Technological developments in imaging, processing, and networking have created an opportunity for multi-disciplinary approaches to applications based on vision. The extensive availability and use of cameras in various application domains calls for the study of new embedded processing systems and algorithms. After the successful 5th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Distributed Smart Camera (ICDSC) in Ghent in 2011 and the previous ones in Vienna (2007), Stanford (2008), Como (2009), and Atlanta (2010), the sixth edition of the ICDSC will be held in Hong Kong, where the cultures and traditions of East and West converge into a vibrant cosmopolitan known for, among other things, its diverse offering of food and shopping experiences. The conference will attract researchers from multiple fields such as computer vision, pervasive computing, embedded systems and sensor networks.

Quality papers will be selected for special issues in the relevant journals. In the past, they include the IEEE Journal of Special Topics in Signal Processing and the ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks.

Smart camera and network architectures:

Camera system designs and architectures
Image sensing and processing for smart cameras
Architectures and protocols for camera networks
Embedded vision programming
Image processing with network security



Visual sensor networks:

Resource management in camera networks
Automatic reconfiguration of sensor networks
Wireless and mobile image sensor networks
Multi-modal sensor networks
Learning and information fusion in sensor network
Visual sensor network applications

Distributed computer vision and fusion:

Distributed capture and vision processing algorithms
3D scene analysis
Multi-view vision for Human-Computer Interfaces
Distributed appearance modeling and object view-angle coverage
Multi-sensor data aggregation
Collaborative extraction, information fusion
Image processing with computational and energy constraints



Emerging applications and case studies:

Vision-based smart environments
Surveillance and tracking applications
Distributed multimedia and gaming applications
Position discovery and middleware applications
Context-aware networks
Sports and other emerging applications