YouTube-8M 2017 - 2017 Workshop on YouTube-8M Large-Scale Video Understanding

We are excited to announce the CVPR 2017 Workshop on YouTube-8M Large-Scale Video Understanding, to be held July 26, 2017, at the 30th IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2017) in Honolulu, Hawaii. We invite researchers to participate in a large-scale video classification challenge and to report their results at this workshop, as well as to submit papers describing research, experiments, or applications based on YouTube-8M. The classification challenge will be hosted as a kaggle.com competition, sponsored by Google Cloud, and will feature a $100,000 prize pool for the top performers (details here). In order to enable wider participation in the competition, Google Cloud is also offering limited compute credits so participants can optionally do model training and exploration using the Google Cloud Machine Learning platform (this is for the convenience of participants and not a requirement for participation).
We are soliciting participation for two different tracks:
* Classification Challenge Track
This track will be organized as a Kaggle competition for large-scale video classification based on the YouTube-8M dataset. Researchers are invited to participate in the classification challenge by training a model on the public YouTube-8M training and validation sets and submitting video classification results on a blind test set. Open-source TensorFlow code, implementing a few baseline classification models for YouTube-8M, along with training and evaluation scripts, is available at Github. Top-ranking submissions in the challenge leaderboard will be invited to the workshop to present their method as an oral talk.
* General Paper Track
Researchers are invited to submit any papers involving research, experimentation, or applications on the YouTube-8M dataset. Paper submissions will be reviewed by the workshop organizers and accepted papers will be invited for oral or poster presentations at the workshop.
* Awards
The total prize pool for this competition is $100,000. For more details on prizes and eligibility, refer to the Kaggle competition pages.
* Important Dates
Challenge Submissions Deadline June 2, 2017
Paper Submission and Open-Sourcing Deadline June 16, 2017
Paper Acceptance & Awards Notification June 30, 2017
Paper Camera-Ready Deadline July 14, 2017
Workshop date (co-located with CVPR'17) July 26, 2017
All deadlines are at 11:59 PM UTC/GMT.
Apostol (Paul) Natsev, General Co-Chair
Rahul Sukthankar, General Co-Chair
Joonseok Lee, Program Co-Chair
George Toderici, Program Co-Chair