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Andrea Cavallaro is Professor of Multimedia Signal
Processing and the founding Director of the Centre for Intelligent
Sensing at Queen Mary University of London, UK. He is Fellow of the
International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR) and Turing
Fellow at the Alan Turing Institute, the UK National Institute for Data
Science and Artificial Intelligence. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical
Engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL),
Lausanne. He was a Research Fellow with British Telecommunications (BT)
in 2004/2005 and was awarded the Royal Academy of Engineering teaching
Prize in 2007; three student paper awards on target tracking and
perceptually sensitive coding at IEEE ICASSP in 2005, 2007 and 2009; and
the best paper award at IEEE AVSS 2009. Prof.
Cavallaro is vice chair of the IEEE Signal Processing Society, Image,
Video, and Multidimensional Signal Processing Technical Committee and an
elected member of the IEEE Video Signal Processing and Communication
Technical Committee. He is Senior Area Editor for the IEEE Transactions
on Image Processing; and Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on
Circuits and Systems for Video Technology and IEEE Multimedia. He is a
past Area Editor for the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine (2012-2014) and
past Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
(2011-2015), IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing (2009-2011), IEEE
Transactions on Multimedia (2009-2010) and IEEE Signal Processing
Magazine (2008-2011). He is a past elected member of the IEEE Multimedia
Signal Processing Technical Committee and of the IEEE Signal Processing
Society, Image, Video, and Multidimensional Signal Processing Technical
Committee, and chair of its Awards committee. Prof.
Cavallaro has published over 250 journal and conference papers, one
monograph on Video tracking (2011, Wiley) and three edited books:
Multi-camera networks (2009, Elsevier); Analysis, retrieval and delivery
of multimedia content (2012, Springer); and Intelligent multimedia
surveillance (2013, Springer).
Professional activities [to be updated]
Conference organisation
General chair
- ACM/IEEE International Conference on Distributed Smart
Cameras (ICDSC 2009)
- British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC 2009)
- IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal based
Surveillance (AVSS 2007)
Chair
- ECCV workshop on Multi-camera and multi-modal sensor fusion: algorithms
and applications (M2SFA2 2008)
- BMVA symposium on Security and Surveillance: Performance
Evaluation (SSPE 2007)
Technical Program chair
- IEEE International
Conference on Advanced Video and Signal based Surveillance (AVSS 2011)
- WIAMIS 2010
- European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO 2008)
Workshops chair,
- IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal based
Surveillance (AVSS 2010)
- IEEE International Conference on Distributed Smart Cameras
(ICDSC 2008)
Special sessions chair,
- IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal based
Surveillance (AVSS 2009)
- IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Analysis and
Processing (IMAP 2008)
Publications chair, International 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
- IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP
2007, MMSP 2008, MMSP 2009)
- ACM/IEEE International Conference on Distributed Smart Cameras (ICDSC
2007, ICDSC 2008)
- ACM Multimedia 2008, Multimedia tools, end-systems, and applications
track
- ACM Multimedia 2007, Applications Track
- International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications
(VISAPP 2007)
- International Conference on Computer Vision Systems (ICVS 2007)
- Visual Information Engineering Conference (VIE 2007)
- European Conference on Visual Media Production (CVMP 2007)
- IEEE Workshop on Visual Surveillance (VS 2006, VS 2007)
- International Conference on Semantic and Digital Media Technologies
(SAMT 2006, SAMT 2007)
- International Symposium on Visual Computing (ISVC 2006, ISVC 2007)
- IEEE International Symposium on Signal Processing and Information
Technology (ISSPIT 2006)
- International Workshop on Image Analysis for Multimedia Interactive
Services (WIAMIS 2006, WIAMIS 2007)
- ACM Multimedia 2005, Content Track
- IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal based
Surveillance (AVSS 2005, AVSS 2006)
- IEEE Workshop on Visual Surveillance and Performance Evaluation of
Tracking and Surveillance (PETS 2005)
- European Workshop on the Integration of Knowledge, Semantic and
Digital Media Technologies (EWIMT 2005)
- IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP 2004, ICIP
2005)
- IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME 2004,
ICME 2005, ICME 2007)
- ACM Multimedia, short papers (MM 2003, MM 2005, MM 2006)
Scientific Committee member, IEEE-SPIE Visual Communication 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 - )
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)
Panel discussions
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
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
Technical societies
elected
member, IEEE Multimedia Signal Processing Technical Committee
(term: 2006-2009)
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)
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
Behaviour analysis (ICDSC 07)
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
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
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 Transactions of the IEEE; 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
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