Prof. Andrea Cavallaro

Professional activities

Conference organisation

General chair
- ACM/IEEE International Conference on Distributed Smart Cameras (ICDSC 2009)
- British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC 2009)
- ECCV workshop on Multi-camera and multi-modal sensor fusion (M2SFA2 2008)
- BMVA symposium on Security and Surveillance: Performance Evaluation (SSPE 2007)

- IEEE Int. Conference on Advanced Video and Signal based Surveillance (AVSS 2007)

Technical Program chair

- IEEE Int. Conference on Advanced Video and Signal based Surveillance (AVSS 2011)

- Int. Workshop on Image Analysis for Multimedia Interactive Services (WIAMIS 2010)

- European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO 2008)

Workshops chair

- IEEE Int. Conference on Advanced Video and Signal based Surveillance (AVSS 2010)

- IEEE International Conference on Distributed Smart Cameras (ICDSC 2008)

Special sessions chair

- IEEE Int. Conference on Advanced Video and Signal based Surveillance (AVSS 2009)

- IEEE Int. Workshop on Multimedia Analysis and Processing (IMAP 2008)

Publications chair

- Int. Workshop on Image Analysis for Multimedia Interactive Services (WIAMIS 2009)

Local arrangements chair

- IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME 2002)

Technical Program Committee member
- ACM Multimedia, 2003, 3005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010

- IEEE Int. Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP), 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010
- ACM/IEEE International Conference on Distributed Smart Cameras (ICDSC), 2007, 2008, 2010

- IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME), 2004, 2005, 2007, 2010

- IEEE Int. Conference on Advanced Video and Signal based Surveillance  (AVSS) 2005 - 2010

- International Symposium on Visual Computing (ISVC), 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010
- International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications (VISAPP), 2007
- International Conference on Computer Vision Systems (ICVS), 2007

- Int. Work. on Image Analysis for Multimedia Interactive Services (WIAMIS), 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011
- Visual Information Engineering Conference (VIE), 2007

- IEEE Workshop on Visual Surveillance and Performance Evaluation of Tracking and Surveillance (PETS), 2005, 2006, 2009
- European Conference on Visual Media Production (CVMP), 2007, 2008, 2009

- European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), 2009
- IEEE Workshop on Visual Surveillance (VS), 2006, 2007, 2010
- International Conference on Semantic and Digital Media Technologies (SAMT), 2006, 2007
- IEEE International Symposium on Signal Processing and Information Technology (ISSPIT), 2006
- European Work. on the Integration of Knowledge, Semantic and Digital Media Tech. (EWIMT), 2005
- IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), 2004, 2005
- IEEE-SPIE Visual Comm. and Image Processing (VCIP), 2003

Technical Staff member

- European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO 1996)

Steering Committee member ,  IEEE AVSS (2005 - )
Board member , IEEE AVSS (2007 - )

Expert for

French National Research Agency (ANR)
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), United Kingdom
European Commission
Swiss National Science Foundation
Microsoft Research PhD Scholarship Programme

Innovation and Technology Commission, Hong Kong

Panel discussions

- Panel member “Business opportunities in multi-camera and embedded vision”; ACM/IEEE Int. Conf. on Distributed Smart Cameras, Stanford, USA, September 2008

- Panel chair, "PhD Forum Panel”, ICDSC 2008

- Panel member, "Multimedia: a World of Possibilities or just a Buzzword?" with Anthony Vetro (Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs, USA); Tsuhan Chen (Carnegie Mellon Univ., USA); Alan Hanjalic (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands); Juergen Herre (Fraunhofer Institute, Germany); Picture Coding Symposium, Lisbon, November 2007
- Panel member, "Distributed Smart Cameras: Research Toys or Practical Tools?" with Wayne Wolf (Princeton University, USA); Richard Kleihorst (NXP Research, The Netherlands); Andreas Savvides (Yale University, USA); Richard Radke (RPI, USA); Demetri Terzopoulos (University of California Los Angeles, USA) ACM/IEEE International Conference on Distributed Smart Cameras, Vienna, September 2007
- Panel chair, "Intelligent Scene Analysis and Detection of IED Delivery" with Dave Humphrey (Virage Security & Surveillance, UK), Fernando de La Torre (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Kevin Kearney (Geospatial Systems Inc., USA), Peter Tu (GE Research, USA) NATO Counter IED Detection Conference, Madrid, November 2006

