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Call for participation: Workshop on Distributed Smart Cameras
by Cormac J. Sreenan 13 Oct '06

13 Oct '06

Our apologies if you have received multiple copies. --------------- Workshop on Distributed Smart Cameras (DSC 2006) Program Held in conjunction with ACM SenSys 2006 October 31, 2006 Boulder, CO, USA http://www.iti.tugraz.at/dsc06/program.html Distributed smart cameras combine two concepts: physically distributed cameras and distributed computing. Distributed smart cameras are examples of high-performance multimedia sensor networks. This area brings together researchers in image processing, sensor networks, and embedded system architecture. Several groups are now working on distributed smart cameras, but generally pursuing them in different research communities. This meeting is the first event to bring together all the research groups working on this problem Online Registration: http://www.regonline.com/Checkin.asp?EventId=97157 Workshop Co-Chairs B. Rinner, Graz University of Technology, Austria W. Wolf, Princeton University, USA Program Committee F. Berry, Univ. Clermont-Ferrand, France S. Bhattacharyya, U. Maryland, USA (email) M. Bove, MIT Media Lab, USA H. Garn, ARCS, Austria C. Guestrin, CMU, USA R. Kleihorst, Philips Research, The Netherlands X. Koutsoukos, Vanderbilt U., USA C. Regazzoni, Univ. Genova, Italy M. Srivastava, UCLA, USA W. Strasser, Univ. Tübingen, Germany Program 08:30 - 09:00 Registration 09:00 - 09:15 Welcome 09:15 - 10:30 Session 1: Architectures Paul Nadrag, Antoine Manzanera, Nicolas Burrus Smart retina as a contour-based visual interface Stephan Hengstler, Hamid Aghajan A Smart Camera Mote Architecture for Distributed Intelligent Surveillance Terrance E. Boult, R.C. Johnson, Tracy Pietre, R. Woodworth, Tao Zhang A Decade of Networked Intelligent Video Surveillance Richard Kleihorst, Ben Schueler, Alexander Danilin, Marc Heijligers SMART CAMERA MOTE WITH HIGH PERFORMANCE VISION SYSTEM Erik Ljung, Erik Simmons, Alexander Danilin, Richard Kleihorst, Ben Schueler 802.15.4 Powered Distributed Wireless Smart Cameras Network Cintia B. Margi, Xiaoye Lu, Gefan Zhang, Roberto Manduchi, Katia Obraczka Meerkats: A Power-Aware, Self-Managing Wireless Camera Network for Wide Area Monitoring Pushkar Sambhoos, Ahmad Bilal, Richard Han, Tom Lookabaugh, Jane Mulligan WeebleVideo \u2013 Wide Angle Field-of-View Video Sensor Networks 10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break 11:00 - 12:15 Session 2: Localization & Calibration A.O. Ercan, A. El Gamal, L.J. Guibas Camera Network Node Selection for Target Localization in the Presence of Occlusions Gurminder Singh and Mathias Kölsch Resource Aggregation in Smart Sensor Systems Camillo J. Taylor, Babak Shirmohammadi Self Localizing Smart Camera Networks and their Applications to 3D Modeling Dilip Sundarraj, Phillip B. Gibbons, Padmanabhan S. Pillai Ensuring Spatio-Temporal Consistency in Distributed Networks of Smart Cameras John Jannotti, Jie Mao Distributed Calibration of Smart Cameras 12:15 - 14:00 Lunch Break 14:00 - 15:30 Session 3: Services Faisal Qureshi, Demetri Terzopoulos Virtual Vision and Smart Camera Networks Erik Simmons, Erik Ljung, Richard Kleihorst Distributed Vision with Multiple Uncalibrated Smart Cameras Johnny Park, Priya C. Bhat and Avinash C. Kak A Look-up Table Based Approach for Solving the Camera Selection Problem in Large Camera Networks Mohammad Rahimi, Shaun Ahmadian, David Zats, Rafael Laufer, Deborah Estrin Magic of Numbers in Network of Wireless Image Sensors Cheng-Yao Chen, Wayne Wolf An Activity Model of Distributed Smart Cameras Andreas Savvides, Eugenio Culurciello, Yiannis Aloimonos Demo presentation 15:30 - 16:00 Coffee Break 16:00 - 17:30 Session 4: Applications Thomas Haenselmann, Marcel Busse, Stephan Kopf, Thomas King, Wolfgang Effelsberg Image Fusion from uncalibrated Video Sensor Arrays M. Quaritsch, M. Kreuzthaler, B. Rinner, B. Strobl Decentralized Object Tracking in a Network of Embedded Smart Cameras Arezou Keshavarz, Ali Maleki Tabar, Hamid Aghajan Distributed Vision-Based Reasoning for Smart Home Care Chen Wu, Hamid Aghajan Collaborative Gesture Analysis in Multi-Camera Networks Chung-Ching Chang, Hamid Aghajan Collaborative Face Orientation Detection in Wireless Image Sensor Networks Vincent Jeanne, Francois-Xavier Jegaden, Richard Kleihorst, Alexander Danilin, Ben Schueler REAL-TIME FACE DETECTION ON A \u201cDUAL-SENSOR\u201d SMART CAMERA USING SMOOTH EDGES TECHNIQUE Ikdong Kim, Jaechang Shim, Jason Schlessman, Wayne Wolf Remote Wireless Face Recognition Employing ZigBee Adam Williams, Dan Xie, Shichao Ou, Roderic Grupen, Allen Hanson, and Edward Riseman Distributed Smart Cameras for Aging in Place 17:30 - 18:15 Session 5: Panel

