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<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 115%"><font
style="font-size: 11pt" face="Times New Roman"><b>18th
International Conference on Computer Analysis of Images
and Patterns</b></font></p>
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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
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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</font></font><font face="Times New
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face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 11pt"><font
face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 11pt"><b>extended
deadlin</b></font></font></font></font><font
face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 11pt"><font
size="+3" face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size:
11pt"><b>e</b></font></font>:<b> <font size="+1"><u>December
10, 2018</u></font></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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line-height:
 115%"><font style="font-size: 11pt"
face="Times New Roman">Please find more information on the
CAIP website <a href="http://caip2019.unisa.it">http://caip2019.unisa.it</a>.<br>
If you have any query, please contact the CAIP2019
Organizing Committee.</font></p>
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