Technical societies

elected member , IEEE Multimedia Signal Processing Technical Committee (term: 2006-2009)

voting member, IEEE Multimedia Communication Technical Committee (2009-present)
counsellor , IEEE student branch at QMUL
member , IEEE (IEEE Signal Processing Society, IEEE Computer Society)
member , IET (the Institution of Engineering and Technology)
member , BMVA (British Machine Vision Association)

Panel of experts

PhD Forum Panel member, ICDSC 2007
Selection committee, best student paper award (IEEE ICME 2006, IEEE ICASSP 2006, IEEE ICASSP 2007, IEEE MMSP 2006)
Panel of experts, Challenge for Real-Time Event Detection Solutions (CREDS) for Enhanced Security and Safety in Public Transportation (2005)
Committee member, ACM Multimedia TPC meeting (2005)
Selection committee, Young  Investigator Award for Visual Communication and Image Processing (2003)

Tutorials and short courses

tutorial , "Smart Cameras: Algorithms, Evaluation and Applications", 2007 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Distributed Smart Cameras, Austria, September 2007
short course, "Video object detection and tracking", University of Brescia, Italy, November 2007
short course, "Semantic Video Analysis for Automatic Content Description, Evaluation and Delivery", Univ. Autonoma de Madrid, Spain, May 2006

Editorial activities

Guest editor , Springer Journal on Signal, Image and Video Processing, Special Issue on 'Multi-sensor object detection and tracking'
Guest editor , Journal of Image and Video Processing, Special issue on ' Video Tracking in Complex Scenes for Surveillance Applications ' (with C. Regazzoni and F. Porikli)

Special session organization

Multimodal Data Understanding and Visualization for Industrial Applications (with Fatih Porikli), 2nd International Symposium on Visual Computing (ISVC 2006)
Real-time object tracking: algorithms and evaluation, 6th International Workshop on Image Analysis for Multimedia Interactive Services (WIAMIS 2005)
Object-based video: extraction tools, evaluation metrics and applications, SPIE Visual Communications and Image Processing Conference (VCIP 2003)

Chair at the following conference sessions

Activity monitoring (AVSS 2005)
Active Contours and Statistical Methods for Segmentation (ICIP 2005)
Media conversion (ICME 2005)
Motion Detection and Estimation (ICASSP 2005)
Real-time object tracking (WIAMIS 2005) 
Image Segmentation: Clustering and Statistical Methods (ICIP 2004)
Object-based video (VCIP 2003)
Media Processing (ICME 2002)

Invited talks

Signal processing for video-based security systems, Madrid, Spain, 12 July 2010

University of Surrey, Guildford, UK, 27 January 2010
Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain, 15 January 2010

Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK, 12 November 2008

NASA Ames Research Centre, CMU, Moffett Field, CA, USA, 11 September 2008
AICT Physical Security and Ambient Intelligence Symposium, Milan, Italy, 10 June 2008
National Research Council (CNR), Bari, Italy, 15 May 2008
University of Brescia, Italy, 15 April 2008

University College London , London, UK, 31 January 2007
University of Surrey , Guildford, UK, 11 October 2006
Intel Corporation , Santa Clara, CA, USA, 9 December 2005
Microsoft Research Asia , Beijing, China, 24 July 2005
King's College London , London, UK, 27 April 2005
Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL) , Cambridge, MA, USA, 24 March 2005
Heriot-Watt University , Edinburgh, UK, 4 March 2005
BT Research and Venturing, Ipswich, UK, 14 February 2005
Nanyang Technological University , Singapore, 28 October 2004
BT Exact , Ipswich, UK, 4 August 2004
IBM Watson Research, New York, USA, 27 September 2002
University of Trieste , IEEE seminar series, 11 December 1996

