PETS'2001 

Second IEEE International Workshop on Performance Evaluation of Tracking and Surveillance 

December 9, 2001

(in conjunction with IEEE CVPR'2001)

Kauai, Hawaii, USA

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, for example, automated incident detection, the monitoring of major road networks, shopping centres and shops, autonomous intelligent control for vehicles etc. 

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. 

PETS2001 continues the theme of the highly successful PETS2000 workshop on Performance Evaluation of Tracking and Surveillance. The 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 surveillance
• 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

Adrian Clark	The University of Essex, UK
James L. Crowley	I.N.P. Grenoble, France General Chair, FG'2000
James Ferryman	The University of Reading, UK Chair PETS'2000

Programme Committee

Andrew Blake	Microsoft Research, UK
Terrance Boult	Lehigh University, USA
Andrew Bulpitt	The University of Leeds, UK
Hilary Buxton	The University of Sussex, UK
Adrian Clark	The University of Essex, UK
Robert Collins	CMU, USA
Patrick Courtney	Vision 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	MIT 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, Beijing, China
Monique Thonnat	INRIA Sophia-Antipolis, France
Anthony Worrall	The University of Reading, UK

Pictures of Kauai ©Brian Barnes.

CVPR'2001 accomodation is at the Kauai Marriott
 

For further information on Kauai, point your browsers at the following web sites:

• http://www.kauai.com 
• http://www.danheller.com/kauai.html 

The full advance programme is available here.

The tracking results should be submitted in XML format.  The details are given here. 

1. You are pursuing dual submission. Note that the deadline for the workshop submission is after the paper acceptance notification date (August 15) for CVPR.
2. That you give permission to the workshop organisers to obtain a copy of the CVPR 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/pub/outgoing/cspress/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 pets2001@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.

Dr James Ferryman

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

Phone: +44 118 31 6697 
Fax: +44 118 975 1994 
E-mail: J.M.Ferryman@reading.ac.uk 

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