WIDER Face and Pedestrian Challenge 2018

Workshop in conjunction with ECCV 2018, Munich, Germany
September 8, 2018


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Challenge Tracks

Overview

We organize a new challenge in conjunction with ECCV 2018. The challenge centers around the problem of precise localization of human faces and bodies, and accurate association of identities. It comprises of three tracks:

  • WIDER Face, aims at soliciting new approaches to advance the state-of- the-art in face detection.
  • WIDER Pedestrian, has the goal of gathering effective and efficient approaches to address the problem of pedestrian detection in unconstrained environments.
  • WIDER Person Search, presents an exciting challenge of searching persons across 192 movies.

Datasets and Submission

Datasets are available at the Codalab site of each challenge track (WIDER Face, WIDER Pedestrian, WIDER Person Search). Submissions to all phases will be done through the CodaLab site. Please register to the site and refer to the instructions on how to download the datasets and submit your results.

Evaluation

Please refer to the site of individual challenge track (WIDER Face, WIDER Pedestrian, WIDER Person Search) for more details.

Prizes

The winner team of each track will receive cash prize and AWS credits. Challenge participants with the most successful and innovative methods will be invited to present at the workshop and to co-author the challenge paper report.

Terms and Conditions

Link to Terms and Conditions.

In the event of any inconsistency between the terms and details of this website and Codalab competition sites, the details on the Codalab sites shall prevail.

Report

Link to Report.

The report presents a review of this challenge. We summarize the winning solutions for all three tracks and present discussions on open problems and potential research directions in related topics.

Contact

For more information, please contact us at wider-challenge@ie.cuhk.edu.hk.

Moments

Important Dates

Click the following tab to see the timetable of each challenge.

WIDER Face Event Date (Always 5PM Pacific Time)
Site Online May 1, 2018
Release of train data and validation data - CodaLab May 10, 2018
Validation server online May 10, 2018
Final test data release, test server online June 18, 2018
Test results submission deadline, test server closed July 18, 2018
Fact sheets submission deadline - Template July 24, 2018
Final test results release to the participants July 31, 2018
WIDER Face Event Date (Always 5PM Pacific Time)
Site Online May 1, 2018
Release of train data and validation data - CodaLab May 10, 2018
Validation server online May 10, 2018
Final test data release, test server online June 18, 2018
Test results submission deadline, test server closed July 18, 2018
Fact sheets submission deadline - Template July 24, 2018
Final test results release to the participants July 31, 2018
WIDER Face Event Date (Always 5PM Pacific Time)
Site Online May 1, 2018
Release of train data and validation data - CodaLab May 10, 2018
Validation server online May 10, 2018
Final test data release, test server online June 18, 2018
Test results submission deadline, test server closed July 18, 2018
Fact sheets submission deadline - Template July 24, 2018
Final test results release to the participants July 31, 2018

Leaderboard

Face Detection

Rank Score Team Name Affiliation Team Leader Team Members
1 0.5582 Megvii Megvii Jianfeng Wang Zuoxin Li, Ye Yuan, Boxun Li, Shuai Shao, Gang Yu
2 0.5332 MSRA Microsoft Research Asia Fangyun Wei Xiang Ming, Dong Chen
3 0.5030 CASFD University of Chinese Academy of Sciences Shifeng Zhang Cheng Chi, Zhen Lei, Stan Z. Li


Pedestrian Detection

Rank Score Team Name Affiliation Team Leader Team Members
1 0.6968 VIPL Key Laboratory of Intelligent Information
Processing of Chinese Academy of Sciences,
Institute of Computing Technology
Hongkai Zhang Bingpeng Ma, Hong Chang, Shiguang Shan,
Xilin Chen
2 0.6440 JDAI-Human Computer Vision and Multimedia Lab,
JD AI Research
Wu Liu Boyan Zhou, Huaxiong Li, Peng Cheng, Tao Mei
3 0.6249 NtechLab Team NtechLab Artem Kukharenko Artem Vasenin, Nikolay Sergievskiy


Person Search

Rank Score Team Name Affiliation Team Leader Team Members
1 0.7671 Jiaoda Poets Shanghai Jiao Tong University Hua Yang Liangqi Li, Qiling Xu, Yuan Hong,
Lin Chen, Mingjun Sun
2 0.7466 SAT_ICT Institute of Computing Technology,
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Yirong Mao Shiying Luo, Yongjun Li, Ruiping Wang,
Shiguang Shan, Xilin Chen
3 0.7402 MCC_USTC University of Science and Technology of China;
iFLYTEK
Qiaokang Xie Ziyang Wu, Lei Lu, Yiheng Liu, Wengang Zhou

Invited Speakers

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    Rama Chellappa
    Distinguished University Professor, Minta Martin Professor of Engineering Chair, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park.
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    Shaogang Gong
    Professor of Visual Computation at Queen Mary University of London
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    Bernt Schiele
    Max-Planck-Director at MPI Informatics and Professor at Saarland University

Organizers

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    Dahua Lin
    The Chinese University of Hong Kong
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    Ping Luo
    The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Sponsors