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It is our great pleasure to welcome you to the 1sd ACM International Workshop on Multimodal Pervasive Video Analysis (MPVA 2010).

Thanks to the confluence of urban monitoring applications and portable cameras carried by humans everywhere, video acquisition, processing, and storage systems have become an integral part of the fabric of today's life. Besides the classical applications such as security and surveillance, cameras have been considered for creating novel applications based on the notions of smart homes, ambient intelligence, human-computer interaction, social networks, ambient assisted living, smart seminar rooms, building emergency management, assistive technologies, and many more. Cameras are mounted at fixed location in the urban infrastructure, or are moved around by humans or vehicles. Fusion of data between the cameras is explored as a means to enhance the interpretation task or to add confidence to the monitoring results. Such fusion can occur across different spatio-temporal levels and between subsets of fixed and mobile cameras as per the needs of the application and the availability of valuable information from each camera.

Application of multimedia, computer vision, and pattern recognition research based on combined fixed and mobile cameras can hence find novel areas of exploration. Detection, recognition, tracking, re-identification, pose/posture estimation, activity analysis, multimodal signal fusion, and other techniques applied in individual, local, or global settings are example technologies that offer new opportunities for defining multimodal pervasive video processing frameworks.

This workshop aims to act as a forum for sharing new techniques and applications based on pervasive video analysis for researchers, developers and practitioners from academia and industry. Addressing new challenges related to processing of distributed observations with a network of cameras and applications based on joint video analysis between fixed and mobile cameras will be the subjects of interest. Techniques and applications based on fixed or mobile camera systems will also be considered. This workshop is intended to bring together the successful series of the Video Surveillance and Sensor Networks (VSSN) workshops, held until 2006 in conjunction with ACM Multimedia conference and the workshop on Vision Networks for Behavior Analysis held on conjunction with ACM Multimedia 2008. This new workshop inherits from the above mentioned workshops the interests of their communities, but shifts the focus to cover higher level topics and applications under the common framework of "multimodal pervasive video analysis", hence aiming to adapt to the evolving directions of interest in the field, and reaching out to other research communities with overlapping interests.

The call for papers attracted 17 submissions from Asia, Europe, and North America. The program committee accepted 11 papers that cover a wide variety of topics within MPVA.

One important goal of this workshop is to bring together several communities and the connection between them is given by the computer vision algorithms and the multimodal framework employed in a large variety of applications where the human's explicit or implicit analysis/interaction is necessary.