AVSS is the IEEE conference series on video and signal based surveillance. AVSS was started in 1998 (Genoa, Italy). Following meetings were held in 2001 (Kingston, UK), in 2003 (Miami, USA), in 2005 (Como, Italy), in 2006 (Sydney, Australia), in 2007 (London, UK), in 2008 (Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA), in 2009 (Genoa, Italy), in 2010 (Boston, USA), and in 2011 (Klagenfurt, Austria). AVSS 2012 will be held in Beijing on 18-21 September 2012. AVSS is a forum of reference for the field and offers the opportunity to meet and foster collaboration. AVSS has a tradition of participation from the worlds of research, industry, and relevant government agencies. The conference focuses on underlying theories, methods, systems, and application areas. The list of topics of interest includes, but is not limited to:

Sensors & data fusion
Sensor networks
Microphone arrays
Infrared /visible/3D imaging
Heterogeneous sensor processing
Multi-sensor calibration
Distributed/cognitive/ data fusion

Data management & HCI
Metadata management
Archival & retrieval
Multimodal displays
Interfaces & visualization tools
Object & situation-based coding
Wireless, mobile interfaces

Processing, detection & recognition
Multidimensional signal processing
Change & motion detection
Feature extraction
Target tracking
Sound, object, scene recognition
Pattern recognition

Applications
Reactive & preventive environments
Integrated physical & cyber security
Transports (rail, road, air, maritime)
Unmanned vehicles & robotics
Ambient intelligence
Protection of infrastructures

Analytics, behavior & biometrics
Sound, video, multimodal analytics
Activity analysis & monitoring
Event modeling/recognition
Static & mobile environments
Biometrics

Systems, performances & privacy
Industrial, civilian, military systems
Research prototypes
Hardware & software architectures
User requirements
Performance evaluation
Privacy in surveillance