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