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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;">We have extended the CVPR’21 ActivityNet workshop ActEV SDL UF Challenge submission deadline to May 15th, 2021. We now have more data and annotations available
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<span style="margin:0px; font-weight:400; line-height:normal; font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif">The ActEV SDL Unknown Facility (UF) challenge is a guest task under the CVPR’21</span><span style="margin:0px; font-weight:400; font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial"><span style="margin:0px; font-size:12pt; line-height:normal; font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif"> </span><span style="margin:0px; font-size:12pt; line-height:normal; font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif">ActivityNet</span><span style="margin:0px; font-size:12pt; line-height:normal; font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif"> </span></span><span style="margin:0px; font-weight:400; line-height:normal; font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif">workshop
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The challenge participants are invited to submit their runnable activity detection system for Known Activities using an ActEV Command Line Interface (CLI) submission on the Unknown Facility EO video dataset. Based on the UF CLI submission extended deadline
of May 15, 2021, we will invite the top two teams to give oral presentations at the CVPR’21</span><span style="margin:0px; font-weight:400; font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial"><span style="margin:0px; font-size:12pt; line-height:normal; font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif"> </span><span style="margin:0px; font-size:12pt; line-height:normal; font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif">ActivityNet</span><span style="margin:0px; font-size:12pt; line-height:normal; font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif"> </span></span><span style="margin:0px; font-weight:400; line-height:normal; font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif">workshop. </span></p>
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<span style="margin:0px; font-weight:400; line-height:normal; font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif">ActEV SDL UF website: https://actev.nist.gov/sdl</span></p>
<div style="margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px; font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif">CVPR’21 ActivityNet workshop:
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<span style="margin:0px; font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif">If you have any question about the SDL evaluation, please email actev-nist@nist.gov</span><br>
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<span style="margin:0px; font-weight:700; line-height:normal; font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif">Who</span></p>
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<span style="margin:0px; font-weight:400; line-height:normal; font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif">NIST invites all organizations, particularly universities and corporations, to submit their technologies to ActEV SDL UF. The evaluation is open worldwide.
Participation is free. NIST does not provide funds to participants.</span></p>
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<li><span style="margin:0px; font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif">February 10, 2021:<span> </span></span><span style="margin:0px; font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial"><span style="margin:0px; font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; background-color:white">CVPR’21</span><span style="margin:0px; font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; background-color:white"> </span><span style="margin:0px; font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; background-color:white">ActivityNet </span></span><span style="margin:0px; font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif">ActEV
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<span style="margin:0px; font-weight:400; line-height:normal; font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif">May 15, 2021: New deadline for UF CLI submissions to be included in CVPR’21</span><span style="margin:0px; font-weight:400; font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial"><span style="margin:0px; font-size:12pt; line-height:normal; font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif"> </span><span style="margin:0px; font-size:12pt; line-height:normal; font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif">ActivityNet</span><span style="margin:0px; font-size:12pt; line-height:normal; font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif"> </span></span><span style="margin:0px; font-weight:400; line-height:normal; font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif">workshop.</span></p>
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<span style="margin:0px; font-weight:400; line-height:normal; font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif">June 05, 2021: Top two teams on the ActEV'21 SDL UF (with Known Activities) leaderboard will be invited to give oral presentations at the CVPR’21</span><span style="margin:0px; font-weight:400; font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial"><span style="margin:0px; font-size:12pt; line-height:normal; font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif"> </span><span style="margin:0px; font-size:12pt; line-height:normal; font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif">ActivityNet</span><span style="margin:0px; font-size:12pt; line-height:normal; font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif"> </span></span><span style="margin:0px; font-weight:400; line-height:normal; font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif">workshop
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<span style="margin:0px; font-weight:400; line-height:normal; font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif">June 19, 2021: CVPR’21</span><span style="margin:0px; font-weight:400; font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial"><span style="margin:0px; font-size:12pt; line-height:normal; font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif"> </span><span style="margin:0px; font-size:12pt; line-height:normal; font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif">ActivityNet</span><span style="margin:0px; font-size:12pt; line-height:normal; font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif"> </span></span><span style="margin:0px; font-weight:400; line-height:normal; font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif">workshop</span></p>
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<div style="margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px; font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif">Training data is from the Multiview Extended Video with Activities (MEVA) dataset [mevadata.org]. The public MEVA dataset includes hundreds of hours of data from the
same cameras at the same facility, which can be used for training. If you register for ActEV you can download the MEVA dataset for free; info on how to download the data is on the data tab https://actev.nist.gov/sdl#tab_data]. We now have more data and<span style="color:rgb(51,51,51); font-family:Lato,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; text-align:left; background-color:rgb(255,255,255); display:inline!important"> annotations
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the public<span> </span></span><a href="https://gcc02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fmevadata.org%2F&data=04%7C01%7Cafzal.godil%40nist.gov%7C038662603a5d430e330408d90ab5c19d%7C2ab5d82fd8fa4797a93e054655c61dec%7C1%7C0%7C637552598030943003%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=Xe%2Ba4DH0Cjo%2FzjhBQiMs5lENzCXs%2FIBrHf9Fb5b0OaI%3D&reserved=0" originalsrc="http://mevadata.org/" shash="pIUncfrGwfCo9zN3eX/08kgR33P4m6zjRZtOOwvvSynSCYtrhTjz0KxwbOBUP7t0T6WoNrkyqW3TQmMRn6jm3/FFCZAJvsmD5wgGfC6ZXeXcjN4Ix9zpfUBsR/Yt41/51l/qTA1QTrqzCeWf2bcpY2PvqKXhlPvLcp2yZu3SZlM=" style="box-sizing:border-box; background:none rgb(255,255,255); color:rgb(51,122,183); border:none; font-family:Lato,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; text-align:left">MEVA</a><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51); font-family:Lato,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; text-align:left; background-color:rgb(255,255,255); display:inline!important"><span> </span>KF1
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Unknown Facility Sequestered Test dataset is a large collection of videos exclusively in the EO spectrum.</div>
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