--------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2nd CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: ChAirGest - Gesture Recognition Challenge & Workshop https://project.eia-fr.ch/chairgest/Pages/Information.aspx --------------------------------------------------------------------------- The ChAirGest challenge is a research oriented competition designed to encourage researchers to take advantage of data recorded from multiple sensors to optimize methods for gesture spotting and recognition in the context of close HCI. The developed dataset provides researchers a common benchmark tool which enables quantitative comparison of algorithms under strictly comparable conditions. Those algorithms can use any combination of the data types available in the dataset. The provided data come from a Kinect camera placed slightly above the computer screen and 4 Inertial Motion Units (IMU) attached to the right arm and the neck of the subject. The dataset contains 10 different gestures, started from 3 different resting postures and recorded in two different lighting conditions by 10 different subjects. Thus, the total dataset contains 1200 annotated gestures split in continuous video sequences. The goal of the challenge and related workshop is to promote research on methods using multimodal data to spot and recognize gestures in the context of close human-computer interaction The participants will have the possibility to present their results during the full day workshop held at the ICMI’2103 Conference in Sydney, Australia. The papers presented at the workshop will be published in the Conference Proceedings in the ACM Digital Library. Visit the website for more information: https://project.eia-fr.ch/chairgest Request the data: https://project.eia-fr.ch/chairgest/Pages/Download.aspx Contact: chairgest.challenge@gmail.com Google Discussion Group: https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!forum/chairgest Important dates - Data available (upon request) since May 1st, 2013 - Executable program & paper submission: August 15, 2013 - Notification of acceptance: September 15, 2013 - Camera ready paper: October 1st, 2013 Program Committee - Vassilis Athitsos, University of Texas at Arlington, USA - Rama Chellappa, University of Maryland, USA - Alexis Clay, Ecole Supérieure des Technologies Industrielles Avancées, France - Bruno Dumas, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium - Nick Gillian, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA - Qiang Ji, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute of New-York, USA - Daniel Kondermann, University of Heidelberg, Germany - Gérard Medioni, University of South California, USA Organizers - Simon Ruffieux, MISG, University of Applied Sciences of Western Switzerland, Switzerland - Denis Lalanne, DIVA, University of Fribourg, Switzerland - Elena Mugellini, MISG, University of Applied Sciences of Western Switzerland, Switzerland - Daniel Roggen, Culture Lab, University of Newcastle, United Kingdom - Stefano Carrino, MISG, University of Applied Sciences of Western Switzerland, Switzerland