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<div> GROW 2015</div>
<div> First International Workshop on </div>
<div> GRoup and crOWd behavior analysis and understanding</div>
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<a href="http://qil.uh.edu/grow2015/">http://qil.uh.edu/grow2015/</a></div>
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June 11, 2015, Boston, MA, United States</div>
<div> in association with CVPR 2015</div>
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<div> >> PAPER submission (EXTENDED!!!): March 17, 2015
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<div>CALL FOR PAPERS</div>
<div>After years of research on the analysis of individuals by
automatic methods, the computer vision community has transferred
its attention on the new issue of modeling gatherings of people,
commonly referred as groups or crowds, depending on the number
of people involved. </div>
<div>The aim of GROW 2015 is to bring together a wide range of
researchers in computer vision and machine learning from one
side, and applied social sciences on the other, to share
innovative ideas and solutions for exploiting the potential
synergies emerging from the integration of the two domains, for
a range of different applications. For this reason, the invited
speakers of the workshop will come from the computer science and
from the social science domains, promoting an intriguing
cross-fertilization among the two areas.</div>
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<div>SCOPE</div>
<div>To address these challenges, contributions are particularly
welcome in the following areas:</div>
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<div>* Group/crowd detection</div>
<div>* Group/crowd tracking</div>
<div>* Tracking in the crowd</div>
<div>* Group/crowd modeling from a drone</div>
<div>* Egovision for group/crowd modeling</div>
<div>* Group/crowd behavior understanding and activity recognition</div>
<div>* Crowd counting</div>
<div>* Group profiling</div>
<div>* Information fusion for crowd modeling</div>
<div>* F-formation/free conversational groups recognition</div>
<div>* Jointly focused/commonly focused gathering recognition</div>
<div>* Causal, spectator, protest crowd recognition and modeling</div>
<div>* Abnormality detection in a group/crowd</div>
<div>* Group detection in a crowd</div>
<div>* Crowd forecasting</div>
<div>* Metrics for group and crowd modeling</div>
<div>* Video surveillance and sensor networks <br>
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<div>* (Collective) Head orientation, gesture recognition in
groups and crowd</div>
<div>* Groups and crowds datasets </div>
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INVITED SPEAKERS<br>
* Chiara Bassetti, Italy<br>
* Shaogang Gong, UK<br>
* Clark McPhail, USA<br>
* Greg Mori, USA<br>
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<div>IMPORTANT DATES:</div>
<div> Full Papers submission(EXTENDED!): Tuesday, 17th
March 2015 </div>
<div> Notification to authors:
Friday, 17th April 2015</div>
<div> Submission Camera Ready: Monday, 27th
April 2015</div>
<div> Workshop:
Thursday, 11th June 2015</div>
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<div>WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS:</div>
<div>Vittorio Murino, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, IT</div>
<div>Marco Cristani, University of Verona, IT</div>
<div>Shishir Shah, University of Houston, US</div>
<div>Silvio Savarese, Stanford University, US</div>
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<div>WEB CHAIR:</div>
<div>Loris<span class="" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Bazzani
- The Dartmouth College, US</div>
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<div>PROGRAM COMMITTEE:</div>
<div>Loris<span class="" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Bazzani
- The Dartmouth College, US</div>
<div>Alexandre Bernardino - Instituto Superior Tecnico, PT </div>
<div>Francois Bremond â Inria, FR</div>
<div>Wolfram Burgard - University of Freiburg, DE</div>
<div>Simone Calderara - Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, IT</div>
<div>Andrea Cavallaro - Queen Mary University of London, UK</div>
<div>Rama Chellappa - University of Maryland, College Park, US</div>
<div>Rita Cucchiara - Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, US</div>
<div>Gianfranco Doretto - West Virginia University, US</div>
<div>Rogerio Feris - IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, US</div>
<div>Andrea Fossati - ETHZ, CH</div>
<div>Shaogang Gong - Queen Mary University of London, UK</div>
<div>Hayley Hung - Technical University of Delft, NL</div>
<div>Frederic Jurie - Université de Caen, FR</div>
<div>Xuelong Li - Chinese Academy of Sciences, CN</div>
<div>Jean-Marc Odobez - IDIAP, CH</div>
<div>Federico Pernici - University of Florence, IT</div>
<div>Gerhard Rigoll - TUM, DE</div>
<div>Neil Robertson - Heriot-Watt University, UK</div>
<div>Amit K. Roy Chowdhury - University of California, Riverside,
US</div>
<div>Nicu Sebe - University of Trento, IT</div>
<div>Lauro Snidaro - University of Udine, IT</div>
<div>Stefano Tubaro - Politecnico di Milano, IT</div>
<div>Sergio Velastin - Universidad de Santiago de Chile, CL</div>
<div>Ramesh Visvanathan - Frankfurt Institute of Advanced Studies,
DE</div>
<div>Xiaogang Wang - The Chinese University of Hong Kong, HK</div>
<div>Tony Xiang - Queen Mary University of London, UK</div>
<div>Ming-Hsuan Yang - University of California at Merced, US</div>
<div>Wei-Shi Zheng - Sun Yat-sen University, CN</div>
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<div>SPECIAL ISSUE:</div>
<div>An Elsevier book containing the extended versions of a
selected number of GROW papers is going to be organized</div>
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<div>Further Details:</div>
<div>Please look at the GROW 2015 website: <a
href="http://qil.uh.edu/grow2015/">http://qil.uh.edu/grow2015/</a></div>
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Vittorio Murino
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Prof. Vittorio Murino, Ph.D.
Director
PAVIS - Pattern Analysis & Computer Vision
IIT Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
Via Morego 30
16163 Genova, Italy
Phone: +39 010 71781 504
Mobile: +39 329 6508554
Fax: +39 010 71781 236
E-mail: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:vittorio.murino@iit.it">vittorio.murino@iit.it</a>
Secretary: Sara Curreli
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Phone: +39 010 71781 917
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