Automatic Traffic Surveillance

2nd International Workshop on Automatic Traffic Surveillance (ATS), CVPR 2016

Call for papers

The socio-economic costs of traffic accidents constitute a significant burden on society and decision makers therefore focus on reducing these numbers. In the EU, for example, the objective is to reduce the number of deaths with 50% by 2020. Many different research agendas need to be investigated before this can be realized. The focus of this workshop is one of the core disciplines required, namely how to develop and employ automatic traffic surveillance systems that can detect, track and in general understand the behavior of road-users. This workshop aim to gather not only signal processing researchers interested in these topics, but also traffic researchers and decision makers. Original research papers related to the following (or similar) topics are welcome:

  • Detection and tracking of road-users (pedestrians, vehicles, bikes, mopeds, etc.)
  • Behavior understanding of road-users
  • Multi-sensor approaches to the above topics (for example: visual light combined with Lidar)
  • User-centric approaches to the above topics (for example: vehicle-mounted sensing)
  • Employment of systems into real-life setups (theoretical and practical challenges)
  • Automatic understanding of the environment in traffic scenarios (for example: road signs, traffic light, lanes)
  • Applications related to traffic surveillance

All the selected papers will be included in the Proceedings of CVPR 2016-DVD and made available on IEEE eXplore.

The best paper will be awarded a $1000 prize sponsored by the Danish traffic monitoring company, ATKI.

Best paper award

Semantic Depth Map Fusion for Moving Vehicle Detection in Aerial Video by Mahdieh Poostchi, Hadi Aliakbarpour, Raphael Viguier, Filiz Bunyak, Kannappan Palaniappan, Guna Seetharaman

Previous workshop: 1st International Workshop on Automatic Traffic Surveillance (at AVSS 2015)

Invited speakers


Senior director Anthony Hoogs, Kitware, New York
Prof. Brendan Morris, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

 Program, July 1st 2016

  • 13:30 – 13:35: Welcome
  • 13:35 – 14:20: Invited talk 1: Vehicle tracking, Retrieval and Analytics in Low-Resolution Surveillance Video. Senior director Anthony Hoogs, Kitware, New York
  • 14:20 – 14:30: Break
  • 14:30 – 15:30: Oral session
    • Dominik Zapletal, Adam Herout: Vehicle Re-Identification for Automatic Video Traffic Surveillance.
    • Mahdieh Poostchi, Hadi Aliakbarpour, Raphael Viguier, Filiz Bunyak, Kannappan Palaniappan, Guna Seetharaman: Semantic Depth Map Fusion for Moving Vehicle Detection in Aerial Video.
    • Miklas S Kristoffersen, Jacob Dueholm, Ravi Kumar Satzoda, Mohan Trivedi, Andreas Møgelmose, Thomas B. Moeslund: Towards Semantic Understanding of Surrounding Vehicular Maneuvers: A Panoramic Vision-Based Framework for Real-World Highway Studies.
  • 15:30 – 15:45: Oral presentation of posters
    • Andreas Møgelmose, Thomas B. Moeslund: Analyzing wheels of vehicles in motion using laser scanning.
    • Martin Ahrnbom, Kalle Åström, Mikael Nilsson: Fast Classification of Empty and Occupied Parking Spaces Using Integral Channel Features.
    • Adrien Lessard, François Bélisle, Guillaume-Alexandre Bilodeau, Nicolas Saunier: The CountingApp, or How to Count Vehicles in 500 Hours of Video.
  • 15:45 – 16:30: Poster session, including coffee break
  • 16:30 – 17:15: Invited talk 2: Understanding Intersections with Traffic Video. Prof. Brendan Morris, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
  • 17:15 – 17:30: Best paper award

Important dates

  • Submission deadline: April 4 2016
  • Notification of acceptance: April 22 2016
  • Camera ready version: April 29 2016
  • Workshop date: July 1 2016

Organizers

Submission details

The submission format should follow the main CVPR guidelines, which can be found on the main CVPR-website. The workshop proceedings will be published together with the main conference proceedings.

Please register and submit your paper at CMT: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/ATS2016/

Program committee

  • Sujitha Martin, UC San Diego
  • Antonio Prioletti, Vislab.it
  • Markus Mathias, RWTH-Aachen
  • Jean-Phillippe Lauffenburger, Université de Haute Alsace
  • Eshed Ohn-Bar, UC San Diego
  • Andrea Cavallaro, Queen Mary University of London
  • Heather Twaddle, Technische Universität München
  • Brendan Morris, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
  • Anthony Hoogs, Kitware
  • Jürgen Gall, University of Bonn
  • Sergio Escalera, University of Barcelona
  • Jordi Gonzàlez, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
  • Guillaume-Alexandre Bilodeau, Polytechnique Montréal
  • Julian Kooij, Delft University of Technology
  • Mohan M. Trivedi, UC San Diego