IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Ottawa Chapter

Welcome!

Welcome to the website for the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (formerly known as the IEEE Neural Network Society), Ottawa Chapter. We are currently building up the content of many of our web pages, so please be patient with us. We currently have information about our current officers as well as our upcoming and past meeting and events. We are trying to build up this chapter to become the meeting place of choice for the computational intelligence community in the Ottawa region, so if you are involved in research or industrial activities that fit our scope, please do not hesitate in contacting us. You may either be invited to present your work at one of our technical events, or at the very least be provided with a link to your project web page from this web site. Finally, we are planning to conduct at least 4 activities per year, so we hope you can join us at those events.

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Nizar Sakr, Chair

Upcoming Chapter Event

Upcoming Local Events

Title	MUSES’09 - Workshop on Multi-Sensor Systems for Surveillance Applications
Date	December 11-12, 2009
Time	Full days - exact schedule of the presentations will be provided soon
Location	Faculty of Engineering, University of Ottawa
Admission	IEEE Regular Members: $150 IEEE Retired/Job Seekers: $50 IEEE Life Members: $50 IEEE Students: $50 Members of IET, OCRI, OTI: $150 Non-Members: $200 Students: $80
Registration	Deadline for abstract submission is Thursday, 03 December 2009. The workshop will consist of oral presentations of 30 minutes each. Submit a short abstract (1/2 page) by e-mail to: petriu@site.uottawa.ca
Organized By	The Ottawa Chapter of the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society, The Ottawa Chapter of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, TC-30 Security and Contraband Detection of the IEEE I&M Society, and the School of Information Technology and Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Ottawa, Canada
Contact	Emil Petriu, Voicu Groza
Abstract This workshop will provide a scientific forum to present and discuss development aspects of multimodal (video, voice and sound, RFID, perimeter intrusion, infrared, chemical, etc) intelligent sensor technologies for geographical location and socio-cultural context-aware security risk assessment and decision support in human-crowd surveillance applications. Contributions covering theoretical developments and practical applications, including but not limited to the following areas, are invited: • algorithms for the integration of the heterogeneous information from the surveillance sensors into a coherent multimodal model of the human crowd behaviour; • multi granularity-level feedback and human-computer interaction interfaces for the human users/agents who are the final threat assessors and decision makers in the specific security monitoring situation. • image processing and computer-vision algorithms for tracking and recognition of relevant face and body-language patterns such as facial emotions, body gait and gestures of the humans in a crowd; • the measurement and evaluation of the environmental parameters (background sound, ambient light, etc) that provide contextual information for specific surveillance task; • multidisciplinary (human psychology, multicultural sociology, etc.) context-aware system for the real-time evaluation of threatening behavioural patterns of humans identified as potential security risk.

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