[4eyes] FW: CHALEARN Gesture Challenge Opens

[Matthew Turk]

FYI

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Sent: Friday, December 09, 2011 2:37 PM
To: Matthew Turk
Subject: CHALEARN Gesture Challenge Opens


Dear colleague,

Our Gesture Recognition Challenge is now open to submit entries (until April
10, 2012):
http://gesture.chalearn.org 

Develop a recognizer for the Microsoft Kinect (TM) and win prizes donated by
Microsoft:
First place: USD 5,000
Second place: USD 3,000      
Third place: USD 2,000
and up to USD 100,000 of Intellectual Property licenses if your algorithm
interests Microsoft.

View some data examples: http://gesture.chalearn.org/data/data-examples 

Thank you in advance for your participation!

Isabelle and Vassilis

The challenge is organized by ChaLearn and is sponsored in part by Microsoft
(Kinect for Xbox 360). The submission website is hosted by Kaggle.com. Other
sponsors include Texas Instrument. This effort was initiated by the DARPA
Deep Learning program and is supported by the US National Science Foundation
(NSF) under grants ECCS 1128436 and ECCS 1128296 , the EU Pascal2 network of
excellence and the Challenges in Machine Learning foundation. Any opinions,
findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are
those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the
National Science Foundation.