Tutorial
"Video Surveillance and Monitoring"

Speaker: Mubarak Shah


Outline

Recently, computer vision has gradually been making the transition away from understanding single images to analyzing image sequences, or video understanding. Video understanding deals with understanding video sequences, e.g., recognition of gestures, activities, and facial expressions. The main shift in the classic paradigm has been from the recognition of static objects in the scene to motion-based recognition of actions and events. Since most videos are about people, this work has mainly focused on analysis of human motion. In particular, there has been a significant interest in the automated visual surveillance systems. Such systems have the advantage of providing continuous active warning capabilities and are especially useful in the areas of law enforcement, national defense, border control and airport security. The main steps in video understanding are: detection of objects of interest in video (e.g. people, vehicles), tracking of those objects from frame to frame, and recognition of their activities and behavior. In this tutorial, I will present our work in object detection, tracking and human activity recognition.


Biography

Dr. Mubarak Shah, Agere Chair Professor of Computer Science, and the founding director of the Computer Visions Lab at the University of Central Florida, Orlando, is known worldwide as a researcher in a number of computer vision areas. He has published two books, ten book chapters, sixty five papers in top journals and one hundred fifty papers in international conferences. Dr. Shah is a fellow of IEEE and IAPR. In 2006, he was awarded a Pegasus Professor award, the highest award at UCF, given to a faculty member who has made a significant impact on the university, has made an extraordinary contribution to the university community, and has demonstrated excellence in teaching, research and service. He was an IEEE Distinguished Visitor speaker for 1997-2000 and received IEEE Outstanding Engineering Educator Award in 1997. He received the Harris Corporation's Engineering Achievement Award in 1999, the TOKTEN awards from UNDP in 1995, 1997, and 2000; Teaching Incentive Program award in 1995 and 2003, Research Incentive Award in 2003, Millionaires' Club awards in 2005 and 2006, honorable mention for the ICCV 2005 Where Am I? Challenge Problem, and was nominated for the best paper award in ACM Multimedia Conference in 2005. He is an editor of international book series on "Video Computing"; editor in chief of Machine Vision and Applications journal, and an associate editor ACM Computing Surveys journal. He was an associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on PAMI, and a guest editor of the special issue of International Journal of Computer Vision on Video Computing.



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