Challenge Rules

CHALLENGE OFFICIAL RULES

PLEASE READ THESE OFFICIAL RULES (“Rules”) CAREFULLY. ENTRY INTO THIS CHALLENGE CONSTITUTES YOUR ACCEPTANCE OF THESE OFFICIAL RULES. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO ANY PART OF THESE OFFICIAL RULES, PLEASE DO NOT ENTER THIS CHALLENGE. NO PURCHASE IS NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN. A PURCHASE OF ANY KIND WILL NOT INCREASE YOUR CHANCES OF WINNING. VOID WHERE PROHIBITED.

To help you "Get Started" we have a starter kit available for each of these problems. We hope they are helpful; if you find any bugs, typos, or improvements, please send us a pull request. This Challenge will be run in accordance with these Official Rules ("Rules").

1. SPONSOR

The Competition is organized by Polynome Events FZE, with license number L-2740, registered at HD-141, Floor 18, Sheikh Rashid Tower, Dubai World Trade Centre, Dubai, UAE (“Sponsor”).

2. ORGANISERS

“Sponsor Admins” are any companies or organizations authorized by Sponsor to aid it with the administration or execution of this Challenge. “Organizers Admins” are any companies or organizations authorized by Organizers to aid them with the administration, sponsorship or execution of this Challenge. The organizers for this challenge include Machines Can See Summitt platform coordinated by Polynome Events FZE.

3. CHALLENGE START AND END DATES (“CHALLENGE PERIOD”)

• Start Date: February 1st, 2024 at 23:55 UTC

• Challenge End: April 1st, 2024 at 23:55 UTC

• Winner Evaluation: April 3rd - April 17th at 23:55 UTC

• Winners Announcement at Machines Can See: April 17th, 2024

No additional registrations or entries will be accepted after the Entry Deadline. These dates are subject to change at Sponsor’s discretion.

4. PARTICIPATION ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS

Eligibility for entry into this Challenge requires that you, the Entrant, and each member of your Team, meet the following criteria as of the entry date and time:

1. You must be an individual.

2. You must be at least 18 years of age or the age of majority in your place of residence, whichever is greater.

3. You must have access to the Internet, an email account, and a personal computer.

4. You must have completed the participant registration accurately and truthfully.

Please note, participation is limited to one Team per Entrant. Membership in multiple Teams is prohibited and may result in the disqualification of the individual and all associated Teams, as determined at the sole discretion of the Sponsor.

Additionally, you are deemed ineligible to participate in this Challenge if you appear on any list of prohibited or restricted parties as maintained by the United States, the United Kingdom, any European Union member state, the United Nations, or any relevant governmental authority, including but not limited to those listed by the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the U.S. Department of the Treasury. Your participation must adhere to all applicable export controls and economic sanctions, as judged at the sole discretion of the Sponsor.

5. IS THE ENTRY AN ELIGIBLE ENTRY?

To be eligible to be considered for a prize, as solely determined by the Sponsor: The Entry MUST:

• be compatible with the official submission format;

• be in English;

• be the Team’s own original work;

• not contain material or content that: is inappropriate, indecent, obscene, offensive, sexually explicit, pornographic, hateful, tortious, defamatory, or slanderous or libelous; or promotes bigotry, racism, hatred or harm against any group or individual or promotes discrimination based on race, gender, ethnicity, religion, nationality, disability, sexual orientation, or age; or promotes alcohol, illegal drugs, or tobacco; or violates or infringes another’s rights, including but not limited to rights of privacy, publicity, or their intellectual property rights; or is inconsistent with the message, brand, or image of Sponsor, is unlawful; or is in violation of or contrary to the laws or regulations of any jurisdiction in which the Entry is created; and

The organizers will not be able to transfer the travel grant and prize money to accounts of participants who reside in any of the following countries or regions. (Please note that residents of these countries or regions are still allowed to participate in the Challenge, but no prizes will be available.)

