Call for Participation SHREC2017 - 3D Shape Retrieval Contest 2017

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

SHREC2017 - 3D Shape Retrieval Contest 2017
http://liris.cnrs.fr/eg3dor2017/#shrec
Contact: shrec@cs.uu.nl

At Eurographics 2017 Workshop on 3D Object Retrieval, 

Introduction
The general objective of the 3D Shape Retrieval Contest is to evaluate
the effectiveness of 3D-shape retrieval algorithms. SHREC'17 is the 
12th edition of the contest. Like previous years, it is organized in
conjunction with the Eurographics Workshop on 3D Object Retrieval, 
where the results will be reviewed by the chairs of the workshop and
included in the workshop proceedings.

Thanks to the efforts of previous track organizers, SHREC already 
provides many resources to compare and evaluate 3D retrieval methods.
For this year's contest, we aim to explore new and updated tracks.
Therefore, the participants are invited to have an active role in 
the organization of the event. This includes proposing track themes,
building or acquiring a test collection, and deciding upon the 
queries, relevance assessment, and performance measures.

The participants of each track will collectively write a paper,
which will be published in the proceedings of the Eurographics 
Workshop 3D Object Retrieval. At least one author per track must
register for the workshop, and present the results. We also cordially
invite all participants of a track to register and attend the workshop.

Tracks
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The following tracks are organized. For description of tasks, the
collections, queries, the evaluation procedure, and time schedule,
follow the links or contact the track organizer.

1.   RGB-D Object-to-CAD Retrieval
 Organizers: Binh-Son Hua, Quang-Hieu Pham, Minh-Khoi Tran, Quang-Trung Truong (Singapore University of Technology and Design)
 Contact: Binh-Son Hua, binhson.hua at gmail.com
 Web page: http://people.sutd.edu.sg/~saikit/projects/sceneNN/shrec17/index.html

2.   3D Hand Gesture Recognition Using a Depth and Skeletal Dataset
 Organizers: Quentin De Smedt, Hazem Wannous, Jean-Phillipe Vandeborre
 Contact: Quentin de Smedt, quentin.desmedt@telecom-lille.fr
 Web page: http://www-rech.telecom-lille.fr/shrec2017-hand/

3.   Large-scale 3D Shape Retrieval from ShapeNet Core55
 Organizers: Manolis Savva, Hao Su (Stanford University), Fisher Yu, Tom Funkhouser (Princeton University)
 Contact: Manolis Savva, manolis.savva at gmail.com
 Web page: https://shapenet.cs.stanford.edu/shrec17/

4.   Classification of protein shapes
 Organizers: Haiguang Liu (Beijing Computational Science Research Center)
 Contact: Haiguang Liu, hgliu at csrc.ac.cn
 Web page: http://liulab.csrc.ac.cn/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=shrec2017

5.   Point-Cloud Shape Retrieval of Non-Rigid Toys
 Organizers: Frederico A. Limberger, Richard C. Wilson (University of York)
 Contact: Frederico Limberger, fal504 at york.ac.uk
 Web page: https://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/~fal/pronto/

6.   Deformable Shape Retrieval with Missing Parts
 Organizers: Emanuele Rodola (Universita della Svizzera Italiana), Or
 Litany (Tel Aviv University), Michael Bronstein (Universita della
  Svizzera Italiana)
 Contact: Emanuele Rodola e.rodola at gmail.com
 Web site: http://sites.google.com/view/shrec17/

7.   Retrieval of relief patterns
 Organizers: Silvia Biasotti (IMATI CNR), Andrea Giachetti
 (University of Verona)
 Contact: Silvia Biasotti, silvia at ge.imati.cnr.it
 

Procedure
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The following list is a step-by-step description of the activities:

-   Potential track organizers send their proposal to shrec@cs.uu.nl
    , describing the envisioned task, collection,
    queries, ground truth, evaluation method, and expected number of 
    participants.
-   Promising tracks and their organizers will be listed at the SHREC
    web page, the track organizers start working out the details.
-   Participants register for the tracks they want to participate in.
-   Each track is performed according to its own schedule.
-   The track organizers collect the results.
-   The track results are combined into a joint paper, to be included
    in the proceedings of the Eurographics Workshop on 3D Object Retrieval.
-   The description of the tracks and their results are presented at the 
    Eurographics Workshop on 3D Object Retrieval (April 23-24, 2017).

SHREC Time Schedule
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    January 15, 2017: Submission deadline for track proposals
    January 16, 2017: Notification of acceptance of track proposals
    Jan, Feb, 2017: Each track has its own time line
    February 21, 2017: Each track is finished, and results are ready
         for inclusion in a track report
    February 28, 2017: Submit track papers for review
    March 7, 2017: All reviews due, feedback and notifications
    March 17, 2017: Camera ready track papers submitted for inclusion
         in the proceedings
    April 23-24, 2017: EUROGRAPHICS Workshop on 3D Object Retrieval 2017, 
         including SHREC 2017

The individual tracks will have their own time schedule for registration
of participants, release of queries or submission of executables, and 
submission of results, etc.

Organization
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For information about the contest, the results, etc. of previous years,
see past events below. The results of SHREC 2017 are presented at the 
Eurographics Workshop on 3D Object Retrieval, see 
http://liris.cnrs.fr/eg3dor2017/. To contact the organizers, send a 
message to shrec@cs.uu.nl.