AVSS focuses on underlying theory, methods, systems, and applications of surveillance and invites submissions in areas listed below, especially cross-disciplinary and game-changing ones. The list of topics of interest includes, but is not limited to:

Sensor-Centric Processing:

• Sensors (visible/infrared/3D/mm wave/audio/radio,etc.)  

• Ground, airborne, satellite based  (fixed/mobile/UAV)

• Crowdsourcing (cellular, social networks)  

• Calibration and positioning (GPS, etc.)

• Communications and networked sensing

• Distributed Camera Networks and Smart Cameras

Processing, Detection, Tracking & Recognition:

• Modeling and feature selection  

• Detection and estimation (change, motion, anomaly, saliency, pattern)  

• Data association and (multi) target tracking

• Classification and recognition

• Multi-modal fusion

Visualization And Interaction Concepts For Surveillance Systems

• Compression and summarization

• Archival, search and retrieval

• Human-computer interfaces

• isualization algorithms

• Mobile and distributed interaction

Analytics, Situation Awareness & Decision Making

• Activity/interaction analysis and monitoring

• Intention estimation and situation

• awareness  

• Crowdsourcing-based methods

• Cognitive dynamic systems and bio-

• inspired methods

Security & Privacy

• Data authenticity  

• Privacy in surveillance

• Forensics  

• Biometrics (standoff, multi-modal,

• voice, etc.)  

• Cybersecurity for surveillance (wireless, network, computer)

• Advanced Biometric at a Distance

Surveillance Systems And Applications

• Hardware and software architectures  

• Research prototypes  

• Simulators  

• Civilian, industrial, and military

• Transportation (road, rail, air, maritime)  

• Performance evaluation