The list of topics of interest includes, but is not limited to:

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

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

SENSOR-CENTRIC PROCESSING:
Sensors (visible/infrared/3D/mm 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

PROCESSING, DETECTION, TRACKING & RECOGNITION:
Modeling and feature selection | Detection and estimation (change, motion, anomaly, saliency, pattern) | Data association and (multi) target tracking | Classification and recognition | Multimodal 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 bio-
inspired methods