FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PARTICIPATION 
2nd IEEE International Workshop on 
Performance Evaluation of Tracking and Surveillance 
PETS'2001 
(in conjunction with CVPR'01) 

December, 2001 
Kauai, Hawaii, USA 
http://visualsurveillance.org/PETS2001 

SCOPE: 
PETS2001 continues the theme of the highly successful PETS2000 workshop 
held at IEEE FG'2000. The theme is performance evaluation of tracking 
and surveillance. 
In recent years there has been considerable interest in the visual 
surveillance of wide area scenes. 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. 
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. 
The PETS workshop series is unique in that all participants are 
testing algorithms on the same datasets - e.g. image sequences of a wide 
area scene containing both moving people and vehicles. 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 visual suveillance 
* 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. 

ORGANISERS: 
Chair: James Ferryman Chair PETS'2000, The University of Reading, UK 
Steering Committee: 
Adrian Clark, The University of Essex, UK 
James L. Crowley, I.N.P. Grenoble, France 
James Ferryman, The University of Reading, UK 
Programme Committee 
Andrew Blake, Microsoft Research, UK 
Terrance Boult, Lehigh University, USA 
Andrew Bulpitt, University of Leeds, UK 
Hilary Buxton, University of Sussex, UK 
Adrian Clark, University of Essex, UK 
Robert Collins, CMU, USA 
Patrick Courtney, Visual Automation Ltd, UK 
James L. Crowley, I.N.P. Grenoble, France 
Larry Davis, The University of Maryland, USA 
Dariu Gavrila, DaimlerChrysler, Germany 
Eric Grimson, MIT AI Lab, USA 
Yuri Ivanov, Media Lab, USA 
Graeme Jones, Kingston University, UK 
Hans-Hellmut Nagel, IITB, Germany 
Carlo Regazzoni, DIBE, Genoa, Italy 
Stan Sclaroff, Boston University, USA 
Andrew Senior, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA 
Olli Silven, The University of Oulu, Finland 
Tieniu Tan, NLPR, Institute of Automation, China 
Monique Thonnat, INRIA Sophia-Antipolis, France 
Anthony Worrall, The University of Reading, UK 

PROVISIONAL TIMETABLE: 
First announcement: January 2001 
Deadline for paper submission: August 2001 
Deadline for final paper: October 2001 
Date of workshop: December 2001 

WORKSHOP LOCATION: 
The workshop will be held at the Kauai Marriott, Kauaii, Hawaii, in 
conjunction with the IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer 
Vision and Pattern Recognition, December 8-14 2001. 

EXPRESSION OF INTEREST: 
Any person who intends to participate is invited to complete an 
online expression of interest form on the web site located at 
http://visualsurveillance.org/PETS2001 

FURTHER INFORMATION: 
Further details on the workshop can be found on the workshop web site 
located at http://visualsurveillance.org/PETS2001