• Goal and Scope
• Topics
• Invited Speakers
• Program
• Schedule
• Time, Location and Registration
• Proceedings and Special Issue
• Instructions

Organization

Workshop Chairs

• Kai O. Arras, Social Robotics Lab, Univ. of Freiburg, Germany
• Oscar Martinez Mozos, Robotics and Real-Time Group, Univ. of Zaragoza, Spain

Program Committee

• Wael Abd-Almageed, Inst. for Advanced Computer Studies, Univ. of Maryland, USA
• Wolfram Burgard, Autonomous Intelligent Systems Lab, Univ. of Freiburg, Germany
• Henrik Christensen, College of Computing, Georgia Inst. of Technology, USA
• James L. Crowley, INRIA Grenoble Research Center, France
• Tsutomu Hasegawa, Intelligent Robots and Vision Systems Lab, Kyushu Univ., Japan
• Patric Jensfelt, CAS, KTH Stockholm, Sweden
• Ryo Kurazume, Dept. of Intelligent Systems, Kyushu Univ., Japan
• Bastian Leibe, UMIC Research Centre, RWTH Aachen Univ., Germany
• Ales Leonardis, Visual Cognitive Systems Laboratory, Univ. of Ljubljana, Slovenia
• Larry Matthies, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA, USA
• Bernt Schiele, Multimodal Interactive Systems Group, Univ. of Darmstadt, Germany
• Roland Siegwart, Autonomous Systems Lab, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
• Luciano Spinello, Autonomous Systems Lab, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
• Josephine Sullivan, Learning, Recognition and Visualisation Group, KTH Stockholm, Sweden

Goal and Scope

As robots enter more domains in which they interact and cooperate closely with humans, the capacity of machines to detect and track humans is becoming a key technology for many areas in robotics. Socially interact with people, avoiding the violation of their intimate space, monitoring activities of elderly people, tracking pedestrians in public or semi-public spaces or detecting intruders in a surveillance scenario are examples of tasks that rely on the ability to robustly detect and track people.

Recent advances in estimation theory, data association, new techniques from machine learning as well as progress in sensor technology have enabled us to design people detection and tracking systems with decent classification rates. However, there is great demand for even more robust systems, especially over a wider range of conditions, and an increasing interest from industry for intelligent cars or surveillance of public areas.

This workshop brings together key researchers in the domain of people detection and tracking with an emphasis to unite people from the vision community and the community that has mostly worked with range finders. The goal is to provide a representative survey of the state-of-the-art and to transfer knowledge within and across the communities. We will focus primarily on theoretical aspects (see list of topics) but are also interested in practical questions, e.g., pedestrian detection from mobile platforms, human activity understanding or applications.

Topics

Examples of topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• People detection and tracking with vision, laser and/or other sensors
• Tracking of groups of people and/or interacting targets
• Learning and model-based approaches
• Probabilistic frameworks for simultaneous segmentation, detection and tracking
• Multi-sensor fusion/integration approaches
• Advanced target tracking and data association methods
• Advanced handling of occlusion, fragmentation, and merging
• Multi-hypothesis model selection methods
• Distributed sensors for people detection/tracking
• Performance metrics and evaluation of people tracking systems
• Practical applications: human-robot interaction, activity monitoring, intelligent cars, surveillance etc.

Invited Speakers

The workshop accomodates both, talks from invited speakers (see hereafter) and peer reviewed call for paper contributions.

• James L. Crowley, INRIA Grenoble Research Center, France
• Bernt Schiele, Multimodal Interactive Systems Group, Univ. of Darmstadt, Germany
• Luciano Spinello, Autonomous Systems Lab, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
• Josephine Sullivan, Learning, Recognition and Visualisation Group, KTH Stockholm, Sweden

Program

The workshop proceedings including all papers and a linked table of contents is available here (pdf, 16MB)

Invited talks

• Situation Models: A Tool for Observing and Understanding Activity,
  James L. Crowley, Patrick Reignier, Remi Barranquand, INRIA Grenoble Research Center, France
• Visual People Detection: Different Models, Comparison and Discussion,
  Bernt Schiele, Mykhaylo Andriluka, Nikodem Majer, Stefan Roth, Christian Wojek, Univ. of Darmstadt, Germany
• A Trained System for Multimodal Perception in Urban Environments,
  Luciano Spinello, Rudolph Triebel, Roland Siegwart, Autonomous Systems Lab, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
• Multi-target Tracking on a Large Scale: Experiences from Football Player Tracking,
  Josephine Sullivan, Peter Nillius, Stefan Carlsson, KTH Stockholm, Sweden

