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