<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><h1 style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">Call for Workshops</h1><div class=""><a href="http://www.avss2019.org" class="">www.avss2019.org</a></div><div class=""><strong style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" class="">September 18-21 2019</strong></div><p style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" class="">The IEEE Conference on Advanced Video and Signal-based Surveillance (AVSS) has developed a tradition of hosting surveillance-related workshops on the day preceding the main conference. Recent AVSS workshops included:</p><ul style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" class=""><li class="">Performance Evaluation of Tracking Systems (PETS) </li><li class="">Resource Aware Sensor and surveillance NETworkS (RAWSNETS) </li><li class="">Activity Monitoring by Multi-Camera Surveillance Systems (AMMCSS) </li><li class="">Activity Monitoring by Multiple Distributed Sensing (AMMDS) </li><li class="">Workshop on Multimedia Systems for Surveillance (MMSS) </li><li class="">Vehicle Retrieval in Surveillance (VRS) </li><li class="">Low Resolution Face Analysis (LRFA) </li><li class="">International Workshop on Traffic and Street Surveillance for Safety and Security (IWT4S)</li></ul><p style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" class="">This tradition will continue at AVSS 2019, and workshops will be held on November 27, 2019 prior to the start of the technical program of the main AVSS conference. We welcome workshop proposals in new and emerging research areas of visual and signal-based surveillance.</p><p style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" class="">Prospective workshop organizers are invited to submit proposals via email to: <a href="mailto:avss2019tw@gmail.com" class="">avss2019tw@gmail.com</a> no later than <strong class="">15 April 2019</strong>. The proposal should include the following information:</p><ul style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" class=""><li class="">Workshop title </li><li class="">List of organizers including affiliation and email address </li><li class="">Workshop motivation </li><li class="">Estimated participation (industry/academia) </li><li class="">Anticipated number of talks/posters and length of workshop (half-day or full-day) </li><li class="">Paper submission procedure </li><li class="">Paper review procedure (single-blind/double-blind, solicited/invited-only, pool of reviewers) </li><li class="">Paper submission and acceptance deadlines (camera-ready and early registration deadlines for a workshop/contest must coincide with the corresponding deadlines of AVSS-2019 – see Important Dates on Call for Papers) </li><li class="">Special space and equipment requests, if any. </li></ul><p style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" class="">We are looking forward to receiving your proposals!</p><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><h4 style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" class="">General Chairs</h4><ul style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" class=""><li class=""><strong class="">Rama Chellappa (University of Maryland, USA)</strong></li><li class=""><strong class="">Ming-Hsuan Yang (UC Merced, USA)</strong></li><li class=""><strong class="">Hanseok Ko (Korea Univ, Korea)</strong></li></ul><h4 style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" class="">Honorary Chair</h4><ul style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" class=""><li class="">Dr. Dana Tai (President, University of Taipei, Taiwan)</li></ul><h4 style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" class="">Program Chair</h4><ul style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" class=""><li class="">Ming-Ching Chang (SUNY Albany, USA)</li></ul><h4 style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" class="">Financial Chair</h4><ul style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" class=""><li class="">Jun-Wei Hsieh (National Taiwan Ocean University, Taiwan)</li></ul><h4 style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" class="">Publicity Chair</h4><ul style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" class=""><li class="">Siwei Lyu (SUNY Albany, USA)</li></ul><h4 style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" class="">Local Chair</h4><ul style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" class=""><li class="">Chun-Ming Tsai (University of Taipei, Taiwan)</li></ul><h4 style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" class="">Publication Chair</h4><ul style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" class=""><li class="">Paolo Spagnolo (CNR, Italy)</li></ul><h4 style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" class="">Workshop Chair</h4><ul style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" class=""><li class="">Cosimo Distante (CNR, Italy)</li></ul><h4 style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" class="">Challenge Chairs</h4><ul style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" class=""><li class="">James Ferryman (University of Reading, UK)</li><li class="">Chen-Kuo Chiang (National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan)</li></ul><h4 style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" class="">Tutorial Chair</h4><ul style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" class=""><li class="">Chang-Tsun Li (University of Warwick, UK) </li></ul><h4 style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" class="">Industrial Liaison</h4><ul style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" class=""><li class="">Peter Tu (GE Global Research, USA)</li></ul><h4 style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" class="">Europe Liaison</h4><ul style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" class=""><li class="">James Ferryman (University of Reading, UK)</li><li class="">Francois Bremond (INRIA, France)</li></ul><h4 style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" class="">America Liaison</h4><ul style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" class=""><li class="">Vishal Patel (Johns Hopkins University, USA)</li></ul><h4 style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" class="">Asia Liaison</h4><ul style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" class=""><li class="">Wei Qi Yan (Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand)</li><li class="">Honggang Qi (UCAS, China)</li></ul><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" class=""> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><h2 style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">Area Chairs</h2><h3 style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">Analytics, Situation Awareness & Decision-Making</h3><ul style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" class=""><li class="">Y.-C. Frank Wang (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)</li></ul><h3 style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">Processing, Detection, Tracking & Recognition</h3><ul style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" class=""><li class="">Li Erran Li (Pony.ai, USA)</li><li class="">Robinson Piramuthu (eBay, USA)<br class=""></li></ul><h3 style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">Security & Privacy<br class=""></h3><ul style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" class=""><li class=""><p class="">Siwei Lyu (SUNY Albany, USA)</p></li></ul><h3 style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">Sensor-Centric Processing</h3><ul style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" class=""><li class="">Senem Velipasalar (Syracuse University, USA)</li><li class="">Zhe Hu (Hikvision, USA)<br class=""></li></ul><h3 style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">Surveillance Systems and Applications</h3><ul style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" class=""><li class="">Dawei Du (SUNY Albany, USA)</li><li class="">Ming-Ching Chang (SUNY Albany, USA)</li></ul><h3 style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">Visualization and Interaction Concepts for Surveillance Systems<br class=""></h3><ul style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" class=""><li class="">Jia-Bin Huang (Virginia Tech, USA)</li><li class="">Yi-Hsuan Tsai (NEC Labs, USA)</li></ul><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></body></html>