CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
INTERNATIONAL WINTER SCHOOL ON VISUAL SURVEILLANCE

December 5-9 2005
Universita` del Sannio, Benevento, Italy

GENERAL

The Universita` del Sannio's Faculty of Engineering invites you to participate in the 1st International Winter School on Visual Surveillance. This winter school is aimed both at postgraduate research students (e.g. MSc, PhD) who wish to get involved in research on visual surveillance and at people from industry who wish to apply the technology to "real world" problems. The winter school will be one week long in duration. It will be held in the beautiful Campania region in the south of Italy, hosted by the Universita` del Sannio in Benevento, Italy.

TOPICS

1. Digital image generation and properties
2. Image filters and their signal-theoretic background
3. Movement detection and segmentation in digital video sequences
4. Model-based vision concepts: The top-down approach
5. Application: People tracking for visual surveillance in a distributed surveillance system

Lecturer: Dr Nils T Siebel, Cognitive Systems Group, Institute of Computer Science, Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel, Germany. http://www.siebel-research.de/

There will be 6 hours of class per day; 4 hours of lectures and an additional 2 hours of practicals. The practicals take place after each day's lectures and help to reinforce the lecture material by applying the theory that was taught in small groups. Assignments will be solved in the lab using the Matlab environment.

CONTENTS

1. Digital image generation and properties:
   
   CCD and CMOS cameras, sampling and quantisation, colour spaces, histograms, image compression (e.g. JPEG)
   
   
2. Image filters and their signal-theoretic background
   
   The image as a 2D signal, frequency filtering, image smoothing, derivative filters, edge detection (e.g. Canny), colour filters
   
   
3. Movement detection and segmentation in digital video sequences
   
   Background subtraction, simple and adaptive background models, inclusion of temporal information, post-processing of motion images (e.g. median filtering)
   
   
4. Model-based vision concepts: The top-down approach
   
   Top-down vs bottom-up approaches to computer vision problems, model-based vision, examples of appearance-based models for object detection, parameter and pose estimation
   
   
5. Application: People tracking for visual surveillance in a distributed surveillance system
   
   Challenges and solutions for "real world" visual surveillance systems, realtime and other constraints, autonomous or semi-autonomous operation, distributed vs centralised processing, case study: the Reading People Tracker.
   
   

APPLICATION PROCEDURE

There is only a limited number of places available in the winter school. Applicants who would like to participate in the winter school should follow the following procedure:

1. Send an e-mail with your application by November 10 2005.
2. The organisers will check the availability and send you a registration form with payment details.
3. The registration form should be filled in and sent back to the organisers by fax, including a proof of payment, by November 30 2005.

The registration fees are:

• 150 euro for PhD students and undergraduates.
• 200 euro for post doc and other researchers working directly in a university.
• 300 euro for everybody else.

Social events will take place during the course period. Details on the social programme will be available soon on this page.

Download here the registration Form

ACCOMODATION:

About accomodation you can make a reservation in hotel Traiano:
Telefone +39 0824 326241
Fax +39 0824 326196
E-mail info@hotelvillatraiano.it
http://www.hotelvillatraiano.it

Price:

Single room	70 Euro	80 Euro
Double room	100 Euro	120 Euro
Triple room	120 Euro	150 Euro

You can make a reservation in a Bed & Brekfast, also:
Telefone +39 338 4603359
http://www.lestanzedelsogno.it

Price:

per night

40 Euro

HOW TO GET TO BENEVENTO:

Benevento is a city near Naples ( about 70 km ).
If you come by plane, we recommend using Naples Airport (www.gesac.it) but you can plane also in Rome Airports Campino or Fiumicino (http://www.adr.it).
Then you can get train to Benevevento (www.trenitalia.it). The ticket needed to go from Napoli to Benevento by train is a local train ticket for (currently) 4.10 Euro which is also available from newsagents at the station

Benevento Maps: map1, map2, map3, map4, map5.

Welcoming Reception: On Monday 5 December in Engineering Department Seminary Hall placed in Piazza Roma 21 Ex Inps Building (link alla mappa).

Contact person:
Francesco Borrelli francesco.borrelli@unisannio.it
Giovanni Fiengo gifiengo@unisannio.it

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