Competition Call for Proposals

ICIAP2021 13-17, SEPT 2021  LECCE, ITALY - 
https://www.iciap2021.org/

COMPETITION CALL FOR PROPOSALS

We are soliciting proposal for competition on any topic of interest to
the ICIAP community. We especially encourage competition proposals
from emerging new fields or new application domains related to Image
Analysis and processing.

Interdisciplinary topics that will attract a significant cross-section
of the community are especially highly encouraged.

There will be two types of competitions:

        Data science competitions (standard), where participants
	will compete to obtain the best score on a data driven task of
	interest to the pattern recognition and computer vision
	community based on a problem defined by the organizers of the
	competition.

	Live competitions, Participants will present live demos
	at ICIAP 2021 which apply methodology to an application domain
	defined by the organizers of the live competition.

PROPOSAL PREPARATION

Proposals should be submitted in PDF format by email to
competition@iciap21.org by March 1st, 2021.

The proposals should include the following information:

1. PRESENTATION:


 Why the challenge is of interest to the conference and to the
 scientific community? Does the challenge address an appropriate and
 relevant topic or topics of ICIAP?

 Is the challenge goal reasonably reachable according to the time
 schedule presented below? Is standard or a live competition?

2. DATA
	 
The data (standard competition): Training and test data, a description
of the annotations provided, and a detailed description of the rules
relative to the competition and the metrics used to measure
performance.

Both the training and test data must be unpublished and not provided
to other people before. Should we also allow datasets that are
previously public but not used for challenge or competition?

This will also not shoot us in the foot if a challenge is repeated for
new competitions from previous years (or in future some challenges
from ICIAP 21 to be repeated in later ICIAP conferences).
 
3. ORGANIZATION TEAM

A description of the team that is going to manage the competition and
evaluate the results. Diversity in the team of competition organizers
is generally recommended.  It is good to include a number of people
from different backgrounds with experience in the field. These might
include researchers from a number of different academic institutes, as
well as from industry, who have worked on a variety of projects
related to the topic of interest.

4. SCHEDULE

The competition schedules: Each challenge would require an ad-hoc
release of portion of training set, as well as specific time for the
data analysis. please provide a detailed time schedule considering the
one provided below.

5. AN AD-HOC SITE

The administration of the challenge must include the availability of a
site for the datasets download, a resource for clear information and
contacts and a way to provide results to the organization teem.

6. COMPETITION PROMOTION

Describe the plan that organizers have to promote participation in the
competition (e.g., mailing lists in which the call will be
distributed, invited talks, etc.). Please also describe your plan for
attracting participants of groups under-represented at ICIAP.


IMPORTANT DATES

Competition proposal submission deadline: March 1st, 2021

Acceptance notification: March 31 , 2021

Competition track: September, 2021

ADDITIONAL COMMENTS

Competition organizers should propose a timeline for running the
competition to ensure that participants have enough time to contribute
a high-quality entries. It is recommended that competitions be
completed by late June or early July 2021 at the absolute latest.

Competition organizers that require help or suggestions regarding
competition platforms for running the competition can contact the
competition chair for advice.

COMPETITION CHAIRS

Pier Luigi Mazzeo Istituto sulle Scienze Applicate e Sistemi
Intelligenti – CNR - Lecce, Italy,

Emanuele Frontoni Università Politecnica delle Marche – Ancona, Italy