======== Call for Papers ========
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 12th edition of the ACM 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 Stanford (2017), 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 be hosted at the High Tech Campus Eindhoven, The Netherlands.
ICDSC 2018 will take place from the 3rd to the 6th September 2018 at the High Tech Campus Eindhoven, The Netherlands.

======== Topics ========
Smart cameras in Internet of Things (IoT), Industry 4.0 and smart transport
• Smart cameras as IoT sensors
• Intelligent traffic cameras
• Smart IoT security camera for smart homes
• Smart cameras for Industry 4.0
• Vision sensors in Vehicular Ad- hoc Networks (VANETs)

Mobile Vision, 3D and Robotics
• 3D reconstruction of everything
• Driver assistance, autonomous driving
• Social robots
• Drone distributed smart cameras
• Structure- from- motion in mobile devices
• Visual landmark localization
• Active vision and mobile / body- worn cameras
• Position discovery and middleware apps

Smart image sensors and vision chips
• Circuits and systems for image sensing
• Parallel processing hard ware
• Camera beyond visual spectrum
• HW/S W codesign for embedded vision
• Reconfigurable vision processing architectures
• High-performance image sensors
• Neuromorphic cameras and networks

Machine learning in distributed camera networks
• Deep learning on smart cameras
• Transforming embedded vision through deep learning
• Distributed learning algorithms in visual sensor networks
• Novel machine learning technology implementation on smart cameras
• Machine learning for low-powered sensors
• Artificial intelligence and deep learning at the edge

Distributed smart cameras and network architectures
• Camera system designs and architectures
• Architectures for camera networks
• Embedded vision programming
• Distributed video coding
• Self-reconfiguring camera networks
• Self-organizing smart cameras
• Wireless and mobile image sensor network s
• Context-aware networks
• Distributed video analytics
• Resource management and task allocation
• Data aggregation and information fusion
• Collaborative object recognition and extraction

Emerging applications
• Process splitting in camera vs cloud
• Virtual reality and augmented reality
• Smart cameras and semantic information
• Smart cities and smart cameras
• Camera- based health and wellness monitoring
• AI and video analytics for smart cameras
• Social media and big data
• Smart cameras for situational intelligence and interaction

======== REVIEW ========
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 2018 will feature a PhD Forum and a Demo Session.

Proceedings will be published online and with a scientific publisher as in the last few years. Authors of high quality papers will be invited to extend their work and submit it for a special issue in a JCR- indexed journal.
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