ActivityNet Announcements: ActivityNet Workshop 2021 Premiere

[Frost Xu]

Dear ActivityNet Community,

We are excited to kick off the sixth edition of the ActivityNet Workshop at virtual CVPR 2021. This year we have a packed program with four live keynote presentations, pre-recorded sessions for twelve different challenges, and Q&A sessions to debrief and chat with challenge winners and organizers. 

Please find our detailed program here: http://activity-net.org/challenges/2021/program.html

At a glance, our workshop will host the following events:

Keynote Presentations [Live]

Morning Session: Join us and learn from Gedas Bertasius (Facebook) and Jean-baptiste Alayrac (Deepmind) the latest advances in video representation learning.

[Zoom Link | June 19th, 8AM (PDT)]

Afternoon Session: In this session, Carl Vondrick (Columbia University) and Huijuan Xu (Berkeley) will discuss cutting-edge research on video understanding. 

[Zoom Link | June 19th, 3PM (PDT)] 

Pre-recorded Sessions

This year we hosted twelve different challenges addressing fundamental topics in video understanding, including action recognition, temporal and spatio-temporal action localization, complex event understanding, and multi-view & cross-modal understanding. Each challenge has prepared a pre-recorded session, which will be publicly available on June 18th 4PM (PDT) and remain available even after the CVPR workshop. 

Please watch the challenge sessions through our channels: [YouTube][Bilibili]

Q&A Sessions [Live]

ActEV SDL Unknown Facility (UF) Challenge: Join the ActEV Q&A session and clarify your doubts about the latest techniques in human activity detection. [Webex Link | June 19th, 2:30-3:00 PM (PDT) | Pass:HyW2QDs65J@]

ActivityNet Entities Object Localization: Join the ActivityNet Entities Q&A session and meet with the challenge organizers and winners to discuss the latest trends in video grounding.

[Microsoft Teams Link | June 19th, 11:00-11:30 AM (PDT)]

If you have any questions, please contact us at: mengm...@kaust.edu.sa, humam.a...@kaust.edu.sa, fabia...@kaust.edu.sa

Regards,

ActivityNet Challenge Organizers

Fabian Caba Heilbron, Victor Escorcia, Bernard Ghanem, Juan Carlos Niebles, and Cees Snoek