Content Gazette - September 2012 - 12

CALL FOR PAPERS

IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INFORMATION FORENSICS AND SECURITY

Special Issue on Intelligent Video Surveillance for Public Security & Personal Privacy
Guest Editors

Noboru Babaguchi
Andrea Cavallaro
Rama Chellappa
Frederic Dufaux
Liang Wang

Osaka University, Japan (babaguchi@comm.eng.osaka-u.ac.jp)
Queen Mary University of London, UK (andrea.cavallaro@eecs.qmul.ac.uk)
University of Maryland, USA (Rama@umiacs.umd.edu)
Telecom ParisTech, France (frederic.dufaux@telecom-paristech.fr)
Chinese Academy of Science, China (wangliang@nlpr.ia.ac.cn)

Over the past decade video surveillance has rapidly become a widespread tool for addressing the problem of public
security and personal privacy. It is desirable to replace human operators by cloud & distributed computing systems
in surveillance data acquisition, recording, archival, indexing, retrieval and manipulation. The intelligent video
surveillance (IVS) technology is the core of the emerging next-generation video surveillance system. Recent
advances in computer vision have shown good potential for some high level vision tasks, such as object detection,
human identification, tracking, and behavior understanding, based on which diverse security applications such as
"suspect identification" and "fighting detection" can be realized. Besides, research on security and privacy issues in
video surveillance is growing rapidly in recent years. New interdisciplinary technologies that integrate computer
vision, data hiding and stenography have been developed in addressing privacy protection concerns. This Call for
Papers seeks for ongoing research on IVS techniques, and collects cutting-edge research on security and privacy
problems with respect to technological, behavioral, legal and cultural aspects in video surveillance systems.
Example topics include but are not limited to
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Video Analysis for Public Security Protection: foreground detection and motion tracking; object (face,
pedestrian) identification and re-identification; action/activity/event/behavior recognition; fusion of vision
with other sensing modalities

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Video Processing for Personal Privacy Protection: privacy information detection; video redaction/scrambling;
privacy information storage/management; privacy encryption

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System & Performance: research prototypes; hardware & software architectures; performance evaluation

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Other Related Topics: privacy policies; user requirements; economics of video surveillance

Submission Procedure: Manuscripts are to be submitted according to the Information for Authors at

http://www.signalprocessingsociety.org/publications/periodicals/forensics/forensics-authors-info/ using the IEEE
online manuscript system, Manuscript Central. Papers must not have appeared or be under review elsewhere. The
Guest Editors will not be submitting any papers to the SI.

Schedule

Submission deadline:
First Review:
Revisions Due:
Final Decision:
Final manuscript due:
Tentative publication date:

October 1, 2012
January 16, 2013
March 1, 2013
May 16, 2013
June 20, 2013
October 1, 2013

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