FG'2000 

Fourth IEEE International Conference on 
Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition 

March 28-30, 2000 
Grenoble, France 

 

First IEEE International Workshop on

Performance Evaluation of Tracking and Surveillance 

(PETS2000) 

March 31st 2000
In Cooperation with IEEE Computer Society and the PAMI TC

Purpose     | Location & Date    |  Programme     |  Registration
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The 2nd IEEE International Workshop on Performance Evaluation of Tracking and Surveillance will be held at CVPR'01. Kauai, Hawaii, December 2001

The proceedings for PETS'2000 (in PDF format) are available here.

 

 Purpose
In recent years there has been considerable interest in the visual surveillance of wide area scenes. 
The recent, rapid increase in the number of CCTV cameras has expedited the demand for automatic methods of processing their output. 

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. This workshop aims to address this issue. The workshop consists of a number of invited presentations from leading researchers working in the area of visual surveillance, and a panel discussion. The workshop is unique in that all participants are testing algorithms on the same dataset - an image sequence of a carpark environment containing both moving people and vehicles. The dataset will be made available to participants of the workshop. 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.
Who should attend?  Anyone interested in visual surveilance and/or performance evaluation/characterisation of vision algorithms. 

 
  Location and date
     
     
    Date of workshop:  Friday, March 31, 2000  (day following FG2000)
      Maison Jean Kuntzman, Campus, St. Martin d'Heres, France. 

    Exact Address:

    Maison Jean Kuntzmann, 1st Floor, 351, avenue de la Bibliotheque, Campus, St. Martun d'Heres.

    A map of the location can be found here. An even larger one here.

 Grenoble and La Combe d'Olle.  Photographs by Patrice Fleuret and Damien. 

 Travel to Greonoble is possible via Lyon or Geneva.  If you are flying to Lyon the 
 frequent Satolas bus shuttle will take you directly to Grenoble.

 If you are travelling via London note that British Airways fly directly to Lyon, 
 and easyJet to Geneva. The British Airways Go airline also goes directly to Lyon. 
 For further information on getting to Grenoble please visit the FG2000 page on access. 

 For more information on the city please visit the FG2000 page on Grenoble. 
 March is an important month in the skiing calendar.  Ski resorts are within easy reach of 
 the workshop venue and include Chartreuse, Le Vercors and Belledonne.  A ski bus 
 service is available for day trips to many local ski resorts from the Grenoble Bus/Train 
 station. 

 For further information on hotels please visit the FG2000 page on hotels.
  Programme
The provisional set of papers (with associated abstracts) is available here. 

The full advance programme is available here. 

  Registration
Registration includes workshop proceedings and access to the PETS website including the dataset used in the workshop.  To register for the workshop please visit the main FG conference registration page here.  The workshop fee is 400 FF (approximately $60 or 40 GBP). 
  Mailing List
In order to receive the latest announcements regarding the PETS2000 workshop, please subscribe to the PETS2000 mailing list. Send a blank email containing the Subject: subscribe to pets2000-request@isg.cs.rdg.ac.uk
  Instructions for Authors
The paper title, authors and abstract must be emailed to J.M.Ferryman@reading.ac.uk by March 1 latest. The final camera ready paper copy must be submitted electronically, by March 10 latest, in postscript form to J.M.Ferryman@reading.ac.uk or by ftp to ftp://ftp.cs.rdg.ac.uk/pub/vision/incoming/. Note that you cannot see the contents of this directory. 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/pub/outgoing/cspress/proceedings/. The maximum page length is 8 pages. Note that the paper CAN contain colour images and figures. There is NO requirement to complete and return the IEEE copyright form. If possible, please also submit an Adobe Acrobat version of the paper to the same ftp address as above. The filename of the submitted paper should be in the form firstauthor.ps or firstauthor.pdf. 
  Further Information
  FG 2000
The main website for the 4th International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition may be found here. 
Last modified: March 1, 2000

 

 
 
 

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