Automated multimedia surveillance systems utilize different tools and techniques in capturing, processing and analyzing multimedia data coming from heterogeneous sensors. These systems are often designed to support (semi-) automatic decision making, such as generating an alarm in response to a surveillance event, as well as to provide useful information to human decision makers for ensuring public safety. Many researchers in industry and academia are working on various aspects of automated surveillance - automatic analysis of media streams, real-time processing, event detection, system architecture, quality evaluation and so on, while some argue on the level of automation to be exercised in such systems.

This is the second edition of this workshop (after the first successful AAMS-PS’11 in Barcelona and AAMS-PS’12 in Melbourne) and it aims to report on the further developments in various aspects of automated surveillance, more specifically to the state-of-the-art techniques, methodologies and systems for protecting people and ensuring their safety. We seek high quality papers that were not published elsewhere and have scientific values. Some topics of interest include, but not limited to the following:

Automatic event detection based on multi-sensor data
Event handling and management
Architectural support for real-time surveillance
Quality of surveillance systems and information
Multi-sensor fusion in surveillance
Advances in military surveillance for public safety applications
Automatic decision making strategies in critical surveillance scenarios
Crowd-supported surveillance
Alert-response management
Risk assessment and handling of automated surveillance
Privacy and ethical issues in automated surveillance


General Co-chairs:
M. Anwar Hossain, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia
Pradeep K. Atrey, University of Winnipeg, Canada
Senem Velipasalar, Syracuse University, NY, USA


Important Dates:
Paper submission: March 7, 2013
Notification of acceptance: April 15, 2013
Camera ready submission: April 30, 2013