Awards
AVSS-2013 was the 10-th edition of the conference. Carlo Regazzoni of the UNiversity of Genova, Italy is considered the "father" of this conference. His contributions were recognized at the AVSS-2013 banquet with a plaque containing the following citation:
Certificate of Appreciation
presented to
CARLO REGAZZONI
For creation of and longstanding service to the IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal-Based Surveillance (AVSS)
Six papers were nominated by reviewers and Area Chairs for the Best Paper Award. The following committee evaluated the nominated papers:
- Fatih Porikli, MERL, USA
- Nicu Sebe, University of Trento, Italy
- Christian Wolf, Université de Lyon, France
- Krystian Mikołajczyk, University of Surrey, UK
- Adam Krzyżak, Concordia University, Canada
The results were announced at the conference banquet:
AVSS-2013 Best Paper Award:
"Reference-based person re-identification"
Le An, Mehran Kafai, Songfan Yang, Bir Bhanu
University of California, Riverside, USA
AVSS-2013 Best Paper Finalist:
"Structured learning for detection of social groups in crowd"
Francesco Solera, Simone Calderara, Rita Cucchiara
University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy
AVSS-2013 Best Poster Award:
“Video segmentation with spatio-temporal tubes"
Remi Trichet, Ram Nevatia
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA
A thorough and unbiased work of reviewers is essential in preparing a high-quality program of each conference. AVSS-2013 Program Chairs have recognized the effort and quality work of the following reviewers with the Best Reviewer Award:
- Dima Damen, University of Bristol
- Andrea Fossati, ETH Zurich
- Guillaume Lavoue, INSA Lyon
- Marius Leordeanu, Romanian Academy
- Massimo Piccardi, University of Technology, Sydney
- Falk Schubert, EADS Munich
Finally, the following students have been awarded Student Participation Support Awards at AVSS-2013:
- Hao-Jen Wang, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
- Dong Liang, Hokkaido University, Japan
- Riccardo Mazzon, Queen Mary University of London, UK
- Simone Chiappino, University of Genoa, Italy