International conference invited talks
IEEE Int. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Proc., Taipei, Taiwan, 24 April 2009
ETISEO Video Understanding Evaluation Workshop, Nice, France, 7-8 December 2006
Int. Symp. on Visual Computing, Intelligent Vehicles and Aut. Navigation, Nevada, 5-7 Dec. 2005
IEEE Int. Symp. on Intelligent Multimedia, Video and Speech Proc., Hong Kong, 20-22 October 2004

PhD examiner

Q. Li, "Using perceptual models to improve quantization index modulation based watermarking schemes", Advisor: Prof. I. Cox, University College London, December 2007
M. Sugrue, "Development of a motion distillation algorithm for visual surveillance", Advisor: Prof. R. Davies, Royal Holloway, University of London, November 2007
D. Marimon Sanjuan, "Advances in top-down and bottom-up approaches to video-based camera tracking", Advisor: Prof. T. Ebrahimi, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), October 2007
N. Gehrig, "Distributed source coding in sensor networks", Advisor: Dr. P. Dragotti, Imperial College, October 2007 
P. Besson, "A multimodal pattern recognition framework for speaker detection", Advisor: Prof. M. Kunt, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), May 2007
G. Ciocca, "Dynamic visual summaries for video retrieval", Advisor: Prof. R. Schettini, University of Milan-Bicocca, January 2006
G. Antonini, "A discrete choice modeling framework for pedestrian walking behavior with application to human tracking in video sequences", Advisor: Prof. J.P. Thiran, EPFL, Nov 2005
A. Petrovic, "Unsupervised multiscale image segmentation", Advisor: Prof. P. Vanderghynst, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), November 2005
O. Steiger, "Adaptive video delivery using semantics", Advisor: Prof. T. Ebrahimi, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), April 2005

Other activities at QMUL

Board member, Faculty of Engineering and Mathematical Science
Academic committee member, Dual-Master Degree Program UESTC-QMUL
Deputy chairman, Undergraduate exam board, Dept. of Electronic Engineering
External speaker, Dept. of Electronic Engineering
University owner, Multimedia Applications, Module 15, BT MSc in Telecom Engineering
Programme organiser, MSc in Multimedia Systems Technology

Reviewer for the following journals

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence; IEEE Transactions on Image Processing; IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing; IEEE Signal Processing Letters; IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology; IEEE Transactions on Multimedia; IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Signal Processing; IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Part B; EURASIP Signal Processing; EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing; EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing; IEICE Transactions; International Journal of Modelling and Simulation; Iranian Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (IJECE); Real-Time Imaging Journal; Journal of Information Fusion, Fuzzy Sets and Systems; SPIE Optical Engineering; Signal Processing; IEE Proc. Vision, Image & Signal Processing; Image and Vision Computing; Computer Vision and Image Understanding; Machine Vision and Applications Journal; ACM Transactions of Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications; Signal Image and Video Processing; Pattern Analysis and Applications Journal; Elsevier Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation; Signal Processing Image Communication

Reviewer for the following international conferences

IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME), IEEE and EURASIP Workshop on Nonlinear Signal and Image Processing (NSIP), SPIE Visual Communication and Image Processing (VCIP), International Workshop on Image Analysis for Multimedia Interactive Services (WIAMIS), IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal based Surveillance  (AVSS), Globecom Wireless Communications, Advanced Concepts for Intelligent Vision Systems (ACIVS), European Workshop on the Integration of Knowledge, Semantic and Digital Media Technologies (EWIMT), IEEE Workshop on Visual Surveillance and Performance Evaluation of Tracking and Surveillance (PETS), ACM Multimedia, British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC), IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP), ACM Video Surveillance and Sensor Networks (VSSN), International Conference on ITS Telecommunications; Picture Coding Symposium