Andrea Cavallaro:

Dr. Andrea Cavallaro received the Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland, in 2002, and the Laurea (Summa cum Laude) in Electrical Engineering from the University of Trieste in 1996. In 1996 and 1998, he served as a research consultant at the Image Processing Laboratory, University of Trieste, Italy, working on compression algorithms for very low bitrate video coding and on digital image sequence de-interlacing. In 1997 he served the Italian Army as lieutenant at the 33rd Electronic Warfare Battalion in Treviso, Italy. From June 1998 to February 2002 he was a research assistant at the Signal Processing Laboratory of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL). From March 2002 to April 2003, he was a senior researcher at EPFL. Since May 2003 he has been with Queen Mary University of London (QMUL), UK, where he is now Professor of Multimedia Signal Processing, Director of UG Studies at the School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, and counselor for the local IEEE Student Branch. Dr. Cavallaro was awarded a Research Fellowship with British Telecommunications (BT) in 2004/2005; the prestigious Royal Academy of Engineering teaching Prize in 2007; three student paper awards on target tracking and perceptually sensitive coding at IEEE ICASSP in 2005, 2007 and 2009; and the best paper award at IEEE AVSS 2009. Dr. Cavallaro is Associate Editor for the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, the IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing and for the EURASIP Journal on Information Security. He is an elected member of the IEEE Signal Processing Society, Multimedia Signal Processing Technical Committee (term expires Dec 2009), and has acted as Guest Editor for several journals including Computer Vision and Image Understanding (Elsevier) the International Journal of Computer Vision and the IEEE SPM. He has served as General Chair for IEEE/ACM ICDSC 2009, BMVC 2009, M2SFA2 2008, SSPE 2007, and IEEE AVSS 2007. Dr. Cavallaro was Technical Program chair of the European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO 2008), of WIAMIS 2010 and has been a member of the organizing/technical committee of several conferences, including IEEE ICME, IEEE ICIP, SPIE VCIP, ACM Multimedia, IEEE AVSS, ACM/IEEE ICDSCECCV-VS, PETS; and act as reviewer for several international IEEE conferences and IEEE journals. He has authored more than 100 papers, including 10 book chapters.
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Multiple Camera Extension

Overview of issues and related existing solutions to the problem of fusing multiple (and possibly heterogeneous) sources of information to extend and improve video analysis, in particular object tracking.