Engineering students, faculty, researchers and professionals working in the area of transportation or computer sciences are invited to participate in the 3D Shape Retrieval Contest to evaluate the effectiveness of 3D-shape retrieval algorithms using the open-source scientific database created  by a project funded by the Southeastern Transportation Research Innovation, Development & Education Center (STRIDE), a USDOT grant-funded University Transportation Center (UTC) housed at UF (STRIDE project #2013-051S – Investigating the Effect of Drivers’ Body Motion on Traffic Safety). Winners will be recognized at the 8th EUROGRAPHICS Workshop on 3D Object Retrieval in Zurich, Switzerland on May 2-3, 2015.  There is no obligation for the contestants to travel. The top ranked contestants will be invited to co-author a paper with the track organizers, evaluating the effectiveness of the proposed algorithms to be submitted to the proceedings of the workshop.

What is the Challenge? Contestants will design algorithms that detect the locations of the left and right arms such as in the example images shown above. The organizers of the 3D Shape Retrieval Contest will give you a sequence of depth/range frames recorded using the Kinect sensor depicting drivers in a vehicle. You need to identify the pixel locations of the arms of the drivers. See an example in this image: http://research.dwi.ufl.edu/dmddb/shrec/shrec_example.png

Deadline: February 14, 2015

Participate now at: http://research.dwi.ufl.edu/dmddb/shrec

For more information, contact track/contestant organizer: Dr. Angelos Barmpoutis, associate professor, University of Florida, at angelos@digitalworlds.ufl.edu or call (352) 328-9915.