@inproceedings{bdf6b50d848f4d4eabf707065dbac816,
title = "PETS2021: Through-foliage detection and tracking challenge and evaluation",
abstract = "This paper presents the outcomes of the PETS2021 challenge held in conjunction with AVSS2021 and sponsored by the EU FOLDOUT project. The challenge comprises the publication of a novel video surveillance dataset on through-foliage detection, the defined challenges addressing person detection and tracking in fragmented occlusion scenarios, and quantitative and qualitative performance evaluation of challenge results submitted by six worldwide participants. The results show that while several detection and tracking methods achieve overall good results, through-foliage detection and tracking remains a challenging task for surveillance systems especially as it serves as the input to behaviour (threat) recognition.",
author = "Luis Patino and Jonathan Boyle and James Ferryman and Jonas Auer and Julian Pegoraro and Roman Pflugfelder and Mertcan Cokbas and Janusz Konrad and Prakash Ishwar and Giulia Slavic and Lucio Marcenaro and Yifan Jiang and Youngsaeng Jin and Hanseok Ko and Guangliang Zhao and Guy Ben-Yosef and Jianwei Qiu",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2021 IEEE.; 17th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal-Based Surveillance, AVSS 2021 ; Conference date: 16-11-2021 Through 19-11-2021",
year = "2021",
month = jan,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1109/AVSS52988.2021.9663837",
language = "English",
series = "AVSS 2021 - 17th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal-Based Surveillance",
publisher = "Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers",
booktitle = "AVSS 2021 - 17th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal-Based Surveillance",
address = "United States",
}