• The Crimea region of Ukraine

• Cuba

• Iran

• North Korea

• Sudan

• Syria

• Quebec, Canada

• Brazil

• Italy

Please Note: it is entirely your responsibility to review and understand your employer's and country's policies about your eligibility to participate in this Challenge. If you participate in violation of your employer's or country's policies, you and your entry may be disqualified from the Challenge. The organizers disclaim any and all liability or responsibility with respect to disputes arising between an employer and such employer's employee or between a country and its resident in relation to the Challenge.

The Team members MUST:

• designate one person as the team leader who will be solely responsible for receiving communications from and communicating with Sponsor;

• ensure the Team has obtained any and all consents, approvals, or licenses required for submission of the Entry;

• obtain any consents necessary from all members of the Team with respect to the sharing of such member’s personal information as outlined herein;

• obtain the agreement of all members of the Team to these Rules;

• not generate the Entry by any means which violate these Rules, the Sponsor’s Terms of Service or the Sponsor’s Privacy Policy;

• not engage in false, fraudulent, or deceptive acts at any phase during participation in the Challenge; and

• not tamper or abuse any aspect of this Challenge.

6. DISQUALIFICATION.

If you, any Team member, or the Entry is found to be ineligible for any reason, including but not limited to conflicts within Teams and noncompliance with these Rules, Organizers and Organizers Affiliates reserve the right to disqualify the Entry and/or you and/or your Team members from this Challenge and any other contest or promotional activity sponsored or administered in any way by the Organizers.

A participant is not allowed to create more than one account to participate in the challenge. Violating this will result in disqualification from the challenge.

Participants should not attempt to get around the limited number of submissions during the test phase by entering several teams into the competition. Participants should only be associated with one Entry. If two teams have overlap of participants, or if the organizers deem two entries to be effectively similar modulo small changes, they reserve the right to disqualify both teams.

If a participating team does not receive the Prizes for any of the above-mentioned reasons, the prizes will be offered to the next eligible team on the final leaderboard.

7. HOW MAY THE ENTRY POTENTIALLY BE USED?

The Entry may be used in a few different ways. Sponsor does not claim to own your Team’s Entry, however, by submitting the Entry you and each member of your Team:

• to be used in a report submitted to Organizers after the competition has ended, and possibly released as an open-source dataset; Admins to use the rights and licenses granted hereunder;

• acknowledges and agrees that the Team will not be compensated and may not be credited (at Organizer’s sole discretion) for the use of the Entry as described in these Rules;

• acknowledges that the Organizers may have developed or commissioned materials similar to the Entry and waive any claims resulting from any similarities to the Entry;

• understand and acknowledge that, subject to the provision of Prizes, Organizers are not obligated to use the Entry in any way, even if the Entry is selected as a winning Entry.

• agrees that each member will execute any necessary paperwork for Organizers and Organizers Admins to use the rights and licenses granted hereunder;

• The solution developed in this challenge can be utilised for generating neural network models suitable for production or real-time implementation. Personal data you submit in relation to this Challenge will be used by Organisers.

8. HOW WILL WINNERS BE SELECTED AND NOTIFIED?

Teams must upload their inference code to the Sponsor Admin’s platform, which will run inference against the validation set. Submissions will be evaluated first on a smaller subset of flights, and non-meaningful submissions will be discarded without further evaluation and not be posted on the leaderboard. Sponsor maintains right to change the definition of non meaningful during the Challenge Period based on statistics derived from the highest scoring, previously-submitted entries.

All submissions will be evaluated on the same hardware. A Team may make only 1 submission per 24-hour period. Submission limit will be 30 minutes on g5.xlarge. 

In the first round of evaluation, participant solutions will be subjectively evaluated by non-experts based on criteria such as room layout, realism, functionality, and match to the text prompt. In second round of evaluation, the solutions of the top N participants will be evaluated by design experts and the final announcement will be made at Machines Can See Summit. 

Qualification criteria for ranking on the private leaderboard is exactly the same as on the public leaderboard.

