Call for Competition Interest
We will be holding a competition during the inaugural Sketch Recognition workshop at IUI 2009. This is a wonderful opportunity for researchers to compare their approaches to sketch recognition on the same domains. In the past, competitions of a similar nature at other conferences have led to advances in their fields. We hope the same will true for sketch recognition. We will provide two competition tracks. Track 1 will consist of recognition of fourteen isolated shapes from several domains, some of which will be composed of multiple strokes. The shape classes will be: Sinusoid, Spiral, Helix, Arrow, Rectangle, Ellipse, 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, Bowtie, =, and X. Sample data is available on the website. In Track 2, the competition will test the ability to recognize and understand freely-drawn finite state machines. We believe this track will be considerably more difficult than the second track. Accuracy in this track will be judged on correctly grouping strokes, recognizing shapes, and interpreting the sketch so that input strings can be processed. Currently, more extensive descriptions of each track and a small sample data set is provided for each track on the website, as well as description of sketch input/output format. We will be conducting data collection for each track online until December 31. At this point, a portion of the data collected will be distributed as an additional training set. The remainder will form a portion of the test set to be used at the workshop. Also, at the workshop, a kiosk will be set up to collect additional test data onsite. To contribute to the training and test set, please visit the contest website. *Contest Website* *http://srl.csdl.tamu.edu/workshops/2009/iui/competition.html*<http://srl.csdl.tamu.edu/workshops/2009/iui/competition.html> *Email of Intent* (Due December 15): If you plan to compete in one of the competition tracks, submit an e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> expressing interest with the subject "Competition Entry" by December 15. This needs to include: Team name, team members University/Business Affiliation The competition track(s) in which you plan to participate The programming language/OS/environment you will be using As this is the first time such a competition has been held in the field of sketch recognition, your input is extremely valuable. Currently, we are considering running recognizers from the command line with the option "-i " specifying the input file location and "-o " specifying the output file location. However, we do not want to limit your choices of programming language or environment. Any thoughts, concerns, or suggestions are appreciated. Competition Chairs Brian Eoff | Texas A&M University, USA Paul Corey | Texas A&M University, USA
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