ICCV 2005 Computer Vision Contest Final Results and

ICCV 2005 Computer Vision Contest Final Results and Awards Richard Szeliski, Microsoft Research Beijing, October 19, 2005

Contest Goals • Stimulate friendly competition between computer vision students worldwide • Advance state of art in challenging and relevant area of computer vision

The Task • Given some images of a city taken from known locations, estimate locations of other images ? ? ?

Test Data (aerial view) Test data

Sample Result (aerial view) INRIA 0

Sample Result (aerial view) CMP

Final test data (aerial view)

Final results (aerial view)

Final results (scores) First Place Second Place Third Place Honorable Mention

Honorable Mention

Tenth International Conference on Computer Vision ICCV 2005 Vision Contest Honorable Mention Is Presented To Team INRIA 0 Team Members: Matthijs Douze Team Advisors: Bill Triggs and Peter Sturm and Cordelia Schmid Richard Szeliski Heung-Yeung Shum Vision Contest Chair ICCV 2005 General Chair

Final results (scores) First Place Second Place Third Place Honorable Mention

Honorable Mention

Tenth International Conference on Computer Vision ICCV 2005 Vision Contest Honorable Mention Is Presented To Team UCF Team Members: Asaad Hakeem and Arslan Basharat and Fahd Rafi and Saad Masood Khan Team Advisors: Mubarak Shah Richard Szeliski Heung-Yeung Shum Vision Contest Chair ICCV 2005 General Chair

Final results (scores) First Place Second Place Third Place

Third Place ($250)

Tenth International Conference on Computer Vision ICCV 2005 Vision Contest Third Place Is Presented To Team SHALOM Team Members: Shahar Barnea (Lufa) and Ziv Shragai (Shoei) Richard Szeliski Heung-Yeung Shum Vision Contest Chair ICCV 2005 General Chair

Final results (scores) First Place Second Place

Second Place ($500)

Tenth International Conference on Computer Vision ICCV 2005 Vision Contest Second Place Is Presented To Team CMP Team Members: Daniel Martinec and Michal Perdoch and Ondrej Chum and Stepan Obdrzalek and Tomas Werner Team Advisors: Jiri (George) Matas and Tomas Pajdla Richard Szeliski Heung-Yeung Shum Vision Contest Chair ICCV 2005 General Chair

Final results (scores) First Place

First Place ($750)

Tenth International Conference on Computer Vision ICCV 2005 Vision Contest First Place Is Presented To Team GMU 1 Team Members: Wei Zhang and Fayin Li Team Advisors: Jana Kosecka Richard Szeliski Heung-Yeung Shum Vision Contest Chair ICCV 2005 General Chair

Lessons Learned • Get a committee to help • Get started earlier & publicize better • Iterate on problem selection & difficulty (try again)

Next Computer Vision Contest • Continue current challenge as a “friendly” contest (Web ranking) • Looking for volunteers to organize the next Vision Contest (different challenge) Thank You