Call for papers

Person re-identification refers to the problem of recognising a person at a different location after one has been captured by a camera at an early location. Solving the re-identification problem has gained increasing attention over the last five years.

The problem has many synonyms, depending on the kind of application considered. Whereas we have a tracking scenario with only one camera, and the target vanishes for a while due to occlusions, the problem is about re-acquisition, e.g. in domotics applications or in health-care scenarios when the primary aim is to keep the identity of a person while one moves about in his/her apartment.  For non-cooperative face recognition, solving the re-identification problem is also valuable in a human-robot interaction scenario, where the identity of the interlocutor is maintained and re-used when needed. In a large public space environment such as airport terminals, re-identification is mostly considered as the task of object association in multi-camera networks, where the goal is to keep track of an individual across cameras with non-overlapping fields of views.

Solving the person re-identification problem can benefit from utilising heterogeneous information by learning more effective attributes, exploiting spatio-temporal statistics, estimating how features map across different cameras, taking into account soft-biometric cues (e.g. height, sex), and considering contextual cues (e.g. baggage, other people nearby).

The aim of Re-Id 2012 is to bring together a wide range of researchers in computer vision, pattern recognition and machine learning areas to share innovative ideas and solutions for addressing different declinations of the re-identification problem, proposing novel datasets for benchmarking, and identifying new challenges.

Topics:

• Learning-based re-identification
• Direct (non-learning based) re-identification
• On-line/real time re-identification
• Re-identification by contextual knowledge
• Re-identification by soft biometrics
• Single-shot (only one image for gallery/test for each person)/multi-shot re-identification
• Re-identification by behavioral cues
• Re-identification of groups/crowd
• Attribute learning
• Generative/discriminative/hybrid learning
• Transfer learning
• Multiple-instance learning
• Human-robot interaction
• Domotics
• Video surveillance

Deadlines:

• July 4, 2012 (11.59pm PST): paper submission (EXTENDED!)
• July 26 , 2012 (3 days delay): acceptance notification
• August 1, 2012: camera ready submission

Best Paper Award: A Best Paper Award will be nominated by the Program Committee. The recipient(s) of the award will be given a cash prize (700 euros) sponsored by our industrial sponsors.