Hi, why is the ongoing OpenCV Vision Challenge not advertised? I only found it by coincidence in the development area. Why not announcing it on opencv.org, Twitter, ... ?
This seems like a waste of the $50.000 prize money.
Briefly: yes, challenge was postponed.
The main reason, I think, is that there is no clear vision, what algorithms should win: with best performance from all challenge participants, close to the state of the art or newly developed with performance above current SOTA, fastest and close to SOTA, etc.
Finally, OpenCV Vision Challenge was announced!
Grand challenges are actually quite common in research. It looks like even the evaluation, or even the planning, of such challenges will need to involve members of the research community, and then these organizing helpers will need to abstain from participating from the challenge in order to maintain neutrality. A reminder for other people: just keep in mind that scientifically evaluating an algorithm is not as simple as running a program, printing out some numbers and then compare them side-by-side.
Good luck then! my algorithms are far from state of the art, so probably won't join in :)
Asked: 2014-09-21 02:52:56 -0600
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Last updated: Nov 20 '14
Probably because when the idea was launched they seemed to be able to get the deadline for firing it up. Last thing I saw is that the challenge extras were still in the PR bots :)
So probably it is postponed!
Guys, wiki page is a bit outdated. Whole team is working, probably update will be at the EOW (contest hasn't started yet).
No problem Daniil. It is just very confusing for users, this should be kept in mind.
Yeah, I already spread the word in my research group :-P Ok, looking forward to it!