[visionlist] Image Matching Challenge 2025 is now open!

[Fabio Bellavia]

*IMC 2025 @ Kaggle is out*!
https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/image-matching-challenge-2025


As previous years, the *Image Matching Workshop*:Local Features & Beyond 
promotes the *Image Matching Challenge*, an open contest about local 
feature matching, in collaboration with Kaggle.

The ultimate goal is to understand the performances and limitations of 
well-established and emerging algorithms in real-world scenarios, their 
failure modes, and how to address them, and to find out problems that 
arise in practical settings but are sometimes ignored by academia. We 
believe that this effort provides a valuable feedback loop to the 
computer vision community.

In addition to complex scenarios with temporal changes, this year we 
added a further challenge: each dataset contains multiple scenes and 
distractor images, and you need to figure out what belongs together in 
addition to solving the 3D reconstruction problem.


*Timeline*
- April 1, 2025 - Start Date.
- May 26, 2025 - You must accept the competition rules before this date 
in order to compete.
- May 26, 2025 - This is the last day participants may join or merge teams.
- June 2, 2025 - Final Submission Deadline.


*Prizes*
- 1st Place - $12K
- 2nd Place - $10K
- 3rd Place - $10K
- 4th Place - $10K
- 5th Place - $8K

The teams with the most original and effective solutions will be invited 
to have a talk at the IMW workshop at CVPR2025 
(https://image-matching-workshop.github.io/).


*What are you waiting for* ?!?
*Be brave, tame the data and prove yourself* !!!

The IMW/IMC organizers