PETS 2013 - 2013 IEEE International Workshop on Performance Evaluation of Tracking and Surveillance (PETS 2013)

Visual surveillance is a major research area in computer vision. The scientific challenge in crowd image analysis is to devise and implement automatic systems for obtaining detailed information about the movements of, and collective behaviour of, individuals and groups within a crowded scene observed by a single camera or by a network of cameras.
Crowd image analysis is a key technology in the following areas:
the fight against terrorism and crime including threat assessment
public safety, especially in transport networks, town centres and public facilities such as schools, hospitals and sports grounds
the efficient management of transport networks and public facilities
The growth in the development of the field has not been met with complementary systematic performance evaluation of developed techniques. It is especially difficult to make comparisons between algorithms if they have been tested on different datasets under widely varying conditions.