IEEE Workshop  on

Event Mining 2004

Detection and Recognition of Events in Video

 

In Association with 

IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2004) 


Washington DC, USA

July 2, 2004

 

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 and CVPR 2003,  a continuation will be  as Event’ 2004 to be part of CVPR ‘20034. 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: action, event detection, tracking.

·         Event recognition: event and action recognition, activity recognition. 

·         Event representation and understanding:  computational theories of event perception, event Taxonomies     

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

·         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.

General Chair 

Rama Challappa

  University of Maryland, College  Park

Program Chairs

Ismail Haritaoglu

  IBM Almaden Research

Tanveer Syeda-Mahmood

   IBM Almaden Research

Program Committee: 

Submission Instructions:  

 

Manuscript submission March 9, 2004
Notification of acceptance April  19, 2004
Final manuscript due April  27, 2004

 

 

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