7th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal-Based Surveillance

for Security, Safety and Monitoring in Smart Environments

29 August - 1 September, 2010     Boston (USA)

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29 August - 1 September, 2010 Boston (USA)


Important dates
  • Special session proposals
    - 5 March 2010
  • Workshop proposals
    - 19 March 2010
  • Paper submission
    - 5 April 2010
  • Notifications to authors
    - 8 June 2010
  • Camera ready papers due
    - 9 July 2010
  • Early registration deadline
    - 9 July 2010
  • Conference - 29 August
    - 1 September, 2010
News
  • (09/04/10) Challenge information available
  • (16/04/10) Workshop information available
  • (14/06/10) Registration open
  • (14/06/10) Camera ready information
  • (23/06/10) Final submission extended


Detailed Program


Program at a glance (tentative)

Sunday, August 29, 2010
08:00 - 09:00 Registration and breakfast
09:10 - 09:20 PETS - Welcome and Introductory Remarks Room 906
09:20 - 10:40 PETS - Session 1: Evaluation Methodology Room 906
09:00 - 10:40 AMMCSS - Part I Room 901
10:40 - 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 - 12:40 PETS - Session 2: PETS 2010 Dataset 1 Room 906
11:00 - 12:40 AMMCSS - Part II Room 901
12:40 - 14:00 Lunch break
14:20 - 15:15 PETS - Session 3: PETS 2010 Dataset 2 Room 906
14:00 - 15:15 MMSS - Surveillance Systems Room 901
15:15 - 15:45 Coffee break
15:45 - 16:30 PETS - Session 4: Discussion Room 906
16:30 - PETS - Closing Remarks Room 906
15:45 - 17:15 MMSS - Surveillance Applications Room 901
18:00 - 20:00 AVSS Conference Welcome Reception Room 906
Monday, August 30, 2010
08:00 - 08.45 Registration and breakfast
08:45 - 09:00 Conference Opening Room 906
09:00 - 10:15 Oral Session: Foreground/Background Segmentation I
Chair: Andrea Cavallaro
Room 906
10:15 - 10:45 Coffee break
10:45 - 12:00 Oral Session: Action Recognition
Chair: Jim Davis
Room 906
12:00 - 13:30 Lunch break
13:30 - 14:30 Plenary Lecture: Mubarak Shah, University of Central Florida
Chair: Fatih Porikli
Room 906
14:30 - 14:45 Coffee break
14:45 - 15:15 Spotlight Poster Presentation
Chair: Senem Velipasalar
Room 906
15:15 - 16:15 Poster Sessions
Chair: Andrea Cavallaro
I-9 Activity Detection and Recognition 9th floor hallway & library
I-7 Detection, Tracking and Activity Analysis 7th floor atrium
16:15 - 17:30 Oral Session: Tracking I
Chair: Chris Stauffer
Room 906
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
08:00 - 09:00 Registration and breakfast
09:00 - 10:15 Oral Session: Foreground/Background Segmentation II
Chair: Janusz Konrad
Room 906
10:15 - 10:45 Coffee break
10:45 - 12:00 Oral Session: Event Analysis and Detection
Chair: Niels Haering
Room 906
12:00 - 13:30 Lunch break
13:30 - 14:30 Plenary Lecture: John Rush, Chief, Information Integration Data Engineering Division, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
Chair: Shiloh Dockstader
Room 906
14:30 - 14:45 Coffee break
14:45 - 16:10 Industrial Panel
Chair: Anthony Hoogs
Room 906
16:15 - 17:30 Oral Session: Tracking II
Chair: Stan Sclaroff
Room 906
17:45 - 22:00 Banquet (buses departing at 17:45)
Wednesday, September 01, 2010
08:00 - 09:00 Registration and breakfast
09:00 - 10:15 Oral Session: People Re-Identification
Chair: Peter Tu
Room 906
10:15 - 10:45 Coffee break
10:45 - 12:00 Oral Session: People Detection and Tracking
Chair: Carlo Regazzoni
Room 906
12:00 - 13:30 Lunch break
13:30 - 14:30 Plenary Lecture: Ajay Divakaran, Group Manager, Sarnoff Corporation
Chair: Erik Blasch
Room 906
14:30 - 14:45 Coffee break
14:45 - 15:15 Spotlight Poster Presentation
Chair: Prakash Ishwar
Room 906
15:15 - 16:15 Poster Sessions
Chair: Mark Keck
II-9 Computer Vision and Learning Methods: 9th floor hallway & library
II-7 Systems, Security and Authentication: 7th floor atrium
16:15 - 17:30 Oral Session: Security, Privacy and Multi-Modal Classification
Chair: Massimo Piccardi
Room 906
Demos (Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday)
08:00 - 18:00 VideoIQ, Garrett, IntuVision and Hartwig Room 901


