First Announcement and Call for Contributions
1st INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP
THEMIS 2008
Tracking Humans for the Evaluation of their Motion in Image
Sequences
September 5th, 2008
Leeds, UK
http://iselab.cvc.uab.es/themis2008
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During the past three decades, important research efforts in computer vision
have been focused on developing theories, methods and systems applied to the
description of human movements in image sequences. Broadly speaking, in the
past the main goal was the estimation of quantitative parameters describing
where was motion. Nowadays, the focus is on the analysis of image sequences
by incorporating cognitive processes which provides interpretation and
understanding for detected human motion. That is, the true challenge is the
generation of qualitative descriptions about the meaning of motion,
therefore understanding not only where, but also why motion is being
observed. This goal called Human Sequence Evaluation (HSE) has become a key
task in many promising computer-vision applications, such as smart video
surveillance or advanced human-computer interfaces.
Towards this end, the advancement of novel cognitive capabilities does
increase the relation between multiple research areas, using computer vision
as the main tool: it is then of particular interest to organize a workshop
which encourages links between Computer Vision research and other fields,
such as Artificial Intelligence, Computational Linguistics, Computer
Animation and Multimedia Semantics, which share common goals to understand
and describe the human behaviour observed in image sequences. The aim is
then to have representatives from all these research areas, and to promote
discussion between the different research groups on topics of mutual
interest.
Thus, the First International Workshop on Tracking Humans for the Evaluation
of their Motion in Image Sequences (THEMIS'08) will take a step forward
towards the interpretation of human behaviour in image sequences. The goal
is to provide cross-disciplinary approach to addressing the aforementioned
problems on the topic of computational models of human behaviour
understanding using cognitive systems, with the purpose to advance
understanding of the state-of-the-art on evaluation in the frame of
cognitive processing. This will imply to discuss about possible research
synergies and collaborations, and also about semantic enhancements which can
be applied based on the numeric data obtained from tracking processes.
As a result, THEMIS'08 will aim at promoting interaction and collaboration
among researchers specialising in these related fields:
- Cognitive visual surveillance;
- Ambient intelligence;
- High-level behaviour recognition and scene understanding;
- Identification of semantic regions in human-populated scenarios;
- Ontologies and semantic mapping on human motion;
- Human behaviour analysis: articulated models and animation;
- Content-based browsing, indexing and retrieval of behaviours in video;
- Natural-language description of human behaviours from image sequences;
- Learning human models for behaviour synthesis (body/face);
- Learning human motion semantics from multimedia content.
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ORGANISING COMMITTEE
Jordi Gonzàlez Institut de Robòtica i Informàtica Industrial,
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Thomas B. Moeslund University of Aalborg, Denmark
Liang Wang University of Melbourne, Australia
- In conjunction with BMVC 2008 (http://www.comp.leeds.ac.uk/bmvc2008/)
- Sponsored by EU Projects IST-027110 HERMES, IST-045547 VIDI-Video and
IST-026408 euCognition:
- Local organisation by:
Research lab on Image Sequence Evaluation
http://iselab.cvc.uab.es/
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SUBMISSION DATES
Submission of full papers: July 7th, 2008
Notification of acceptance: July 30th, 2008
Camera Ready: August 6th, 2008
1st THEMIS Workshop 2008: September 5th, 2008
Please submit your paper using the EasyChair system:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=themis2008
Papers should not be longer than 8 pages (use BMVC format). The paper should
be kept anonymous during the review process. Any indications of name and
affiliation should be removed from the paper.
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INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
Marco Bertini, University of Florence, Italy
Alberto del Bimbo, University of Florence, Italy
Stefan Carlsson, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Rama Chellappa, University of Maryland, USA
Rita Cucchiara, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy
Bob Fisher, University of Edinburgh, UK
GianLuca Foresti, University of Udine, Italy
Theo Gevers, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Erik Granum, University of Aalborg, Denmark
Marcin Grzegorzek, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany
Adrian Hilton, University of Surrey, UK
Vasek Hlavac, Czech Technical University, Czech Republic
Weiming Hu, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Volker Krüger, University of Aalborg, Denmark
Xiaohui Liu, University of Brunel, UK
Jorge S. Marques, Technical University of Lisboa, Portugal
Johannes Matiasek, Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence,
Austria
Steve Maybank, Birkbeck, University of London, UK
Hans-Hellmut Nagel, Universität Karlsruhe, Germany
Dietrich Paulus, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany
Francisco Perales, Universitat de les Illes Balears, Spain
Ian Reid, University of Oxford, UK
Paolo Remagnino, Digital University of Kingston, UK
F. Xavier Roca, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Alberto Sanfeliu, Institut de Robòtica i Informàtica Industrial, Barcelona,
Catalonia, Spain
Paul Schrater, University of Minnesota, USA
Stan Sclaroff, University of Boston, USA
Nicu Sebe, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Nils T. Siebel, University of Kiel, Germany
Arnold W. M. Smeulders, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Cristian Sminchisescu, University of Toronto, Canada
Steffen Staab, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany
Monique Thonnat, INRIA Sophia Antipolis - Méditerranée, France
John K. Tsotsos, University of Toronto, Canada
Harald Trost, Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence,
Austria
Javier Varona, Universitat de les Illes Balears, Spain
David Vernon, Etisalat University College, UAE
Roberto Vezzani, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy
Juan J. Villanueva, Computer Vision Center, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
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CONTACT
Jordi Gonzàlez
Institut de Robòtica i Informàtica Industrial,
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya - Consejo Superior de Investigaciones
Científicas
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Phone: +34 93 581 1828 (direct line)
Fax: +34 93 581 1670
E-MAIL: poal-at-cvc.uab.es
http://www.cvc.uab.es/~poal
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