News

• June 30th, 2013: Some pictures from the ACTS'13 workshop:

• June 23rd, 2013: The Microsoft sponsored 1000$ prize for best paper / best performance on the ASLAN challenge was awarded to Y. Hanani, N. Levy, and L. Wolf, for their paper "Evaluating new variants of Motion Interchange Patterns".

• March 17th, 2013: We are happy to announce that Microsoft will be sponsoring best paper awards for the ACTS'13 workshop. We gratefully acknowledge their support!

Introduction

The ACTS'13 workshop aims to promote discussion and research of Action Recognition in unconstrained videos. This, by focusing on the following, atomic, "Action Pair-Matching" problem:

We focus on the "same vs not-same" question for action recognition, instead of category action labeling. The ability to compare two videos and correctly determine if they both present the same action requires fine-grained Action Recognition, and reasoning about Action Similarity. This is directly relevant to video retrieval, ranking, and similarity applications.

The ACTS'13 workshop is therefore primarily designed as a performance evaluation / competition on the "The Action Similarity LAbeliNg" (ASLAN) benchmark. We solicit papers presenting new results on this benchmark and the workshop will recognize the best performing methods. In addition, following the central theme of Action Recognition in unconstrained, "in-the-wild" videos, we solicit also papers introducing new ideas and techniques related to Action Recognition in such conditions; presenting new results on the ASLAN set is recommended, but it is not a requirement for participation.

Please see our call for papers for a detailed list of topics.

Contact information:

For questions or concerns, please e-mail: hassner -at- openu.ac.il

Award Sponsors

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