Connectionists: Announcing the ImageNet Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge (ILSVRC2010)

[Alex Berg]

Announcing the ImageNet Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge  (ILSVRC2010)

Dear Colleagues,

Come take advantage of our labeling effort to show
off your algorithms for large scale hierarchical
multi-class classification on images!  The goal is
to better understand performance of algorithms on
hierarchical recognition at large scale with an
eye toward image search and auto-annotation.  In
the first year, the challenge will focus on image
categorization for images of 1000 object
categories.  This significant increase in the
number of categories provides an interesting
hierarchical structure and is meant to complement
PASCAL VOC which concentrates on classification
and detection for 20 categories.  Training and
validation data will be provided from ImageNet as
well as from a dataset newly collected expressly
for this challenge -- test data will come only
from the newly collected set.

In order to make the challenge accessible to the
widest possible audience we are releasing a
baseline recognition algorithm as well as
precomputed descriptors for all images.

Results will be presented at the PASCAL VOC
workshop held at ECCV 2010.  Prizes may indeed be
won.  Time-lines and more details are available
here:

http://www.image-net.org/challenges/LSVRC/2010/

Good Luck!

The ILSVRC2010 team.