[image 04937] MVA2023 Challenge on Small Bird Detection 開催のお知らせ

[Kondo, Yuki]

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トヨタ自動車 未来創生センターの近藤と申します．

来年，2023年にアクトシティ浜松でMIRUと共催される国際会議 
International Conference on Machine Vision Applications (MVA2023)において，
Challenge on Small Bird Detection を開催します．こちらは近年注力されている
微小物体検出タスクに該当する，小さな鳥を検出するコンペティションになります．

[ 主な特徴 ]
・入賞者には賞と最大30万円の賞金が贈られます．
・Research Categoryでは入賞者の論文はMVA2023のProceedingsに採録され，
　Oral発表の機会が与えられます．
・Kaggleのように純粋なスコアだけを競うDevelopment Categoryも準備されています．
・多くの方へ参加いただけるよう，2つの施策を準備しています．
　・ベースラインコードの公開
　・参加者同士で議論できる場の準備(Discord) ⇐ 最貢献者に賞あり．
・チームでの参加も可能です．

[ 主要日程 ]
・Start of the Challenge                               2023.1.9
・Fact sheets, code/executable submission deadline    2023.4.14
・Paper submission deadline (only Research Category)  2023.5.7
・Test results release to the participants               2023.6.15

詳細はこちらからご確認ください．
http://www.mva-org.jp/mva2023/challenge

もしよろしければ，Twitterの投稿も拡散頂ければ，幸いです．
https://twitter.com/MVA_ORG/status/1600779302223896577

皆様のご参加を心よりお待ちしております．

[ Challenge Organizers ]
Norimichi Ukita, Toyota Technological Institute, Japan
Yuki Kondo, Toyota Motor Corporation, Japan
Kaikai Zhao, Toyota Technological Institute, Japan
Kazutoshi Akita, Toyota Technological Institute, Japan
Takayuki Yamaguchi, Iwate Agricultural Research Center, Japan
Masatsugu Kidode, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan


-------＜About MVA2023＞-------
18TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MACHINE VISION APPLICATIONS

The eighteenth International Conference on Machine Vision Applications
will be held at ACT CITY Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, Japan from July 23
through 25, 2023. The conference is sponsored by the MVA Organization,
co-organized by IEICE PRMU and IPSJ SIG-CVIM, and endorsed by IAPR.

The aim of this conference is to bring together researchers and
practitioners from both academia and industry, and to stimulate the
exchange of knowledge through intensive discussions on the
cutting-edge research topics.

Topics-of-interest include, but are not limited to, sensing,
algorithms, and applications (Factory automation and robotics,
Intelligent Transport Systems, Human computer interaction, biomedical,
multimedia, and life) concerning the image media.

Papers should be prepared in the designated format in four pages, and
submitted electronically by the deadline.
Accepted papers will be presented in English either as an oral
presentation or a poster presentation.
Note that at least one author of an accepted paper must present their
work at the conference.

Also we are considering allowing you to participate online as well.

Details can be found in the following Web site:
http://www.mva-org.jp/mva2023/

Important Dates:
- Full Paper (4 pages) Submission Deadline: March 31, 2023
- Notification of Acceptance: June 13, 2023

Contact:
MVA2023 Organizing Committee (mva2023-sec-AT-mva-org.jp)
General Chairs
- Kyoko Sudo (Toho University)
- Shunsuke Kudo (The University of Electro-Communications)

Program Chairs
- Ichiro Ide (Nagoya University)
- Wei-Ta Chu (National Cheng Kung University)
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トヨタ自動車株式会社 未来創生センター
R-フロンティア部　ロボティクス研究ユニット 第1ロボティクスG
         
近藤　佑樹（Kondo, Yuki）
mail:yuki_kondo_ab ＠ mail.toyota.co.jp   
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