FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
2nd IEEE International Workshop on
Performance Evaluation of Tracking and Surveillance
PETS'2001
(in conjunction with CVPR'01)
December, 2001
Kauai, Hawaii, USA
http://visualsurveillance.org/PETS2001
SCOPE:
PETS2001 continues the theme of the highly successful PETS2000 workshop
held at IEEE FG'2000. The theme is performance evaluation of tracking
and
surveillance.
In recent years there has been considerable interest in the visual
surveillance of wide area scenes. Successful tracking is the key to the
automatic interpretation (e.g. natural language descriptions) of scenes
which, in turn, is of considerable practical importance to surveillance
applications.
The growth in the development of the field has not been met with
complementary systematic performance evaluation of developed techniques.
It is especially difficult to make comparisons between algorithms if
they
have been tested on different datasets under widely varying conditions.
The PETS workshop series is unique in that all participants are testing
algorithms on the same datasets - e.g. image sequences of a wide area
scene containing both moving people and vehicles. The datasets will be
made available to participants of the workshop session. The aims of the
workshop are several-fold:
* to bring together researchers interested in the area
of visual suveillance
* to apply different algorithms to the same dataset(s) to
evaluate
the differences between different models and algorithms
* to discuss which criteria should be used for objective
evaluation
* to discuss how to document the performance (including
accuracy)
of visual surveillance algorithms
* to discuss the development of a methodology for testing
algorithms
* to discuss the ongoing development of a testbed and guidelines
for performing empirical comparative tests.
ORGANISERS:
Chair
James Ferryman Chair PETS'2000, The University of Reading, UK
Steering Committee
Adrian Clark, The University of Essex, UK
James L. Crowley, I.N.P. Grenoble, France
James Ferryman, The University of Reading, UK
Programme Committee
Andrew Blake, Microsoft Research, UK
Terrance Boult, Lehigh University, USA
Andrew Bulpitt, University of Leeds, UK
Hilary Buxton, University of Sussex, UK
Adrian Clark, University of Essex, UK
Robert Collins, CMU, USA
Patrick Courtney, Visual Automation Ltd, UK
James L. Crowley, I.N.P. Grenoble, France
Larry Davis, The University of Maryland, USA
Dariu Gavrila, DaimlerChrysler, Germany
Eric Grimson, MIT AI Lab, USA
Yuri Ivanov, Media Lab, USA
Graeme Jones, Kingston University, UK
Hans-Hellmut Nagel, IITB, Germany
Carlo Regazzoni, DIBE, Genoa, Italy
Stan Sclaroff, Boston University, USA
Andrew Senior, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA
Olli Silven, The University of Oulu, Finland
Tieniu Tan, NLPR, Institute of Automation, China
Monique Thonnat, INRIA Sophia-Antipolis, France
Anthony Worrall, The University of Reading, UK
PROVISIONAL TIMETABLE:
First announcement: January 2001
Deadline for paper submission: August 2001
Deadline for final paper: October 2001
Date of workshop: December 2001
WORKSHOP LOCATION:
The workshop will be held at the Kauai Marriott, Kauaii, Hawaii, in
conjunction with the IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision
and Pattern Recognition, December 8-14 2001.
EXPRESSION OF INTEREST:
Any person who intends to participate is invited to complete an online
expression of interest form on the web site located at
http://visualsurveillance.org/PETS2001
FURTHER INFORMATION:
Further details on the workshop can be found on the workshop web site
located at http://visualsurveillance.org/PETS2001
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