AVSS-2022 is the 18th edition of the IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal-Based Surveillance, a premier forum for the presentation of new advances and research results in the field of video and signal-based surveillance. The goal is to provide a game-changing and cross-disciplinary forum that brings together experts from academia, industry, and government to advance the frontiers of theories, methods, systems, and applications. AVSS-2022 is sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society (PAMI TC) and the IEEE Signal Processing Society. AVSS-2022 will be held under a virtual format but, if allowed by the pandemic situation, the opportunity of casual in-person interactions and discussions for a limited number of persons (40 ~ 50) joining physically at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid will be given. Conference proceedings: published in IEEE Xplore digital library. Keynote speakers: previous AVSS editions incude Rama Chellappa, Mubarak Shah, Xiaoming Liu, etc. (Still in progress for AVSS-2022.) General Chair Javier Ortega-Garcia, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain General Co-Chair Tieniu Tan, Chinese Academy of Science CASIA, China Technical Program Chairs Xiaoming Liu, Michigan State University, USA Ruben Vera-Rodriguez, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain Marco Leo, CNR, Inst. of Applied Science and Intelligent Systems, Italy Ruben Tolosana, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain Workshop Chairs Hanseok Ko, Korea University, Korea Fatih Porikli, Australian National University, Australia