ICPR - HARL 2012

Human activities recognition and localization competition

RESULTS

28.09.2012 Results are available!
01.09.2012 The submission deadline has passed, we are currently evaluating the submissions.
15.7.2011 The test dataset has been published.
02.12.2011 Kinect calibration details and correspondence software have been published.
01.12.2011 The ground truth annotation has been published.

The goal of the HARL 2012 competition is recognition of complex human activities. In contrast to previous competitions and existing datasets, the proposed tasks focus on complex human behavior involving several people in the video at the same time, on actions involving several interacting people and on human-object interactions. The goal is not only to classify activities, but also to detect and to localize them. The dataset is shot with two different cameras: a moving camera mounted on a mobile robot delivering grayscale videos in VGA resolution and depth images from a consumer depth camera (Primesense/MS Kinect); and a consumer camcorder delivering color videos in DVD resolution.

The dataset used for the competition is the LIRIS human activities dataset, which consists of 10 classes. Each of classes can be a normal activity, a human-human interaction or a human-object interaction, or a combination of the latter two types:

1DIDiscussion of two or several peopleHH
2GIA person gives an item to a second personHH, HO
3BOAn item is picked up or put down (into/from a box, drawer, desk etc.)HO
4ENA person enters or leaves an office-
5ETA person tries to enter an office unsuccessfully-
6LOA person unlocks an office and then enters it-
7UBA person leaves baggage unattended (drop and leave) HO
8HSHandshaking of two peopleHH
9KBA person types on a keyboard HO
10TEA person talks on a telephoneHO

More information on the dataset, file formats, and downloads can be found on the LIRIS human activities dataset site.

Competition schedule

Oct 1, 2011 Contest announcement to participants (tasks, dataset and metrics). The training/validation part of dataset will be available
Dec 1, 2011 Annotated groundtruth including bounding boxes will be available for the training/validation part.
Jul 15, 2012 The test part of dataset will be available (with annotations). The participants will now have 1 month and a half (two weeks in july and the whole month of august 2012) to run their algorithms on the test set and to submit the results, which are due on September 1st, 2012.
Sep 1, 2012 Participants' deadline for submission of results and executables
Oct 1, 2012 Submissions of contest results to participants and ICPR 2012 contest Co-Chairs

A valid submission of results (due on Sep. 1st 2012) will contain:

Rankings

Each participant may chose whether to submit results using:

For each of these 3 possible settings, it is possible to return:

All combinations are possible, at the end of the competition we will publish 6 different rankings.

D1 (Kinect/Robot) Localization evaluation (bounding boxes)
D2 (camcorder) Localization evaluation (bounding boxes)
D1+D2 (Kinect/Robot + camcorder) Localization evaluation (bounding boxes)
D1 (Kinect/Robot) No localization evaluation (presence check only)
D2 (camcorder) No localization evaluation (presence check only)
D1+D2 (Kinect/Robot + camcorder) No localization evaluation (presence check only)

Evaluation & metrics

The goal of the competition is

Different actions may happen in parallel in the same video at the same time. The ground truth data will therefore be annotated by marking labeled bounding boxes for each frame of each action (Details on the annotation can be found on the dataset page).

The ground truth annotation will be segmented into action occurrences regrouping all frames and bounding boxes of the same action. This makes it possible to provide more meaningful recall and precision values - indeed, a recall of 90% is easier to interpret if it tells us that 90% of the actions have been correctly detected, than if its says that, e.g. 90% of the action bounding boxes have been correctly detected on 100% of the activities.

Participants will report results in the same format - this means that the detection results need to be segmented in the same way: each detected action consists of a list of bounding boxes, where each bounding box corresponds to a frame. Each action must consist of consecutive frames, no holes are allowed in the sequence.

Detailed information on the evaluation metrics is found on a dedicated page on evaluation.

Registration and contact information

Registration is now closed. Questions on this competition can be sent to the following address :

Committee and contact information

HARL 2012 is organized by the following people:

Christian Wolf LIRIS
Julien Mille LIRIS
Eric Lombardi LIRIS
Bülent Sankur BUSIM
Emmanuel Dellandréa LIRIS
Christophe Garcia LIRIS
Charles-Edmond Bichot LIRIS
Mingyuan Jiu LIRIS
Oya Celiktutan BUSIM,LIRIS
Moez Baccouche LIRIS