ChaLearn Looking at People: A Review of Events and Resources

TL;DR

This paper reviews the history and resources of ChaLearn Looking at People events, highlighting their contributions to human visual analysis challenges and providing a platform for public data, code, and research dissemination.

Contribution

It offers a comprehensive overview of ChaLearn LAP events and introduces a platform for sharing related resources, fostering progress in human action and gesture recognition research.

Findings

Organized over 10 international challenges in human visual analysis.

Established a platform with public resources including data and code.

Discussed future perspectives for ChaLearn LAP activities.

Abstract

This paper reviews the historic of ChaLearn Looking at People (LAP) events. We started in 2011 (with the release of the first Kinect device) to run challenges related to human action/activity and gesture recognition. Since then we have regularly organized events in a series of competitions covering all aspects of visual analysis of humans. So far we have organized more than 10 international challenges and events in this field. This paper reviews associated events, and introduces the ChaLearn LAP platform where public resources (including code, data and preprints of papers) related to the organized events are available. We also provide a discussion on perspectives of ChaLearn LAP activities.