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<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 115%"><font
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International Conference on Computer Analysis of Images and
Patterns</b></font></p>
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<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 115%"><font
style="font-size: 11pt" face="Times New Roman">2-5
SEPTEMBER, SALERNO ITALY</font></p>
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<p><font size="-2" face="Times New Roman"> <font style="font-size:
11pt"><font color="#2a71b2"><font style="font-size: 18pt">Call
for contests</font></font></font></font></p>
<font face="Times New Roman"> <font style="font-size: 11pt"><font
style="font-size: 12pt">The
CAIP2019 Organizers invite proposals for contests to be held
within
the framework of the CAIP Conference. </font><font
color="#000000"><font style="font-size: 12pt">The
aim of the contests is to stimulate and share advances in
the
development of algorithms and methods for computer vision
and pattern
recognition with objective evaluation on common datasets. </font></font><font
style="font-size: 12pt">The
contest organizer is responsible for providing good quality
data and
defining objective evaluation criteria that are applied to the
results of submitted solutions.</font></font><br>
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<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 115%"><font
style="font-size: 11pt" face="Times New Roman"><font
style="font-size: 12pt">Proposals
should contain the following information:</font></font></p>
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<li><font style="font-size: 11pt" face="Times New Roman"><font
style="font-size: 12pt">Contest
title and abstract.</font></font></li>
<li><font style="font-size: 11pt" face="Times New Roman"><font
style="font-size: 12pt">General
description of the problem.</font></font></li>
<li><font style="font-size: 11pt" face="Times New Roman"><font
style="font-size: 12pt">Description
of the dataset to be used.</font></font></li>
<li><font style="font-size: 11pt" face="Times New Roman"><font
style="font-size: 12pt">Description
of the specific contest tasks.</font></font></li>
<li><font style="font-size: 11pt" face="Times New Roman"><font
style="font-size: 12pt">Evaluation
metrics or tool to be used for evaluation.</font></font></li>
<li><font style="font-size: 11pt" face="Times New Roman"><font
style="font-size: 12pt">Plans
for contest web site.</font></font></li>
<li><font style="font-size: 11pt" face="Times New Roman"><font
style="font-size: 12pt">Contact
information for the organizer(s).</font></font></li>
<li><font style="font-size: 11pt" face="Times New Roman"><font
style="font-size: 12pt">Brief
CVs of the organizer(s).</font></font></li>
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<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 115%"><font
style="font-size: 11pt" face="Times New Roman"><font
style="font-size: 12pt">The
following rules will apply to the accepted contests:</font></font></p>
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<li><font style="font-size: 11pt" face="Times New Roman"><font
style="font-size: 12pt">All
contests must run well in advance of the conference.</font></font></li>
<li><font style="font-size: 11pt" face="Times New Roman"><font
style="font-size: 12pt">Datasets
used in the contests should be made available after the end
of the
contests.</font></font></li>
<li><font style="font-size: 11pt" face="Times New Roman"><font
style="font-size: 12pt">Evaluation
methodologies and metrics must be clearly described and easy
to
apply.</font></font></li>
<li><font face="Times New Roman">C<font style="font-size: 11pt"><font
style="font-size: 12pt">ontests
should have sufficient number of participants to be able
to draw
meaningful</font></font><font style="font-size: 11pt"><font
style="font-size: 12pt"> conclusions.</font></font></font></li>
<li><font style="font-size: 11pt" face="Times New Roman"><font
style="font-size: 12pt">Contest
organizers should present the contest organization and
results at a
special session of CAIP2019.</font></font></li>
<li><font style="font-size: 11pt" face="Times New Roman"><font
style="font-size: 12pt">Reports
(full papers) on each contest will be reviewed and, if
accepted (the
contest run according to plan and is appropriately
described), will
be published in the CAIP2019 conference proceedings.</font></font></li>
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<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 115%"><font
face="Times New Roman"><b><font size="+3"><font
style="font-size: 11pt"><font style="font-size: 12pt">Submission</font></font></font></b></font></p>
<font style="font-size: 11pt" face="Times New Roman"><font
style="font-size: 12pt">Proposals
should be submitted by electronic mail to the CAIP Organizing
Committee (<a href="mailto:caip2019@unisa.it">caip2019@unisa.it</a>)</font></font><font
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<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 115%"><font
style="font-size: 11pt" face="Times New Roman"><font
style="font-size: 12pt"><b>Important
dates</b></font></font></p>
<font face="Times New Roman"> <font style="font-size: 11pt">Contest
proposal submission deadline: <b>December
3, 2018</b></font><br>
<font style="font-size: 11pt">Contest
acceptance notification deadline: <b>December
17, 2018</b></font> <br>
<font style="font-size: 11pt">Contest
reports due: <b>April 30, 2018</b></font><br>
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<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0.35cm; line-height: 115%"><font
style="font-size: 11pt" face="Times New Roman">If
you have any query, please contact the CAIP2019 Organizing
Committee.</font></p>
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