Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

•SENSOR-CENTRIC PROCESSING: Sensors (visible/infrared/3D/mm and 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 | Participatory Sensing

•PROCESSING, DETECTION, TRACKING & RECOGNITION: Modelling 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 bioinspired methods

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

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