Participants may elect submissions to be evaluated for the private leaderboard. Each participant might win at most one prizes. If there are no 3 submissions that qualify for a prize in each baseline, the organizers will first award prizes to the submissions that qualify as defined above, for the remainder of prizes, the organizers keep the right to use a different criterion. Potential winners will be contacted via the email associated with AIcrowd.com account through which the Entry was submitted. If a potential winner cannot be contacted, does not respond as directed, refuses the prize, or is found to be ineligible for any reason, such prize may be forfeited and awarded to an alternate winner. Only one alternate winner will be selected per each prize package, after which prizes will remain unawarded.

To the extent that there is any dispute as to the identity of the potential winner, the official account holder of the email address associated with the AIcrowd account through which the Entry was first submitted will be deemed the official potential winner by Sponsor.

9. YOUR ODDS OF WINNING

ODDS OF WINNING A PRIZE ARE SUBJECT TO THE TOTAL NUMBER OF ELIGIBLE ENTRIES RECEIVED AND HOW YOUR ENTRY SCORES IN ACCORDANCE TO THE JUDGING CRITERIA.

10. PRIZES

To receive a prize, the Team must make the submission via the AIcrowd website, and submit its training code and a detailed document describing its training process. The description must be written in English, with mathematical formulae as necessary. The description must be written at a level sufficient for a practitioner in computer science to reproduce the results obtained by the Team. It must describe substantially the training and tuning process to reproduce results independently. Failure to submit both the code and description within three days of notification will disqualify that entry and additional qualifying entries will be considered for prizes. Sponsor reserves right not to award prizes to any Team whose results cannot be reproduced.

To be eligible for the prizes, participants will have to release the training and inference code to their solutions under a permissive e.g. BSD, MIT, Apache, (not exclusive) or copyleft e.g. MPL, EPL, LGPL, AGPL, GPL (not exclusive) license from the OSI Approved Licenses https://opensource.org/licenses/. The submitted training and inference code is expected to be reproducible and should produce the same score on the leaderboard. The winning participants will have to provide a valid and unexpired ID card or passport which AIcrowd will use only for the purpose of verifying the individual's identity for internal record keeping.

Any and all prize(s) is(are) non transferable. All taxes, fees and expenses associated with participation in the Challenge or receipt and use of a prize are the sole responsibility of the Prize Winner(s). No substitution of prize or transfer/assignment of prize to others or request for the cash equivalent by winners is permitted. Acceptance of prize constitutes permission for AIcrowd to use winner’s name and entry for purposes of advertising and trade without further compensation unless prohibited by law.

The participation of the Organizers and Organizer Admins, its employees and its affiliates, parents, agents, representatives, advertising and promotional agencies and members of the immediate family (parents, children or siblings) of these employees or any person with whom they are domiciled, are permitted to participate in the challenge but will not be eligible to win the prize.

11. WHEN WILL PRIZES BE AWARDED?

The prizes will be awarded within a commercially reasonable time frame and may take upto six months from the date of winner announcement. All members of a Team may be required to complete and sign additional documentation, such as non-disclosures, representations and warranties, liability and publicity releases (unless prohibited by applicable law), and tax documents, or other similar documentation in order for the potentially winning team to claim the prize. Organizers will in no way be involved in any dispute with respect to receipt of a prize by any other members of a Team.

Only prizes claimed in accordance to these Rules will be awarded.

12. WINNER LIST

At Sponsor’s discretion, a list of all winners of this Challenge will be posted on AIcrowd Site and may be announced via Sponsor’s Twitter, Facebook, Blog, Website, or any other means, or at a Sponsor or Admins sponsored or hosted event.

13. YOUR PERSONAL DATA AND PRIVACY

Organizers may use cookies and/or collect IP addresses for the purpose of implementing or exercising its rights or obligations under the Rules, for information purposes, identifying your location, including without limitation for the purpose of redirecting you to the appropriate geographic website, if applicable, or for any other lawful purpose in accordance with the Privacy Policy.

