FIRST CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ============================ First IEEE International Workshop on Performance Evaluation of Tracking and Surveillance (PETS2000) March 31st 2000 held in conjunction with FG'2000 In Cooperation with IEEE Computer Society and the PAMI TC 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. Further Information ----------------------------------------------------------------------- For further information please visit the main FG'2000 website at http://www-prima.imag.fr/FG2000