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Call for Participation: TRECVID ActEV 2021 leaderboard evaluation<br>
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<div>We would like to invite you to participate in TRECVID ActEV 2021 leaderboard evaluation: https://actev.nist.gov/trecvid21</div>
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<div>ActEV is a series of evaluations to accelerate the development of robust, multi-camera, automatic activity detection algorithms for forensic and real-time alerting applications. Each evaluation will challenge systems with new data, system requirements,
and/or new activities. The TRECVID ActEV'21 evaluation is <span style="background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);display:inline !important">based on 35 activities on</span> the VIRAT dataset.
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<div>Schedule
<div>Feb 07, 2021: NIST releases ActEV evaluation plan and defines the target Activities ( Same as for 2020 Eval)</div>
<div>Feb 07, 2021: NIST releases ActEV JSON training and validation sets and the Index files ( Same as for 2020 Eval)</div>
<div>March 07, 2021: Start of ActEV 2021 Leaderboard Evaluation</div>
September 20, 2021: 1:00 PM EST : End of ActEV 2021 Leaderboard Evaluation<br>
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<div>We look forward to your participation.<br>
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<div>Best regards,<br>
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<div>Afzal for ActEV team actev-nist@nist.gov<br>
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