Detailed program

Sunday, August 29, 2010

09:10 - 10:20: PETS - Welcome and Introductory Remarks (room 906)

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09:20 - 10:40: PETS - Session 1: Evaluation Methodology (room 906)

• Overview of the NIST Challenge Datasets and Evaluation
J. Fiscus
• Intelligent Video Systems: A Review of Performance Evaluation Metrics that use Mapping Procedures
X. Desurmont, C. Carincotte and F. Bremond
• Thirteen Hard Cases in Visual Tracking
D. M. Chu and A. W. M. Smeulders

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09:00 - 10:40: AMMCSS - Part I (room 901)

• Person Re-identification Using Haar-based and DCD-based Signature
Slawomir Bak, Etienne Corvee, Francois Bremond, and Monique Thonnat
• Bringing Richer Information with Reliability to Automated Traffic Monitoring from the Fusion of Multiple Cameras, Inductive Loops and Road Maps
Kostia Robert
• A Safe Fault Tolerant Multi-View Approach for Vision-Based Protective Devices
Antje Ober and Dominik Henrich
• Multi-Camera Analysis of Soccer Sequences
Chris Poppe, Sarah De Bruyne, Steven Verstockt and Rik Van de Walle

10:40 - 11:00: Coffee break

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11:00 - 12:40: PETS - Session 2: PETS 2010 Dataset 1 (room 906)

• PETS2010: Dataset and Challenge
J. Ferryman and A. Ellis
• Counting People in Crowded Environments by Fusion of Shape and Motion Information
M. Patzold, R. H. Evangelio and T. Sikora
• Fast People Counting using Head Detection from Skeleton Graph
D. Merad, K. E. Aziz and N. Thome
• A Method on the Indirect Approach for Counting People in Crowded Scenes
D. Conte, P. Foggia, G. Percannella and M. Vento

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11:00 - 12:40: AMMCSS - Part II (room 901)

• Soccer Player Activity Recognition by a Multivariate Features Integration
Tiziana D´Orazio, Marco Leo, Pier Luigi Mazzeo and Paolo Spagnolo
• Task-Oriented Object Tracking in Large Distributed Camera Networks
Eduardo Monari and Kristian Kroschel
• MuHAVi: A Multicamera Human Action Video Dataset for the Evaluation of Action Recognition Methods
Sanchit Singh, Sergio A Velastin and Hossein Ragheb
• Group Level Activity Recognition in Crowded Environments across Multiple Cameras
Ming-Ching Chang and Nils Krahnstoever

12:40 - 14:00: Lunch break

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14:20 - 15:15: PETS - Session 3: PETS 2010 Dataset 2 (room 906)

• Performance Evaluation of a People Tracking System on the PETS2009 Database
D. Conte, P. Foggia, G. Percannella and M. Vento
• PETS2010 and PETS2009 Evaluation of Results using Individual Ground Truthed Single Views
A. Ellis and J. Ferryman

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14:00 - 15:15: MMSS - Surveillance Systems (room 901)

• Keynote Speech: Acceleration of Image Processing for Surveillance using GPUs
Danny Crookes (Queen´s University Belfast, UK)
• Keynote Speech: Surveillance Research in IBM
Lisa M Brown (IBM TJ Watson Research Centre, USA)
• Functionality Delegation in Distributed Surveillance Systems
Mukesh K. Saini, Pradeep K. Atrey, Sabu Emmanuel and Mohan S. Kankanhalli

15:15 - 15:45: Coffee break

15:45 - 16:30: PETS - Session 4: Discussion (room 906)

