MUSES'09 - Workshop on Multi-Sensor Systems for Surveillance Applications


December 11-12, 2009  Ottawa, Ontario, Canada


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   FRIDAY, 11 Dec. 2009  

09:00

OPENING REMARKS: Don Aldridge, IBM Canada Limited

09:30

Alaa Khamis, Mohamed Kamel, Fakheddine Karray and Otman Basir,

“MUSES_SECRET Research Activities in the Pattern Analysis and Machine

Intelligence (PAMI) Lab at the University of Waterloo”, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

10:00

Iosif Viorel (Vio) Onut, “SVision - A Graphical Technique for Anomaly

Highlighting”, Center for Advanced Studies. IBM Software Group, Rational, Ottawa,

ON, Canada

10:30 -11:00 COFEE BREAK

11:00

Ling Guan and Chun-Hao (Tony) Wang, “MUSES_SECRET: Multimodal

SurvEillance System for SECurity RElaTed Applications - Summary of Progress at

the Ryerson Multimedia Research Laboratory”, Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada

11:30

Wael Louis and Konstantinos N. Plataniotis, “Frontal Face Detection in Video

Sequence for Surveillance Purposes” University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

12:00

Dimitris Hatzinakos and Liang Song, “Opportunistic Data Aggregation for Event

Detection and Classification”, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

12:30 -13:30 LUNCH BREAK

13:30

KEY NOTE TALK: Julio J. Valdes, "Multi-Sensor Data Fusion via Nonlinear

Space Transformations", National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada

14:15

Allaa R. Hilal, Alaa Khamis and Otman Basir, “Hybrid Holonic Sensor Management

Architecture for Pervasive Surveillance Systems”, University of Waterloo, Waterloo,

Ontario, Canada

Dec. 8th, 2009 - version

14:45

Jeff Lalonde, Fahed Hassanat, Robert Laganiere and Eric Dubois, “Tracking

individuals moving in a crowded environment”, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON,

Canada

15:15-15:30 COFEE BREAK

15:30

Jamal Saboune and Robert Laganiere, “People tracking using the Explorative Particle

Filtering”, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada

16:00

Yisu Zhao, Nicolas D. Georganas, and Emil M. Petriu, “Automatic Facial Feature

Extraction and Expression Recognition”

16:30

Qing Chen, Albino Cordeiro, Feng Shi and Nicolas D. Georganas, “Hand Gesture

Recognition for Surveillance Applications”, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON,

Canada

SATURDAY, 12 Dec. 2009

10:00

Anastasios (Tas) Venetsanopoulos (a), Marius D. Cordea (b), Emil M. Petriu (a),

“Appearance Model Based Face Expression Recognition”, (a) Ryerson University,

Toronto, ON, Canada, and (b) University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada

10:30

Abed El Saddik, Shervin Shirmohammadi and Anwar Hossain “Design and

Development of Service Oriented Architecture for Intelligent Surveillance”,

University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada

11:00

Cristiano Gato Rezende, Richard Pazzi, Xin Fei, Anahit Maritrosyan, A. Boukerche,

”Localization Protocols for Wireless Sensor Networks” , University of Ottawa,

Ottawa, ON, Canada

11:30

Emil M. Petriu (a), Thom Whalen (b), and Rami Abielmona (c) “Context-Aware Multi-

Sensor Data Fusion for Environment Monitoring and Situation Assessment”, (a)

University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada, (b) CRC, Ottawa, ON, Canada, (c) Larus

Technologies, Ottawa, ON, Canada

12:00

DISCUSSIONS & CLOSING REMARKS

 

 

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