THEMIS2009
2nd IEEE Int. Workshop on Tracking Humans for the
Evaluation of their Motion in Image Sequences
In conjunction with ICCV2009 ( http://www.iccv2009.org/ )
October 3rd, 2009
Kyoto, Japan
http://iselab.cvc.uab.es/themis2009

During the past decades, important efforts in computer vision research
have been focused on the description of human movements in image
sequences. Broadly speaking, the main goal was the estimation of
quantitative parameters describing where human motion is
detected. Nowadays, the focus is on the analysis of image sequences by
applying image and scene understanding techniques to that detected
human motion. That is, the true challenge is the generation of
qualitative descriptions about the meaning of motion, therefore
understanding not only where, but also why a human behaviour is being
observed. These goals have become a key task in many computer vision
applications, such as image and scene understanding; video indexing
and retrieval; video surveillance and advanced human-computer
interaction.

The Second International Workshop on Tracking Humans for the
Evaluation of their Motion in Image Sequences (THEMIS2009) will focus
on the understanding of human behaviours in image sequences based on
cmputer vision. THEMIS2009 is interested on human motion understanding
techniques for surveillance but also for sports, news, documentaries
and movie footage.

THEMIS2009 will aim at promoting interaction and collaboration among
researchers specialising in these related fields:
- High-level behaviour recognition and understanding;
- Use of ontologies on human motion for video footage;
- Browsing, indexing and retrieval of human behaviours in video;
- Region categorization in human-populated scenarios;
- Automatic annotation of human motion in video content;
- Natural-language description of human behaviours;
- Cognitive surveillance and ambient intelligence;
- Learning models for behaviour analysis (body/face);
- Recognizing behaviours in multimedia archives.
- Human behaviour synthesis: articulated models and animation;

See web site for complete and updated information.

SUBMISSION DATES
Submission of full papers: June 19th, 2009
Notification of acceptance: July 24th, 2009
Camera Ready: August 14th, 2009
2nd THEMIS Workshop 2009: October 3rd, 2009

Please submit your paper using the EasyChair system:
https://www.easychair.org/login.cgi?conf=themis2009

Double submissions with ICCV 2009 are accepted, in accordance with the
policies of the conference.

Accepted papers will be published in the main DVD proceedings book of
ICCV in a journal with JCR impact factor.

More details on paper submission rules and guidelines are available on
the workshop website.

WORKSHOP COMMITTEE
Jordi Gonz?lez, Universitat Aut?noma de Barcelona, Spain
Thomas B. Moeslund, University of Aalborg, Denmark
Liang Wang, University of Melbourne, Australia

Sponsored by EU Projects IST-027110 HERMES, IST-045547 VIDI-Video. gh