ARTEMIS'2010

Programme


Invited Speaker

Prof. Carlo S. Regazzoni , University of Genova, Italy

Biography: Prof. Carlo Regazzoni is Full Professor of Telecommunication Systems at the Engineering Faculty of University of Genova since 2005. Since 1998 he is responsible of the Signal Processing and Telecommunications (SP&T)Research Group at the Department of Biophysical and Electronic Engineering (DIBE), University of Genova that he joined in 1987. His main current research interests are: Bio-inspired Signal and Video Processing and Recognition, Data Fusion, Signal Processing for Telecommunications, Cognitive Radio, Multimodal Intelligent Interfaces, Pervasive adaptation in embodied cognitive systems. He has served as co-organizer and co-chairman of the International Workshops on Advanced Signal and Video Based Surveillance Systems, now IEEE AVSS. Dr. Regazzoni has been project responsible for DIBE in several concluded EU research and development projects dealing with signal and video processing applied to surveillance methodologies and applications in the transport field. He has been awarded of best IEEE Vehicular Electronics paper award in 2002. He is author or co-author of more than 50 papers on International Scientific Journals and of more than 160 papers presented at Refereed International Conferences.

Friday, October 29, 2010

  • 09.25 - 9.30 Welcome by the oganisers: Jordi GonzĂ lez from Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and Computer Vision Center, Spain.

  • 09.30 - 10.30 Keynote Address (chairs: Anastasios Doulamis from Technical University of Greece, Greece; and Jordi GonzĂ lez from Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and Computer Vision Center, Spain).

    • " Emphatic Human Interaction Analysis for Cognitive Environments ", by Carlo S. Regazzoni from University of Genova, Italy.

  • 10.30 – 11.00 Poster/Demo Spotlight Presentations: 5 minutes each poster/demo (chairs: Anastasios Doulamis from Technical University of Greece, Greece; and Jordi GonzĂ lez from Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and Computer Vision Center, Spain).

    • Event detection in video using motion analysis, Hari Kalva (Florida Atlantic University, USA), Oge Marques (Florida Atlantic University, USA) and Borko Furht (Florida Atlantic University, USA).

    • Human Action Recognition With MPEG-7 Descriptors And Architectures, Zia Moghaddam (University of Technology, Sydney, Australia) and Massimo Piccardi (University of Technology, Sydney, Australia).

    • Event-based unobtrusive authentication using multi-view image sequences, Anastasios Drosou (Imperial College London, UK).

    • Real Time Illumination Invariant Motion Change Detection, Konstantinos Avgerinakis (Informatics and Telematics Institute, Greece), Alexia Briassouli (Informatics and Telematics Institute, Greece) and Yiannis Kompatsiaris (Informatics and Telematics Institute, Greece).

    • Tools for semi-automatic monitoring of industrial workflows, Roland Mörzinger (Joanneum Research mbH, Austria), Emmanuel S. Sardis (National Tech. Univ. of Athens, Greece), Helmut Grabner (ETH Zurich, Switzerland), Rene Schuster (Joanneum Research mbH, Austria), Luc Van Gool (ETH Zurich, Switzerland), Georg Thallinger (Joanneum Research mbH, Austria), Marcus Thaler (Joanneum Research mbH, Austria), Albert Hofmann (Joanneum Research mbH, Austria), Severin Stalder (ETH Zurich, Switzerland), Vassilios Anagnostopoulos (National Tech. Univ. of Athens, Greece), Theodora A. Varvarigou (National Tech. Univ. of Athens, Greece), Igor Rosenberg (ATOS Origin, Spain), Imed Bouchrika (University of Southampton, UK) and Banafshe Arbab-Zavar (University of Southampton, UK).

    • Multi-sensor Registration for Objects Motion Detection, Luigi Cinque (University of Rome la Sapienza, Italy), Francesco Di Renzo (University of Parma, Italy), Gian Luca Foresti (University of Udine, Italy), Christian Micheloni (University of Udine, Italy) and Gabriele Morrone (University of Rome la Sapienza, Italy).

