****************************************************************************************** AVSS 2008 - 1st Call for Paper IEEE 5th International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal-based Surveillance Santa Fee, USA, 1-3 September 2008 Deadlines ++++++++++++++++++ Open review paper submission: March 2, 2008 Standard review paper submission: March 2, 2008 Reviews due: April 13, 2008 Revisions due: April 27, 2008 Camera ready papers due: May 11, 2008 Early bird registration: June 1, 2008 AVSS is the IEEE conference series on video and signal based surveillance. AVSS was started in 1998 (Genoa, Italy). Following meetings were held in 2001 (Kingston, UK), in 2003 (Miami, USA), in 2005 (Como, Italy), in 2006 (Sydney, Australia) and in 2007 (London, UK). The AVSS 2008 event will be held in Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA. AVSS is a forum of reference for the field and offers the opportunity to meet and foster collaboration. AVSS has a tradition of parti cipation from the worlds of research, industry, and relevant government agencies. The Conference focuses on underlying theory, methods, systems, and application areas. It includes, but is not limited to the following topics: - Tracking - Activity Monitoring - Biometrics - Object Detection and Recognition - Reconnaissance - Signal Surveillance/Processing - Applications/Systems/Tools - Sensor Networks/Fusion - Performance Evaluation - Non-visual Imaging - 3D Surveillance - Behavior Analysis - Theoretical Foundations - Data Mining/Handling - Privacy Issues Special Features +++++++++++++++++++ 1. The conference features a track of "open review submissions." Submission under this category is voluntary. The names of the authors will be known to the reviewers and the names of the reviewers will be known to the authors. This entails that the reviewers will write civil, thorough, well-documented, and constructive reviews. Accepted papers will be revised per the reviewers' comments to the extent possible. The final papers will be published along with the reviews as an addendum. A special issue of a major journal will be commissioned to publish selected articles from this effort. Oral sessions featuring papers that went through the open review process will include dialog between authors and reviewers. The aim is to bring the dialectic back in science. 2. All authors are encouraged to submit videos along with their papers. 3. Poster papers will be advertized by the authors in 1 minute plenary "madness" talks at the beginning of each day. 4. A Government session will be organized where program managers from all major funding agencies will outline the current and future research agendas. Paper submission: Full length- papers, limit 8 pages in length are solicited. Papers will be accepted only by electronic submission at http://www.cpl.uh.edu/avss2008 Conference Committee: +++++++++++++++++++++++ General chairs: Mohan Trivedi, University of California, San Diego Bir Bhanu, University of California, Riverside Program Chairs: Ioannis Pavlidis, University of Houston Ioannis Kakadiaris, University of Houston Government Chair: Andrew Ryan, Department of Defense Industrial Chair: Jens Rittscher, GE Global Research ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ The conference is organized by the Computational Physiology Lab (University of Houston). Further information can be found at: http://www.cpl.uh.edu/avss2008 This conference is sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society PAMI Technical Committee and by IEEE Signal Processing Society. ********************************************