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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span lang="EN-AU">Call for
participation: NIPS 2018 competitions,<span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span lang="EN-AU">Several
NIPS competitions are already running in different hot topics of NIPS. Best top
ranked participants will be granted with several prizes, including the
opportunity to register to NIPS 2018 workshops.<span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span lang="EN-AU">Participants
will be also invited to contribute with a book chapter to the NIPS 2018 Cup
Springer book within the Series Challenges in Machine Learning: </span><a href="https://www.springer.com/series/15602" style="color:rgb(5,99,193);text-decoration:underline"><span lang="EN-AU">https://www.springer.com/series/15602</span></a><span lang="EN-AU"> <span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span lang="EN-AU">Details:<span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><a href="https://nips.cc/Conferences/2018/CompetitionTrack" style="color:rgb(5,99,193);text-decoration:underline"><span lang="EN-AU">https://nips.cc/Conferences/2018/CompetitionTrack</span></a><span lang="EN-AU"><span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span lang="EN-AU">Sergio
Escalera and Ralf Herbrich<span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span lang="EN-AU">NIPS 2018
Competition chairs<span></span></span></p>





<br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div><font size="1"><span style="color:rgb(68,68,68)"><b><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102)">Dr. Sergio Escalera Guerrero</span><br></b></span><span style="color:rgb(153,153,153)">Head of Human Pose Recovery and Behavior Analysis Lab<br></span></font></div><span style="color:rgb(153,153,153)"><font size="1">Project Manager at the Computer Vision Center<br></font></span></div><span style="color:rgb(153,153,153)"><font size="1">Director of ChaLearn Challenges in Machine Learning<br></font></span><span style="color:rgb(153,153,153)"><font size="1"><span><span><span style="color:rgb(153,153,153)"><font size="1">Associate professor</font></span></span></span> at University of Barcelona / Universitat Oberta de Catalunya / Aalborg Univ. / </font></span><br><span style="color:rgb(153,153,153)"><font size="1">Dalhousie University<br>Phone:+34</font></span><font size="1"><span style="color:rgb(153,153,153)"><font size="1"><span dir="ltr"><span dir="ltr"><span><span>934020853<br></span></span></span></span></font>Email: <a href="mailto:sergio.escalera.guerrero@gmail.com" target="_blank">sergio.escalera.guerrero@gmail.com</a> / Webpage: <a href="http://www.maia.ub.es/~sergio/" target="_blank">http://www.sergioescalera.com/</a></span></font><br><div><span></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>