First International Workshop on Large Scale Holistic Video Understanding

ABOUT THE WORKSHOP

In the last years, we have seen tremendous progress in the capabilities of computer systems to classify video clips taken from the Internet or to analyze human actions in videos. There are lots of works in video recognition field focusing on specific video understanding tasks, such as action recognition, scene understanding, etc. There have been great achievements in such tasks, however, there has not been enough attention toward the holistic video understanding task as a problem to be tackled. Current systems are expert in some specific fields of the general video understanding problem. However, for real-world applications, such as, analyzing multiple concepts of a video for video search engines and media monitoring systems or providing an appropriate definition of the surrounding environment of a humanoid robot, a combination of current state-of-the-art methods should be used. Therefore, in this workshop, we intend to introduce the holistic video understanding as a new challenge for the video understanding efforts. This challenge focuses on the recognition of scenes, objects, actions, attributes, and events in the real world user-generated videos. To be able to address such tasks, we also introduce our new dataset named Holistic Video Understanding~(HVU dataset) that is organized hierarchically in a semantic taxonomy of holistic video understanding. Almost all of the real-world conditioned video datasets are targeting human action or sport recognition. So our new dataset can help the vision community and bring more attention to bring more interesting solutions for holistic video understanding. The workshop is tailored to bringing together ideas around multi-label and multi-task recognition of different semantic concepts in the real world videos. And the research efforts can be tried on our new dataset.

WHAT IS OUR GOAL?

The main objective of the workshop is to establish a video benchmark integrating joint recognition of all the semantic concepts, as a single class label per task is often not sufficient to describe the holistic content of a video. The planned panel discussion with world’s leading experts on this problem will be a fruitful input and source of ideas for all participants. Further, we invite the community to help to extend the HVU dataset that will spur research in video understanding as a comprehensive, multi-faceted problem. We as organizers expect to receive valuable feedback from users and from the community on how to improve the benchmark.

TOPICS

• Large scale video understanding
• Multi-Modal learning from videos
• Multi concept recognition from videos
• Multi task deep neural networks for videos
• Learning holistic representation from videos
• Weakly supervised learning from web videos
• Object, scene and event recognition from videos
• Unsupervised video visual representation learning
• Unsupervised and self-­supervised learning with videos