Artemis 2011, an ICCV 2011 workshop, aims at continuing the great successful of the 1st ACM workshop held in Florence (Italy) in conjunction with the ACM Multimedia 2010, by merging the audience of two previously international workshops devoted, on one hand, to the analysis and retrieval of events, actions and workflows in video streams (AREA) and on the other hand to the tracking of humans for the evaluation of their motion in image sequences (THEMIS).
The first was held in conjunction with ACM Multimedia 2008 in Vancouver Canada and the second held twice. One in conjunction with BMVC2008 at the University of Leeds (United Kingdom) on September 5, 2008 and one in conjunction with ICCV2009 at the University of Kyoto (Japan) on October 3, 2009.
The 1st ACM ARTEMIS workshop was one of the most successive workshops of ACM Multimedia 2010. In total, 27 papers from 17 different countries were submitted. To ensure the high quality, all submissions were refereed strictly by at least two experts in the related fields based on the criteria of originality, significance, quality and clarity. As a result, 14 papers (52%) were accepted. Moreover, 2 demos were presented during the workshop. In addition, two special issues in journals were launched by this workshop. One in the Computer Vision and Image Understanding (CVIU) journal and one in the Multimedia Tools and Applications (MTAP) Journal indicating the high success of this call.
The previous merged workshops were also successful. The 1st ACM AREA workshop has taken place in conjunction with ACM Multimedia in Vancouver Canada, July 2008 with a great success. More than twenty five (25) high quality papers have been submitted to this specialized workshop from main research institutes all over the world. The 16 selected papers has been presented in one full day workshop in Vancouver Canada, being organized in four (4) sessions with thematic areas: (i) Object Tracking and Surveillance in Videos; (ii) Detection of Events; (iii) Event-Driven Video Analysis and (iv) On going research activities. In addition, special issue of the Multimedia Tools and Applications Journal (Springer Press, SCI Journal) was organized.
The First International Workshop on THEMIS was held in conjunction with BMVC2008 at the University of Leeds (United Kingdom) on September 5, 2008. In total, 22 papers from 7 countries were submitted, of which 13 (59%) were accepted.
The Second IEEE International Workshop on THEMIS was held in conjunction with ICCV2009 at the University of Kyoto (Japan) on October 3, 2009. In total, 20 papers from 11 countries were submitted, of which 13 (65%) were accepted.