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is organizing the</span></font><font face="Cambria,Georgia,serif,serif,EmojiFont" size="3" color="black"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></font><font face="Cambria,Georgia,serif,serif,EmojiFont" size="3" color="black"><span id="x_x_x_0.36985372893467106" style="font-size: 12pt;">TRECVID</span></font><font face="Cambria,Georgia,serif,serif,EmojiFont" size="3" color="black"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">'18
Activities in Extended Video </span></font><font face="Cambria,Georgia,serif,serif,EmojiFont" size="3" color="black"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">(ActEV) evaluation with the goal to evaluate robust automatic activity detection algorithms for a multi-camera
streaming video environment. ActEV is an extension of the annual</span></font><font face="Cambria,Georgia,serif,serif,EmojiFont" size="3" color="black"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></font><font face="Cambria,Georgia,serif,serif,EmojiFont" size="3" color="black"><span id="x_x_x_0.6027163452674662" style="font-size: 12pt;">TRECVID</span></font><font face="Cambria,Georgia,serif,serif,EmojiFont" size="3" color="black"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></font><font face="Cambria,Georgia,serif,serif,EmojiFont" size="3" color="black"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Surveillance
Event Detection (SED) evaluation by adding a large collection of multi-camera video data, both of simple and complex activities. ActEV will address activity detection for both forensic applications and for real-time alerting.</span></font><br>
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<div><font face="Cambria,Georgia,serif,serif,EmojiFont" size="3" color="black">The call for participation for </font><font face="Cambria,Georgia,serif,serif,EmojiFont" size="3" color="black"> </font><font face="Cambria,Georgia,serif,serif,EmojiFont" size="3" color="black"><span id="x_x_x_0.8535959265684993" style="font-size: 12pt;">TRECVID</span></font><font face="Cambria,Georgia,serif,serif,EmojiFont" size="3" color="black">'18
ActEV evaluation is</font><font face="Cambria,Georgia,serif,serif,EmojiFont" size="3" color="black"> at,</font><font face="Cambria,Georgia,serif,serif,EmojiFont" size="3" color="black"> (</font><a href="https://www.nist.gov/itl/iad/mig/trecvid-2018-evaluation-activities-extended-video" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" id="LPlnk656236" previewremoved="true"><span id="LPlnk656236">https://www.nist.gov/itl/iad/mig/trecvid-2018-evaluation-activities-extended-video</span></a><font face="Cambria,Georgia,serif,serif,EmojiFont" size="3" color="black">)
and for all </font><font face="Cambria,Georgia,serif,serif,EmojiFont" size="3" color="black">the other</font><font face="Cambria,Georgia,serif,serif,EmojiFont" size="3" color="black"> </font><font face="Cambria,Georgia,serif,serif,EmojiFont" size="3" color="black"><span id="x_x_x_0.38173735277414034" style="font-size: 12pt;">TRECVID</span></font><font face="Cambria,Georgia,serif,serif,EmojiFont" size="3" color="black">'18
evaluation </font><font face="Cambria,Georgia,serif,serif,EmojiFont" size="3" color="black">t</font><font face="Cambria,Georgia,serif,serif,EmojiFont" size="3" color="black">racks</font><font face="Cambria,Georgia,serif,serif,EmojiFont" size="3" color="black"> (</font><a href="http://www-nlpir.nist.gov/projects/tv2018/tv18.call.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" id="LPlnk337967" previewremoved="true"><font face="wf_segoe-ui_normal,Segoe UI,Segoe WP,Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont"><span id="LPlnk337967"><font color="black">http://www-nlpir.nist.gov/projects/tv2018/tv18.call.html</font></span></font></a><font face="Cambria,Georgia,serif,serif,EmojiFont" size="3" color="black"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">).</span></font></div>
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Please register for ActEV or for any of the other TRECVID'18 evaluation tracks at: <a href="https://ir.nist.gov/tv-submit.open/application.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" id="LPlnk60335" previewremoved="true"><span id="LPlnk60335">https://ir.nist.gov/tv-submit.open/application.html</span></a><br>
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<div><font face="Cambria,Georgia,serif,serif,EmojiFont" size="3">ActEV team: ActEV-nist@nist.gov</font></div>
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