ChaLearn Looking at People 2015 challenges: Action spotting and cultural event recognition

Following previous series on Looking at People (LAP) challenges [6, 5, 4], ChaLearn ran two competitions to be presented at CVPR 2015: action/interaction spotting and cultural event recognition in RGB data. We ran a second round on human activity recognition on RGB data sequences. In terms of cultural event recognition, tens of categories have to be recognized. This involves scene understanding and human analysis. This paper summarizes the two challenges and the obtained results. Details of the ChaLearn LAP competitions can be found at http://gesture.chalearn.org/.

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