ChaLearn multi-modal gesture recognition 2013: Grand challenge and workshop summary

Sergio Escalera, Jordi Gonzàlez, Xavier Baró, Miguel Reyes, Isabelle Guyon, Vassilis Athitsos, Hugo Escalante, Leonid Sigal, Antonis Argyros, Cristian Sminchisescu, Richard Bowden, Stan Sclaroff

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Abstract

We organized a Grand Challenge and Workshop on Multi-Modal Gesture Recognition. The MMGR Grand Challenge focused on the recognition of continuous natural gestures from multi-modal data (including RGB, Depth, user mask, Skeletal model, and audio). We made available a large labeled video database of 13,858 gestures from a lexicon of 20 Italian gesture categories recorded with a Kinect™ camera. More than 54 teams participated in the challenge and a final error rate of 12% was achieved by the winner of the competition. Winners of the competition published their work in the workshop of the Challenge. The MMGR Workshop was held at ICMI conference 2013, Sidney. A total of 9 relevant papers with basis on multi-modal gesture recognition were accepted for presentation. This includes multi-modal descriptors, multi-class learning strategies for segmentation and classification in temporal data, as well as relevant applications in the field, including multi-modal Social Signal Processing and multi-modal Human Computer Interfaces. Five relevant invited speakers participated in the workshop: Profs. Leonid Signal from Disney Research, Antonis Argyros from FORTH, Institute of Computer Science, Cristian Sminchisescu from Lund University, Richard Bowden from University of Surrey, and Stan Sclaroff from Boston University. They summarized their research in the field and discussed past, current, and future challenges in Multi-Modal Gesture Recognition.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationICMI 2013 - Proceedings of the 2013 ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction
Number of pages6
Publication date2013
Pages365-370
ISBN (Print)9781450321297
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2013
Externally publishedYes
Event2013 15th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction, ICMI 2013 - Sydney, NSW, Australia
Duration: 9 Dec 201313 Dec 2013

Conference

Conference2013 15th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction, ICMI 2013
Country/TerritoryAustralia
CitySydney, NSW
Period09/12/201313/12/2013
SponsorACM SIGCHI
SeriesICMI 2013 - Proceedings of the 2013 ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction

Keywords

  • computer vision
  • gesture recognition
  • multi-modal data analysis

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