2016 Looking at People ECCV Challenge

Challenge description

Co-located with the workshop we are organizing a challenge on “first impressions”, in which participants will develop solutions for recognizing personality traits of users in short video sequences. We will make available a large newly collected data set sponsored by Microsoft of at least 10,000 15-second videos collected from YouTube, annotated with personality traits by AMT workers. The traits will correspond to the “big five” personality traits used in psychology and well known of hiring managers using standardized personality profiling: Extroversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, neuroticism, and openness to experience. As is known, the first impression made is highly important in many contexts, such as human resourcing or job interviews. This work could become very relevant to training young people to present themselves better by changing their behavior in simple ways. The participants who obtain the best results in the challenge will be invited to submit a paper to the workshop.

The first work studying the big-5 traits from audio-visual cues in thin-slices of YouTube personal videos using MTurk annotations and automatic inference of personality traits was presented in:

J.-I. Biel, O. Aran, and D. Gatica-Perez, You Are Known by How You Vlog: Personality Impressions and Nonverbal Behavior in YouTube in Proc. AAAI Int. Conf. on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM), Barcelona, Jul. 2011

J.-I. Biel and D. Gatica-Perez, The YouTube Lens: Crowdsourced Personality Impressions and Audiovisual Analysis of Vlogs, IEEE Trans. on Multimedia, Vol. 15, No. 1, pp. 41-55, Jan. 2013

With associated events at ACM Multimedia 2014:
https://sites.google.com/site/wcprst/home/wcpr14
https://www.idiap.ch/dataset/youtube-personality

Figure 1. Sample videos that will be used for the first impression challenge.

Top three ranked participants of the challenge will receive a prize as follows (estimated, it depends on the available budget):

• First place:      1500USD + 400USD travel grant + award certificate 
• Second place:  1000USD + 400USD travel grant + award certificate 
• Thrid- place:      500USD + 400USD travel grant + award certificate

In addition top ranked participants will be invited to follow the workshop submission guide for inclusion of a description of their system at the ECCV 2016 workshop proceedings, participants of the workshop or challenge will be invited to submit revised and extended versions of their papers to be considered for publication in a special issue on personality analysis in the IEEE Transactions on Affecfive Computing.