VS2008   	The Eighth IEEE International Workshop on Visual Surveillance
Friday October 17th 2008, Nice
 
Dear Colleague 
 
VS 2008
This year the Eighth IEEE Workshop on Visual Surveillance (VS2008)
will be held in conjunction with ECCV in Nice on October 17th 2008.

Call for Papers

Research into intelligent visual surveillance technologies has become
one of the core problem areas of the computer vision research
community. The field enjoys well-funded national and international
funding programmes and boasts a plethora of start-up companies
offering a wide range of intelligent CCTV products. Yet, despite the
apparent success, the core problems remain as complex and varied as
any in computer vision. The deployment of truly intelligent and robust
surveillance systems face a number of specific challenges including
the segmentation and tracking of individuals in crowded scenes;
extracting body pose; characterization of threats; reduction in false
alarm rates; automatic learning of human-oriented scene structure; and
the semantic linkage between networks of cameras and other sensors. To
address these challenges, contributions are particularly welcome in
the following areas:

    * Background and environment modelling
    * Object tracking and classification
    * Behaviour analysis and recognition
    * Image database annotation and searching
    * Event and activity modelling
    * Analysis of groups and crowds
    * Multi-Camera and multi-sensor calibration
    * Performance evaluation
    * Image-based sensor networks
    * PTZ networks 

Important Dates
Submission of full papers 	  	Friday June 6th 2008 (This date will be horribly strict!)
Notification to authors 	  	Friday July 18th 2008
Submission of Camera Ready 	  	Friday August 15th 2008 (Plan ahead as you may be on holiday!!)