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Updated delegate list
by Otto Spaniol 13 Oct '06

13 Oct '06

Dear all, the updated delegate is attached. Please check and modify (if necessary). Best regards Otto

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CFP#3: 2 Weeks Left Special Issue on Foundations of P2P Computing
by Editorial Help 12 Oct '06

12 Oct '06

Dear Moderator, your help in sharing the following announcement with your community will be appreciated. Apology if you have received multiple copies. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Deadline extended Call for Papers - Special Issue on Foundations of Peer-to-Peer Computing In the Journal of Computer Communications Submission Deadline: October 28, 2006 (extended) Publication date: Spring 2007 Guest Editors: Prof. Javed I. Khan and Prof. Adam Wierzbicki Website for Detail & Latest: http://www.cs.kent.edu/~editor/jcompcomm06-p2p/ <http://www.cs.kent.edu/%7Eeditor/jcompcomm06-p2p/> Jounral Site/Submission Site: http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/525440/descrip…

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Election of the TC6 Chair for 2007-2009 (Addendum)
by André Danthine 11 Oct '06

11 Oct '06

One person is missing in the list of eligible people Casaca Augusto Sorry Augusto Thanks to the TC6 member who pointed my mistake. André

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Election of the TC6 Chair for 2007-2009
by André Danthine 11 Oct '06

