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VS-PETS 

Joint IEEE International Workshop on Visual Surveillance and Performance Evaluation of Tracking and Surveillance 

October  11-12, 2003

(in conjunction with ICCV'03)

 

 
In Cooperation with IEEE Computer Society and the PAMI TC
(final IEEE approval pending)

Scope     | Location & Date    | Programme     |  Registration
Mailing List     | Further Information    |    ICCV2003

Download the workshop 2nd call for papers as PS or PDF

The final programme is available here.

The workshop proceedings are available here.

Scope
Visual surveillance is a major research area in computer vision.  The recent rapid increase in the number of surveillance cameras has led to a strong demand for automatic methods of processing their outputs.  The scientific challenge is to devise and implement automatic systems for obtaining detailed information about the activities and behaviours of people and vehicles observed by a single camera or by a network of cameras.  In many applications, even low level information about the positions of people and vehicles is useful.  However the full benefits of visual surveillance will only be realised with the development of wide area networks of cameras capable of building up high level descriptions of scene activity over time.

Visual Surveillance is a key technology in the following areas:

  • the fight against terrorism and crime including threat assessment
  • public safety, especially in transport networks, town centres and public facilities such as schools, hospitals and sports grounds
  • the efficient management of transport networks and public facilities
A two day workshop is being held in Nice, France, in conjunction with ICCV 2003.  The workshop combines the International Workshops on Visual Surveillance (Bombay 1998 with ICCV'98, Fort Collins 1999 with CVPR'99 and Dublin 2000 with ECCV'2000) with the International Workshops on Performance Evaluation of Tracking and Surveillance (Grenoble 2000 with FG'2000, Kauai 2001 with CVPR'01, Copenhagen 2002 with ECCV'02 and Graz 2003 with ICVS'03).

The first day will focus on:

  • new scientific and technological advances in visual surveillance
  • robust event detection and tracking
  • construction and deployment of wide area surveillance systems
  • multiple cameras and data fusion
  • learning and recognising patterns of scene activity 
  • high level behaviour recognition and scene understanding
  • cognitive visual surveillance
  • learning and artificial intelligence in visual surveillance 
  • face, gesture and action recognition (e.g. smart rooms) and interaction
  • applications including threat assessment, sports, transportation ... 
The second day will focus on:
  • performance evaluation (including methodologies) applied to visual tracking and surveillance
  • the testing and evaluation of algorithms on PETS datasets
Demonstrations on both days are actively encouraged.

Papers are invited on any theoretical or practicals aspects of visual tracking/surveillance or performance evaluation applied to visual tracking/surveillance.

If you are seeking datasets on which to test surveillance algorithms, you may wish to consider the PETS repository located here.  The datasets include the following:

  • [1] outdoor people and vehicle tracking (single camera), available here.  Details on the dataset specification is available here. 
  • [2] outdoor people and vehicle tracking (two synchronised views; includes omnidirectional and moving camera) (annotation available), available here.  Details on the dataset specification is available here.
  • [3] indoor people tracking (and counting) and hand posture classification data (annotated), available here.  Details on the dataset specification is available here.
  • [4] annotation of a smart meeting (annotation available).  Includes facial expressions, gaze and gesture/action, available here.  Details on the dataset specification is available here.
  • NEW [5] outdoor people tracking - football data (two views), available here.  Details on the dataset specification is available here.
You may also find it useful to reference the proceedings for previous VS and PETS workshops available as follows:
  Organisers
Co-Chairs
J. Crowley I.N.P. Grenoble, France
J. Ferryman The University of Reading, UK
S. Maybank The University of Reading, UK
T. Tan CASIA, Institute of Automation, China

Programme Committee
J. K. Aggarwal USA
T. Boult USA
R. Collins USA
P. Courtney UK
J. Crowley France
L. Davis USA
J. Ferryman UK
S. Gong UK
E. Granum Denmark
E. Hancock UK
J. Heikkila Finland
G. Jones UK
S. Li USA
S. Maybank UK
H-H. Nagel Germany
A. Pece Denmark
J. Piater Belgium
G. Rigoll Germany
S. Sclaroff USA
A. Senior USA
Y. Shirai Japan
T. Tan China
R. Visvanathan USA
G. West Australia

  Provisional Timetable
First announcement: March 2003
Datasets disseminated (for PETS): April 2003
Deadline for paper submission: August 21 2003   EXTENDED (This is a hard deadline.  No further extensions will be given.  Early submissions are encouraged.)
Notification of acceptance: September 14 2003
Deadline for final paper: September 21 2003
Date of workshop: October 11-12 2003
  Location
VS-PETS will be held in Nice, France in October 2003. The workshop is being held in conjunction with ICCV 2003.
  Programme

The final programme is available here

  Registration
To register for the workshop please visit the main ICCV 2003 conference registration page. Printed workshop proceedings in colour will be available at the time of the workshop.  The registration fee includes access to the workshop and tea/coffee breaks throughout the two days.
  Datasets
The VS-PETS workshop encourages the use of the PETS datasets (see above).  Although it is not a prerequisite for submission of a paper to use these data, the second day of the workshop will focus on performance evaluation and will include papers which provide evaluation results based on the PETS data. 
  Mailing List
In order to receive the latest announcements regarding the VS-PETS workshop, please subscribe to the VS-PETS mailing list. Send a blank email containing the Subject: subscribe to pets-vs-03-request@rdg.ac.uk
  Instructions for Authors
Dual submission policy. Papers will be considered that have also been submitted to the main ICCV conference. Please indicate that:
  1. You are pursuing dual submission. Note that the deadline for the workshop submission is after the paper acceptance notification date for ICCV.
  2. That you give permission to the workshop organisers to obtain a copy of the ICCV reviews.
The 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 and printed to file as US Legal A4.

Please submit your paper as an email attachment to vspets@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. 

Alternatively, the paper may be sent to:

VS-PETS 2003
c/o Dr James Ferryman
Computational Vision Group 
Department of Computer Science
The University of Reading 
Whiteknights
Reading
UK   RG6 6AY 

If you send the paper by surface mail/courier, please also send an email to vspets@visualsurveillance.org   indicating that the paper has been sent.

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. 

Please note that you may not receive a confirmation of your paper submission until just after the paper submission deadline.  However, early submissions are encouraged.  If you have not received a confirmation that your paper has been received by August 24 please email vspets@visualsurveillance.org

  Further Information
For further information please email: vspets-info@visualsurveillance.org
ICCV 2003
The main website for the ICCV 2003 may be found here. 
  visualsurveillance.org
The generic visual surveillance resource visualsurveillance.org may be found here. 
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