Automated multimedia surveillance systems utilize different tools and techniques in capturing, processing and analyzing multimedia data coming from heterogeneous sensors. These systems are often designed to support (semi-) automatic decision making, such as generating an alarm in response to a surveillance event, as well as to provide useful information to human decision makers for ensuring public safety. Many researchers in industry and academia are working on various aspects of automated surveillance - automatic analysis of media streams, real-time processing, event detection, system architecture, quality evaluation and so on, while some argue on the level of automation to be exercised in such systems.

This is the second edition of this workshop (after the first successful AAMS-PS’2011 in Barcelona) and it aims to report on the further developments in various aspects of automated surveillance, more specifically to the state-of-the-art techniques, methodologies and systems for protecting people and ensuring their safety. We seek high quality papers that were not published elsewhere and have scientific values. Some topics of interest include, but not limited to the following:

· Automatic event detection based on multi-sensor data
· Event handling and management
· Architectural support for real-time surveillance
· Quality of surveillance systems and information
· Advances in military surveillance for public safety applications
· Automatic decision making strategies in critical surveillance scenarios
· Crowd-supported surveillance
· Alert-response systems
· Risk assessment and handling of automated surveillance
· Privacy and ethical issues in surveillance.