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  				Announcement
   First ACM Workshop on Vision Networks for Behaviour Analysis 
                               (VNBA-08)
	in conjunction with ACM Multimedia 2008 conference 

           http://imagelab.ing.unimore.it/vnba08/  

                      October 31, 2008
                    Vancouver, BC (Canada)
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This workshop marks a new era of the successful series of the Video
Surveillance and Sensor Networks (VSSN) workshops, held until 2006 in
conjunction with ACM Multimedia conference (Berkeley 2003, New York 2004,
Singapore 2005, and Santa Barbara, 2006). This new version of the workshop
inherits from VSSN the experienced Technical Program Committee as well as
the interests of its community, but shifts the focus to cover higher level
topics and applications under the common framework of "behaviour analysis",
hence aiming to adapt to the evolved directions of interest in the field,
and reaching out to other research communities with overlapping interests.

The workshop topics will include, but are not limited to, the following: 

A) Surveillance Track: 
	- People tracking in extreme conditions 
	- Multi-person gesture, behaviour, and interaction analysis 
	- Multi-camera coordination for behaviour analysis 
	- Event recognition for security applications (abandoned luggage,
restricted area violation, ...) 
	- Crowd analysis for behaviour monitoring and alerting 
	- Aggressive behaviour detection 
B) Smart Environments Track: 
	- People-to-people interactions in smart environments 
	- Object and environment discovery via user interactions 
	- Abnormal behaviour / accident detection for patient/elderly
monitoring 
	- Occupancy sensing for automation and control 
	- Gesture analysis for HCI 
	- Applications in virtual reality, multimedia, gaming

Accepted papers for oral and poster presentations at the workshop will be
included in the workshop's proceedings, which will be published together
with the proceedings of the ACM Multimedia Conference 2008. In addition, a
special issue or an edited volume will be organized after the workshop by
recommending to the authors of a selection of the best presented papers to
submit a substantially extended version of their workshop papers.

*Important dates*
Full Paper Submission:  June 28, 2008  
Decision:  July 15, 2008  
Camera ready:  August 1, 2008  

*Organization*
General chairs
	Hamid Aghajan Stanford University, USA 
	Andrea Prati University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy 

Honorary chairs
	J. K. Aggarwal University of Texas, USA 
	Rita Cucchiara University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy 

Program Committee 
	Rama Chellappa, University of Maryland, USA 
	Isaac Cohen, Honeywell Labs, USA 
	Massimo Piccardi, University of Technology at Sydney Australia 
	Sergio Velastin, Kingston University, UK 
	Larry Davis, University of Maryland, USA 
	Francois Bremond, INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France 
	Nicu Sebe, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands 
	Antonis Argyros, University of Crete, Greece 
	Mohan Trivedi, University of California at San Diego, USA 
	Davide Brunelli, University of Bologna, Italy 
	Demetri Terzopolous, University of California at Los Angeles, USA 
	Pradeep Atrey, University of Winnipeg, MB, Canada 
	James Davis, University of California at Santa Cruz, USA 
	Abtin Keshavarzian, Bosch Research Center, USA