UG2+ Challenge

Timetable

Imporant Dates

**Please note that our track follows a different timeline from the other tracks.** The following dates are also availible on our Codabench page.

Registration, Training (Dry-run) and Validation phase starts: Feburary 14, 2024 midnight UTC
Testing phase starts: April 28, 2024 midnight UTC
Competition Ends (final submissions due): May 1, 2024 midnight UTC
Winner Announcement (tentative): May 20, 2024

** Dry-run phase: A set of dry-run (validation) data is provided for debugging purpose only. This set is provided just to validate your prediction format (so you can work with our final testing in the end). The MSE Loss and Accuracy on this set is NOT accurate. Feedback are provided on this dry-run (validation) set only.

Please register through our Registration Form, which will close on April 28, 2024, midnight UTC.

For submission format, please carefully follow the guidelines outlined in this README file and in the Terms page of the Getting Started tab on our Codabench page. The organizers reserve the right to disqualify any participating team for any of the reasons mentioned above and if deemed necessary.

Submission Process

To avoid inconvenience during the competition, and to ensure a smooth submission process, please follow the following guidelines carefully.

Submission format (before winner validation): A zipfile containing a single "mmaud_results.csv" file.
Codabench pages: Codabench Link
A valid submission must be submitted as an Organization.
To create organization, please click on your icon on the top right corner, and select "Create Organizations". Enter your Team Name in the Registration Form as your Organization name. During submission, select "Submit As" and choose your Organization in the drop down list. You should be able to see your Organization name (or equivalently, Team Name) in the "Participant" column on the leaderboard (Results table).
Only results with the "Participant" name corresponding to a registered Team Name is accounted for prize winning.
A total number of 100 submissions per participant is imposed during the Registration, Dry-run, and Validation phase.
A total number of 5 (five) submissions per TEAM is imposed during the Final Testing phase. That means, no matter how many team members are in your team, each TEAM (as shown in the "Participant" field) can only submit 5 times during the Final Testing Phase. Submissions of a team may come from different members (participant), but only the (chronologically) first 5 submissions from that TEAM will be considered on the leaderboard.
We encourage participants to use the provided training and validation data for each task, as well as to make use of their own data or data from other sources for training. If other data is leveraged, they must be specified during the winner validation stage or when inquired by the organizers.
Test images: downloadable April 28 (GMT+0 00:00) ~ May 1 (GMT+0 00:00).
Teams with Top-6 (tentatively) on the final testing Codabench leaderboard would go through a winner validation and confirmation process, Details would be provided at a later date.

If you have any questions about this challenge track please feel free to email ug2.uav.track.ntu@gmail.com and cvpr2024.ug2challenge@gmail.com.

Rules and Eligibility

Foreign Nationals and International Developers: All Developers can participate with this exception: residents of, Iran, Cuba, North Korea, Crimea Region of Ukraine, Sudan or Syria or other countries prohibited on the U.S. State Department’s State Sponsors of Terrorism list. In addition, Developers are not eligible to participate if they are on the Specially Designated National list promulgated and amended, from time to time, by the United States Department of the Treasury. It is the responsibility of the Developer to ensure that they are allowed to export their technology solution to the United States for the Live Test. Additionally, it is the responsibility of participants to ensure that no US law export control restrictions would prevent them from participating when foreign nationals are involved. If there are US export control concerns, please contact the organizers and we will attempt to make reasonable accommodations if possible.
If you are entering as a representative of a company, educational institution or other legal entity, or on behalf of your employer, these rules are binding on you, individually, and/or the entity you represent or are an employee. If you are acting within the scope of your employment, as an employee, contractor, or agent of another party, you warrant that such party has full knowledge of your actions and has consented thereto, including your potential receipt of a prize. You further warrant that your actions do not violate your employer’s or entity’s policies and procedures.
The organizers reserve the right to verify eligibility and to adjudicate on any dispute at any time. If you provide any false information relating to the prize challenge concerning your identity, email address, ownership of right, or information required for entering the prize challenge, you may be immediately disqualified from the challenge.

The organizers reserve the right to disqualify any participating team for any of the reasons mentioned above and if deemed necessary.

Warranty, indemnity and release

You warrant that your Submission is your own original work and, as such, you are the sole and exclusive owner and rights holder of the Submission, and you have the right to make the Submission and grant all required licenses. You agree not to make any Submission that: (i) infringes any third party proprietary rights, intellectual property rights, industrial property rights, personal or moral rights or any other rights, including without limitation, copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret, privacy, publicity or confidentiality obligations; or (ii) otherwise violates any applicable state or federal law.

To the maximum extent permitted by law, you indemnify and agree to keep indemnified challenge Entities at all times from and against any liability, claims, demands, losses, damages, costs and expenses resulting from any act, default or omission of the entrant and/or a breach of any warranty set forth herein. To the maximum extent permitted by law, you agree to defend, indemnify and hold harmless the challenge Entities from and against any and all claims, actions, suits or proceedings, as well as any and all losses, liabilities, damages, costs and expenses (including reasonable attorneys fees) arising out of or accruing from: (a) your Submission or other material uploaded or otherwise provided by you that infringes any copyright, trademark, trade secret, trade dress, patent or other intellectual property right of any person or entity, or defames any person or violates their rights of publicity or privacy; (b) any misrepresentation made by you in connection with the challenge; (c) any non-compliance by you with these Rules; (d) claims brought by persons or entities other than the parties to these Rules arising from or related to your involvement with the challenge; and (e) your acceptance, possession, misuse or use of any Prize, or your participation in the challenge and any challenge-related activity.

You hereby release organizers from any liability associated with: (a) any malfunction or other problem with the challenge Website; (b) any error in the collection, processing, or retention of any Submission; or (c) any typographical or other error in the printing, offering or announcement of any Prize or winners.

Contact