Talks

• Results from a Real-time Stereo-based Pedestrian Detection System on a Moving Vehicle,
  Max Bajracharya, Baback Moghaddam, Andrew Howard, Shane Brennan, Larry H. Matthies, JPL, Caltech, USA
• Motion Planning for People Tracking in Uncertain and Dynamic Environments,
  Tirthankar Bandyopadhyay, Nan Rong, Marcelo Ang, David Hsu, Wee Sun Lee, SMART Centre and Univ. of Singapore
• Improved Multi-Person Tracking with Active Occlusion Handling,
  Andreas Ess, Konrad Schindler, Bastian Leibe, Luc Van Gool, RWTH Aachen Univ., Germany, and ETH Zurich, CH
• Visual Person Tracking Using a Cognitive Observation Model,
  Simone Frintrop, Achim Königs, Frank Hoeller, Dirk Schulz, Univ. of Bonn and FKIE Wachtberg, Germany
• Multi-model Hypothesis Group Tracking and Group Size Estimation,
  Boris Lau, Kai O. Arras, Wolfram Burgard, Autonomous Intelligent Systems Group, Univ. of Freiburg, Germany
• Spatially Grounded Multi-hypothesis Tracking of People,
  Matthias Luber, Gian Diego Tipaldi, Kai O. Arras, Social Robotics Lab, Univ. of Freiburg, Germany
• Multi-Layer People Detection using 2D Range Data,
  Oscar Martinez Mozos, Ryo Kurazume, Tsutomu Hasegawa, Univ. of Zaragoza, Spain, and Univ. of Kyushu, Japan

Posters

• Visual Receding Horizon Estimation for Human Presence Detection,
  Damien Brulin, Estelle Courtial, Guillaume Allibert, École Nat. Sup. d'Ingénieurs de Bourges and Univ. d'Orléans, France
• Multiple People Detection from a Mobile Robot using Double Layered Laser Range Finders,
  Alexander Carballo, Akihisa Ohya, Shin'ichi Yuta, Intelligent Robot Laboratory, Univ. of Tsukuba, Japan
• Estimation of Pedestrian Distribution in Indoor Environments using Multiple Pedestrian Tracking,
  Muhammad Emaduddin, Dylan A. Shell, Computer Science Dept., Univ. of Southern California, USA
• Improved Human Detection using Image Fusion,
  Erwin T. Gilmore, Preston Frazier, and Mohamed Chouikha, Howard University in Washington, DC, USA
• Real-Time Object Tracking and Classification Using a Static Camera,
  Swantje Johnsen, Ashley Tews, Hamburg Univ. of Technology, Germany and CSIRO, Australia
• A Dioptric Stereo System for Robust Real-time People Tracking,
  Ester Martinez, Angel P. del Pobil, Robotic Intelligence Lab, Jaume-I Univ. Castellón, Spain
• Experimental Evaluation of a People Detection Algorithm in Dynamic Environments,
  Dario Lodi Rizzini, Stefano Caselli, Robotics and Intelligent Machines Laboratory, Univ. of Parma, Italy
• Robust Stereo-Based Person Detection and Tracking for a Person Following Robot,
  Junji Satake, Jun Miura, Dept. of Information and Computer Sciences, Toyohashi Univ. of Technology, Japan
• Stream Field Based People Searching and Tracking Conditioned on SLAM,
  Kuo-Shih Tseng, Angela Chih-Wei Tang, MSRL, ITRI, Hsinchu, and National Central Univ., Taiwan.

Schedule

Time, Location and Registration

Time: 9.00 am - 5.00 pm

Location: Room 405, Session TW-F5

Registration: Please register here (ICRA Workshop registration)

Proceedings and Special Issue

The workshop proceedings including all papers is available here (pdf, 16MB)

There will be a special issue on people detection and tracking in the International Journal of Social Robotics in connection with this workshop. Submissions will go through a separate peer review process.

Important dates:

• Submission of Manuscripts: August 15th, 2009 (extended)
• Notification of Acceptance: October 1st, 2009 (extended)
• Submission of Final Paper: November 1st, 2009 (extended)
• Publication: January 2010

Instructions

Instructions for authors:

Your paper should comply with the following guidelines:

• IEEE two-column style, 6-8 pages, US letter format
• Submit the final manuscript by sending a pdf file to Kai O. Arras
• Do not upload your paper into the ICRA submission system
• Use standard fonts, do not secure or password-protect your pdf file
• Deadline: March 3, 2009 (extended, firm)

Instructions for speakers:

• There are 25 minutes slots for each talk, 15-20 minutes for the presentation, 5-10 minutes for the discussion
• We kindly ask you to respect the timing

Instructions for poster presentations:

• Posters should be in a portrait (vertical) format not exceeding the usual size (such as A0: 119 cm height x 84 cm width)
• Please bring adhesive tape and a couple of pins to attach your poster
  (we do not know details about the poster display walls)
• Each poster paper will be briefly presented by the organizers in one of the three poster spotlights