PETS'2002

Third IEEE International Workshop on Performance Evaluation of Tracking and Surveillance

June 1, 2002

(in conjunction with ECCV'02)

Copenhagen, Denmark

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. 

PETS2002 continues the theme of the highly successful PETS2001 workshop on Performance Evaluation of Tracking and Surveillance. The workshop series is unique in that all participants are testing algorithms on the same datasets. 

For PETS2002, the theme is gesture recognition and people tracking.

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
• 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
James Ferryman	The University of Reading, UK Chair PETS'00, PETS'01

Programme Committee

Terry Boult	Lehigh University, USA
Andrew Bulpitt	The University of Leeds, UK
Tim Cootes	The University of Manchester, UK
Patrick Courtney	Perkin Elmer Life Science, Cambridge, UK
James L. Crowley	I.N.P. Grenoble, France
Larry Davis	The University of Maryland, USA
Shaogang Gong	Queen Mary, University of London, UK
Erik Granum	Aalborg University, Denmark
Eric Grimson	MIT AI Lab, USA
Yuri Ivanov	MIT Media Lab, USA
Graeme Jones	Kingston University, London, UK
Andreas Lanitis	Cyprus College, Nicosia, Cyprus
Sebastian Marcel	IDIAP, Martigny, Switzerland
Steve Maybank	The University of Reading, UK
Arthur Pece	The University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Justus Piater	I.N.P. Grenoble, France
Gerhard Rigoll	Gerhard-Mercator-University, Duisburg, Germany
Simon Rowe	Canon Research Centre Europe, UK
Stan Sclaroff	Boston University, USA
Andrew Senior	IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, New York, USA
Tieniu Tan	NLPR, Beijing, China
Ramesh Visvanathan	Siemens Corporate Research, USA

Pictures of Copenhagen by Egil Presttun and Robert Burke. 

ECCV'02 accomodation details are available on the ECCV registration page.

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

• http://www.aok.dk/Copenhagen/Visiting_Copenhagen 
• http://www.copenhagen-cityguide.com

For more details on the Roskilde Viking Ship Museum (as featured on the BBC series Blood of the Vikings) try BBC - Archaeology and Ancient History - Vikings   including the Roskilde dig report

There is a proposal to go for dinner (probably inside Tivoli Gardens) on the evening of Saturday June 1 (after the workshop.)  A firework display is held inside Tivoli each Saturday night.  If you are interested, please send an email to
pets2002-dinner@visualsurveillance.org    with   Subject: PETS'2002 dinner
as a booking will need to be made well in advance.  If you have any special dietary preferences please state this in the email.

Travel to Copenhagen

Copenhagen is served by many airlines including SAS and British Airways.  For flights via London, the following airline/travel websites provide good fares:

• British Airways
• GO
• Ryanair  (note that flights are to Malmo, however there is a fast 35 minute rail link to Copenhagen)
• British Midland
• Scandinavian SAS
• Ebookers
• Opodo
• Maersk Air

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

For an idea 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 (CDROM format) please complete the form below.Please note that the main route for downloading is via ftp://pets.rdg.ac.uk/PETS2002 

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

Alternatively, please enter your email below to join.

Note that you will need to reply to the automated email sent to the email address entered above to confirm the registration.

1. You are pursuing dual submission. Note that the deadline for the workshop submission is after the paper acceptance notification date (February 11) for ECCV.
2. That you give permission to the workshop organisers to obtain a copy of the ECCV 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 pets2002@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.

Image and Vision Computing Journal

A selection of revised papers from the PETS'2002 workshop will be considered for publication in a special issue of Image and Vision Computing Journal.  Specific instructions will be sent to authors after the PETS'2002 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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