Organizers may use the personal data you provide via your participation in this Challenge:

• to contact you in relation to the Challenge;

• to confirm the details of your Entry;

• to administer and execute this Challenge, including sharing it with Organizer Admins;

• at Organizers' discretion, to credit you and/or your Team for the Entry, identify you and/or your Team as a Winner, or other similar notice; and

• as otherwise noted in these Rules or as necessary for Organizers to meet their obligations under these Rules or applicable law.

Organizers only require name and email address to be submitted for you to participate in this Challenge for its uses as outlined in this Section 15. Please read the terms and conditions of the AIcrowd Site carefully to understand how your data may be used by AIcrowd SA.

13. YOUR PERSONAL DATA AND PRIVACY

The Organizers reserve the right to employ cookies and gather IP addresses as needed to enforce or fulfill their responsibilities as outlined in these Rules. This data collection serves various purposes, including, but not limited to, the identification of your geographical location for redirection to the relevant geographic website, and other lawful activities aligned with our Privacy Policy.

In strict adherence to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), we guarantee the lawful, fair, and transparent processing of all personal data acquired during this Challenge. Such data will be exclusively collected for clear, specific, and legitimate purposes pertinent to the Challenge and will not be processed further in any manner that contradicts these stated purposes.

The Organizers may utilize the personal data submitted by participants during this Challenge for the following purposes:

• To communicate with you regarding the Challenge;

• To verify the details of your Entry;

• To manage and conduct the Challenge, which includes sharing relevant information with Organizer Admins;

• At the discretion of the Organizers, to acknowledge your and/or your Team's contribution to the Challenge, possibly including crediting your Entry, recognizing you and/or your Team as a Winner, or issuing other similar notifications; and

• For any other purposes as explicitly outlined in these Rules, or as deemed necessary by the Organizers to fulfill their obligations under these Rules or applicable law.

14. DATA USE AGREEMENT

Transparency in Data Use: Participants agree to uphold complete transparency in the use of additional data from external sources. This includes clear documentation of all methods and adherence to ethical standards, particularly in the context of dialogue systems and persona data.

External Dataset Usage: Participants using external datasets must ensure their use is permissible for non-commercial or academic research purposes. Compliance with licensing terms is mandatory. The use of any publicly available datasets, other than those provided as part of the challenge resources, must be clearly declared and justified.

Use Justification: Participants must provide a rationale for using any declared datasets, ensuring that their use aligns with the objectives of the challenge and does not violate any dataset-specific terms of use.

Prohibition on Test Data Use for Model Improvement: Participants are strictly prohibited from using test data, accessible during runtime, to enhance, tune, or modify their models. The integrity of the evaluation process depends on assessing the pre-existing capabilities of models without real-time adjustments based on test data insights.

Penalties for Violation: Any violation of these terms, especially the misuse of test data for model improvement, will result in immediate disqualification and potential further actions as determined by the challenge organizers.

By participating in this challenge, you, the Participant, acknowledge and agree to these terms, confirming your understanding and commitment to maintaining the integrity and fairness of the competition.

15. ADDITIONAL TERMS AND CONDITIONS

The Sponsor reserves the unilateral right to modify, suspend, or terminate the Challenge if it determines, at its sole discretion, that the Challenge is impaired or corrupted by viruses, bugs, unauthorized human intervention, or any other factors beyond reasonable control which, in the Sponsor's opinion, corrupt or affect the administration, security, fairness, or proper conduct of the Challenge. In such event, the Sponsor may, at its discretion, (a) cancel the Challenge entirely, (b) suspend the Challenge until the resolution of the compromising issues, or (c) limit consideration for prizes to Entries submitted prior to the identification of the compromising event.

Furthermore, the Sponsor maintains the right to verify the eligibility of participants at any stage of the Challenge. This verification may include conducting background checks and requesting documentary evidence to support eligibility claims. In instances of eligibility disputes, the Sponsor’s decision shall be deemed final and binding, subject to legal review as necessary. Should verification or audit processes reveal a participant’s non-compliance with these Official Rules or any related Challenge communications, the Sponsor may, at its discretion, suspend or terminate the participant's involvement in any aspect of the Challenge.