11 Oct '06

Dear TC6 Member, The first term of three years of Otto Spaniol as TC6 Chair will end with 2006. In Paris, it was decided to start the procedure for the election of the TC6 chairperson for the period 2007-2009 and I was designated to organize it. I will follow the procedure initiated in White Plains for the 1997 election, improved for the 2000 election while correcting the problems of the 2003 election. The starting point of the procedure is to establish the list of eligible people taking into account the three conditions : - national representative (Bylaws Condition) - attendance to at least one TC6 meeting among Wroclaw, Coimbra and Paris - conference organiser. Here is this list of eligible people by alphabetical order of the represented countries. Haring Gueuter Leduc Guy Sousa Jose Neuman de Boyanov Kiril Mason Lorne Slavik Jan Iversen Villy Martikainen Olli Pujolle Guy Spaniol Otto Dibuz Sarolta Raghavan S.V. Saito Tadao Niemegeers I. Aagesen Fin Grzech Adam Koen Koos Puigjaner Ramon Khakhar Dipak Rudin Harry Wuwongse Vilas Radford Peter Chapin Lyman Iyengar Arun. Presenting its candidacy for the TC6 chair implies a commitment - to attend all the meetings of TC6 and - to participate regularly in the Council and General Assembly meetings. Each candidate is invited to prepare - a short CV with an emphasis to the TC6 related activities - a statement of interest for the TC6 Chairmanship position. What activities he (or she) intends to continue, to expand, to discontinue, to create. What will change, if any, in TC6 under his (or her) leadership. - any view about the relationship between the TC6 and the Council and the General Assembly. I suggest to the candidates to prepare a single pdf with the CV and the statement of interest for the TC6 Chair. This document must be sent directly to me before October 31. I will send, to all TC6 members, the information received before the deadline with the final document which will allow TC6 members to cast their vote for one of the candidates. The people eligible to vote are the national representatives and the WG Chairmen (one vote by WG). The vote will be carried by email. Taking into account the hectic situation of the spam polluted mail environment and the protection introduced by some ISPs, it has been decided that your vote will have to be sent to two persons: The ballots will have to be sent to - Brigitte.Brauneis(a)ifip.org (at the IFIP Secretariat) - Peter.Radford(a)logicacmg.com (as TC6 Secretariat) before November 26, at 17H00 GMT. Both of them will receive from Otto the list of the people entitled to vote i.e. the representatives of the official members of IFIP and the WG chairperson(s). An official representative being also chair or co-chair of a WG will express his vote as official representative, leaving to the remaining co-chair(s) if any to cast their vote for the WG. (Maximum one vote per WG) The two person on charge of receiving the ballots will check them, count them, exchange their results, resolve discrepancy if any and announce the results of the vote in the first days of December. I am waiting for the candidacies. Andre Danthine TC6 honorary member

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IEEE SECON 2007: Call for papers
by Vijay Raghunathan 10 Oct '06

