Categorical list of ML and DL related challenges/contests. (Mostly CV related as of now)

List of conferences/journals for Vision, Medical Imaging, ML, DL inside Conferences

Why Challenges?

• ImageNet Large Scale Visual Recognition Competition (ILSVRC)
• MS-COCO

• Kaggle
• CrowdAI
• DrivenData

• evalAI
• CodaLab
• grand-challenge - Challenges in Medical Image Analysis
• Artificial Intelligence - Open Network - Collection of open research problems
• Challenges in Machine Learning

1. WebVision Image Classification
2. Challenges for Computer Vision in Agriculture
3. Thermal Image Super-Resolution Challenge
4. Low-rate and P-frame compression challenges
5. Diagram Image Retrieval and Analysis (DIRA) Challenge
6. Low-Power Computer Vision Competition
7. Emotionet Challenge
8. Image Matching: Local Features and Beyond
9. New Trends in Image Restoration and Enhancement Challenges (NTIRE)
10. UG2+ Prize Challenge
11. 5th International Skin Imaging Collaboration (ISIC) Workshop on Skin Image Analysis
12. Weakly Supervised Learning Challenges
13. 6th SpaceNet Challenge
14. MOTChallenge
15. DAVIS Video Object Segmentation
16. Anti-UAV Challenge
17. AI City Challenge
18. VizWiz Grand Challenge
19. VQA and Dialog Challenges
20. Continual Learning Challenge
21. Cross-Domain Few-Shot Learning (CD-FSL) Challenge
22. DeepFashion2 and FashionIQ Challenges
23. The Seventh Workshop on Fine-Grained Visual Categorization
24. ActivityNet Challenge
25. Challenge on Remote Physiological Signal Sensing
26. Localization, Odometry, SLAM Challenge

1. 2nd ScanNet Indoor Scene Understanding Challenge
2. The End-of-End-to-End A Video Understanding Pentathlon
3. RetailCV
4. Text and Documents in the Deep Learning Era
5. Embodied-AI
6. Workshop on Autonomous Driving
7. Deep Learning for Geometric Computing Workshop
8. Extreme classification in computer vision

• Around 30 competitions out of 70 workshops.

1. Multi-Discipline Approach for Learning Concepts - Zero-Shot, One-Shot, Few-Shot and Beyond
2. Vision Meets Drones 2019: A Challenge
3. Joint COCO and Mapillary Recognition Challenge*
4. 3rd ICCV Workshop on e-Heritage and Dunhuang Challenge*
5. The 2nd Large-scale Video Object Segmentation Challenge
6. Computer Vision for Wildlife Conservation (CVWC)
7. Open Images Challenge
8. Comprehensive Video Understanding in the Wild (CoVieW 2019)
9. Visual Perception for Robot Navigation in Human Environment: The JackRabbot Dataset
10. Lightweight Face Recognition Challenge
11. Linguistics Meets Image and Video Retrieval
12. WIDER Face and Person Challenge
13. The Visual Object Tracking Challenge Workshop VOT2019
14. The 3rd YouTube-8M Large-Scale Video Understanding Workshop
15. Person in Context Challenge (PIC)
16. Physics Based Vision meets Deep Learning (PBDL)
17. Autonomous Driving-2nd
18. Transfering and Adaptive Source Knowledge in Computer Vision (TASK-CV)
19. Computer Vision for Fashion, Art and Design
20. Multimodal Video Analysis and Moments in Time
21. 2nd 3D Face Alignment in the Wild Challenge & Workshop (3DFAW)
22. AutoNUE: Augonomous Navigation in Unconstrained Environments
23. Closing the Loop Between Vision and Language & LSMD Challenge

* denotes latest website not up yet

• Egocentric Perception Interaction and Computing (EPIC)
• Video Retrieval Methods and Their Limitations (ViRaL)
• Scene Graph Representation and Learning
• Large Scale Holistic Video Understanding

• Disguised Faces in the Wild
• 3D Reconstruction in the Wild
• MS-Celeb-1M
• few more as well

