  Carl Franklin demonstrated GesturePack Jeffrey Margolis, Isabelle Guyon, Alex Kipman, Laura Massey   Biswas Prakash Ishwar, Janusz Konrad, Kam Lai Fernando de la Torre, Cem Keskin Ilaria Gori Vassilis Athitsos     Laura Massey, Alex Kipman, Jeffrey Margolis Fernando de la Torre and Ali Bigdelou Biswas, Eray Berger  Cem Keskin, Eray Berger Kam Lai    Victor Eruhimov Jeffrey Cohn, Gabriele Fanelli, Alex Balan Pat Jangyodsuk   Laura Massey, Mitchell Dernis, Vladimir Tankovich, Jeffrey Margolis, Alex Balan Ilaria Gori, Sean Ryan Fanello The goal of the competition was to demonstrate applications of gesture recognition with KinectTM. The entries were judged by a panel of experts, who graded them according to pre-defined criteria:
First prize: USD 5000, Second prize: USD 3000, Third prize: USD 2000. The prizes are donated by Microsoft (see the rules for the "qualitative evaluation" of the gesture challenge). To earn prizes, the participants had to use a KinectTM device and the Microsoft SDK. Microsoft may also offer to license the technology of the winners for up to USD 100,000. The call for competition is closed. But, we are doing it again at ICPR 2012, deadline for proposals October 1st. Accepted demonstrations Ali Bigdelou, Tobias Benz, Loren Schwarz, Nassir Navab Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany 2 . A Unified Framework for Concurrent Usage of Hand Gesture, Shape and Pose [Summary][Demo Slides][Poster][Feedback form] [1st prize winners][News article][YouTube video1][YouTube video2] Cem Keskin1, Eray Berger2 and Lale Akarun1 1 Bogazici University Computer Engineering Department, Istanbul, Turkey 2 Sigma Resarch and Development, Istanbul, Turkey 3 . Virtual Boutique: customizable gesture recognition with Kinect Sensor Di Wu, Fan Zhu, Ling Shao The University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK 4 . GesturePack Gesture Recording and Recognition Carl Franklin Franklin's Net, New London, CT 5 . [2nd prize winners] Ilaria Gori, Sean Ryan Fanello, Giorgio Metta, Francesca Odone Department of Robotics, Brain and Cognitive Sciences - Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Italy 6 . A Flexible Gesture-Based User Interface for Information Displays Kam Lai, Janusz Konrad, Prakash Ishwar 7 . Gesture Recognition using Microsoft Kinect® K K Biswas1, Saurav kr Basu 2 1 Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India 2 Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra, India 8 . CogniMem CM1K Pattern Matching Chip Chris McCormick, Bill Nagel, Avinash Pandey CogniMem Technologies Inc., Folsom, California, USA 9 . Real-time Kinect Head Pose Estimation [Feedback form] [3rd prize winners] Gabriele Fanelli, Juergen Gall, Luc Van Gool Computer Vision Laboratory, ETH Zuerich, Switzerland Registration There is no registration fee. Venue The contest was held in the West Lobby of the Rhode Island Convention Center. In black we show the assignment of group number to the tables. Schedule 10 am-11 am: Demonstration set up. 11 am-1 pm: Preview of the posters and demonstrations by the organizers and the committee. 1 pm-3 pm: Talks by the presenters. 3 pm-5 pm: Review of the posters and demonstrations by the committee and the public. 5 pm-6 pm: Deliberation of the committee. 7 pm: Dinner (sponsored by Pascal2 and Microsoft).     Committee (Judges) Jeffrey Cohn, University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA Mitchell Dernis, Microsoft Victor Eruhimov, ItSeez, Novgorod, Russia Leonid Sigal, Disney Research & CMU, Pennsylvania, USA Vladimir Tankovich, Microsoft Fernando de la Torre, CMU, Pennsylvania, USA Workshop chairs Isabelle Guyon, Clopinet, Berkeley, California Vassilis Athitsos, University of Texas at Arlington, Texas, USA Alex Kipman, Microsoft, Redmond, Washington, USA <gesture@clopinet.com> |
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