Track 2: Innovation Challenge

This track aims at encouraging our participants to explore the value of the generic event boundaries on the downstream applications. All the following scenarios are allowed:

For our annotated GEBD datasets (i.e. Kinetics, HMDB, ADL, UT-Ego), use 1 or multiple of them.
Do not use any of our annotations but use generic boundaries detected or annotated by yourselves on any dataset.
Combination of 1 and 2: e.g. first train a GEBD model on our annotated datasets and then apply on another dataset to obtain large-scale pseudo boundary annotations for training a new model.
Note that if you participate in both Track 1 and Track 2, duplicate submissions or submissions with significant content overlap are NOT allowed.

Evaluation Guideline

All the submissions will be multi-graded by LOVEU organizers and top two winners will be selected by the whole committee together. There are several dimensions that we consider in evaluation:

Relevance to generic event boundaries [e.g.: boundary is a key step in your method]
Impact and significance on downstream tasks [e.g. push SOTA on Kinetics classification, a comprehensive video knowledge graph generation system better than SOTA]
Technical soundness [e.g.: great engineering efforts, or innovate video model design, etc.]
Report presentation and clarity [e.g.: well-organized and contain enough details]
Reproducibility [e.g.: code is/will be published]
Others like new generic boundary annotations, new video highlight/summarization dataset

The top 2 winners will be awarded 1000 USD each.

Submission Format

To submit your technical report, use CVPR style (double column) in the form of 4-8 pages or NeurIPS style (single column) in the form of 8-12 pages (exclude references).
Please explain clearly your data, supervision, pre-trained models, model training recipe, experimental setting etc. so that your work is valuable to others.

Registration & Report Submission Portal

Please send an email to loveu.cvpr21@gmail.com.

Format of Email subject: “YourName-Submission-LOVEU21-Track2”.
Please include metadata like your team members, institution, etc.

Attach your technical report and other relevant materials in the email.

For more details, please refer to our Challenge White Paper.

Timeline:

~~May 25, 2021~~ ~~(11:59PM Pacific Time): registration due~~
~~Jun 01, 2021~~ ~~(11:59PM Pacific Time): report submission due~~
Jun 08, 2021 (11:59PM Pacific Time): registration&report submission due

Communication & QA

- For Challenge Policies: CodaLab Challenge Forum
- For starter baseline code: Github