Video Tracking: Theory and Practice

Dr Emilio Maggio, Vicon, UK
Dr Maggio is Computer Vision Scientist at Vicon, the motion capture worldwide market leader. From 2004 – 2008 he was a Ph.D. student at the Department of Electronic Engineering, Queen Mary, University of London. In 2005 and again in 2007 he was awarded the best student paper prize at ICASSP. Dr Maggio has acted as a reviewer for the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, the International Journal of Image and Graphics and ACM Multimedia.

Dr Andrea Cavallaro, School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, Queen Mary, University of London, UK
Dr Cavallaro is Reader in Multimedia Signal Processing at Queen Mary, University of London. He is the author of more than 70 papers, including 5 book chapters. He is an elected member of the IEEE Signal Processing Society, Multimedia Signal Processing Committee. He has been a member of the organizing/ technical committee for several international conferences such as Technical Chair of EUSIPCO 08 and General Chair of the IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal based Surveillance (AVSS 2007), with General Chair positions being held for forthcoming 2009 conferences such as BMVC 09. He has been guest editor of several special issues, including 'Multi-sensor object detection and tracking', Signal, Image and Video Processing (Springer). Dr Cavallaro was awarded the Royal Academy of Engineering teaching prize in 2007.