======================================================================= VP4S-06: The First International Workshop on Video Processing for Security June 7-9, 2006, Quebec City, Canada www.computer-vision.org/4security In conjunction with: Canadian conference Computer & Robot Vision (CRV'06) and Canadian Conferences on Artificial Intelligence (AI'06) and Graphics Interface (GI'06). Sponsored by: Canadian Image Processing and Pattern Recognition Society (CIPPRS). Important dates: --------------- January 29, 2006 - Full Paper Submission deadline March 4,2006 (TBC) - Final full papers deadline (to appear in proceedings) April 23, 2006 - Posters and demos deadline(to appear on website only) Aims: ---- The Workshop on Video Processing for Security (VP4S-06) is organized in response to the needs of security industry and is aimed at providing a forum for computer vision scientists and, as a result, producing a collection of high-quality computer vision papers contributing to the development of security and biometrics technologies. The VP4S-06 workshop is organized as a follow-up of past Workshops on Face Processing in Video: FPiV'04 (held jointly with CVPR'04) and FPiV'05 (held jointly with CRV'05) with its interest extended from face detection, tracking, recognition, coding etc. to people, objects, scene and action detection, tracking and recognition etc. The VP4S-06 workshop focuses entirely on processing and analyzing video data, in particular such as coming from TV, surveillance cameras or web/PDA cameras. The main theme of it is vision-based security-related applications. The workshop will consist of one day of oral and poster presentations and is open to all attendees of the joint conferences: AI'06, GI'06, CRV'06. The papers accepted for the workshop will be published by IEEE as part of the CRV'06 Proceedings, the hardcopy of which will be distributed at the CRV'05 conference. The workshop procedings will are also automatically archived into the IEEE Computer Society's digital library and the IEEE's XPlore and IEL digital libraries and indexed through the INSPEC indexing service. Full paper submission & review: ------------------------------ Original full-size papers written in English analyzing video with respect in the context of a security or biometrics application are welcomed for submission. Reviewing of the papers will be double blind. Each paper will be reviewed by at least three Program Committee members. The suggested topics are listed below: - faces in video: tracking, detecting, memorizing and recognizing faces in video - people in video: tracking and backtracking people in video - searching for objects in video - scene and activity detection and annotation - video-based alarm systems and video for crime prevention - video for surveillance - video for biometrics, soft- and hard- biometrics from video - making video more intelligent - multiple-person and gang tracking - multi-camera people tracking - combining video data with other sensor data: range, photo, fingerprints - video over internet, issues related to privacy of video  - face biometrics, modeling, and models - facial expression recognition and classification, and representation - performance evaluation for face in video problems - video-based benchmarks and databases - processing of video from stereo and panoramic cameras - combining video and audio for person detection/recognition - video-based interfaces and computer-human interaction for security - analyzing multiplexed video, demultiplexing of video - improving quality of video: anti-aliasing and super-resolution Papers should be formatted according to the guidelines described at the CRV'06 website. They should not include any information that would indicate the author's identity (references to authors' previous work should be left blank). Papers should be submitted electronically by emailing the formatted .pdf file of the paper to vp4s.submitATcomputer-vision.org (replace AT with @). In the email accompanying the paper, authors must include 1) the title of the paper, 2) keywords of the paper, 3) the names and affiliations of the authors 4) the name and email of the contact author Poster/Demo Submission: ---------------------- The rejected papers and late submissions are welcomed for submission to the workshop's Poster/Demo session. Posters/Demos papers will not be published in the Proceedings. They will however have the same exposure at the conference as other papers and will be included on the workshop website. To submit a poster/demo paper, email extended abstract or .pdf file of the paper to the Submission Chair by the Poster Submission due date. Registration and Venue: ----------------------- Registration to the workshop entitles one to attend all other joint conferences, and vice versa. Student participation is encouraged by significantly discounted registration fees. Quebec city, known as little France in North America, offers the visitors a variety of affordable and interesting places to visit. Important dates: ---------------- January 29, 2006 -Full Paper Submission deadline February 19, 2006-Review decision March 4,2006(TBC)-Final full papers deadline (to appear in proceedings) April 23, 2006 -Posters and demos deadline(to appear on website only) Organizer, Submission Chair and Program Cochair: ------------------------------------------------ Dmitry O. Gorodnichy, IIT-ITI, NRC-CNRC, Canada Email: vp4s.submit AT computer-vision.org (replace ' AT ' with @) Tel: 1-613-998-5209, Fax: 1-613-952-0215 Program Cochair: ---------------- Lijun Yin, SUNY at Binghamton, USA Email: vp4s.cochair AT computer-vision.org (replace ' AT ' with @) Program Committee: ------------------ Andy Adler, U. of Ottawa, Canada Jake Aggarwal, U. of Texas, USA Rama Chellappa, UMD, USA Ralph Gross, CMU, USA Aleix M. Martinez, Ohio State U., USA Anil Jain, Michigan State U., USA Qiang Ji, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA Ioannis A. Kakadiaris, U. of Houston, USA Jim Little, U. of British Columbia, Canada Michael J. Lyons, ATR, Japan Anurag Mittal, Siemens, USA Dimitris Samaras, SUNY Stony Brook, USA Yingli Tian, IBM TJ Watson Research Center, USA Matthew Turk, UCSB, USA Rick Wildes, York U., Canada Svetlana N. Yanushkevich, U. of Calgary, Canada John Zelek, U. of Waterloo, Canada ======================================================================= Registration: Participation in the workshop without submitting a paper is welcomed.  For a single registration fee, the workshop participants will also be able to attend the joint conferences.  Student participation is encouraged by significantly discounted registration fees.