16:30 - : PETS - Closing Remarks (room 906)

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15:45 - 17:15: MMSS - Surveillance Applications (room 901)

• Traffic Abnormality Detection through Directional Motion Behavior Map
Nan Dong, Zhen Jia, Jie Shao, Ziyou Xiong, Zhipeng Li, Fuqiang Liu, Jianwei Zhao and PeiYuan Peng
• Human Localization in a Cluttered Space Using Multiple Cameras
Jiali Shen, WeiQi Yan, Paul Miller and Huiyu Zhou
• Example-Based Color Vehicle Retrieval for Surveillance
Lisa M. Brown
• A Framework for An Event Driven Video Surveillance System
Declan Kieran and WeiQi Yan

Monday, August 30, 2010

08:00 - 08:45: Registration and breakfast

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09:00 - 10:15: Foreground/Background Segmentation I (room 906)

• Fast Background Initialization with Recursive Hadamard Transform
Davide Baltieri, Roberto Vezzani and Rita Cucchiara
• Adaptive Patch-Based Background Modelling for Improved Foreground Object Segmentation and Tracking
Vikas Reddy, Conrad Sanderson, Andres Sanin and Brian Lovell
• On the Evaluation of Background Subtraction Algorithms without Ground-Truth
Juan C. San Miguel and Jose Martinez

10:15 - 10:45: Coffee break

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10:45 - 12:00: Action Recognition (room 906)

• Action Recognition Using Sparse Representation on Covariance Manifolds of Optical Flow
Kai Guo, Prakash Ishwar and Janusz Konrad
• Recognizing and Localizing Individual Activities through Graph Matching
Anh Phuong Ta, Christian Wolf, Guillaume Lavoué and Atilla Baskurt
• Human Action Recognition and Localization in Video Using Structured Learning of Local Space-Time Features
Tuan H. Thi, Jian Zhang, Li Cheng, Li Wang and Shinichi Satoh

12:00 - 13:30: Lunch break

13:30 - 14:30: Plenary Lecture: Mubarak Shah, University of Central Florida (room 906)

14:30 - 14:45: Coffee break

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14:45 - 15:15: Spotlight poster presentation (room 906)

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15:15 - 16:15: Poster Sessions

I-9 Activity Detection and Recognition

9th floor hallway
• Spatio-Temporal Optical Flow Analysis for People Counting
Yassine Benabbas, Nacim Ihaddadene, Tarek Yahiaoui, Thierry Urruty and Chabane Djeraba
• Crowd Counting Using Group Tracking and Local Features
David Ryan, Simon Denman, Clinton Fookes and Sridha Sridharan
• A Method for Counting People in Crowded Scenes
Donatello Conte, Pasquale Foggia, Gennaro Percannella, Francesco Tufano and Mario Vento
• Fast People Counting Using Head Detection from Skeleton Graph
Djamel Merad, Kheir Eddine Aziz and Nicolas Thome
• Robust Real Time Moving People Detection in Surveillance Scenarios
Alvaro Garcia-Martin and Jose Martinez
• Real Time Human Action Recognition in a Long Video Sequence
Ping Guo, Zhenjiang Miao, Yuan Shen and Heng-Da Cheng
9th floor library
• Histogram-Based Training Initialisation of Hidden Markov Models for Human Action Recognition
Zia Moghaddamand Massimo Piccardi
• Human Action Recognition using a Hybrid NTLD Classifier
Asha Rani, Sanjeev Kumar, Christian Micheloni and Gian Luca Foresti
• Trajectory Based Activity Discovery
Guido Pusiol, Francois Bremond and Monique Thonnat
• An Activity Monitoring System for Real Elderly at Home: Validation Study
Nadia Zouba, Monique Thonnat and Francois Bremond

I-7 Detection, Tracking and Activity Analysis:

