Chair's Message

Message from Demo Chairs

Starting with the core data engineering demonstrations, Jaber and Voronkov present UNIDOOR, a deductive object-oriented database system (DOOD). Its distinctive features include a scalable persistent store with crash recovery, and database integrity and transaction control facilities in a multi-user environment. Cabibbo, Panella and Torlone introduce DaWaII (Data Warehouse IntegratIon), a tool f...

Message from general chairs

On behalf of the Organizing Committee of the 11-th IEEE International Conference on Video and Signal-Based Surveillance (AVSS), we welcome you to Seoul, the capital city of Korea, which is located along the Han River. It is the world’s 10 largest city, with a population of more than 10 million. In Seoul, the past and present coexist in many fascinating ways. Centuries-old palaces, gates, shrine...

Message from Program Chairs

We hope you enjoy the ICCV 2011 program. We received 1433 complete submissions by the deadline. Papers that did not meet the submission guidelines were rejected without review, leaving 1394 papers at the end of the reviewing phase. Handling the review process for such a large number of papers remains a challenge and we will give more details on the ICCV 2011 reviewing process below. Our committ...

General chairs' welcome message

Edinburgh, Scotland’s capital city, is host for this year’s conference. Edinburgh is an ancient city built on seven hills beside the Firth of Forth. Responsible for the Scottish Reformation and Enlightenment, it is now both a UNESCO world heritage site and one of the UK’s strongest economies. It is home to the world’s largest arts festival and is regularly voted as the best place to live in the...

Message from the DEBS Chairs