ADDITIONAL PRIZE CONDITIONS

Prizes are non-transferable except as directed by Sponsor. No prize substitutions allowed. Except where prohibited by law, all federal, state, provincial or other tax liabilities are the responsibility of the prize winners, the Sponsor will not be responsible for any tax deductions which may be necessary and Sponsor reserves the right to withhold taxes as required by law. Prize winners will be responsible for paying all costs and expenses related to the prize that are not specifically mentioned, including, but not limited to, taxes, withholdings, and any other expenses that might reasonably be incurred by the winner in receiving or using the prize. All prizes awarded will be subject to any taxes Sponsor is required by law to withhold as well as applicable sales, use, gross receipts, goods and service, or similar transaction based taxes. IF TAXES ARE APPLICABLE TO THE PRIZE(S), IT IS THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE WINNER TO PAY TO THE APPROPRIATE AUTHORITIES. PAYMENTS TO CHALLENGE WINNERS ARE SUBJECT TO THE EXPRESS REQUIREMENT THAT THE WINNER SUBMIT TO SPONSOR ALL DOCUMENTATION REQUESTED BY SPONSOR (INCLUDING FORMS W-9 OR W-8BEN AS REQUESTED BY SPONSOR) TO PERMIT COMPLIANCE WITH ALL APPLICABLE STATE, FEDERAL, LOCAL AND FOREIGN (INCLUDING PROVINCIAL) TAX REPORTING AND WITHHOLDING REQUIREMENTS. Prize winners are responsible for ensuring that the tax documentation submitted to Sponsor complies with all applicable tax laws and requirements. If a winner fails to provide the documentation or submits incomplete documentation, the prize may be forfeited and Sponsor may, in its sole discretion, select an alternate winner. Designation as a prize winner is subject to Entrant’s proof of compliance with these Official Rules, maintaining compliance with these Official Rules and approval by the Sponsor. All details of prizes not specified herein shall be determined solely by Sponsor.

Your use of any other products and services required by these Rules, whether required by these Rules or not, are subject to the terms and conditions associated with such products or services, including the AIcrowd site and services. In the event any clause or provision of these Rules prove unenforceable, void or incomplete, the validity of the other conditions will remain unaffected.

WAIVER, RELEASE AND LIMITATION OF LIABILITY

EACH ENTRANT ACCEPTS THE CONDITIONS STATED IN THESE OFFICIAL RULES, AGREES TO BE BOUND BY THE DECISIONS OF THE SPONSOR, WARRANTS THAT HE OR SHE IS ELIGIBLE TO PARTICIPATE IN THIS CHALLENGE, AND AGREES TO RELEASE, INDEMNIFY, AND HOLD HARMLESS CHALLENGE ENTITIES AND THE PERSONNEL OF EACH FROM AND AGAINST ANY AND ALL CLAIMS, LOSSES, LIABILITY, AND DAMAGES OF ANY KIND (INCLUDING REASONABLE ATTORNEYS’ FEES AND EXPENSES) ASSERTED AGAINST ANY OF THEM, INCURRED OR SUSTAINED IN CONNECTION WITH OR RISING OUT OF ENTRANT’S PARTICIPATION IN THIS CHALLENGE OR ANY TRAVEL OR ACTIVITY RELATED THERETO, OR BREACH OF ANY AGREEMENT OR WARRANTY ASSOCIATED WITH THE CHALLENGE, INCLUDING THESE OFFICIAL RULES. ANY ATTEMPT TO DELIBERATELY DAMAGE ANY WEBSITE OR UNDERMINE THE LEGITIMATE OPERATION OF THE CHALLENGE IS A VIOLATION OF CRIMINAL AND CIVIL LAWS AND, SHOULD SUCH AN ATTEMPT BE MADE, THE CHALLENGE ENTITIES AND EACH OF THEIR LICENSEES RESERVE THE RIGHT TO SEEK ANY AND ALL REMEDIES AVAILABLE FROM ANY SUCH PERSON(S) RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY SUCH ATTEMPT TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW.

