<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">AVSS 2021 Call for Participations</div><div class="">17th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal-based Surveillance</div><div class="">16-19 November, 2021 | Virtual</div><div class=""><a href="http://www.avss2021.org/" class="">http://www.avss2021.org/</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The 17th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal-based Surveillance (AVSS 2021), sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society (PAMI TC) and the IEEE Signal Processing Society, is the premier forum for the presentation of new advances and research results in the field of video and signal-based surveillance.</div><div class="">The goal is to provide a game-changing and cross-disciplinary forum that brings together experts from academia, industry, and government to advance the frontiers of theories, methods, systems, and applications.</div><div class="">Prospective authors are invited to submit high-quality full papers representing original results in all areas of video and signal-based surveillance.</div><div class="">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.</div><div class="">Location: AVSS 2021 will be a virtual conference from November 16 to November 19, 2021.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Important Dates</div><div class="">---------------</div><div class="">• Paper submission: July 1, 2021</div><div class="">• Decision to authors: August 25, 2021</div><div class="">• Tutorial proposals due: July 15, 2021</div><div class="">• Final camera-ready papers due: September 15, 2021</div><div class="">• Challenge Proposals Due: May 20, 2021</div><div class="">• Workshop proposals due: May 20, 2021</div><div class="">• Main conference: November 16-19, 2021</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Organizing Committee</div><div class="">--------------------</div><div class="">• General Chairs</div><div class="">Rama Chellappa, Johns Hopkins Univ., USA</div><div class="">Rene Vidal, Johns Hopkins Univ., USA</div><div class="">Cosimo Distante, CNR & Univ. of Salento, Italy</div><div class="">• Program Chairs</div><div class="">Brian C. Lovell, Univ. of Queensland, Australia</div><div class="">Mayank Vatsa, IIT Jodhpur, India</div><div class="">Jiwen Lu, Tsinghua University, China</div><div class="">Vishal M. Patel, Johns Hopkins Univ., USA</div><div class="">• Workshop Chairs</div><div class="">Emily Hand, Univ.Nevada, Reno, USA</div><div class="">Benjamin S. Riggan, University of Nebraska-</div><div class="">Lincoln, USA</div><div class="">• Registration Chair and Event Planner</div><div class="">Nicole Bumpus Finn, C to C Events, USA</div><div class="">• Challenge Chairs</div><div class="">Ruiping Wang, Institute of Computing</div><div class="">Technology, China</div><div class="">Hien Nguyen Van, University of Houston, USA</div><div class="">• Tutorial Chairs</div><div class="">Shuowen (Sean) Hu, US Army Research Lab,</div><div class="">USA</div><div class="">• Publication Chair</div><div class="">Srirangaraj Setlur, University of Buffalo, USA</div><div class="">• Industrial Chair</div><div class="">Nalini K. Ratha, SUNY, Buffalo, USA</div><div class="">• Website Chair</div><div class="">Vishwanath Sindagi, Johns Hopkins Univ., USA</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Call for Contributions</div><div class="">----------------------</div><div class="">AVSS 2021 solicits submissions of contributions for the following topics, including but not limited to:</div><div class="">• SENSOR-CENTRIC PROCESSING: Sensors (visible/infrared/3D/mm wave/audio/radio, etc.) |Ground, airborne, satellite based (fixed/mobile /UAV) |</div><div class="">Crowdsourcing (cellular/social networks) | Calibration and positioning (GPS, etc.) | Communications and networked sensing | Distributed Camera Networks and Smart Cameras | Participatory Sensing</div><div class="">• PROCESSING, DETECTION, TRACKING &</div><div class="">RECOGNITION: Modelling and feature selection | Detection and estimation (change/motion/anomaly/saliency/pattern) | Data association and (multi) target tracking | Classification and recognition | Multi-modal fusion</div><div class="">• VISUALIZATION AND INTERACTION CONCEPTS FOR</div><div class="">SURVEILLANCE SYSTEMS: Compression and summarization | Archival, search and retrieval | Humancomputer interfaces | Visualization algorithms | Mobile and distributed interaction</div><div class="">• ANALYTICS, SITUATION AWARENESS & DECISION</div><div class="">MAKING: Activity/interaction analysis and monitoring | Intention estimation and situation awareness | Crowdsourcing-based methods | Cognitive dynamic systems and bio-inspired methods </div><div class="">• SECURITY & PRIVACY: Data authenticity | Privacy in</div><div class="">surveillance | Attacks on Surveillance Vulnerabilities | Forensics | Biometrics (standoff, multi-modal, voice, etc.) | Cybersecurity for surveillance wireless, network, computer) | Advanced Biometrics at a Distance</div><div class="">• SURVEILLANCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS: Hardware</div><div class="">and software architectures | Research prototypes | Simulators | Civilian, industrial, and military | Transportation (road, rail, air, maritime) | Performance</div><div class="">evaluation</div></div><br class=""></body></html>