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ICPR 2024 Call for Competitions
https://icpr2024.org/cfc.html
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The ICPR 2024 Organizing Committee invites proposals for competitions that aim at evaluating the performance of algorithms and methods related to pattern recognition.
You are cordially invited to submit a proposal, that should contain the following information:
1- Contest title and abstract
2- A brief description of the competition, including what the particular task under evaluation is, why this competition is of interest to the ICPR community, and the expected number of participants
3- An outline of the competition schedule
4- Description of the dataset to be used, and the evaluation process and metrics for submitted methods
5- The names, contact information, and brief CVs of the competition organizers, outlining previous experience in performance evaluation and/or organizing competitions
The following rules shall apply to the accepted Competitions:
1- The name of competition must be standardized by starting with “ICPR 2024” e.g. “ICPR 2024 Competition on …” or “ICPR 2024 … Competition.”
2- Datasets used in the competitions must be made available after the end of the competitions. Specifically, the training data and ground truth must be publicly released and there must be a way to evaluate performance on a test set. This could take the form of an evaluation server, or the test data, ground truth, and evaluation script could be made publicly available.
3- Evaluation methodologies and metrics used must be described in detail so that results can be replicated later. Evaluation scripts must be released afterwards.
4- Each competition has to be presented with a poster at a prominent place at the conference venue, and some good competitions may be selected for oral presentation during ICPR 2024.
5- Competitions must have a sufficient number of participants (greater or equal to 3) to be able to draw meaningful conclusions.
6- Reports (full papers) on each competition will be reviewed and, if accepted (the competition ran according to plan, attracted a minimum level of participation and is appropriately described), will be published in the ICPR 2024 conference proceedings.
7- Participants should not have access to the ground-truth test dataset until the end of the competition. The evaluation should be done by the organizers.
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Submission Guidelines & Inquiries
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All proposals should be submitted by electronic mail to the Competition Chairs (Lian Wen Jin, Richard Zanibbi, and Laurence Likforman-Sulem) via:
icpr2024competition@gmail.com
We encourage competitions proposals with a solid plan to remain active and challenging for the community over and above ICPR 2024.
For any inquiries you may have regarding the competitions, please contact us via above email.
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Important Dates
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March 1, 2024: Competition Proposal Due
March 15, 2024: Competition Acceptance Notification
April 2, 2024 Individual Competition Websites are Live
July 21, 2024: deadline for competition participants
August 18, 2024: Initial Submission of Competition Reports Deadline
September 02, 2024: Camera-Ready Papers Due
October 28, 2024 Communicate Winners to Chairs
December 1-5, 2024: Presentation at ICPR Conference
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