Submission Details

As stated in the call for papers, the submission for Winter-PETS 2009 can take one of two forms:

Contribute to performance evaluation methodologies for tracking and/or surveillance. Authors submitting performance evaluation methodologies therefore do not have to submit XML results for the PETS 2009 sequences.
Describe an approach for obtain crowd count/density estimates, tracking output and/or event detection based on the PETS 2009 datasets and include evaluation of the results obtained on the PETS 2009 datasets.

Authors submitting papers detailing approaches for either density estimation/count, tracking, and/or flowi/event detection must submit accompanying XML results for the PETS 2009 sequences. The definition of density, tracking, and flow/events to be recognised and the XML submission schema are given below.

XML Schema

The XML Schema for the submission is given here.

XML Examples

XML output file for Dataset S1

XML output file for Dataset S2

XML output file for Dataset S3-Event Recognition

XML output file for Dataset S3-Flow Analysis

Input frame	Flow

Important Submission Details

Further particulars on the submission requirements are given here.

N.B. All parameter configurations of your system must be reported in the submitted paper, these must also be commented in the submitted XML (see the provided examples). Parameter twiddling to obtain optimal (and unrepresentative) results for each sequence is discouraged and must be reported in your paper.

The submitted XML results will be evaluated separately for presentation at the PETS workshop, using appropriately chosen metrics .

Author Guidelines

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 online at the following website: Submissions. To submit an XML file, please generate a ZIP file, and email to: submissions@winterpets09.net providing full author details.

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.