The 15th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signals-based Surveillance (AVSS 2018)

27-30 November 2018

Auckland, New Zealand

https://avss2018.org/

Call for Papers

Prospective authors are invited to submit high-quality full papers representing original results in all areas of video and signal-based surveillance. Submissions and final papers are limited to 6 pages in double-column IEEE format, including figures, but not counting the list of references. Accepted papers are published in the conference proceedings that will be also available in the IEEE Xplore digital library.

AVSS addresses underlying theory, methods, systems, and applications of video and signal based surveillance. AVSS invites submissions in areas listed below, especially on cross-disciplinary and game-changing subjects. The list of topics of interest includes, but is not limited to:

SENSOR-CENTRIC PROCESSING:
Sensors (visible/infrared/3D/mm wave/audio/radio, etc.) | Ground, airborne, satellite based (fixed / mobile /UAV) | Crowdsourcing (cellular/social networks) | Calibration and positioning (GPS, etc.) | Communications and networked sensing | Distributed Camera Networks and Smart Cameras | Participatory Sensing

PROCESSING, DETECTION, TRACKING & RECOGNITION:
Modelling and feature selection | Detection and estimation (change/motion/anomaly/saliency/pattern) | Data association and (multi) target tracking | Classification and recognition | Multi-modal fusion

VISUALIZATION AND INTERACTION CONCEPTS FOR SURVEILLANCE SYSTEMS
Compression and summarization | Archival, search and retrieval | Human-computer interfaces | Visualization algorithms | Mobile and distributed interaction

ANALYTICS, SITUATION AWARENESS & DECISION MAKING
Activity/interaction analysis and monitoring | Intention estimation and situation awareness | Crowdsourcing-based methods | Cognitive dynamic systems and bio-inspired methods

SECURITY & PRIVACY
Data authenticity | Privacy in surveillance | Forensics | Biometrics (standoff, multi-modal, voice, etc.) | Cybersecurity for surveillance (wireless, network, computer) | Advanced Biometrics at a Distance

SURVEILLANCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS
Hardware and software architectures | Research prototypes | Simulators | Civilian, industrial, and military | Transportation (road, rail, air, maritime) | Performance evaluation

Original contributions in any of the above (or related) areas are being solicited. Prospective authors are invited to submit full-length papers, up to 6 pages long, including results, figures, tables and references by the due date (see below). Detailed submission instructions will be posted on the Paper Submission page in due time. Each submission will be double-blind peer-reviewed by at least two experts.

Important Dates

Committees

General Chairs

• Mohan Kankanhalli (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
• Reinhard Klette (Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand)

Technical Program Chairs

• Andrea Cavallaro (Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom)
• Wei Qi Yan (Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand)

Workshop Chairs

• Pradeep Atrey (State University of New York at Albany, USA)
• Cosimo Distante (Institute of Applied Sciences and Intelligent Systems, CNR, Italy)
• Feng Liu (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)

Area Chairs

• ANALYTICS, SITUATION AWARENESS & DECISION-MAKING
  Anthony Hoogs (Kitware, Inc., USA)
• PROCESSING, DETECTION, TRACKING & RECOGNITION
  Simone Calderara (UNIMORE, Modena, Italy)
• SECURITY & PRIVACY
  Patrick Grother (National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA)
• SENSOR-CENTRIC PROCESSING
  Saibal Mukhopadhyay (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
• SURVEILLANCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS
  Alessia Saggese (University of Salerno, Italy)
• VISUALIZATION AND INTERACTION CONCEPTS FOR SURVEILLANCE SYSTEMS
  Amy Loufti (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy)

Organization Chairs

• Minh Nguyen (Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand)
• Zixiang Xiong (Texas A&M University, USA)

Industrial Chair

• John Houlker (Wellington, New Zealand)
• Lidong Zhai (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)

Challenge Chairs

• Chang-Tsun Li (Charles Sturt University, Australia)
• Chao Shen (Xi’an Jiaotong University, China)

Publicity Chairs

• Alvis Fong (Western Michigan University, USA)
• Xiaotian Wu (Jinan University, China)

Publication Chair

• Richard Green (University of Canterbury, New Zealand)

Asia Liaison

• Mukesh Saini (Indian Institute of Technology, India)
• Mutsuhiro Terauchi (Osaka, Japan)

Australia Liaison

• Xufeng Lin (Charles Sturt University, Australia)

America Liaison

• Domingo Mery (Santiago, Chile)
• Faisal Qureshi (University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada)
• Arun Ross (Michigan State University, USA)

Europe Liaison

• Nicolai Petkov (Groningen, The Netherlands)

Local Organising Office

• Glen Bailey (Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand) (Administration and Logistics)
• Andrew Chen (University of Auckland, New Zealand) (Website)
• Zahra Moayed (Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand) (Enquiries)
• Minh Nguyen (Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand) (Chair)