Second IEEE Workshop  on

Event Mining:

Detection and Recognition of Events in Video

 

In Association with 

IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2003) 


Madison, Wisconsin, USA
June, 17 2003

Sponsored by IEEE Computer Society.

 

Preliminary Program:

 

 


Program

With recent advances in the analysis of digital video, it is now becoming possible to look for high-level semantic events in video. The analysis of events is important in a  variety of applications including surveillance, customer-relationship management (CRM), vision-based  human-computer interaction, and content-based retrieval.  Several challenges exist with regard to the detection and  recognition of events. First, a good definition of what  constitutes an event itself is lacking. Secondly, understanding events  seems to involve the detection and recognition of objects,  actions, and their evolving inter-relationships. Moreover, events are often multi-modal, requiring the gathering of  evidence from information available in multiple media sources  such as video and audio. Even with the best techniques for visual  or audio scene analysis, event detection using individual cues  will continue to exhibit poor robustness in the foreseeable future  on account of high detection errors. Further, the localization of  events through multi-modal fusion will continue to face problems  due to conflicting indications given by the individual cues.

Event mining was introduced as a new field of research in data mining in Event’ 2001. Following the success of this workshop at ICCV ‘2001,  a continuation is being proposed as Event’ 2003 to be part of CVPR ‘2003. It will be a forum to highlight new research emerging in this field to address the above problems. We are soliciting original papers that address a range of issues  in event detection and recognition in digital video including, but not restricted by fallowing topics :

·             Event detection: Object detection, action detection, tracking.

·         Event recognition: Object recognition, action recognition, activity recognition.

·         Multi-modal events: Auditory events, audio-visual events, multi-modal fusion

·         Event understanding: Event labeling, computational theories of event perception

·         Event retrieval: Event representations, querying for events

·         Systems & Applications: Applications of event detection in areas such as surveillance, customer relationship         management, human computer interaction, content-based retrieval, etc.


Accepted papers will be published by the IEEE in CD-ROM format and indexed in the IEEExplore website.

Organizing Committee

Ismail Haritaoglu

 IBM Almaden Research

Tanveer Syeda-Mahmood

  IBM Almaden Research

Program Committee: 

Robert Collins CMU 
Jim Davis Ohio State University 
Larry Davis University of Maryland, College Park
Ramani Duraiswami University of Maryland, College Park
Irfan Essa Georgia Tech
David Fleet Xerox
Tom Huang University of Illinois, Urbana  
Anil Jain University of Michigan, Ann Harbor
Jim Little University of British Columbia
Steve Maybank Reading University, UK
Jun Ohya Waseda University, JAPAN
Nuria Oliver Microsoft
Mubarak Shah University of Central Florida 
Murat Tekalp University of Rochester
Yaser Yacoob University of Maryland, College Park
H. Zhang  Microsoft

 


Submission Instructions:  

 

Manuscript submission January 31, 2003
Notification of acceptance March 12, 2003
Final manuscript due April  1, 2003

 

 

 For further information please contact Ismail Haritaoglu (ismailh@almaden.ibm.com)