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<p class="MsoNormal">The SPARK Challenge is back for a second edition, organized as part of the AI4Space Workshop, in conjunction with ECCV 2022!<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="break-words">SPARK (</span><b>SPAcecraft Recognition leveraging Knowledge of Space Environment</b><span class="break-words">) offers an unique opportunity to benchmark
<b>spacecraft detection </b>and<b> trajectory estimation</b> algorithms on <b>synthetic
</b>and<b> real data</b>, as well as to design original <b>data-driven</b> approaches for
<b>space situational awareness</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="break-words"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Emoji",sans-serif">▶</span>️Timeline:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:36.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Symbol">·</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"> Registration opens:
<b>May 20<sup>th</sup> </b> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:36.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Symbol">·</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"> Training & validation datasets release:
<b>June 1<sup>st</sup> </b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:36.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Symbol">·</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"> Test dataset release + leaderboard opens:
<b>June 30<sup>th</sup> <o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:36.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Symbol">·</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"> Challenge deadline:
<b>July 15<sup>th</sup> <o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:36.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Symbol">·</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"> Paper submission deadline:
<b>July 15<sup>th</sup> <o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:36.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Symbol">·</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"> Decision notification:
<b>August 15<sup>th</sup> <o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:36.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Symbol">·</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"> Camera ready due:
<b>August 20<sup>th</sup> </b></span><span class="break-words"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="break-words"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Emoji",sans-serif">▶</span>️More information can be found here:
<a href="https://cvi2.uni.lu/spark2022/">https://cvi2.uni.lu/spark2022/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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