ActivityNet Announcements: Reminder to Submit the Technical Reports (Deadline on June 9th)

[Humam Alwassel]

Dear ActivityNet Participants,

The organizers would like to the following announcements:

• A reminder that the technical reports deadline is on June 9th at 23:59 PDT. 
• Please be advised that a solution will not be considered for any prizes if the participant fails to submit the paper detailing their approach. 
• Find the most frequently asked questions about the technical report submission below.
• Please consider preparing the technical report regardless of your submission performance or standing on the leaderboard. These technical reports are valuable to the community and we plan to have them as part of the workshop published materials.

We are happy to see that this year's submissions are pushing the limits of state-of-the-art human activity understanding in videos. If you have any questions or comments about the challenge, please contact us on our Google Group.

Regards,
ActivityNet Challenge Organizers

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Q: How do we submit the papers?

A:  Please email your papers to us at ca...@adobe.com, humam.a...@kaust.edu.sa, mengm...@kaust.edu.sa, and victor....@kaust.edu.sa. Please send one single email to all FOUR email addresses.

Q: What is the format of the paper submission? Is there a page limit?

A: We do not require any specific format/template, and we do not have a page limit. The more details you give about the approach, the better we can assess and analyze the solution. You can consult previous years' challenge summaries (2017, 2018) for examples of the submitted papers. Please make sure to include the following minimum required information in your submitted paper:

• name(s) and affiliation(s)
• challenge task number(s)
• architecture/pipeline of the solution along with a description of each module
• details of any external data or resources used in training 

Q: Our team submission is not among the top submissions. Do we still need to submit a technical paper?

A: We encourage each participant to submit a paper regardless of their standing on the leaderboard. These papers help us analyze the innovative techniques that participants used as well as collect some general stats. The data we collect (plus all technical paper submissions) will be part of the workshop material and will be released on arXiv as part of our annual ActivityNet Challenge summary. The workshop materials and challenge summary will be a great resource for the computer vision community to share the state-of-the-art techniques employed by participants.

Q: Our team has participated in multiple tasks this year, should we submit one report for all tasks or one report per task?

A: Feel free to do any of the two options. If there are shared modules across your solutions for the different tasks, then it might be better for you to have them all in one report.

Q: When will the winners be announced?

A: We will contact the winners directly as soon as we have post-processed all the submissions (especially the ones we got close to the deadline). We appreciate your patience as we have received a significant number of submissions this year. 

[Ruijie Tao]

Hi, thanks for organizing the challenge.

May I know when can we check the complete leaderboard? It is very helpful for us to know the performance of other teams. Thanks for your time!