Next week there is another VAAM Workshop (see last year’s VAAM 2014 Workshop, Stockholm here [1]) being held, this year in Turin, Italy, on Friday July 3, 2015.
The aim of this workshop is to provide an overview of recent development, state of the art methods and systems for audience measurements in retail and Digital Signage, to attract end-users, and to stimulate the creation of appropriate benchmark dataset to be used as a reference tool for the development of novel audience measurement algorithms.
Researchers were invited to submit papers under the following topics (but not limited to):
- Dwell time estimation
- Gender recognition
- Age and Age group estimation
- Behaviour analysis
- People counting in multi-camera network
- People recurrence in long time window
- Ethnicity recognition
- Emotion analysis
- Free eye gaze estimation
- Group of related people: detection, tracking and behaviour analysis
- Path optimization and queue management in the point of sale
- Privacy preserving for audience measurement
- Modelling consumer behaviour
- Annotated Dataset proposal
- Big Data analytics for audience measurement
- Multimodal approaches for audience measurement
- Other visual cues for customer profiling
More details on the event can be found here [2].
Submission Information
Authors are invited to submit full papers (two‐column format, maximum 6 pages) according to the guidelines available on the conference website here [3].
Important Dates
Paper submission deadline: 30 March 2015
Paper acceptance notification: 30 April 2015
Paper camera ready due: 15 May 2015