2nd Call for papers - 4 weeks left! 2nd Workshop on Behaviour Monitoring and Interpretation, BMI'08 --------------------------------------------------------------- Co-located with the German Conference on AI 2008, Kaiserslautern, September 23th General BMI session ------------------- Monitoring what goes on in the environment, what people do and how they interact with their surroundings is of interest in several areas, such as in ambient intelligence, healthcare applications, or mobile services. This workshop focuses on methods analysing and interpreting the behaviour of single people, or of small groups of people. This is for the purpose of intention recognition, the triggering of smart home environments, or generally for the investigation of how humans and animals deal with specific problems or how they do specific things. While much effort is spent on how to obtain information about the behaviour of people, e.g. by video-technologies or sensors equipped at bodies, the goal of this workshop is the high-level representation and interpretation of the monitored behaviour. To make the vision of behaviour monitoring and interpretation a reality, there are many serious challenges that must be addressed including lack of complete information about the monitored behaviour or the imprecision of the obtained data. Furthermore, knowledge representation issues, such as ontologies about behaviour patterns, have to be considered in the context of intention recognition, and questions have to be answered concerning how to reason about behaviour patterns, e.g. for making predictions. Ambient Assisted Living session ------------------------------- While technological advances in sensing and processing have ushered in an unprecedented opportunity for realising behaviour monitoring applications, much effort remains needed for the development of methods to integrate and exploit the available data for addressing specific applications. In addition to the general BMI topic, part of this year’s workshop features a thematic focus section on Ambient Assisted Living (AAL). AAL has been an area of expanded interest in utilizing available technology to offer quality of life and well-being solutions for a growing segment of the population. Methods and approaches in formulating and addressing application needs in AAL will be presented and discussed. Prospective authors are encouraged to submit a paper on the general BMI topic or contribute to the AAL section. The list of possible topics includes, but is not limited to Methodologies ------------- - knowledge representation and reasoning - pattern recognition - spatial and temporal reasoning - dynamic scene analysis and interpretation Application areas ----------------- - ethology - ambient intelligence - disaster management - health care Thematic session's topics include in particular ----------------------------------------------- - multi-modal (e.g. vision-based) data fusion for AAL - feedback interfaces between monitoring, processing and reasoning - human pose and gesture interpretation for AAL - environment discovery in AAL applications based on user interactions - user behaviour models and context awareness After the success of BMI'07, this one-day workshop is intended as a forum for discussion, exchange of points of views, assessment of results and methods, and as a source of dissemination and promotion of the newest advances in the area of behaviour monitoring and interpretation. The program will include a number of presentations by the invitees representing several different aspects concerning the role of monitoring and interpreting behaviours of people and groups of people, followed by discussions. Members of the Program Committee -------------------------------- Timothy D. Adlam, University of Bath, UK Hamid Aghajan, Stanford University, USA Stephen Balakirsky, National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA Roland Billen, University of Liege, Belgium Christophe Claramunt, Naval Academy Research Institute, France Christian Freksa, Universität Bremen, Germany Antony Galton, University of Exeter, UK Björn Gottfried, University of Bremen, Germany Hans Werner Guesgen, Massey University, New Zealand Karin Klabunde, Philips Research, Germany Paul McCullagh, University of Ulster at Jordanstown, UK Gerhard Navratil, Technical University Vienna, Austria Bernd Neumann, University of Hamburg, Germany Christoph Schlieder, Universität Bamberg, Germany Sabine Timpf, University of Augsburg, Germany Nico Van de Weghe, Ghent University, Belgium Howard D. Wactlar, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Stephan Winter, University of Melbourne, Australia Stefan Wölfl, University of Freiburg, Germany Yaolong Zhao, University of Tsukuba, Japan Workshop Chair -------------- Björn Gottfried Centre for Computing Technologies (TZI) Universität Bremen, Germany bg AT tzi.de Workshop Co-Chair ----------------- Hamid Aghajan Department of Electrical Engineering Stanford University, USA aghajan AT stanford.edu Proceedings ----------- All submitted papers will be rigorously reviewed by the international technical program committee. There will be post-workshop proceedings available this year. Important Dates --------------- Submission of papers June 6, 2008 Notification of authors July 16, 2008 Final Versions of papers July 28, 2008 Workshop September 23, 2008 Submission Details ------------------ Papers should be formated according to Springer LNCS guidelines. The length of each paper should not exceed 15 pages. All papers must be written in English and submitted in PDF format. Submissions should be sent in electronic form to Bjoern Gottfried: bg AT tzi.de February 25, 2008