Multimodal Technologies for Perception of Humans First International

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Editorial Board David Hutchison Lancaster University, UK Takeo Kanade Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA Josef Kittler University of Surrey, Guildford, UK Jon M. Kleinberg Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA Friedemann Mattern ETH Zurich, Switzerland John C. Mitchell Stanford University, CA, USA Moni Naor Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel Oscar Nierstrasz University of Bern, Switzerland C. Pandu Rangan Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India Bernhard Steffen University of Dortmund, Germany Madhu Sudan Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MA, USA Demetri Terzopoulos University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA Doug Tygar University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA Moshe Y. Vardi Rice University, Houston, TX, USA Gerhard Weikum Max-Planck Institute of Computer Science, Saarbruecken, Germany

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Rainer Stiefelhagen John Garofolo (Eds.)

Multimodal Technologies for Perception of Humans First International Evaluation Workshop on Classification of Events, Activities and Relationships, CLEAR 2006 Southampton, UK, April 6-7, 2006 Revised Selected Papers

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Volume Editors Rainer Stiefelhagen Universität Karlsruhe (TH) Institut für Theoretische Informatik Am Fasanengarten 5, 76131 Karlsruhe, Germany E-mail: [email protected] John Garofolo National Institute of Standards and Technology 100 Bureau Drive, Stop 8940, Gaithersburg, MD 20899-8940, USA E-mail: [email protected]

Library of Congress Control Number: 2006939517 CR Subject Classification (1998): I.4, I.5, I.2.10, I.3.5, I.2.6, F.2.2 LNCS Sublibrary: SL 6 – Image Processing, Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition, and Graphics ISSN ISBN-10 ISBN-13

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Preface

During winter and spring 2006, the first international CLEAR evaluation took place, which targets the evaluation of systems for the perception of people, their identities, activities, interactions and relationships in human–human interaction scenarios as well as related scenarios. As part of the evaluation, a two-day workshop was held during April 6–7, 2006, in Southampton, UK, in which the participating