7thfloor atrium
• Multi-Modal Object Tracking using Dynamic Performance Metrics
Simon Denman, Clinton Fookes, Sridha Sridharan and David Ryan
• Multi Camera-Based Person Tracking Using Region Covariance and Homography Constraint
Bogdan Kwolek
• Statistical Background Modeling: An Edge Segment Based Moving Object Detection Approach
Mahbub Murshed, Adin Ramirez and Oksam Chae
• Human Motion Change Detection by Hierarchical Gaussian Process Dynamical Model with Particle Filter
Yafeng Yin, Hong Man, Jing Wang and Guang Yang
• Learning Dense Optical-Flow Trajectory Patterns for Video Object Extraction
Wang-Chou Lu, Yu-Chiang Frank Wang and Chu-Song Chen
• Robust Dynamic Super Resolution under Inaccurate Motion Estimation
Minjae Kim, Bonhwa Ku, Daesung Chung, Hyunhak Shin, Bonghyup Kang, David K. Han and Hanseok Ko
• Incremental Mosaicking of Images from Autonomous, Small-Scale UAVs
Saeed Yahyanejad, Daniel Wischounig-Strucl, Markus Quaritsch and Bernhard Rinner
• Subjective Logic Based Hybrid Approach to Conditional Evidence Fusion for Forensic Visual Surveillance
Seunghan Han, Bonjung Koo, Andreas Hutter, Vinay Shet and Walter Stechele

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16:15 - 17:30: Tracking I (room 906)

• Dynamics based Trajectory Segmentation for UAV videos
Prithviraj Banerjee and Ram Nevatia
• Extracting Pathlets from Weak Tracking Data
Kevin Streib and Jim Davis
• Global Identification of Tracklets in Video Using Long Range Identity Sensors
Xunyi Yu and Aura Ganz

Tuesday, August 31, 2010

08:00 - 09:00: Registration and breakfast

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09:00 - 10:15: Foreground/Background Segmentation II (room 906)

• Resource-Efficient Salient Foreground Detection for Embedded Smart Cameras by Tracking Feedback
Mauricio Casares and Senem Velipasalar
• Accurate and Efficient Background Subtraction by Monotonic Second-Degree Polynomial Fitting
Alessandro Lanza, Federico Tombari and Luigi Di Stefano
• Background Subtraction under Sudden Illumination Changes
Luc Vosters, Caifeng Shan and Tommaso Gritti

10:15 - 10:45: Coffee break

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10:45 - 12:00: Event Analysis and Detection (room 906)

• A Framework dealing with Uncertainty for Complex Event Recognition
Rim Romdhane, Francois Bremond and Monique Thonnat
• Learning Directed Intention-Driven Activities Using Co-Clustering
Karthik Sankaranarayanan and Jim Davis
• Learning of Scene-Specific Object Detectors by Classifier Co-Grids
Sabine Sternig, Peter M. Roth and Horst Bischof

12:00 - 13:30: Lunch break

13:30 - 14:30: Plenary Lecture: John Rush, Chief, Information Integration Data Engineering Division, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (room 906)

14:30 - 14:45: Coffee break

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14:45 - 16:10: Industrial Panel (room 906)

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16:15 - 17:30: Tracking II (room 906)

• Affinity Propagation Feature Clustering with Application to Vehicle Detection and Tracking in Road Traffic Surveillance
Jun Yang, Yang Wang, Arcot Sowmya, Bang Zhang, Jie Xu and Zhidong Li
• Tracking People with a 360-Degree Lidar
John Shackleton, Brian VanVoorst and Joel Hesch
• A Spatiotemporal Motion-Vector Filter for Object Tracking on Compressed Video
Ronaldo Moura and Elder M. Hemerly

Wednesday, September 01, 2010

08:00 - 09:00: Registration and breakfast

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09:00 - 10:15: People Re-Identification (room 906)

• Person Re-identification Using Spatial Covariance Regions of Human Body Parts
Slawomir Bak, Etienne Corvee, Francois Bremond and Monique Thonnat
• Multi-Pose Face Recognition for Person Retrieval in Camera Networks
Martin Bäuml, Keni Bernardin, Mika Fischer, Hazim Kemal Ekenel and Rainer Stiefelhagen
• Local Feature Based Person Reidentification in Infrared Image Sequences
Kai Jóngling and Michael Arens

10:15 - 10:45: Coffee break

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10:45 - 12:00: People Detection and Tracking (room 906)

