Congratulations to the round 1 winners! 1) Quantitative evaluation (one-shot-learning challenge) 1st place: alfnie (Alfonso Nieto Castañón) 2nd place: Pennect (University of Pennsylvania) 3rd place: One Million Monkeys (Eric Jackson) 2) Qualitative evaluation (demo competition) 1st place: Cem Keskin, Eray Berger and Lale Akarun (hand gestures) 2nd place: Ilaria Gori, Sean Ryan Fanello, Giorgio Metta, Francesca Odone (memory game) 3rd place: Gabriele Fanelli, Juergen Gall, Luc Van Gool (head position) Prizes (round 2)$20,000 in cash prizes (no strings attached) + travel awards + up to $100,000 in IP licensing awards (see rules). Kinect sample data |
NewsCVPR 2012 workshop and demonstration competition (June 16-17) Submissions for round2 are open! ROUND 1 RESULTS:
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Humans are capable of recognizing patterns like hand gestures after seeing just one example. Can machines do that too?
We are organizing a challenge on gesture and sign language recognition from video data. We are mostly focusing on hand gestures, although facial expressions and whole body motion may enter into account. Applications include recognizing signals for man-machine communication, translating sign languages for the deaf to hearing people, and computer gaming.
The challenge is associated with events at major machine learning and vision conferences (see the calendar below). We are planning to run two gesture recognition demo competitions at CVPR 2012 and ICPR 2012.
The challenge is organized by ChaLearn and is sponsored in part by Microsoft (Kinect for Xbox 360). The submission website is hosted by Kaggle.com. Other sponsors include Texas Instrument. This effort was initiated by the DARPA Deep Learning program and is supported by the US National Science Foundation (NSF) under grants ECCS 1128436 and ECCS 1128296 , the EU Pascal2 network of excellence and the Challenges in Machine Learning foundation. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.
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