Call for Papers
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, excluding references. Optional Page fees will allow up to 8 pages, excluding references. All manuscripts will be published as IEEE proceedings.

AVSS focuses on underlying theory, methods, systems, and applications of surveillance and invites submissions in areas listed below, especially cross-disciplinary and game-changing ones. The list of topics of interest includes, but is not limited to:

SURVEILLANCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS
Hardware and software architectures | Research prototypes | Simulators | Civilian, industrial, and military | Transportation (road, rail, air, maritime) | Performance evaluation

SECURITY & PRIVACY
Data authenticity | Privacy in surveillance | Forensics | Biometrics (standoff, multi-modal,
voice, etc.) | Cybersecurity for surveillance (wireless, network, computer) | Advanced Biometrics at a Distance |Privacy enhanced Biometrics

SENSOR-CENTRIC PROCESSING:
Sensors (visible/infrared/3D/mm wave/audio/radio,etc.) | Ground, airborne, satellite based (fixed/mobile/UAV) | Crowdsourcing (cellular, social networks) | Calibration and positioning (GPS, etc.) | Communications and networked sensing | Distributed Camera Networks and Smart Cameras

PROCESSING, DETECTION, TRACKING & RECOGNITION:
Modeling and feature selection | Detection and estimation (change, motion, anomaly, saliency, pattern) | Data association and (multi) target tracking | Classification and recognition | Multi-modal fusion

VISUALIZATION AND INTERACTION CONCEPTS FOR SURVEILLANCE SYSTEMS
Compression and summarization | Archival, search and retrieval | Human-computer interfaces | Visualization algorithms | Mobile and distributed interaction

ANALYTICS, SITUATION AWARENESS & DECISION MAKING
Activity/interaction analysis and monitoring | Intention estimation and situation
awareness | Crowdsourcing-based methods | Cognitive dynamic systems and bio-
inspired methods

Original contributions in any of the above (or related) areas are being solicited. Prospective authors are invited to submit full-length papers, up to 6 pages long, including results, figures, tables and references by the due date (see below). Detailed submission instructions will be posted on Paper Submission page in due time. Each submission will be double-blind peer-reviewed by at least two experts. The conference proceedings will be published in IEEE Xplore digital library.

Detailed instructions for submissions are available at www.avss2016.org.

IMPORTANT DATES

Submission of Full Papers: Thursday March 31, 2016 (23:59:59 PST)
Notification of Acceptance: June 1, 2016
Submission of Camera Ready Papers: June 23, 2016
Conference: August 24 – 26, 2016
Workshops: August 23, 2016