BEIJING, March 8, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- iQIYI, Inc.
(NASDAQ: IQ) ("iQIYI" or the "Company"), an innovative
market-leading online entertainment company in China, today launched the official website of
the 2019 Celebrity Video Identification Challenge. Held jointly by
iQIYI and ACM International Conference on Multimedia ("ACM MM"),
this year's AI competition focuses on video-based multimodal person
identification technology and will bring together the world's
leading researchers in AI to explore the boundaries of multimodal
person recognition.
Last year's inaugural competition was held using the largest
celebrity video dataset (iQIYI-VID-2018) in the world at the time,
which enabled iQIYI to upgrade its technology and achieve a
breakthrough in video-based recognition technology. This year,
iQIYI will provide an upgraded data set (iQIYI-VID-2019) of 200,000
video segments containing 10,000 human figures, 5,000 of which come
from the iQIYI celebrity database and iQIYI-VID-2018. The other
5,000 figures are extracted from iQIYI's short video App iQIYI
Jiangbing, representing 200 hours of new content. Researchers will
compete to develop person recognition algorithms to identify
celebrities through multimodal features such as the face, voice,
movement and clothing in the videos.
"We are delighted to organize this year's challenge with the
prestigious ACM MM and we look forward to promoting breakthroughs
of multimodal person recognition research to apply academic
research of computer vision (CV) and AI to industrial use," said
Liu Wenfeng, Chief Technology Officer at iQIYI. "We are confident
the competition will yield AI breakthroughs with practical
application to further optimize iQIYI's entertainment ecosystem and
monetization model while improving user experience."
iQIYI is committed to enhancing the application of AI in the
entertainment industry through research cooperation. This
commitment is reflected in the company's recently released 2018
financial results, in which R&D expenses were US$290.1 million, representing a 57% increase
from 2017. In the future, AI capabilities will remain a key focus
of iQIYI as the company continues its journey to become a
technology-based entertainment leader.
ACM MM is a premier international conference on multimedia
research including images, text, video, music, sensor data, spoken
audio and social network. Since 1993, ACM MM has been bringing
together leading researchers and practitioners from academia and
industry, such as Carnegie Mellon
University, Columbia University,
MIT Media Lab, Google, Microsoft and IBM, to present innovative
research results and discuss recent advancements.
To learn more about the competition, please visit
http://challenge.ai.iqiyi.com/ACM2019_2.
iQIYI Celebrity
Video Identification Challenge Schedule
|
February 28,
2019
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Registrations
open
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March 18,
2019
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Dataset available for
download
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April 29,
2019
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Submission of results
begins, Dynamic Ranking (2 times/week)
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May 10,
2019
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Online registration
ends
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June 10,
2019
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Submission of results
closes
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June 24,
2019
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Evaluation of results
announced and preparation for paper begins
|
July 8,
2019
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Paper
deadline
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October 21-25,
2019
|
Award
ceremony
|
About iQIYI, Inc.
iQIYI, Inc. (NASDAQ:IQ) ("iQIYI" or the "Company") is an
innovative market-leading online entertainment service
in China. Its corporate DNA combines creative talent with
technology, fostering an environment for continuous innovation and
the production of blockbuster content. iQIYI's platform features
highly popular original content, as well as a comprehensive library
of other professionally-produced content, partner-generated content
and user-generated content. The Company distinguishes itself in the
online entertainment industry by its leading technology platform
powered by advanced AI, big data analytics and other core
proprietary technologies. iQIYI attracts a massive user base with
tremendous user engagement, and has developed a diversified
monetization model including membership services, online
advertising services, content distribution, live broadcasting,
online games, IP licensing, online literature and e-commerce. For
more information on iQIYI, please
visit http://ir.iqiyi.com.
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