4th ACM International Workshop on
Video Surveillance & Sensor Networks

October 27, 2006, Santa Barbara, CA, USA
in conjunction with ACM Multimedia 2006

Program

8:45 – 9:00 Welcome address
9:00 – 10:00 Keynote: Segmenting People in Small Groups (L. Davis - University of Maryland )
10:00 – 10:30 Coffee Break
Oral Session 1: Video- and Sensor-based Surveillance Systems
10:30 – 10:50 “Synchronizing Multimodal Data Streams Acquired Using Commodity Hardware”
Martial Michel (Systems Plus, Inc. + NIST, US); Vincent Stanford (NIST, US)
10:50 – 11:10 “Collaborative Node Localization in Surveillance Networks using Opportunistic Target Observations”
Huang Lee (Stanford University, US); Hamid Aghajan (Stanford University, US)
11:10 – 11:30 “Support for Effective Use of Multiple Video Streams in Security”
Andreas Girgensohn (FX Palo Alto Laboratory, US); Frank Shipman (Texas A&M University, US); Anthony Dunnigan (FX Palo Alto Laboratory, US); Thea Turner (FX Palo Alto Laboratory, US); Lynn Wilcox (FXPAL, US)
11:30 – 11:50 “Background Modeling and Object Tracking Using Multi-Spectral Sensors”
Cheng-Yao Chen (Princeton University, US); Wayne Wolf (Princeton University, US)
11:50 – 12:10 “Motion-Based Background Modeling for Foreground Segmentation”
Woonhyun Nam (Pohang University of Science and Technology, KR); Joonhee Han (Pohang University of Science and Technology, KR)
12:10 – 12:30 “Performance Evaluation in Visual Surveillance using the F-Measure”
Neda Lazarevic-McManus (Kingston University, UK); John-Paul Renno (Kingston University, UK); Dimitrios Makris (Kingston University, UK); Graeme Jones (Kingston University, UK)
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch
Open Source Algorithm Competition
14:00 – 14:20 Presentation of the results of the competition
R. Lienhart - Universität Augsburg
14:00 – 15:30 Poster Session
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15:30 – 16:00 Coffee Break
Oral Session 2: Human Appearance and Activity Surveillance – Part I
16:00 – 16:20 “Robust Real-Time Upper Body Limb Detection and Tracking”
Matheen Siddiqui (University of Southern California, US); Gerard Medioni (University of Southern California, US)
16:20 – 16:40 “Multiview Fusion for Canonical View Generation based on Homography Constraints”
Ambrish Tyagi (Ohio State University, US); James Davis (Ohio State University, US); Mark Keck (The Ohio State University, US)
16:40 – 17:00 “Unsupervised Analysis of Activity Sequences Using Event-Motifs”
Raffay Hamid (Georgia Institute of Technology, US); Siddhartha Maddi (Georgia Institute of Technology, US); Aaron Bobick (Georgia Institute of Technology, US); Irfan Essa (Georgia Insitute of Technology, US)
Oral Session 2: Human Appearance and Activity Surveillance – Part II
17:00 – 17:20 “Top-Down, Bottom-Up Multivalued Default Reasoning for Identity Maintenance”
Vinay Shet (University of Maryland, US);
David Harwood (University of Maryland, US); Larry Davis (University of Maryland, College Park, US)
17:20 – 17:40 “Detection of Fence Climbing by Stable Contact”
Elden Yu (The University of Texas at Austin, US); Jake Aggarwal (U. Texas, US)
17:40 – 18:00 “Multimedia Surveillance: Content-based Retrieval with Multicamera People Tracking”
Simone Calderara (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, IT); Andrea Prati (Universita' di Modena e Reggio Emilia, IT); Rita Cucchiara (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, IT)
18:00 – 18:20 “Analysis and Query of Person-Vehicle Interactions in Homography Domain”
Sangho Park (University of California, San Diego, US); Mohan Trivedi (University of California, US)
18:20 – 18:40 Closing and Panel Discussion

Poster Session 1: Video- and Sensor-based Surveillance Systems
“On the Optimal Placement of Multiple Visual Sensors”
Eva Hoerster (Univeristy of Augsburg, DE); Rainer Lienhart (Univ of Augsberg, DE)
“A Design Methodology for Selection and Placement of Sensors in Multimedia Surveillance Systems”
Garimella Siva Ram (Indian Insitute of Science, IN); Kalpathi Ramakrishnan (Indian Institue of Science, IN); Pradeep Atrey (National University of Singapore, SG); Vivek Singh (National University of Singapore, SG); Mohan Kankanhalli (National University of Singapore, SG)
“Extending Surveillance Systems Capabilities using BDI Cooperative Sensor Agents”
Federico Castanedo (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, ES); Miguel Patricio (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, ES); Jesus Garcia Herrero (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, ES); Jose Molina (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, ES)
“Fusion-based Multiview Distributed Video Coding”
Mourad Ouaret (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, CH); Frederic Dufaux (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, CH); Touradj Ebrahimi (EPFL, CH)
“Smart Home Care Network using Sensor Fusion and Distributed Vision-Based Reasoning”
Hamid Aghajan (Stanford University, US); Ali Maleki Tabar (Stanford University, US); Arezou Keshavarz (Stanford University, US)
“Real-time constant memory visual summaries for surveillance”
Nathan Jacobs (Washington University, US); Robert Pless (Washington University in St.Louis, US)
Poster Session 2: Human Appearance and Activity Surveillance
“Pedestrian Detection in Uncontrolled Environments using Stereo and Biometric Information"
Philip Kelly (Dublin City University, IE); Noel O'Connor (Dublin City University, IE); Alan Smeaton (Dublin City University, IE)
“Human Action Recognition Using Star Skeleton”
Hsuan-Sheng Chen (National Chiao-Tung University, TW); Hua-Tsung Chen (National Chiao-Tung University, TW); Yi-Wen Chen (National Chiao-Tung University, TW); Suh-Yin Lee (National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan, R. O. C., TW)
“A reinforcement learning approach to active camera foveation”
Andrew Bagdanov (University of Florence, IT); Walter Nunziati (University of Florence, IT); Alberto Del Bimbo (University of Firenze, IT); Federico Pernici (University of Florence, IT)
“Tracking Mean Shift Clustered Point Clouds for 3D Surveillance”
Mark Keck (The Ohio State University, US); James Davis (Ohio State University, US); Ambrish Tyagi (Ohio State University, US)
“A New Approach to Camera Hand-off without Camera Calibration for the General Scene”
Younggwan Jo (Pohang University of Science and Technology, KR); Joonhee Han (Pohang University of Science and Technology, KR)
“A Multimodal Approach for Dynamic Event Capture of Vehicles and Pedestrians”
Jeffrey Ploetner (University of California at San Diego, US); Mohan Trivedi (UCSD, US)
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