<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><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 Papers</h1><div class=""><a href="http://www.avss2019.org" class="">www.avss2019.org</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">We invite you to contribute to the 16th </span><a href="https://www.ieee.org/" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" class="">IEEE</a><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""> International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal-based Surveillance (AVSS), to be held </span><strong style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" class="">September 18-21 2019</strong><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""> in Taipei, Taiwan, hosted by the </span><a href="http://www.utaipei.edu.tw/bin/home.php?Lang=en" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" class="">University of Taipei</a><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""> (See </span><a href="http://www.cs.albany.edu/AVSS2019/venue.html" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" class="">Venue</a><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""> page for more information).</span></div><h1 style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><p style="font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;" class="">IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal-based Surveillance (AVSS) is the leading conference venue for the underlying theory, methods, systems, and applications of video and signal based surveillance. AVSS invites submissions in areas listed below, especially on cross-disciplinary and game-changing subjects. The list of topics of interest includes, but is not limited to:</p></h1><h4 style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" class=""><strong class="">SENSOR-CENTRIC PROCESSING:</strong></h4><h1 style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><ul style="font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;" class=""><li class="">Sensors (visible/infrared/3D/mm wave/audio/radio, <em class="">etc.</em>)</li><li class="">Ground, airborne, satellite based (fixed/mobile /UAV)</li><li class="">Crowdsourcing (cellular/social networks)</li><li class="">Calibration and positioning (GPS, <em class="">etc.</em>)</li><li class="">Communications and networked sensing</li><li class="">Distributed camera networks and smart cameras</li><li class="">Participatory sensing</li></ul></h1><h4 style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" class=""><strong class="">PROCESSING, DETECTION, TRACKING & RECOGNITION:</strong></h4><h1 style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><ul style="font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;" class=""><li class="">Modelling and feature selection</li><li class="">Detection and estimation (change/motion/anomaly/saliency/pattern)</li><li class="">Data association and (multi) target tracking</li><li class="">Classification and recognition</li><li class="">Multi-modal fusion</li></ul></h1><h4 style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" class=""><strong class="">VISUALIZATION AND INTERACTION CONCEPTS FOR SURVEILLANCE SYSTEMS</strong></h4><h1 style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><ul style="font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;" class=""><li class="">Compression and summarization</li><li class="">Archival, search and retrieval</li><li class="">Human-computer interfaces</li><li class="">Visualization algorithms</li><li class="">Mobile and distributed interaction</li></ul></h1><h4 style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" class=""><strong class="">ANALYTICS, SITUATION AWARENESS & DECISION MAKING</strong></h4><h1 style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><ul style="font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;" class=""><li class="">Activity/interaction analysis and monitoring</li><li class="">Intention estimation and situation awareness</li><li class="">Crowdsourcing-based methods</li><li class="">Cognitive dynamic systems and bio-inspired methods</li></ul></h1><h4 style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" class=""><strong class="">SECURITY & PRIVACY</strong></h4><h1 style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><ul style="font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;" class=""><li class="">Data authenticity</li><li class="">Privacy in surveillance</li><li class="">Attacks on surveillance vulnerabilities</li><li class="">Forensics</li><li class="">Biometrics (standoff, multi-modal, voice, <em class="">etc.</em>)</li><li class="">Cybersecurity for surveillance (wireless, network, computer)</li><li class="">Advanced biometrics at a distance</li></ul></h1><h4 style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" class=""><strong class="">SURVEILLANCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS</strong></h4><h1 style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><ul style="font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;" class=""><li class="">Hardware and software architectures</li><li class="">Research prototypes</li><li class="">Simulators</li><li class="">Civilian, industrial, and military</li><li class="">Transportation (road, rail, air, maritime)</li><li class="">Performance evaluation</li></ul><p style="font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;" class="">Prospective authors are invited to submit high-quality full papers representing original results in all areas of video and signal-based surveillance. Submissions and final papers are limited to 6 pages in double-column IEEE format, including figures, tables, and references . Accepted papers are published in the conference proceedings that will be also available in the IEEE Xplore digital library.</p></h1><h3 style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><a href="http://www.cs.albany.edu/AVSS2019/important-dates.html" class="">Important Dates</a></h3><h1 style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><ul style="font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;" class=""><li class="">Preliminary Abstract Submission: Wednesday May 1, 2019 (23:59:59 PST)</li><li class="style1">Submission of Full Papers: Sunday May 5, 2019 (23:59:59 PST)</li><li class="">Notification of Acceptance: Monday July 1, 2019</li><li class="">Submission of Camera Ready Papers: July 15, 2019</li><li class="">Conference: September 18-21, 2019</li></ul><div class=""><br class=""></div></h1><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>