Participation¶

Only registered users are allowed to download data and participate in this challenge
All evaluation results will be made publicly available on the leaderboard
Only maximum of 10 submissions will be allowed
Participation in all three tasks is not mandatory. However, to be eligible for awards you will need to accomplish all three tasks
Participants willing to only submit their result for detection or semantic segmentation, however might be invited for presentation at the challenge-workshop depending upon their performance and scientific contribution
Participants are encouraged to submit a short description of their method
Top performing individual or team will be contacted for 2 page paper detailing their methods based on which they will be invited to present their work and a joint journal submission (see below for publication)
Self-publication or any other sort of publication of results or data is not allowed and strictly forbidden before the challenge-workshop
Challenge organisers will have the right to disqualify any individual or team submission in case of the breach of rules

Prizes¶

We have planned to award a total of 4 prizes:

one each for each of the 3 sub-tasks and
* one more for the team which ranks overall best across all 3 sub-tasks*

We encourage everyone to submit results to all 3 sub-challenges.

Please note that the top scorers will be awarded with cash prizes at EAD2019 workshop in Venice, Italy. Attendance is mandatory to receive your awards!

Best method for all scores: 200 euros cash prize

Best method for detection only, semantic only, generalisation only: 100 euros each cash prize

Publication

A journal paper has been aimed to be written after the challenge. We aim to include top participating individuals or teams (only maximum of 2 members) as co-authors based on their contribution in the method and approach for accomplishing task/s.