ., Singapore

Atif Alamri, King Saud Univ., KSA,

Atsuo Inomata, NARA Institute of Science and Technology, Japan

Bohyung Han, Pohang Univ.of Science and Technology, Korea

Dewan Tanvir Ahmed, Univ.of Ottawa, Canada

K R Ramakrishnan, Indian Institute of Science, India

Huaxin Xu, Univ. of Technology, Sydney, Australia

Jorge Parra, Ikerlan-IK4, Spain

Mohamed-Chaker Larabi, Univ. of Poitiers, France

Md. Mehedi Masud, Taif University, KSA

Namunu Maddage, RMIT, Australia

Federico Pernici, Univ. of Florence, Italy

Christopher Henry, Univ. of Winnipeg, Canada

Ataul Bari, Univ. of Western Ontario, 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.icme2011.org/authorguide.php

Submission website: https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/ICMEW2011/Default.aspx

IEEE AAMS-PS 2011 Technical Program

Time	Session detail
8:30 – 8:35	Welcome note
8:35 – 9:40	Keynote and Oral Session 1 Chair: Mohan Kankanhalli Keynote on “Observing people and their behaviours with multiple cameras” by Prof. Andrea Cavallaro, Queens Mary, University of London, UK
9:40-10:10	Multi-sensor fire detection using visual and time-of-flight imaging Steven Verstockt (UGent - IBBT, ELIS – MMLab, Belgium), Pieterjan De Potter (ELIS Department, Multimedia Lab, Ghent University – IBBT, Belgium), Sofie Van Hoecke (ELIT Lab, University College West Flanders, Ghent University Association, Belgium), Peter Lambert (Ghent Univerity - IBBT, Belgium), rik Van de Walle (Ghent University - IBBT, Belgium)
10:10 – 10:30	Coffee break
10:30 – 12:30	Oral Session 2 Chair: Pradeep Atrey A fast algorithm for rain detection and removal from videos Minmin Shen (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore), Ping Xue (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) The large-scale crowd density estimation based on sparse spatiotemporal local binary pattern Hua Yang (Shanghai Jiaotong University, China), Hang Su (Shanghai Jiaotong University, China), Shibao Zheng (Shanghai Jiaotong University, China), Sha Wei (Shanghai Jiaotong University, China), Yawen Fan (Shanghai Jiaotong University, China) Wide-area multi-object tracking with non-overlapping camera views Youlu Wang (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA), Senem Velipasalar (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA), Mustafa Cenk Gursoy (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA) An analytical G/M/1 queueing model for providing guaranteed QoS in multimedia surveillance Mohsin Iftikhar (King Saud University, Saudi Arabia), M. Anwar Hossain (King Saud University, Saudi Arabia)
12:30 – 13:30	Lunch
13:30 – 14:30	Oral Session 3 Chair: M. Anwar Hossain Fusion of face networks through the surveillance of public spaces to address sociological security recommendations SK Alamgir Hossain (University of Ottawa, Canada), Abu Saleh Md Mahfuju Rahman (University of Ottawa, Canada), Abdulmotaleb El Saddik (University of Ottawa, Canada) A surveillance system based on social networking and localization Wonyoung Kwak (Seoul National University, Korea), Jinyoung Han (Seoul National Univ. , Korea), Nakjung Choi (Seoul National University, Korea), Ted 'Taekyung' Kwon (Seoul National University, Korea), Yanghee Choi (Seoul National University, Korea)
14:30 – 15:30	Poster Session (Chair: Pradeep Atrey) Detection and tracking of multiple moving objects in video sequence using entropy mask method and fast level set method Wanhyun Cho (Chonnam National University, Korea), Sunworl Kim (Chonnam National University, Korea), Gukdong Ahn (Chonnam National University, Korea) A decision support engine for video surveillance systems Dewan Ahmed (University of Ottawa, Canada), Shervin Shirmohammadi (University of Ottawa, Canada) A middleware platform for real-time processing of multiple video streams based on the data-flow paradigm Pasquale Foggia (Università di Salerno, Italy), Mario Vento (Università di Salerno, Italy) Towards optimal placement of surveillance cameras in a bus Khaled Amriki (University of Winnipeg, Canada), Pradeep Atrey (University of Winnipeg, Canada) QoS-aware service composition for video surveillance M. Shamim Hossain (King Saud University, Saudi Arabia)
15:30 – 16:00	Coffee break
16:00 – 17:30	Oral Session 4 Chair: M. Anwar Hossain Anonymous surveillance Mukesh Saini (National University of Singapore, Singapore), Pradeep Atrey (University of Winnipeg, Canada), Sharad Mehrotra (University of California, Irvine, USA), Mohan Kankanhalli (National University of Singapore, Singapore) Fast video search and indexing for video surveillance applications with optimally controlled false alarm rates Jose-Luis Lisani (Univ. Illes Balears, Spain), Antoni Buades (Univ. Illes Balears, Spain), Lenny Rudin (Cognitech Inc., USA) Vivie: A video-surveillance indexer via identity extraction Daniel Riccio (University of Salerno, Italy), Maria De Marsico (La Sapienza Università di Roma, , Italy), Michele Nappi (University of Salerno, Italy), Andrea Abate (University of Salerno, Italy)
17:30 – 18:00	Discussion and Conclusion

Contact: Pradeep: p.atrey@uwinnipeg.ca, Anwar: mahossain@ksu.edu.sa