Thumos (θυμός)
Greek word expressing "spiritedness” (as in spirited contest).The word is also used to express the human desire for recognition.
Organizers
• THUMOS challenge organizers + program chairs(who did the hard work)– Yu-Gang Jiang, Fudan University– Jingen Liu, SRI International– Amir Roshan Zamir, UCF
• General chairs– Mubarak Shah, UCF– Massimo Piccardi, Univ. Tech. Sydney– Ivan Laptev, INRIA– Rahul Sukthankar, Google Research
(Pre-)History
• KTH (2004)6 actions
• Weizmann (2005)10 actions
• CMU detection (2007)5 actions in clutter
Recognition in “Real” Videos
• Drinking & Smoking (2007)2 actions in movies
• Hollywood (2008)8 “everyday” actions
• UCF Sports (2008)9 “sports” in BBC, ESPN,…[S. Ali, M. Rodriguez,A. Tanveer, S. Aziz]
Current “Large Class” Datasets
• HMDB (2011)51 actions
• UCF101 (2012)101 actions[K. Soomro & A. Zamir]
THUMOS Contest Results OverviewRank Submission Overall Accuracy1 ID39_INRIA 85.900%2 ID40_Florence 85.708%3 ID35_Canberra 85.437%4 ID38_CAS_SIAT 84.164%5 ID25_Nanjing 83.979%6 ID34_UCF_BoyrazTappen 82.829%7 ID36_UCSD_MSRA_SJTU 80.895%8 ID28_USC 77.360%9 ID31_NII 73.389%10 ID44-UNITN 70.504%11 ID42-UEC 66.261%12 ID26_UMD 65.948%13 ID47_UNAL 65.675%14 ID32_Buffalo 64.296%15 ID29_TNO 63.457%16 ID37_ECNU 54.738%
Workshop Schedule
Morning [09:00-12:40]
• Opening Session– Invited talk: C. Schmid– Invited talk: J. Corso
• Action Classification– Overview: J. Liu– Karaman et al.– Peng et al.– Invited talk: S. Savarese– Oruganti et al.– Yanai et al.
Afternoon [14:30-17:00]
• Detection– Overview: Y.-G. Jiang– Invited talk: J. Wu
• Future– Invited talk: T. Hassner– Closing remarks: M. Piccardi– Open discussion
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[THUMOS top performers]
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