Call for Challenge Proposals

OVERVIEW & PURPOSE

Challenges should address a well-defined open problem relevant to NCVPRIPG-23, provide high-quality data for testing / training algorithms, and define a clear assessment procedure. We invite proposals for 3 hour challenge sessions addressing problems that will engage and excite the research community. Challenge session proposals should include:

  1. A suitable and attractive challenge title
  2. A brief introduction of the challenge (max 500 words)
  3. The impact and significance of the challenge in the research and/or industrial community
  4. Major rules for participation and criteria that will be used to evaluate the submitted entries
  5. The team that will run the challenge (name, affiliation, email for each member)
  6. Important dates (e.g., submission deadline, data available, and winner announcement)
  7. Awards proposed, if any
  8. Any hands-on/live competition to be held during the event

SOME GUIDELINES & RULES

  1. Organizers cannot participate as competitors in the challenge they are organizing.
  2. Organizers should provide a dataset to participating teams that should include a training set with ground truth and a testing set whose ground truth is hidden.
  3. Challenge session organizers are in charge of evaluating the results/models submitted by the participants on the testing set, and setting up a leaderboard etc.
  4. Challenge session organizers can organize the presentation of best-performing teams in a dedicated session at NCVPRIPG-23. The session could include: (a) the presentation of the challenge, (b) the presentation of awards and the sponsors (if any), and; (c) an oral presentation of the model/approach by best teams (d) a poster session. (e) keynote/invite talk

We encourage the organizers to use open-source data licenses and/or keep the challenge open to submissions beyond the conference, providing a sustained platform for benchmarking.

NOTE: It is possible to propose a combined workshop + challenge (within the 3 hour limit for the event). Please note the workshop guidelines available separately and mention in your proposal if you wish to configure your event this way.

SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS

Proposals should be submitted as a pdf via email to ncvpripg_wc@iitj.ac.in

CHALLENGES ORANIZATION TIMELINE

  • Challenges Proposal Submission Deadline: March 21, 2023 March 29, 2023 April 1, 2023
  • Notification of Selection: March 30, 2023 April 3, 2023
  • Web Posting of Challenges: April 15, 2023
  • Opening Date for Submission to Challenges: April 25, 2023
  • Closing Date for Submission to Challenges: June 5, 2023
  • Announcement of Challenge Winners:July 1, 2023
  • Registration Deadline for Challenge Attendees: July 1, 2023