  • 11.00 – 11.30 Coffee Break + Poster/Demo Session

  • 11.30 - 13.00 Oral Session I: Human Motion Analysis (chairs: Borko Fuhrt from Florida Atlantic University, USA; and Marco Bertini from UniversitĂ  di Firenze, Italy).

    • Human gesture recognition using 3.5-dimensional trajectory features for hands-free user interface, Masaki Takahashi (NHK Japan Broadcasting Corporation, Japan); Mahito Fujii (NHK Japan Broadcasting Corporation, Japan) and Masahide Naemura (NHK Japan Broadcasting Corporation, Japan) and Shin'ichi Satoh (National Institute of Informatics, Japan).

    • Human Pose Estimation with Implicit Shape Models, Juergen Mueller (Fraunhofer IOSB Institute of Optronics, System Technologies and Image Exploitation, Germany) and Michael Arens (Fraunhofer IOSB, Germany).

    • Joint multitarget object tracking and interaction analysis by a probabilistic bio-inspired model, Francesco Monti (University of Genoa, Italy), Stefano Maludrottu (University of Genova, Italy) and Carlo S. Regazzoni (University of Genova, Italy).

  • 13.00 - 14.00 Lunch Break

  • 14.00 - 15.30 Oral Session II: Event Analysis and Annotation (chairs: Prof. Benois-Pineau from University Bordeaux 1, France; and Roberto Vezzani from UniversitĂ  degli Studi di Modena, Italy).

    • Multi-object Particle Filter Tracking with Automatic Event Analysis, Yifan Zhou (University Bordeaux 1, France), Jenny Benois-Pineau (University of Bordeaux, France) and Henri Nicolas (LaBRI, France).

    • Dense spatio-temporal features for non-parametric anomaly detection and localization, Lorenzo Seidenari (University of Florence, Italy), Marco Bertini (UniversitĂ  di Firenze, Italy) and Alberto Del Bimbo (UniversitĂ  di Firenze, Italy).

    • Automatic Annotation of Image Databases Based on Implicit Interaction and Visual Concept Modeling, Klimis Ntalianis (National Technical University of Athens, Greece), Nikolaos D. Doulamis (National Technical University of Athens, Greece) and Nicolas Tsapatsoulis (Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus).

  • 15.30 - 16.00 Coffee Break + Poster/Demo Session

  • 16.00 - 17.30 Oral Session III: Behaviour Understanding (chairs: Prof. Cucchiara from UniversitĂ  degli Studi di Modena, Italy; and Jordi GonzĂ lez from Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and Computer Vision Center, Spain).

    • Enhanced Human Behavior Recognition using HMM and Evaluative Rectification, Nikolaos D. Doulamis (National Technical University of Athens, Greece), Athanasios Voulodimos (National Technical University of Athens, Greece), Dimitris Kosmopoulos (NCSR Demokritos, Greece) and Theodora Varvarigou (National Technical University of Athens, Greece).

    • Automatic Fish Classification for Underwater Species Behavior Understanding, Concetto Spampinato (University of Catania, Italy), Daniela Giordano (University of Catania, Italy), Roberto Di Salvo (University of Catania, Italy), Yun-Heh Chen-Burger (University of Edinburgh, UK), Robert Fisher (University of Edinburgh, UK), Gayathri Nadarajan (University of Edinburgh, UK).

    • Combining Inertial and Visual Sensing for Human Action Recognition in Tennis, Ciarán O’Conaire (Centre for Digital Video Processing, Ireland), Damien Connaghan (Centre for Sensor Web Technologies, Ireland), Philip T Kelly (Dublin City University, Ireland) and Noel O'Connor (Dublin City University, Ireland).

  • 17.30 - 17.45 Closing remarks: Anastasios Doulamis from Technical University of Greece, Greece.