Each Entrant hereby acknowledges and agrees that the relationship between themselves and the Challenge Entities is not a confidential, fiduciary, or other special relationship, and that the Entrant’s decision to provide the entry to Sponsor for purposes of the Challenge does not place the Challenge Entities in a position that is any different from the position held by members of the general public with regard to elements of the entry, other than as set forth in these Official Rules. Each Entrant also acknowledges that many ideas may be competitive with, similar to, or identical to their submission in theme, idea, format, or other respects. Each Entrant acknowledges and agrees that such Entrant will not be entitled to any compensation as a result of Challenge Entities' use of any such similar or identical material that has or may come to Challenge Entities, or any of them, from other sources. Entrants acknowledge that other Entrants/Entrant Teams may have created ideas and concepts that may have familiarities or similarities to their submission, and that they will not be entitled to any compensation or right to negotiate with the Challenge Entities because of these familiarities or similarities. Entrants further agree that the Challenge Entities are not responsible for the following: (a) electronic transmissions, entries or notifications that are lost, late, stolen, incomplete, damaged, garbled, destroyed, misdirected or not received by Sponsor or their agents for any reason; (b) any problems or technical malfunctions, errors, omissions, interruptions, deletions, defects, delays in operation or transmission, communication failures and/or human error that may occur in the transmission, shipping errors or delays, receipt or processing of entries or related materials; or for destruction of or unauthorized access to, or alteration of, entries or related material; (c) failed or unavailable hardware, network, software or telephone transmissions, damage to Entrants’ or any person’s computer and/or its contents related to or resulting from participation in this Challenge; (d) causes that jeopardize the administration, security, fairness, integrity, or proper conduct of this Challenge; (e) any entries submitted in a manner that is not expressly allowed under these Official Rules (all such entries will be disqualified); or (f) any printing errors in these Official Rules or in any advertisements or correspondence in connection with this Challenge or the tabulation of scores. Sponsor reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to cancel or suspend this Challenge should virus, bugs, fraud, hacking, or other causes corrupt the administration, security, or proper play of the Challenge, or in the event Sponsor does not receive a minimum of two qualified entries from separate eligible Entrant Teams.

Sponsor further reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to cancel or suspend this Challenge or to reschedule or reformat events should Sponsor be prevented, in any manner whatsoever, from holding this Challenge or any event due to any present or future law (whether or not valid); any act of God, earthquake, fire, flood, epidemic (including, without limitation, any pandemic), accident, explosion or casualty; any civil disturbance or armed conflict; or any other cause of any similar nature outside of Sponsor’s control. In all such cases, notice to this effect will be posted on the Challenge Site and prizes to the extent awarded will be awarded as determined by Sponsor prior to cancellation. If, in Sponsor’s opinion, there is any suspected or actual evidence of electronic or non-electronic tampering with any portion of the Challenge or if technical difficulties compromise the integrity of the Challenge, the Sponsor reserves the right to void suspect entries and/or terminate the Challenge and award prizes in its sole discretion. Sponsor reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to disqualify any individual found tampering with the entry process or entry materials or otherwise interfering with the proper administration of the Challenge or violating these Official Rules.

DISPUTES: Except where prohibited, you agree that: (1) any and all disputes, claims and causes of action arising out of or connected with this Challenge or any prize awarded shall be resolved individually, without resort to any form of class action; (2) any and all claims, judgments and awards shall be limited to actual out-of-pocket costs incurred, including costs associated with entering this Challenge, but not to exceed $15,000 USD and in no event to include attorneys’ fees; and (3) under no circumstances will you be permitted to obtain awards for, and you hereby waive all rights to claim, indirect, punitive, incidental and consequential damages and any other damages (other than for actual out-of-pocket expenses), and any and all rights to have damages multiplied or otherwise increased. All issues and questions concerning the construction, validity, interpretation and enforceability of these Official Rules, or the rights and obligations of the Entrant and Sponsor in connection with the Challenge, shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of Dubai, UAE without giving effect to any choice of law or conflict of law rules.