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<b><span style="margin:0px;font-size:11pt;color:black;background-color:white">Call for Participation: </span></b><span style="margin:0px;font-size:11pt;color:black;background-color:white">CVPR’22 <span style="margin:0px">ActivityNet</span> Guest Task: ActEV<span style="margin:0px"> </span><span class="x_x_markykmm55ps9" style="margin:0px">SRL</span></span><span style="margin:0px;font-size:11pt"></span></p>
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<span style="margin:0px;font-size:11pt;color:black">The ActEV <span style="margin:0px;background-color:white">Self-Reported Leaderboard (<span class="x_x_markykmm55ps9" style="margin:0px">SRL</span>) Challenge</span> is a guest task under the CVPR’22 <span style="margin:0px">ActivityNet</span> Challenge
(http://activity-net.org/challenges/2022/). The <span style="margin:0px;background-color:white">Challenge is a self-reported leaderboard (take-home) evaluation; participants download a ActEV<span style="margin:0px"> </span><span class="x_x_markykmm55ps9" style="margin:0px">SRL</span><span style="margin:0px"> </span>testset,
run their activity detection algorithms on the test set using their own hardware platforms, and then submit their system output to the evaluation server for scoring results</span>, we will invite the top two teams to give oral presentations at the CVPR’22 <span style="margin:0px">ActivityNet</span> workshop.</span><span style="margin:0px;font-size:11pt"></span></p>
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<span style="margin:0px;font-size:11pt;color:black">ActEV<span style="margin:0px"> </span><span class="x_x_markykmm55ps9" style="margin:0px">SRL</span><span style="margin:0px"> </span>website: https://actev.nist.gov/<span class="x_x_markykmm55ps9" style="margin:0px">SRL</span></span><span style="margin:0px;font-size:11pt"></span></li><li style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;background-color:white;margin:0px">
<span style="margin:0px;font-size:11pt;color:black">CVPR’21 <span style="margin:0px">ActivityNet</span> Challenge: http://activity-net.org/challenges/2022/</span><span style="margin:0px;font-size:11pt"></span></li></ul>
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<span style="margin:0px;font-size:11pt;color:black">NIST invites all organizations, particularly universities and corporations, to submit their system output. The evaluation is open worldwide. Participation is free. NIST does not provide funds to participants.</span><span style="margin:0px;font-size:11pt"></span></p>
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<b><span style="margin:0px;font-size:11pt;color:black">March 15, 2022: </span></b><span style="margin:0px;font-size:11pt;color:black">CVPR'22 <span style="margin:0px">ActivityNet</span> </span><span style="margin:0px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:rgb(51, 51, 51);background-color:white">ActEV<span style="margin:0px"> </span><span class="x_x_markykmm55ps9" style="margin:0px">SRL</span><span style="margin:0px"> </span>Challenge
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<b><span style="margin:0px;font-size:11pt;color:black">May 20, 2022</span></b><span style="margin:0px;font-size:11pt;color:black">: </span><span style="margin:0px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:rgb(51, 51, 51);background-color:white">Deadline
for ActEV<span style="margin:0px"> </span><span class="x_x_markykmm55ps9" style="margin:0px">SRL</span><span style="margin:0px"> </span>results submission</span><span style="margin:0px;font-size:11pt;color:black">.</span><span style="margin:0px;font-size:11pt"></span></p>
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<b><span style="margin:0px;font-size:11pt;color:black">June 02, 2021:</span></b><span style="margin:0px;font-size:11pt;color:black"> Top two teams on the <span style="margin:0px">ActivityNET</span> ActEV<span style="margin:0px"> </span><span class="x_x_markykmm55ps9" style="margin:0px">SRL</span><span style="margin:0px"> </span>leaderboard
invited to give oral presentations at the CVPR’22 <span style="margin:0px">ActivityNet</span> workshop based on the results submission deadline (May 20, 2022).</span><span style="margin:0px;font-size:11pt"></span></p>
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<b><span style="margin:0px;font-size:11pt;color:black">June 19, 2022:</span></b><span style="margin:0px;font-size:11pt;color:black"> CVPR’22 <span style="margin:0px">ActivityNet</span> workshop</span><span style="margin:0px;font-size:11pt"></span></p>
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<span style="margin:0px;font-size:11pt;color:black">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/<span class="x_x_markykmm55ps9" style="margin:0px">srl</span>#tab_data]. Expanded annotations
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<b><span style="margin:0px;font-size:11pt;color:black">ActEV<span style="margin:0px"> </span><span class="x_x_markykmm55ps9" style="margin:0px">SRL</span><span style="margin:0px"> </span>Test Datasets:</span></b><span style="margin:0px;font-size:11pt;color:black"> The
CVPR'22 <span style="margin:0px">ActivityNet</span> ActEV<span style="margin:0px"> </span><span class="x_x_markykmm55ps9" style="margin:0px">SRL</span><span style="margin:0px"> </span>test dataset has been released and is the same as the WACV'22 HADCV ActEV<span style="margin:0px"> </span><span class="x_x_markykmm55ps9" style="margin:0px">SRL</span><span style="margin:0px"> </span>test
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<span style="margin:0px;font-size:11pt;color:black;background-color:white">If you have any question about the ActEV<span style="margin:0px"> </span><span class="x_x_markykmm55ps9" style="margin:0px">SRL</span><span style="margin:0px"> </span>challenge, please
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