VideoSense Grand Challenge 2015
VideoSense Grand Challenge 2015
Task Description
Recent popularity of mini-drones and their rapidly increasing adoption in various areas, including photography, news reporting, cinema, mail delivery, cartography, agriculture, and military, raises concerns for privacy protection and personal safety. Input to the task is drone video, and output is version of the video which protects privacy while retaining key information about the event or situation recorded.
Registration
Task description: http://multimediaeval.org/mediaeval2015/droneprotect2015/
Registration form: https://www.aanmelder.nl/mediaeval2015/subscribe
Target Group
Those working in image/video processing and video-analytics for privacy protection applications.
Task schedule
15 May: Development data release
15 June: Test data release
20 July: Run submission
28 August: Working notes paper deadline
14-15 September MediaEval 2015 Workshop
Task Organisers
Atta Badii (UoR), Touradj Ebrahimi (EPFL), Christian Fedorczak (Thales Communications & Security), Pavel Korshunov (EPFL), Tomas Piatrik (QMUL), Volker Eiselein (TUB), Ahmed Al-Obaidi (UoR).
VideoSense 2014 Winter School on Multimodal and Privacy-Respecting Video Analytics
VideoSense 2014 Winter School
on Multimodal and Privacy-Respecting Video Analytics
25-26 November 2014
Pont-Saint-Martin, Valle d’Aosta, Italy (https://goo.gl/maps/mT4tv)
The increasing need for both automated and privacy-respecting CCTV systems adds many challenges to the tasks of video analytics. The VideoSense Winter School 2014 aims to bring together young researchers working in the field of multimodal and privacy-respecting video analytics, offering:
- lectures delivered by experts from academy and industry providing a clear and in-depth summary of state-of-the-art research in the field,
- enjoyable and stimulating environment in which participants will benefit not only from the formal and practical sessions but also from informal and social interactions with established researchers and the other participants to the Winter School.
Tuesday, 25 November 2014
13:30 – 14:15 VideoSense Winter School poster session
14:15 – 14:30 Opening address
-Dr. Tomas Piatrik, Queen Mary University of London (UK)
14:30 – 15:15 Smart grids, smart borders and other tales from the surveillance woods
-Dariusz Kloza, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (BE)
15:15 – 16:00 The impact of new imaging modalities on video surveillance and invasion of privacy
-Dr. Pavel Korshunov, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (CH)
16:00 – 16:15 Cofee Break
16:15 – 17:00 The value of privacy in security research form the industry perspective
-Carmela Occhipinti, Engineering Ingegneria Informatica (IT)
-Joana Critina Cotoi, Engineering Ingegneria Informatica (IT)
17:00 – 18:00 Tour of the Engineering Data Centre
Carmela Occhipinti, Engineering Ingegneria Informatica (IT)
20:00 – 22:00 Dinner
-tbc
Wednesday, 26 November 2014
09:00 – 09:45 Protests, surveillance and the right to the city
-Dr. Lucas Melgaço, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (BE)
09:45 – 10:30 Face recognition: from forensics and biometrics to social semantics
-Prof. Dr. Ebroul Izquierdo, Queen Mary University of London (UK)
10:30 – 10:45 Coffee break
10:45 – 11:45 Ethical training for video analytics in security – Pt 1 (interactive workshop)
-Dr. Jens Hälterlein, Technische Universität Berlin (DE)
11:45 – 12:45 Ethical training for video analytics in security – Pt 2
-Dr. Jens Hälterlein, Technische Universität Berlin (DE)
13:00 – 14:00 Light sandwich lunch
2nd VideoSense Privacy-By-Design Cluster Workshop
Cyber-Physical Multimedia Analytics Systems
Brussels Novotel Grand Palace, 20th June 2014, 09.30-17.30
This 2nd clustering workshop on Privacy-by-Design of socio-ethical and privacy-preserving video-analytics offers an opportunity for exchange of insights arising from the research conducted worldwide on aspects of privacy-respecting design of ICT systems. In particular it concerns the embedding of socio-ethically reflective practice in the design of video/data-analytics systems. This is to support accountable and self-regulating technical, organisational and operational architectures for the design and deployment of video surveillance systems.
Participation in the workshop is free and shall be open to all researchers and practitioners with an active interest in the domain such as those working on projects funded under the security research programme and representatives from policing and security agencies as well as researchers with a legal, ethics and social science perspective, and, data protection practitioners.
Contributions to the programme by way of presentations describing on-going research and/or acting as discussant on any relevant topics are welcome. The workshop is expected to feature 8 presentations each of a duration of 1-hour maximum including Q&A and discussions. Topics of interest take in all areas with a Privacy-by-Design focus, including the interplay of influences arising from the relevant legal, ethical, societal and technological systems-of-systems that have an upstream or downstream effect on the social and individual perspectives on privacy and how this is valued and can be safeguarded as well as how this could be best achieved in practice.
This should include techniques of secure networked media access, storage and transmission with privacy protection and mitigation technologies as well as perspectives on Privacy Risks Impact Assessment. This should lead to a deeper understanding of ways and means whereby privacy-respecting compliance can best be aided through a contexts-and-consequences aware approach to privacy-preserving responsibilities of the monitoring systems and their governance.
Those wishing to make a presentation should send their contribution as a position paper to
Session Co-Chairs: Atta Badii, Touradj Ebrahimi, Ebroul Izquierdo, Thomas Sikora, Christian Fedorczak, Ivo Keller, Diego Fernandez Vazquez
Programme Committee: Volker Eiselein, Pavel Korshunov, Leon Hempel, Jens Halterlein, Tomas Piatrik, Ahmad Al-Obaidi, Lucas Teixeira, Tobias Senst, Panagiota Antonakaki