Smart camera networks are becoming a fundamental piece of our intelligent cities, buildings and homes, progressively inserting themselves into our lives. From smart surveillance systems composed of a multitude of smart camera nodes to small wearable cameras able to render a visual log of our daily experience, these devices interact with each other and with a wealth of other smart things, and of course the internet. Their rapid development is possible thanks to the convergence of several technologies. From advanced image sensors and vision chips to embedded vision systems capable of efficient feature extraction, image encoding and wireless transmission of the relevant visual content: This technology opens the door to new application domains, where video analytics and the extraction of semantic information from the scene is performed in a distributed fashion, implementing a new type of cooperative and/or collaborative vision.

The 11th International Conference on Distributed Smart Cameras (ICDSC) is the appropriate forum to discuss recent advances and open issues in these topics. After the successful events celebrated in Paris (2016), Sevilla (2015), Venice (2014), Palm Springs (2013), Hong Kong (2012), Ghent (2011), Atlanta (2010), Como (2009), Stanford (2008) and Vienna (2007), this year ICDSC will come back to Stanford, CA, USA.

ICDSC 2017 will take place from 5 to 7 September 2017 at the Stanford University, California, USA.

Topics

Smart image sensors and vision chips

Circuits and systems for image sensing
Parallel processing hardware
HW/SW co-design for embedded vision
Reconfigurable vision processing arch.
High-performance image sensors
Neuromorphic cameras and networks
Embedded deep learning cameras

Mobile Vision

Mobile applications
Crowdsourcing
Sensing for mixed/augmented reality
Structure-from-motion in mobile devices
Visual landmark localization
Collective object recognition

Smart cameras and network architectures

Camera system designs and architectures
Image sensing/processing for smart cameras
Architectures for camera networks
Embedded vision programming
Distributed video coding
Self-reconfiguring camera networks
Wireless and mobile image sensor networks
Topology discovery
Context-aware networks

Emerging applications

Smart cameras as IoT devices
Process splitting in camera vs cloud
Vision-based smart environments
Smart camera networks for healthcare and surgery room
Virtual reality and augmented reality
Position discovery and middleware apps
Combining smart cameras with semantic information
Smart cities and smart cameras

Distributed computer vision

Distributed video analytics
Resource management and task allocation
Multi-sensor data aggregation
Collaborative extraction, information fusion
Surveillance and tracking applications
Social media and big data

3D and robotics

3D reconstruction of everything
Driver assistance, autonomous driving
Active vision
Social robots
Drone distributed smart cameras

Details

Double blind review: ICDSC reviewing is double blind. Do not include any author information such as name and affiliations in the paper.

As with the previous editions, ICDSC 2017 will feature a PhD Forum and a Demo Session. Proceedings will be published at ACM DL. Authors of high quality papers will be invited to extend their work and submit it for a special issue in a JCR- indexed journal.