About us
Looking at People (LAP) is a challenging area of research that deals with the problem of recognizing people in images, their posture, performing action/gesture recognition from still images or image sequences, also considering multi-modal data, among others. Any scenario where the visual or multi-modal analysis of people takes place is of interest within the field of Looking at People. Several subareas of LAP have been recently defined, such as Affective Computing, Social Signal Processing, Human Behavior Analysis, Personality Computing or Social Robotics. The effort involved in this area of research will be compensated by its potential applications for good: intelligent assistive interfaces, TV production and home entertainment (multimedia content analysis), education purposes, sociology research, security, prevention/early diagnosis and rehabilitation/intervention of physical and/or mental diseases, artificial assistant and coaching for active aging, etc.
This page summarizes all previous, current, and upcoming events organized by the ChaLearn LAP team, including international workshops, competitions, special issues, books and other publications related to ChaLearn LAP events. Associated databases and their state-of-the-art results are also available. We would like to thank all the hundreds of participants that joined our events and that considerably help to advance in both theory and practice of LAP. We thank all of our collaborators that help to advance in the research of LAP from the required multi-disciplinary perspective. We thank our sponsors, including Microsoft Research, Google, NVIDIA Corportation, Disney Research, Facebook, and Amazon, among others.
Disclaimer
Despite all of the efforts devoted to the compilation and curation of resources available in this website, we cannot guarantee that collected data including associated annotations and labels (obtained through manually, automatically and a semi-automatically processes) are representative samples of a real application scenario. The adopted data gathering and labeling methodologies may not include exhaustive and/or inclusive mechanisms that allow users to reach conclusive findings. More importantly, we strongly advise users NOT using the resources available in this site to build systems that make decisions and recommendations that have a direct or indirect impact into people's lives. Likewise, we acknowledge and apologize for those resources and publications available in this site may use ambiguous terms (e.g., gender vs. sex or ethnicity vs. race), we have not deliberately aimed to cause controversy or affect users in any form.
ChaLearn LAP datasets license
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ChaLearn LAP datasets, if no other information is provided at each specific dataset webpage, are presented "AS IS". By downloading and using them, you acknowledge they may contain errors, and take full responsibility on any potential risk or damage. To the fullest extent provided by law, in no event will we, our affiliates, or our licensors, service providers, employees, agents, officers, or directors be liable for damages of any kind, under any legal theory, arising out of or in connection with the developer’s use, or inability to use, the services, datasets, any content on the services or such other services, including any direct, indirect, special, incidental, consequential, or punitive damages, including but not limited to, personal injury, pain and suffering, emotional distress, loss of revenue, loss of profits, loss of business or anticipated savings, loss of use, loss of goodwill, loss of data, and whether caused by tort (including negligence), breach of contract, or otherwise, even if foreseeable.