10 Oct '06

** Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this call for papers ** ======================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS IEEE SECON 2007 The Fourth IEEE Communications Society Conference on Sensor, Mesh and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks http://www.ieee-secon.org/2007/ Merged with IEEE International Workshop on Wireless Ad-hoc & Sensor Networks (IWWAN) San Diego, California, USA June 18-21, 2007 ======================================================================== The fourth annual IEEE SECON conference will provide a unique forum to exchange ideas, techniques, and applications, discuss best practices, raise awareness, and share experiences among researchers, practitioners, standard developers and policy makers in the field of sensor, ad-hoc, and mesh networks and systems. IEEE SECON grew out of IEEE INFOCOM in 2004, in order to create an event that focused on the important and exciting topics of sensor, mesh and ad-hoc communications and networks. This year, SECON has been merged with the IEEE International Workshop on Wireless Ad-hoc and Sensor Networks (IWWAN). Original technical papers that address the communications, networking, applications, systems and algorithmic aspects of mesh and sensor networks, as well as those that describe practical deployment and implementation experiences are solicited for presentation at the conference and publication in the conference proceedings. Papers presenting novel contributions in such disciplines as communications, networking protocols and architectures, algorithms, embedded systems, middleware and information management, and novel applications are solicited. PAPERS: Full papers describing original, previously unpublished research work, experimental efforts, practical experiences, and industrial and commercial developments in sensor, ad-hoc, and mesh communications and networks are solicited. Authors are particularly encouraged to submit papers that have a deep focus on a specific discipline, are stimulated by the synergistic interaction of diverse disciplines, or describe practical application of technology to real-world problems. Submitted papers should not be concurrently under review at any another workshop, symposium, conference, or journal. Specific topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Architectures and protocols to support wireless communication, localization, time synchronization, routing, data dissemination, and other distributed services in heterogeneous, large-scale, distributed mesh and sensor networks. * Algorithms and theories for management, supervisory control, and monitoring of distributed ad-hoc networks, and techniques for the interpretation and use of sensor data in decision-making processes. * Theories and models on fundamental information and communication aspects of wireless mesh and sensor networks. * Mechanisms for authenticated, secure communication and data dissemination in sensor and mesh networks. * Algorithms and protocols to support quality of service in mesh and sensor networks, including admission control, resource allocation and fairness, and capacity planning. * Performance measurement and modeling techniques for large-scale distributed ad-hoc and sensor networks and their evaluation. * Integration of sensors into engineered systems, including techniques for exploiting on-sensor renewable power sources, mechanisms for online self-calibration and self-testing, and schemes to maximize accuracy and minimize false alarms. * Hardware platforms and testbeds incorporating multiple sensors, embedded processors, actuators, and wireless interfaces. * Software architectures, middleware, and tools for mesh and sensor network applications development, deployment, and management. * Practical implementations, case-studies, and real-world experiences in designing and deploying large scale ad-hoc, mesh, and sensor network applications. POSTERS, DEMOS, AND EXHIBITS: SECON will also include poster/demo sessions that provide an interactive forum to present work in progress, showcase real system implementations, highlight industrial/commercial developments, and discuss key research challenges in the fields of sensor, mesh, and ad-hoc networks. Details about the poster and demo submission procedure will soon be available on the conference web site. PAPER SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS: Paper submissions will be handled electronically through the EDAS web based system. Details about the submission process including formatting instructions and templates will be available soon at the conference website located at http://www.ieee-secon.org/2007/. Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings and will be archived on IEEE Xplore. IEEE Communications Society policy mandates that all accepted SECON 2007 papers must have at least one associated registration at the regular rate. For authors co-authoring multiple papers, one regular registration is valid for up to three papers. IMPORTANT DATES: Paper registration: November 30, 2006 (by 11:59pm PST) Full paper submission: December 7, 2006 (by 11:59pm PST) Decision notification: February 26, 2007 Camera ready paper due: March 22, 2007 CONFERENCE ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: GENERAL CHAIR: Rene Cruz, UC San Diego (cruz(a)ece.ucsd.edu) VICE-CHAIR: Wendi Heinzelman, U. Rochester (wheinzel(a)ece.rochester.edu) TECHNICAL PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS: Kevin Almeroth, UC Santa Barbara (almeroth(a)cs.ucsb.edu) Robin Kravets, UIUC (rhk(a)cs.uiuc.edu) PUBLICITY CHAIR: Vijay Raghunathan, Purdue University LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS CHAIR: Curt Schurgers, UC San Diego PANELS CHAIR: Wenye Wang, NC State University WEB CHAIR: Navid Ehsan, UC San Diego STANDING COMMITTEE: Fred Bauer, PacketHop (fred(a)fredbauer.com) - Chair Harvey Freeman, Booz Allen Hamilton Sung-Ju Lee, HP Labs Prasant Mohapatra, University of California, Davis TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE: To Be Announced ========================================================================

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Re: [ifip-tc6] [mycolleagues] [IEEE CNOM] SSI 2006 - Paper author statistics (fwd)
by Admin 10 Oct '06

