WORKSHOP on Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence for Human
Behaviour Analysis (PRAI*HBA)
12 December 2009 -- Reggio Emilia (Italy)
Satellite workshop of the AI*IA 2009: International Conference of the
Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence
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* * * CALL FOR PAPERS - Deadline *_October 4, 2009_* * * *
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Special issue of* The Wiley-Blackwell Journal Expert Systems: The
Journal of Knowledge Engineering* connected to the workshop
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LOCATION AND DATE
The Workshop on Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence for
Human Behaviour Analysis (PRAI*HBA) will take place in Reggio
Emilia (Italy) on December 12, 2009, following the AI*IA 2009:
International Conference (9-11 December 2009)
The conference and all the workshops will be hosted in the new
building of the Department of Social, Cognitive and Quantitative
Sciences and of the Faculty of Communication and Economics, located in
the centre of Reggio Emilia
Address: via Allegri 9, I 42100 Reggio Emilia
WORKSHOP WEBSITE
Updated information can be found on the workshop section of
the conference website, http://imagelab.ing.unimore.it/prai4hba
CALL FOR PAPERS
Pattern Recognition (PR) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) scientific
communities have tried to join their efforts and share knowledge in
order to obtain more effective solutions for many different research
areas. However, although the techniques and approaches are somewhat
similar, the two communities often tackle problems from rather different
perspectives.
Among these research areas, Human Behaviour Analysis (HBA) has recently
become a very popular topic in computer science, because of its
relevance in many surveillance applications. For instance, with the
increasing use of cameras for video surveillance, it is getting almost
unfeasible for security personnel to monitor scenes or to watch recorded
videos looking for a particular event or visual item. Automatic
interpretation of actions, gestures, and interactions among people as
well as automatic situation recognition and assessment would be
extremely useful. Actually, methods for Human Behaviour Analysis have
this specific aim and they are attracting more and more researchers and
ICT industries. Nevertheless, the recognition and interpretation of
human behaviour is still a challenging problem.
Given these premises, this workshop is meant to bring together
researchers which address the problem of HBA from the PR and/or the AI
perspective. Hopefully, this workshop will be the first of a long series
of events in which these two communities actively work together to
achieve effective and efficient solutions to complex tasks in HBA
related fields.
TOPICS
Following the above considerations, the workshop topics include, but are
not limited to, the following:
. Gesture and activity classification
. Multi-person interactions
. Multi-camera coordination and data fusion for HBA
. Event recognition and abnormal behaviour detection
. Crowd analysis for behaviour monitoring and alerting
. Machine learning methods for HBA
. Statistical pattern recognition methods for HBA
. Semantic video annotation
. Semantic scene representation and interpretation
. Situation classification and assessment
. Datasets and metrics for performance evaluation of HBA systems
PAPER SUBMISSION FORMAT
Papers not exceeding 8 pages, written in English and complying with the
LNCS Springer-Verlag format
(http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-7-72376-0) should
be submitted electronically. Submissions are due in PDF format attached
to an email sent to the following email address:
prai4hba@unimore.it <mailto:prai4hba@unimore.it>
Accepted papers will be published on the official CD-Rom of
the AI*IA2009 International conference with regular ISBN number.
* In addition, best selected papers will be invited to submit an
extended version of their paper (at least 30% of new material) for The
Wiley-Blackwell Journal Expert Systems: The Journal of Knowledge
Engineering (http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/117963144/home)
- impact factor 2008: 0.717.*
IMPORTANT DATES
* Paper submission: October 4, 2009
* Camera-ready of accepted papers: November 11, 2009
* Workshop day: December 12, 2009
WORKSHOP AND CONFERENCE FEE
Attendance to the conference and to the workshops IS limited to
members of AI*IA. Participants are kindly requested to register
before the conference, although on-site registration will also be
offered.
Attendance to the workshops only (including participation in all the
workshops, coffee-breaks and a CD-ROM with the Proceedings of all
Workshops; it does not include membership to AI*IA):
Advance registration: 100 Euro
On-site registration: 200 Euro
Regular conference fee (including participation in the conference and
all the workshops, a copy of the proceedings volume, the conference
CD-Rom, coffee breaks for all 4 days; it does not include membership to
AI*IA):
Early registration, before August 31, 2009: 350 Euros.
Late registration, since September 1, 2009: 400 Euros.
On-site registration: 500 Euro
Student fee (including proceedings volume and participation to
the workshops, not including conference dinner): 130 Euro
** NOT AVAILABLE ON-SITE **
CHAIRS
Luca Iocchi (http://www.dis.uniroma.it/~iocchi
<http://www.dis.uniroma.it/%7Eiocchi>) - University "La Sapienza" - Rome
Andrea Prati (http://www.dismi.unimo.it/Members/aprati) - University of
Modena and Reggio Emilia
Roberto Vezzani
(http://imagelab.ing.unimore.it/imagelab/~vezzani/index.asp
<http://imagelab.ing.unimore.it/imagelab/%7Evezzani/index.asp>) -
University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Preliminary list of confirmed program committee members:
Francois Bremond, INRIA (FR)
Simone Calderara, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (I)
Isac Choen, Honeywell (MN)
Rita Cucchiara, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (I)
Luigi Di Stefano, University of Bologna (I)
Tiziana D'Orazio, CNR (I)
Michela Farenzena, University of Verona(I)
Jordi Gonzalez, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (ES)
Oswald Lanz, Fondazione Bruno Kessler (I)
Christian Micheloni, University of Udine (I)
Krystian Mikolajczyk, University of Surrey (UK)
Massimo Piccardi, University of Technology, Sydney (AU)
Carlo Regazzoni, University of Genoa (I)
Paolo Remagnino, Kingston University (UK)
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