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[Matthew Turk]

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Subject: 	ICMLA 2011 StreetView Recognition Challenge
Date: 	Fri, 5 Aug 2011 13:20:20 +0000
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ICMLA 2011 StreetView Recognition Challenge

http://www.icmla-conference.org/icmla11/ </icmla11/>

OVERVIEW

Recognition is a fundamental problem i n machine learning and computer 
vision. In this challenge, we introdu ce a few datasets from Google 
StreetView which include street scenes of urban areas.

We propose two tasks:

 1. Business recognition
 2. Object recognition

For the first task we recommend to recognize businesses including: bank, 
gas station, parking garage, hotel, restaurant. For the second task we 
recommend object categories of stop sign, ATM machine, bus stop, street 
sign, fire hydrant. Participants are encouraged to submit their results 
for just one of the tasks or for the two of them, and for one or 
multiple categories, or for new categories defined for street scenes. 
Methods trained on other datasets are allowed, but results on the given 
StreetView datasets are required in the submission.

DATASETS

The datasets contain Google StreetView images from Pittsburgh and San 
Francisco. Please email your name, affiliation and address 
tomeihan at google.com to download the datasets.

SUBMISSION AND EVALUATION

A short paper (4 pages) describing the proposed algorithms and results 
on the provided datasets should be submitted through the main conference 
submission website. These papers will be reviewed mainly based on:

 1. Originality and technical soundness of the employed algorithms
 2. Performance in either or both of the recognition tasks

PUBLICATION

Accepted papers will be published in the ICMLA& rsquo;11 conference 
proceedings.

IMPORTANT DATES

Paper submission due                                       September 25, 
2011

Notification of acceptance                                 September 28, 
2011

Camera-ready papers & pre-registration          October 1, 2011

ICMLA'11 conference                                       December 
18-21, 2011

The authors should submit their papers through the main conference 
submission website. Papers must correspond to th e requirements detailed 
in the instructions to authors. Accepted papers must be presented by one 
of the authors in order to be published in the conference proceeding. If 
you have any questions, do not hesitate to direct your questions to the 
organizers.

All challenge submissions will be handled electronically. Detailed 
instructions for submitting a paper are provided on the conference home 
page at:

http://www.icmla-conference.org/icmla11/ </icmla11/>

ICMLA’11 Challenge Session Chair

Mei Han, Google Research, Mountain View, USA

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