Introduction

Large networks of video cameras are being installed in a number of application domains, such as security and surveillance, environmental monitoring, and disaster response. Scene analysis using camera networks builds upon a number of sub-areas of computer vision, but has its own unique challenges, among them the ability to integrate information over a wide area, cooperation between cameras, active control of the network, and robustness to network constraints. The First IEEE Workshop on Camera Networks is being organized with the goal of providing a venue for researchers working on various aspects of camera networks to present their work, exchange ideas and identify future problems in this fast developing area.

Organizers

  • Amit K. Roy-Chowdhury, University of California, Riverside
  • Stan Sclaroff, Boston University
  • Demetri Terzopoulos, University of California, Los Angeles
  • Bir Bhanu, University of California, Riverside

Important Dates

  • Paper Submission: 11.59pm, March 14, 2010
  • Review Decisions: April 5, 2010
  • Camera Ready Papers: April 13, 2010 (will NOT be changed.)
  • Workshop Date: June 14, 2010 AM

Registration

Registration information will be provided in the main CVPR 2010 page.

Call for Papers: First IEEE Workshop on Camera Networks

Large networks of video cameras are being installed in a number of application domains, such as security and surveillance, environmental monitoring, and disaster response. Scene analysis using camera networks builds upon a number of sub-areas of computer vision, but has its own unique challenges,among them the ability to integrate information over a wide area, cooperation between cameras, active control of the network, and robustness to network constraints. This workshop will bring together researchers from multiple disciplines, including video analysis, signal processing, graphics, machine learning, and statistics, with interests in the area of camera networks.

 

The focus of papers in this workshop should be on scene analysis in camera networks. While this is a broad area that encompasses almost all subareas of CVPR, suitable papers for this venue must be directly relevant to camera networks. An important criterion for deciding whether a paper relates to camera networks should be whether the work reported is scalable to large numbers of cameras.

 

This workshop calls for original, high-quality paper submissions that address innovative research and development methods in the area of camera networks. Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following:

 

  • Camera Placement and Area Coverage
  • Tracking in Camera Networks
  • Active Camera Networks
  • Distributed Processing in Camera Networks
  • Wide Area Scene Analysis
  • Analysis of Traffic Patterns in Camera Networks
  • Smart Network Cameras
  • VR Simulation for Camera Network Research
  • Applications of Camera Networks
  • Scene Analysis with Network Constraints
  • Architecture and System Development

Submission

Paper Formatting: Papers are limited to eight pages. Please use the CVPR author kit to format the papers. The workshop chairs reserve the right to reject papers violating the paper length and formatting instructions outright, without review.

 

Blind review: WCN 2010 reviewing will be double blind: authors do not know the names of the reviewers of their papers, and reviewers do not know the names of the authors. Please see the author kit for detailed explanations of how to ensure this.

 

Submission: WCN 2010 Online Submission System.

 

Supplemental Material: The submission of supplemental material is optional. Such material may include videos of results that cannot be included in the main paper, anonymized related submissions to other conferences and journals, and appendices or technical reports containing extended proofs and mathematical derivations that are not essential for the understanding of the paper. The contents of the supplemental material should be referred to appropriately in the paper and authors should note that reviewers are not obliged to peruse it. For further details refer to CVPR author guidelines.

 

Simultaneous submissions: In submitting a paper, authors implicitly acknowledge that no paper of substantially similar content has been or will be submitted to another conference or workshop until WCN 2010 decisions are made.

 

Program Committee

  • J. K. Aggarwal, University of Texas at Austin
  • Rama Chellappa, University of Maryland, College Park
  • Tsuhan Chen, Cornell University
  • Anil Cheriyadat, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
  • Rita Cucchiara, University of Modena
  • Jim Davis, Ohio State University
  • Murat Erdem, Boston University
  • Niels Haering, Objectvideo
  • Anthony Hoogs, Kitware
  • B.S. Manjunath, University of California, Santa Barbara
  • Faisal Qureshi, University of Ontario Institute of Technology
  • Visvanathan Ramesh, Siemens
  • Venkatesh Saligrama, Boston University
  • Mubarak Shah, University of Central Florida
  • Bi Song, University of California, Riverside
  • Mohan Trivedi, University of California, San Diego
  • Peter Tu, GE Research
  • Ashok Veeraraghavhan, Mitsubishi Electric Research Lab
  • Rene Vidal, Johns Hopkins University
  • Tao Xiang, Queen Mary University
  • Alper Yilmaz, Ohio State University