The 2005 PASCAL Visual Object Classes Challenge

Mark Everingham, Andrew Zisserman, Christopher K. I. Williams, Luc Van Gool, Moray Allan, Christopher M. Bishop, Olivier Chapelle, Navneet Dalal, Thomas Deselaers, Gyuri Dorko, Stefan Duffner, Jan Eichhorn, Jason D. R. Farquhar, Mario Fritz, Christophe Garcia, Tom Griffiths, Frederic Jurie, Daniel Keysers, Markus Koskela, Jorma Laaksonen, Diane Larlus, Bastian Leibe, Hongying Meng, Hermann Ney, Bernt Schiele, Cordelia Schmid, Edgar Seemann, John Shawe-Taylor Amos Storkey, Sandor Szedmak, Bill Triggs, Ilkay Ulusoy, Ville Viitaniemi, and Jianguo Zhang. In Selected Proceedings of the First PASCAL Challenges Workshop, LNAI, Springer-Verlag. 2006.

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The PASCAL Visual Object Classes Challenge ran from February to March 2005. The goal of the challenge was to recognize objects from a number of visual object classes in realistic scenes (i.e. not pre-segmented objects). Four object classes were selected: motorbikes, bicycles, cars and people. Twelve teams entered the challenge. In this chapter we provide details of the datasets, algorithms used by the teams, evaluation criteria, and results achieved.