PETS-ICVS

Fourth IEEE International Workshop on Performance Evaluation of Tracking and Surveillance

March 31 2003

(in conjunction with ICVS'03)

Graz, Austria

For PETS-ICVS, the theme is gesture and action recognition.  More specifically, the annotation of a "smart meeting".

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 face and gesture recognition
• 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.

Steering Committee

James L. Crowley	I.N.P. Grenoble, France General Chair, FG'2000; Co-chair PETS'00-'02
James Ferryman	The University of Reading, UK Chair PETS'00, PETS'01

Programme Committee (to be finalised)

Tim Cootes	The University of Manchester, UK
James L. Crowley	I.N.P. Grenoble, France
Paco Gomez	Visual Tools S.A., Spain
Eric Granum	Aalborg University, Denmark
Rainer Herpers	University of Bonn, Germany
Andreas Lanitis	Cyprus College, Cyprus
Sebastian Marcel	IDIAP, Martigny, Switzerland
Steve Maybank	The University of Reading, UK
Stephen McKenna	University of Dundee, UK
Thomas Moeslund	Aalborg University, Denmark
Justus Piater	I.N.P. Grenoble, France
Gerhard Rigoll	Munich University of Technology, Munich, Germany
Moritz Storring	Aalborg University, Denmark

Accomodation details will be available on the ICVS registration page.

Travel to Graz

Graz is served by many airlines including British Airways.  For flights via London, the following airline/travel websites are recommended:

• British Airways
• Ebookers
• Opodo

The full advance programme will be available after May 10 2002 here. 

For an idea of the style of the proceedings, you may like to consult the electronic proceedings for PETS'2000 located here, and for PETS'2001 located here.

If you would like the datasets to be sent to you (DVD format) please complete the form below. 

The results of processing the datasets should be submitted in XML format.  The details (available soon) will be given here. 

1. You are pursuing dual submission. 
2. That you give permission to the workshop organisers to obtain a copy of the ICVS reviews.

The final paper format is IEEE two-column. The author kit which contains detailed instructions about the preparation of the paper is available at ftp://ftp.computer.org/press/outgoing/proceedings/. The maximum page length of the final paper is 8 pages.

All printed material, including illustrations, must be kept within a print area of 6-7/8 inches (17.5 cm) wide by 8-7/8 inches (22.5 cm) high. A detailed description of the format is given in the IEEE Author Guidelines. There is a simple LaTex template for this format that may assist you in meeting this format. Or see the MS word template. The submitted file should be in Postscript or PDF format.

Please submit your paper as an email attachment to petsicvs@visualsurveillance.org
The paper should be named by concatenating the names of the authors' last names followed by a single digit in the case of multiple submissions by the same authors. Please see the online submission form link below for more details.

Please also complete the online submission form located here.  You may also like to consider submitting your paper on CDROM along with supporting files (movies, images etc). 

Do not identify authors in the submitted paper.  All reviewing will be double blind, so the paper must not include any information which allows the authors to be identified.  The names of the authors, however, should be entered along with other details in the online submission form.  Please quote your paper reference number when you submit your paper electronically.

For guidance, you may like to consult the electronic proceedings for PETS'2000 located here the electronic proceedings for PETS'2001 are located here or the proccedings for PETS'2002 located here.

Journal

A selection of revised papers from the PETS-ICVS workshop will be considered for publication in a special issue of a leading vision journal.  Specific instructions will be sent to authors after the PETS-ICVS workshop.

Dr James Ferryman

Computational Vision Group
Department of Computer Science
The University of Reading
Whiteknights 
PO Box 225 Reading Berkshire 
England 

Phone: +44 118 931 6697 
Fax: +44 118 975 1994 
E-mail: J.M.Ferryman@reading.ac.uk 

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