New models for video understanding remain a bottleneck for research despite the increase in the number of large-scale video datasets. New models for video understanding remain a bottleneck for research despite the increase in the number of large-scale video datasets. This symposium brings together leading researchers who have contributed significantly to video understanding, collectively participated in the collection of datasets such as: UCF, HMDB, THUMOS, Hollywood, Hollywood2, Kinetics, Charades, ActivityNet, YouTube8M, YouCook, Breakfast, EPIC-Kitchens, DALY and AVA, amongst others! With a star-studded list of speakers, we aim to ask the question, what is missing invideo understanding to catch up with the success witnessed in object detection or language translation?

The symposium’s objective is to share the latest research, but also feedback to the community about the major challenges, and plan for an ongoing collaboration on video understanding beyond the simplified concept of classification of trimmed videos.

The ELLIS symposium on Video Understanding will be held in Amsterdam, at the new Lab42 building for Computer Science in the Science Park of the University of Amsterdam on the 8-9 of September 2022. The event will bring together students, faculty, and research scientists for an opportunity to exchange ideas and connect over a mutual interest in video understanding.

Further information about the symposium can be found here.