• Automatic Inter-Image Homography Estimation from Person Detections
Marcus Thaler and Roland Moerzinger
• Pose Estimation of Interacting People Using Pictorial Structures
Preben Fihl and Thomas Moeslund
• Body Parts Detection for People Tracking Using Trees of Histogram of Oriented Gradient Descriptors
Etienne Corvee and Francois Bremont

12:00 - 13:30: Lunch break

13:30 - 14:30: Plenary Lecture: Ajay Divakaran, Group Manager, Sarnoff Corporation (room 906)

14:30 - 14:45: Coffee break

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14:45 - 15:15: Spotlight poster presentation (room 906)

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15:15 - 16:15: Poster Sessions

II-9 Computer Vision and Learning Methods

9th floor hallway
• Surveillance Camera Calibration from Observations of a Pedestrian
Murray Evans and James Ferryman
• Occlusion-Aided Weights for Local Stereo Matching
Wei Wang, Caiming Zhang, Xia Hu and Weitao Li
• Local Directional Pattern (LDP) - A Robust Image Descriptor for Object Recognition
Taskeed Jabid, Md. Hasanul Kabir and Oksam Chae
• Exploiting Geometric Restrictions in a PTZ Camera for Finding Point-Correspondences Between Configurations
Birgi Tamersoy and J. K. Aggarwal
• Real-Time 3D Human Pose Estimation from Monocular View with Applications to Event Detection and Video Gaming
Shian-Ru Ke, LiangJia Zhu, Jenq-Neng Hwang, Hung-I Pai, Kung-Ming Lan and Chih-Pin Liao
• Simultaneous Object Recognition and Localization in Image Collections
Shao-Chuan Wang and Yu-Chiang Frank Wang
9th floor library
• A Bayesian Framework for Online Interaction Classification
Stefano Maludrottu, Matteo Beoldo, Mauricio Soto Alvarez and Carlo Regazzoni
• Video Activity Extraction and Reporting with Incremental Unsupervised Learning
Luis Patino, Francois Bremond, Murray Evans, Ali Shahrokni and James Ferryman
• Local Abnormality Detection in Video Using Subspace Learning
Ioannis Tziakos, Andrea Cavallaro and Li-Qun Xu
• A Local Directional Pattern Variance (LDPv) based Face Descriptor for Human Facial Expression Recognition
Md. Hasanul Kabir, Taskeed Jabid and Oksam Chae

II-7 Systems, Security and Authentication

7th floor atrium
• Intelligent Sensor Information System for Public Transport: To Safely Go …
Paul Miller, Weiru Liu, Chris Fowler, Huiyu Zhou, Jiali Shen, Jianbing Ma, Jianguo Zhang, WeiQi Yan, Kieran McLaughlin and Sakir Sezer
• Dynamic Sensor Selection for Single Target Tracking in Large Video Surveillance Networks
Eduardo Monari and Kristian Kroschel
• An Ultra-Low-Power Contrast-Based Integrated Camera Node and its Application as a People Counter
Leonardo Gasparini, Roberto Manduchi and Massimo Gottardi
• Incremental Learning Approach for Events Detection from Large Video Dataset
Ali Wali and Adel M. Alimi
• SVM-Based Biometric Authentication Using Intra-Body Propagation Signals
Isao Nakanishi and Yuuta Sodani
• An Authentication Mechanism Using Chinese Remainder Theorem for Efficient Surveillance Video Transmission
Tony Thomas, Sabu Emmanuel, Zhang Pen and Mohan Kankanhalli
• License Plate Detection using Local Structure Patterns
Younghyun Lee, Taeyup Song, Bonhwa Ku, Seoungseon Jeon, David K. Han and Hanseok Ko
• Automatic Detection and Reading of Dangerous Goods Plates
Peter M. Roth, Martin Kostinger, Paul Wohlhart and Horst Bischof

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16:15 - 17:30: Security, Privacy and Multi-Modal Classification (room 906)

• Audio-Visual Co-Training for Vehicle Classification
Martin Godec, Christian Leistner, Horst Bischof, Andreas Starzacher and Bernhard Rinner
• TrustCAM: Security and Privacy-Protection for an Embedded Smart Camera Based on Trusted Computing
Thomas Winkler and Bernhard Rinner
• Privacy-Aware Object Representation for Surveillance Systems
Hauke Vagts and Alexander Bauer