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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Call for Participation:
TRECVID ActEV 2021 leaderboard evaluation</span></span><br>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The TRECVID ActEV 2021 (https://actev.nist.gov/trecvid21) leaderboard is now open.</span><br>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The ActEV evaluation is being conducted to assess the robustness of automatic activity detection for a multi-camera streaming video environment.</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> The
evaluation is based on the VIRAT V1 and V2 dataset. You can download the public VIDEO dataset for free at viratdata.org; and more info about the datasets is on the "data tab" of the actev.nist.gov/trecvid21 website. </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The
evaluation is based on 35 activities from the activities listed in the "activities tab". The dataset and activities are the same as for TRECVID ActEV 2020.</span></span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">February 07, 2021: NIST releases ActEV evaluation plan and defines the target Activities ( Same as for 2020 Eval)</span><br>
</li><li><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">February</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> 07, 2021 NIST releases
ActEV JSON training and validation sets and the Index files ( Same as for 2020 Eval)</span><br>
</li><li><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">March 21, 2021: Start of ActEV 2021 Leaderboard Evaluation</span><br>
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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">September 20, 2021:
1:00 PM EST : End of ActEV 2021 Leaderboard Evaluation</span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255); display:inline!important"><br>
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<div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">We look forward
to your participation.</span></span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">If you have any question about the
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