Section: Overall Objectives

Highlights of the Year

• TrecVid Multimedia Event Detection challenge. We participated in the Multimedia Event Detection track of TrecVid 2013, one of the major benchmarks in automatic video analysis. We ranked first out of 18 participants [35] .

• ICCV'13 THUMOS Challenge. We participated in the action recognition challenge THUMOS, organized in conjunction with ICCV '13. We were ranked first among 16 participants.

• Optical Flow Benchmark SINTEL. Our optical flow method DeepFlow [31] was ranked first to the online evaluation benchmark SINTEL from Max Planck Institute.

• Cor Baayen Award. Julien Mairal received the Cor Baayen prize, which is awarded annually by ERCIM to a promising young researcher in the field of Informatics and Applied Mathematics.

• Best Phd prize. Thomas Mensink, a former PhD student of LEAR, was awarded the best PhD thesis prize from AFRIF.