Program

8:30 – 9:40

Keynote: Observation Systems
R. Jain - University of California, Irvine 

 

Session 1: Image and Video Processing for Multimedia Surveillance Systems 

9:40 – 10:05

Multimedia Surveillance Systems
R. Cucchiara - University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy

10:05 – 10:30

An Image Mosaicing Module for Wide-Area Surveillance
M. Heikkilä, M. Pietikainen - University of Oulu, Finland

10:30 – 11:00

Morning Tea (Foyer)

11:00 – 11:25

Calibration of Visual Sensors and Actuators in Distributed Computing Platforms.
E. Hoerster, R. Lienhart - University of Augsburg, Germany;
W. Kellermann - University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany;
J.-Y. Bouguet - Intel Corp., Santa Clara, USA

11:25 – 11:50

Exemplar based background model initialization.
A. Colombari, M. Cristani, V. Murino, A. Fusiello - University of Verona, Italy

11:50 – 12:15

Real-Time Surveillance Video Display with Salience
W. Guangyu, T. Wong, P.A. Heng -  The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

12:15 – 12:40

Classifying Spatiotemporal Object Trajectories using Unsupervised Learning
A. Naftel, S. Khalid - University of Manchester, UK

12:40 – 13:30

Lunch

 

 Session 2: Open Source Algorithm Competition: 

13:30 – 13:40

 Bayesian Background Modeling for Foreground Detection
F. Porikli - Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs, Cambridge, MA

13:40 – 13:50

 Reliable Real-Time Foreground Detection for Video Surveillance Applications
J. Lluís – Davantis, Barcelona

13:50 – 14:00

 Adaptive Parametric Statistical Background Subtraction for Video Segmentation
S. Aramvith - Chulalongkorn University, Thailand

14:00 – 14:10

 A Multi-Criteria Model for Robust Foreground Extraction
A H. Kamkar-Parsi, Univ. of Ottawa, Ont., Canada

14:10 – 14:40

Presentation of the results of the competition
R. Lienhart - Universität Augsburg

 

Session 3: Enlarge and enhance the view with video, audio and sensor networks

14:40 – 15:05

A Video Analysis Framework for Soft Biometry Security Surveillance
Y.-F. Wang, E. Chang - University of California, Santa Barbara
K. Cheng - Proximex Corporation

15:05 – 15:30

An Integrated Architecture for Surveillance and Monitoring in an Archaeological Site
G. Lo Re, E. Ardizzone, M. La Cascia, M. Ortolani - University of Palermo, Italy

15:30 – 15:55

Towards Event Detection in an Audio-Based Sensor Network
M. McHugh, A. F. Smeaton - Dublin City University, Ireland

15:55 – 16:15

Afternoon Tea (Foyer)

16:15 – 16:40

An Integrated Multi-Modal Sensor Network for Video Surveillance
A. Prati, R. Vezzani - University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
L. Benini, E. Farella, P. Zappi - University of Bologna

16:40 – 17:05

Timeline­based Information Assimilation in Multimedia Surveillance and Monitoring Systems
P. K. Atrey, M. Kankanhalli - National University of Singapore, Republic of Singapore
R. Jain - University of California, Irvine, USA

 

Session 4: Explore multi-resolution views with  PTZ and coordinated camera networks

17:05 – 17:30

Automatic Pan-Tilt-Zoom Calibration in the Presence of Hybrid Sensor Networks
C. R. Wren, MERL
M. Erdem, Boston University
A. Azarbayejani, MERL

17:30 – 17:55

Acquisition of High-resolution Images through Online Saccade Sequence Planning
A.D. Bagdanov, A. Del Bimbo, F. Pernici - University of Firenze, Italy

17:55 – 18:20

Surveillance Camera Scheduling: A Virtual Vision Approach
F. Z. Qureshi - University of Toronto, Canada
D. Terzopoulos - New York University, USA

18:20 – 18:55

Constructing Task Visibility Intervals for a Surveillance System
S.-N. Lim - University of Maryland, USA
A. Mittal - Siemens Corporate Research, Princeton, USA
L. Davis - University of Maryland, USA

18:55 – 19:20

Coopetitive Visual Surveillance using Model Predictive Control
V. K. Singh, P. Atrey - National University of Singapore, Republic of Singapore

19:20 – 19:30

Closing