10 Oct '06

Answering some questions... > We received a confirmed total of 140 full-paper submissions (106 in > English, 34 in Portuguese) and 15 short-paper submissions (10 in > English, 5 in Portuguese). > > The program committee and external reviewers generated a total of 492 > reviews. All papers received between 2 and 6 reviews, with an average of > 3.2. > > We accepted for oral presentation 40 of the 140 full-paper submissions > (30 in English and 10 in Portuguese), an acceptance ratio of 28.6%. > > We also accepted for poster presentation and publication as short papers > another 23 of the full-paper submissions (17 in English and 6 in > Portuguese) and 4 of the 15 short-paper submissions (3 in English and 1 > in Portuguese). Sorry about the problem presented below: > FYI. > > Taiwan == Republic of China, so that the paper may be > counted together as either > > Taiwan (Republic of China) > > or > > Republic of China (Taiwan) > > Republic of China (Taiwan) is different from P.R. China > (People's Republic of China). > > Thanks. >> ------------------------------------------------------------- >> SSI´2006 >> 8th International Symposium on System and Information Security >> Sao Jose dos Campos, Sao Paulo, Brazil >> November 08-10, 2006 >> >> http://www.ssi.org.br/english/ >> >> Organized by >> Technological Institute of Aeronautics - ITA >> Department of Computer Engineering >> >> IEEE CNOM and CIS TC technical co-sponsorship >> Supported by IEEE South Brazil Section >> ------------------------------------------------------------- > > Paper author statistics > Authors are counted once for each paper they co-authored. > On average, each paper had 2.0545 authors. > > Accepted Papers > Country Count > Slovakia 1 > Israel 1 > Great Britain 1 > Algeria 1 > Taiwan 1 > Chile 2 > The Netherlands 2 > Russia 2 > Tunisia 2 > Iran 2 > Finland 5 > India 6 > Australia 6 > France 7 > P.R. China 7 > Republic of Korea 7 > Republic of China 9 > Germany 9 > USA 27 > Brazil 65 > > > All Papers > Country Count > UAE 1 > Slovakia 1 > Israel 1 > Algeria 1 > South Africa 1 > Sweden 1 > Malaysia 1 > Egypt 2 > Pakistan 2 > Morocco 2 > Chile 2 > Turkey 2 > The Netherlands 2 > Tunisia 2 > Russia 2 > Greece 3 > Japan 3 > Spain 3 > Canada 4 > Finland 5 > Great Britain 5 > Taiwan 8 > Iran 8 > Republic of Korea 9 > P.R. China 10 > Germany 10 > France 10 > Republic of China 12 > Australia 15 > India 21 > USA 52 > Brazil 138 _______________________________________________ mycolleagues mailing list mycolleagues(a)grid.lrg.ufsc.br http://grid.lrg.ufsc.br/mailman/listinfo/mycolleagues

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The most comprehensive Asian Language Speech Corpora in the world (please reply blank email to remove from our mailing list)
by songfangfang＠speechocean.com 10 Oct '06

10 Oct '06

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Wireless communications and sensors
by Radford, Peter 06 Oct '06

06 Oct '06

I came across this article yesterday. Buzzing about ZigBee: Wireless in 2007 A new standard for the short-range wireless technology and new products will be released next year. http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,2rfo,1,3cln,l0z4,5va9,g47i <http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,2rfo,1,3cln,l0z4,5va9,g47i> It seems that, for the moment at least, we should keep wireless communications and sensors together. Regards Peter Peter Radford UK Representative to TC6 E: Peter.Radford(a)LogicaCMG.com <mailto:Peter.Radford@LogicaCMG.com> T: +44 (0) 7770 395506 (M) T: +44 (0) 20 7446 4248 (O) T: +44 (0) 1245 262328 (H) This e-mail and any attachment is for authorised use by the intended recipient(s) only. It may contain proprietary material, confidential information and/or be subject to legal privilege. It should not be copied, disclosed to, retained or used by, any other party. If you are not an intended recipient then please promptly delete this e-mail and any attachment and all copies and inform the sender. Thank you.

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NEW Deadlines for IEEE AICCSA 2007
by Pere Vilà 05 Oct '06

05 Oct '06

Following numerous requests we have decided to extend the IEEE AICCSA'07 deadlines as follows: Please find the CFP here: http://www.philadelphia.edu.jo/aiccsa2007/ New Deadlines: * Paper and Poster Submissions: October 30, 2006 * Workshop, Tutorial and Panel Submissions: October 30, 2006 * Notification of acceptance: January 13, 2007 * Camera ready copy due: February 24, 2007 * Author Registration: February 24, 2007 -- Pere Vila AICCSA Publicity Comittee

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