Results and Analysis

of the

ChaLearn On-shot Gesture Challenge 2011/2012

Lecture Notes in Computer Science Volume 7854, Springer 2013, pp 186-204

Round 1 results (50 competitors):

1) Quantitative evaluation (one-shot-learning challenge)

1st place: alfnie (Alfonso Nieto Castañón)

2nd place: Pennect (University of Pennsylvania)

3rd place: One Million Monkeys (Eric Jackson)

2) Qualitative evaluation (demo competition)

1st place: Cem Keskin, Eray Berger and Lale Akarun (hand gestures)

2nd place: Ilaria Gori, Sean Ryan Fanello, Giorgio Metta, Francesca Odone (memory game)

3rd place: Gabriele Fanelli, Juergen Gall, Luc Van Gool (head position)

Round 2 results (35 competitors):

1) Quantitative evaluation (one-shot-learning challenge)

1st place: alfnie (Alfonso Nieto Castañón, Spain)

2nd place: Turtle Tamers (Jakub Konečný, Michal Hagara, Slovakia)

3rd place: Joewan (Jun Wan, Shuang Deng, China)

2) Qualitative evaluation (demo competition)

1st place: Nikolaos Kyriazis, Iason Oikonomidis, Antonis A. Argyros, Greece (giving a hand to Kinect)

2nd place: Luigi Gallo, Alessio Pierluigi Placitelli, Giuseppe De Pietro, Italy (A Kinect NUI for 3D Medical Visualization)

3rd place: Oscar Lopes, Miguel Pousa, Miguel Reyes, Sergio Escalera, Jordi Gonzàlez, Spain

(Multi Hand Pose Recognition System)

Proceedings:

The results of the challenge will be published in a special topic of the Journal of Machine Learning Research on Gesture Recognition. The collection of papers will also be printed as a book in the Challenges in Machine Learning series of Microtome. See the call-for-papers.

Slides of the presentations:

The results were presented at two workshop, where we also ran live contests: CVPR 2012 and at ICPR 2012.

We also made a video with the results.

Fact sheets:

The competitors of both rounds one had to fill out fact sheets on their methods.

See the summary

Challenge analysis papers:

1) ChaLearn gesture challenge: Design and first results. Isabelle Guyon, Vassilis Athitsos, Pat Jangyodsuk, Ben Hamner, Hugo Jair Escalante. CVPR Workshops 2012: 1-6. (IEEE Explore)

2) Results and Analysis of the ChaLearn Gesture Challenge 2012. Isabelle Guyon, Vassilis Athitsos, Pat Jangyodsuk, Hugo Jair Escalante, Ben Hamner. ICPR Competitions 2012: 1-19. (to appear in Springer LNCS)