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CALL FOR PAPERS
International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV)
Special Issue On: Evaluation of Articulated Human Motion and Pose Estimation


Guest Editors:
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Michael J. Black     Brown University (black@cs.brown.edu)
Leonid Sigal         Brown University (ls@cs.brown.edu)


Aim and Scope:
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There has been a large body of work developed in the last 10 years on
the human pose estimation and tracking from video. Progress however
has been limited by the lack of common datasets and error metrics for
quantitative comparison. The goal of this special issue is to
quantitatively establish the current state of the art in the human
pose estimation and tracking from single and multiple camera views,
using a common benchmark (HumanEva) database and error metrics.

The HumanEva datasets (http://vision.cs.brown.edu/humaneva/) contain
multiple calibrated video sequences (grayscale and color) that are
synchronized with 3D body poses obtained from a motion capture
system. The database contains multiple subjects performing a variety
of common actions (e.g. walking, jogging, gesturing, etc.). Error
metrics for computing error in 2D and 3D pose are also provided to
allow comparison of different methods on equal footing. The dataset
contains training, validation and testing (with withheld ground truth)
sets. The performance on testing sequences can be evaluated using
on-line evaluation service. For detailed description of the procedure
that should be followed for testing and evaluation of results please
see http://www.cs.brown.edu/people/ls/ehum2/submit.html.

This is an open call-for-papers. While submissions from the NIPS EHuM
and IEEE CVPR EHuM2 workshops were invited to submit extended versions
of their contributions, this does not guarantee acceptance to the
special issue. Submissions from outside the two workshops are also
strongly encouraged and will be considered on equal grounds. All
manuscripts will be reviewed according to rigorous external IJCV
reviewing policy to assure quality of the contributions.

The list of possible topics of interest to the special issue includes
(but is not limited to) the following:

--   Tracking and pose estimation (in 2D and 3D);
--   Articulated body models;
--   Priors for human motion and dynamics;
--   Appearance models;
--   Discriminative and generative approaches for articulated pose recovery;
--   Quantitative metrics for evaluation of pose estimation and tracking.


Submission Procedure:
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Manuscripts of full journal length with detailed experimental results
using (but not limited to) HumanEva datasets are solicited for
submission. Due to the retrospective and prospective nature of the
special issue, we will encourage submissions of both original
unpublished works as well as surveys where prior approaches are
evaluated using the data and the metrics provided. The latter are
expected to contain extensive experimental and discussion sections
that go sufficiently beyond experiments presented in the original
publication. Submissions should follow the guidelines set out by IJCV
and will be reviewed accordingly. Authors should submit manuscripts
via IJCV website, http://visi.edmgr.com, by choosing ``Special Issue -
EHuM'' as the Article Type.


Submission Deadline:             January 11, 2008
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