IEEE Workshop on Advances in Automated Multimedia Surveillance for Public Safety (AAMS-PS 2011)

July 15, 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 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