Video Surveillance Online Repository (ViSOR): an integrated framework
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It is our great pleasure to welcome you to the 4th ACM Workshop on Video Surveillance & Sensor Networks -- VSSN'06. This workshop is continuation of earlier workshops in Berkeley CA 2003, addressed video surveillance only, and New York NY, 2004 and Singapore, 2005 that extended the focus on sensor networks. The current proliferation of optical (cameras) and non-optical sensors, and the increase in cost-effective computational power has driven the exponential increase of interest in the topics of intelligent surveillance systems and sensor network protocols and coordination. This sensing technology requires scientific and technological knowledge in many different fields, from computer vision and pattern recognition, to behavior analysis, to wireless sensor networks, efficient video streaming, and so on.The workshop explores the state-of-the art of research activity in new generation video surveillance systems, sensor networks and their integration. New solutions are proposed in surveillance systems architecture and in novel techniques for background modeling, detecting and tracking objects. Most of the activities in the research laboratories and in the industrial research centers are now centered on human motion capture and human activity monitoring. Accordingly, we divided the workshop into two sessions: the former devoted to models and techniques to define develop and evaluate video- and sensor-based surveillance systems; the latter focused on human appearance and activity surveillance.The call for papers attracted submissions from USA (43.2% of authors of submitted papers), Spain (12.6%), Italy (12.6%), United Kingdom (6.3%), Taiwan (4.2%), Korea (4.2%), Singapore (3.2%), Pakistan (3.2%), Ireland (3.2%), Switzerland (3.2%), India (2.1%), and Germany (2.1%). A total of 33 papers have been submitted to the workshop. Due to the significant success gained in the past editions, we decided to also organize a poster session this year, to help researchers in disseminating their idea and to create a successful event for exchange of knowledge. Therefore, the program committee, consisting of 20 highly-referenced researchers in the field, accepted 13 papers for oral presentation, and 12 papers for poster presentation.The workshop schedules two oral and two poster sessions. In addition, the program includes a keynote by Prof. Larry Davis from University of Maryland, USA. Prof. Rainer Lienhart from University of Augsburg, Germany, organized, as the past edition, a competition of open source algorithms for foreground/background segmentation.