ChaLearn looking at people 2015 new competitions: Age estimation and cultural event recognition

Following previous series on Looking at People (LAP) challenges [1], [2], [3], in 2015 ChaLearn runs two new competitions within the field of Looking at People: age and cultural event recognition in still images. We propose the first crowd-sourcing application to collect and label data about apparent age of people instead of the real age. In terms of cultural event recognition, tens of categories have to be recognized. This involves scene understanding and human analysis. This paper summarizes both challenges and data, providing some initial baselines. The results of the first round of the competition were presented at ChaLearn LAP 2015 IJCNN special session on computer vision and robotics http://www.dtic.ua.es/~jgarcia/IJCNN2015. Details of the ChaLearn LAP competitions can be found at http://gesture.chalearn.org/.

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