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Call for papers: THEMIS2008


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

  • Sponsored by EU Projects IST-027110 HERMES, IST-045547 VIDI-Video and IST-026408 euCognition:

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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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