CFP: WORKSHOP on Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence for Human Behaviour Analysis (PRAI*HBA)

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WORKSHOP on Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence for Human
Behaviour Analysis (PRAI*HBA)
12 December 2009 ? Reggio Emilia (Italy)

Satellite workshop of the AI*IA 2009: International Conference of the
Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence
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* * * CALL FOR PAPERS - Deadline October 4, 2009 * * *
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Special issue of The Wiley-Blackwell Journal Expert Systems: The Journal of
Knowledge Engineering connected to the workshop
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LOCATION AND DATE
The Workshop on Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence for Human
Behaviour Analysis (PRAI*HBA) will take place in Reggio Emilia (Italy)
on December 12, 2009, following the AI*IA 2009: International
Conference (9-11 December 2009)

The conference and all the workshops will be hosted in the new
building of the Department of Social, Cognitive and Quantitative Sciences
and of the Faculty of Communication and Economics, located in the centre of
Reggio Emilia
Address: via Allegri 9, I 42100 Reggio Emilia

WORKSHOP WEBSITE
Updated information can be found on the workshop section of the
conference website, http://imagelab.ing.unimore.it/prai4hba

CALL FOR PAPERS
Pattern Recognition (PR) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) scientific
communities have tried to join their efforts and share knowledge in order to
obtain more effective solutions for many different research areas. However,
although the techniques and approaches are somewhat similar, the two
communities often tackle problems from rather different perspectives.

Among these research areas, Human Behaviour Analysis (HBA) has recently
become a very popular topic in computer science, because of its relevance in
many surveillance applications. For instance, with the increasing use of
cameras for video surveillance, it is getting almost unfeasible for security
personnel to monitor scenes or to watch recorded videos looking for a
particular event or visual item. Automatic interpretation of actions,
gestures, and interactions among people as well as automatic situation
recognition and assessment would be extremely useful. Actually, methods for
Human Behaviour Analysis have this specific aim and they are attracting more
and more researchers and ICT industries. Nevertheless, the recognition and
interpretation of human behaviour is still a challenging problem.

Given these premises, this workshop is meant to bring together researchers
which address the problem of HBA from the PR and/or the AI perspective.
Hopefully, this workshop will be the first of a long series of events in
which these two communities actively work together to achieve effective and
efficient solutions to complex tasks in HBA related fields.

TOPICS
Following the above considerations, the workshop topics include, but are not
limited to, the following:
? Gesture and activity classification
? Multi-person interactions
? Multi-camera coordination and data fusion for HBA
? Event recognition and abnormal behaviour detection
? Crowd analysis for behaviour monitoring and alerting
? Machine learning methods for HBA
? Statistical pattern recognition methods for HBA
? Semantic video annotation
? Semantic scene representation and interpretation
? Situation classification and assessment
? Datasets and metrics for performance evaluation of HBA systems

PAPER SUBMISSION FORMAT
Papers not exceeding 8 pages, written in English and complying with the LNCS
Springer-Verlag format
(http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-7-72376-0) should be
submitted electronically. Submissions are due in PDF format attached to an
email sent to the following email address:
prai4hba@unimore.it

Accepted papers will be published on the official CD-Rom of the
AI*IA2009 International conference with regular ISBN number.

***In addition, best selected papers will be invited to submit an extended
version of their paper (at least 30% of new material) for The
Wiley-Blackwell Journal Expert Systems: The Journal of Knowledge Engineering
(http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/117963144/home) - impact factor
2008: 0.717.

IMPORTANT DATES

* Paper submission: October 4, 2009
* Camera-ready of accepted papers: November 11, 2009
* Workshop day: December 12, 2009

WORKSHOP AND CONFERENCE FEE

Attendance to the conference and to the workshops IS limited to
members of AI*IA. Participants are kindly requested to register before
the conference, although on-site registration will also be offered.

Attendance to the workshops only (including participation in all the
workshops, coffee-breaks and a CD-ROM with the Proceedings of all Workshops;
it does not include membership to AI*IA):

Advance registration: 100 Euro
On-site registration: 200 Euro

Regular conference fee (including participation in the conference and all
the workshops, a copy of the proceedings volume, the conference CD-Rom,
coffee breaks for all 4 days; it does not include membership to AI*IA):

Early registration, before August 31, 2009: 350 Euros.
Late registration, since September 1, 2009: 400 Euros.
On-site registration: 500 Euro

Student fee (including proceedings volume and participation to the
workshops, not including conference dinner): 130 Euro
** NOT AVAILABLE ON-SITE **

CHAIRS
Luca Iocchi (http://www.dis.uniroma.it/~iocchi) - University ?La Sapienza? -
Rome
Andrea Prati (http://www.dismi.unimo.it/Members/aprati) - University of
Modena and Reggio Emilia
Roberto Vezzani (http://imagelab.ing.unimore.it/imagelab/~vezzani/index.asp)
- University of Modena and Reggio Emilia

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Preliminary list of confirmed program committee members:
Francois Bremond, INRIA (FR)
Simone Calderara, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (I)
Isac Choen, Honeywell (MN)
Rita Cucchiara, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (I)
Luigi Di Stefano, University of Bologna (I)
Tiziana D'Orazio, CNR (I)
Michela Farenzena, University of Verona(I)
Jordi Gonzalez, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (ES)
Oswald Lanz, Fondazione Bruno Kessler (I)
Christian Micheloni, University of Udine (I)
Krystian Mikolajczyk, University of Surrey (UK)
Massimo Piccardi, University of Technology, Sydney (AU)
Carlo Regazzoni, University of Genoa (I)
Paolo Remagnino, Kingston University (UK)