Due to several requests deadline for full paper submissions extended to:
** April 19th, 2017 **
** Please note, that no further extension is planned! **

Prospective authors are invited to submit high-quality full papers representing original results in all areas of signal-based surveillance.

The final papers are limited to 6 pages in double-column IEEE format, including figures. All manuscripts will be published as IEEE proceedings.

AVSS focuses on underlying theory, methods, systems, and applications of surveillance and invites submissions in areas including the following topics of interest:

Sensor-Centric Processing
Processing, Detection, Tracking & Recognition
Visualization and Interaction Concepts for Surveillance Systems
Analytics, Situation Awareness & Decision Making
Security and Privacy
Surveillance Systems and Applications


Important Dates (tentative):

Submission of Full Papers: April 19th, 2017 (23:59:59 PST)
Notification of Acceptance: May 15th, 2017
Submission of Camera Ready Papers: June 12th, 2017
Conference: August 30th – Sept. 1st, 2017


Please find further information in our Call-for-papers page HERE.
===== Keynote Lectures =====

We are pleased to announce the keynote speakers for the 2017 AVSS Conference! We are looking forward for the following three exiting talks:

by Roberto Cipolla of Cambridge University, UK.
by Stan Sclaroff of Boston University, MA, USA.
by Silvio Savarese, of Stanford University, CA, USA.


Please visit our website for abstracts and further information on the speakers ( http://www.avss2017.org/?page_id=343 )
===== Workshops Announcement =====

We are pleased to announce that seven high quality workshops are planned to be held on August 29th in conjunction with the IEEE AVSS 2017 conference! We are looking forward for the following workshops:

International Workshop on Traffic and Street Surveillance for Safety and Security (IWT4S).
Analysis of video and audio “in the Wild”: addressing real-world data sources to support the fight against crime and terrorism.
International workshop on small-drone surveillance, detection and counteraction techniques (WOSDETC).
Smart Indoor Event and Activity Recognition Workshop (SIEARW).
Signal Processing for Understanding Crowd Dynamics (SP-CROWD)
Software Architectures for Embedded Vision (SAV)
Workshop on Intelligent Technologies for Environmental Monitoring (ITEM)

Please visit our website for abstracts and further information ( http://www.avss2017.org/?page_id=437 )

We are looking forward to see you at AVSS 2017!
===== Organizing Committee =====

General Chairs
Cosimo Distante (ISASI CNR / Italy)
Larry S. Davis (University of Maryland / USA)

Organization Chair
Paolo Spagnolo (ISASI CNR / Italy)

Technical Program Chairs
Jiri Matas (Technical University of Prague, Czech Rep.)
Marco Leo (ISASI CNR / Italy)
Rita Cucchiara (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia / Italy)
Eduardo Monari (Fraunhofer IOSB / Germany)

Workshop Chairs
Giovanni M Farinella (University of Catania / Italy)
Tal Hassner (USC / USA)
Atsuto Maki (KTH / Sweden)
Pier Luigi Mazzeo (ISASI CNR / Italy)

Challenge Chairs
Sewei Lyu (Albany / USA)
James Ferryman (University of Reading / UK)
Marco Del Coco (ISASI CNR / Italy)

Industrial Chair
Sebastiano Battiato (University of Catania / Italy)
Francesco Calabrò (Leonardo Finmeccanica / Italy)
Luc Vincent (Google Research / USA)

Publicity Chair
Pierluigi Carcagni (ISASI CNR / Italy)
Wei Shi Zheng (Sun Yat-sen University / China)

Publications Chair Ming-Ching Chang (University at Albany / USA)

Area Chairs
Fabio Galasso (Osram / Germany)
Simone Calderara (UNIMORE / Italy)
Patrick Grother (NIST / USA)
Miroslaw Z. Bober (University of Surrey / UK)
Federico Pernici (University of Florence / Italy)
Saibal Mukhopadhyay (Georgia Tech / USA)
Leonid Sigal (Disney Research / USA)
Sergio Escalera (University of Barcelona / Spain)
Tobias Schuchert (Fraunhofer IOSB / Italy)
Amy Loufti (Örebro University / Italy)
Francois Bremond (INRIA / France)
Anthony Hoogs (Kitware / USA)