-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [isworld] Call for papers: THEMIS2008 Datum: Mon, 16 Jun 2008 10:32:45 +1000 Von: Liang Wang lwwang@csse.unimelb.edu.au Antwort an: Liang Wang lwwang@csse.unimelb.edu.au An: AISWORLD Information Systems World Network isworld@lyris.isworld.org
First Announcement and Call for Contributions
1st INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP
THEMIS 2008
Tracking Humans for the Evaluation of their Motion in Image Sequences
September 5th, 2008
Leeds, UK
http://iselab.cvc.uab.es/themis2008
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During the past three decades, important research efforts in computer vision have been focused on developing theories, methods and systems applied to the description of human movements in image sequences. Broadly speaking, in the past the main goal was the estimation of quantitative parameters describing where was motion. Nowadays, the focus is on the analysis of image sequences by incorporating cognitive processes which provides interpretation and understanding for 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 motion is being observed. This goal called Human Sequence Evaluation (HSE) has become a key task in many promising computer-vision applications, such as smart video surveillance or advanced human-computer interfaces.
Towards this end, the advancement of novel cognitive capabilities does increase the relation between multiple research areas, using computer vision as the main tool: it is then of particular interest to organize a workshop which encourages links between Computer Vision research and other fields, such as Artificial Intelligence, Computational Linguistics, Computer Animation and Multimedia Semantics, which share common goals to understand and describe the human behaviour observed in image sequences. The aim is then to have representatives from all these research areas, and to promote discussion between the different research groups on topics of mutual interest.
Thus, the First International Workshop on Tracking Humans for the Evaluation of their Motion in Image Sequences (THEMIS’08) will take a step forward towards the interpretation of human behaviour in image sequences. The goal is to provide cross-disciplinary approach to addressing the aforementioned problems on the topic of computational models of human behaviour understanding using cognitive systems, with the purpose to advance understanding of the state-of-the-art on evaluation in the frame of cognitive processing. This will imply to discuss about possible research synergies and collaborations, and also about semantic enhancements which can be applied based on the numeric data obtained from tracking processes.
As a result, THEMIS’08 will aim at promoting interaction and collaboration among researchers specialising in these related fields:
- Cognitive visual surveillance; - Ambient intelligence; - High-level behaviour recognition and scene understanding; - Identification of semantic regions in human-populated scenarios; - Ontologies and semantic mapping on human motion; - Human behaviour analysis: articulated models and animation; - Content-based browsing, indexing and retrieval of behaviours in video; - Natural-language description of human behaviours from image sequences; - Learning human models for behaviour synthesis (body/face); - Learning human motion semantics from multimedia content.
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ORGANISING COMMITTEE
Jordi Gonzàlez Institut de Robòtica i Informàtica Industrial, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Thomas B. Moeslund University of Aalborg, Denmark
Liang Wang University of Melbourne, Australia
- In conjunction with BMVC 2008 (http://www.comp.leeds.ac.uk/bmvc2008/)
- Sponsored by EU Projects IST-027110 HERMES, IST-045547 VIDI-Video and IST-026408 euCognition:
- Local organisation by: Research lab on Image Sequence Evaluation http://iselab.cvc.uab.es/
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SUBMISSION DATES
Submission of full papers: July 7th, 2008 Notification of acceptance: July 30th, 2008 Camera Ready: August 6th, 2008 1st THEMIS Workshop 2008: September 5th, 2008
Please submit your paper using the EasyChair system: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=themis2008
Papers should not be longer than 8 pages (use BMVC format). The paper should be kept anonymous during the review process. Any indications of name and affiliation should be removed from the paper.
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INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
Marco Bertini, University of Florence, Italy Alberto del Bimbo, University of Florence, Italy Stefan Carlsson, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden Rama Chellappa, University of Maryland, USA Rita Cucchiara, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy Bob Fisher, University of Edinburgh, UK GianLuca Foresti, University of Udine, Italy Theo Gevers, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Erik Granum, University of Aalborg, Denmark Marcin Grzegorzek, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany Adrian Hilton, University of Surrey, UK Vasek Hlavac, Czech Technical University, Czech Republic Weiming Hu, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Volker Krüger, University of Aalborg, Denmark Xiaohui Liu, University of Brunel, UK Jorge S. Marques, Technical University of Lisboa, Portugal Johannes Matiasek, Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Austria Steve Maybank, Birkbeck, University of London, UK Hans-Hellmut Nagel, Universität Karlsruhe, Germany Dietrich Paulus, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany Francisco Perales, Universitat de les Illes Balears, Spain Ian Reid, University of Oxford, UK Paolo Remagnino, Digital University of Kingston, UK F. Xavier Roca, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain Alberto Sanfeliu, Institut de Robòtica i Informàtica Industrial, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain Paul Schrater, University of Minnesota, USA Stan Sclaroff, University of Boston, USA Nicu Sebe, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Nils T. Siebel, University of Kiel, Germany Arnold W. M. Smeulders, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Cristian Sminchisescu, University of Toronto, Canada Steffen Staab, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany Monique Thonnat, INRIA Sophia Antipolis - Méditerranée, France John K. Tsotsos, University of Toronto, Canada Harald Trost, Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Austria Javier Varona, Universitat de les Illes Balears, Spain David Vernon, Etisalat University College, UAE Roberto Vezzani, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy Juan J. Villanueva, Computer Vision Center, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
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CONTACT
Jordi Gonzàlez Institut de Robòtica i Informàtica Industrial, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya - Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain Phone: +34 93 581 1828 (direct line) Fax: +34 93 581 1670 E-MAIL: poal-at-cvc.uab.es http://www.cvc.uab.es/~poal
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