1. Dependable Deep Detectors
2. Image Matching: Local Features and Beyond
3. Automated Analysis of Marine Video for Environmental Monitoring
4. Long-Term Visual Localization under Changing Conditions
5. Detection in the Wild Challenge
6. The DAVIS Challenge on Video Object Segmentation 2019
7. Egocentric Perception, Interaction and Computing
8. Visual Question Answering and Dialog
9. Deep Learning for Geometric Shape Understanding
10. Autonomous Driving Beyond Single-Frame Perception
11. The Sixth Workshop on Fine-Grained Visual Categorization
12. ActivityNet Large Scale Activity Recognition Challenge 2019
13. Computer Vision for UAVs
14. Second Landmark Recognition Workshop
15. Scene Understanding and Modeling Challenge
16. Workshop and Challenge on Learned Image Compression
17. Benchmarking Multi-Target Tracking
18. Visual Understanding by learning from Web Data
19. 3rd Look Into Person Challenge
20. Low-Power Image Recognition Challenge
21. 2019 AI City Challenge
22. ReID and Multi-Target Multi-Camera Tracking Challenge
23. CARLA Autonomous Driving Challenge
24. Bridging the Gap between Computational Photography and Visual Recognition
25. Conceptual Caption Challenge
26. Probabilistic Object Detection Challenge
27. Restoration and Enhancements in Images and Videos
28. CV Problems in Plant Phenotyping
29. 3D-Reconstruction Challenge
30. ChaLearn Face Anti-spoofing Attack Detection Challenge
31. 1st Learning from Imperfect Data (LID) Challenge
32. Detecting Objects in Aerial Images
33. Workshop on Autonomous Driving
34. Habitat: Embodied Agents Challenge

Challenges (associated with workshops) in ECCV 2018

1. OpenImages Challenge
2. Vision Meets Drone: A Challenge
3. COCO + Mapillary Challenge
4. Wider Face And Pedestrian Challenge
5. PoseTrack Challenge
6. Observing and Understanding Hands in Action (HANDS2018)
7. Person in Context (PIC) Workshop and Challenge
8. Youtube-8M Large-Scale Video Understanding
9. Perceptual Image Restoration and Manipulation (PIRM) Workshop and Challenge
10. 5th TASK-CV: Transferring and Adapting Source Knowledge in Computer Vision and 2nd VisDA Challenge
11. Bias Estimation in Face Analytics
12. The Visual Object Tracking Challenge Workshop VOT2018
13. ChaLearn Challenges on Image and Video Inpainting
14. Challenge of Fashion Image Generation
15. 1st Large-scale Video Object Segmentation Challenge
16. VizWiz Grand Challenge: Answering Visual Questions from Blind People
17. ApolloScape: 3D Understanding for Autonomous Driving
18. 2nd Workshop on Youtube-8M Large-Scale Video Understanding

Challenges (associated with workshops) in CVPR 2018

1. First International Workshop on Disguised Faces in the Wild
2. Low-Power Image Recognition Challenge
3. NVIDIA AI City Challenge
4. VQA Challenge and Visual Dialog Workshop
5. Visual Understanding of Humans in Crowd Scene and the 2nd Look Into Person (LIP) Challenge
6. The Fifth Workshop on Fine-Grained Visual Categorization
7. Robust Vision Challenge
8. Workshop and Challenge on Learnt Image Compression
9. Large-Scale Landmark Recognition: A Challenge
10. The DAVIS Challenge on Video Object Segmentation 2018
11. Bridging the Gap between Computational Photography and Visual Recognition: the UG^2 Price Challenge
12. 3rd New Trends in Image Restoration and Enhancement workshop and challenges
13. The 2nd CVPR Workshop on Visual Understanding by Learning from Web Data
14. ActivityNet Large Scale Activity Recognition Challenge 2018
15. Towards Automatic Understanding of Visual Advertisements

1. The First Workshop on Joint Detection, Tracking, and Prediction in the wild
2. DeepGlobe: A Challenge for Parsing the Earth through Satellite Images

Challenges (associated with workshops) in ICCV 2017

1. Detecting symmetry in the wild
2. MS-Celeb-1M
   • Recognizing 1million celebrities
   • Low shot face recognition
3. The 3D Menpo Facial Landmark Tracking Challenge
4. COCO and Places challenge workshops
5. ChaLearn - Looking at People
   • Fake vs. true facial emotion recognition
   • Large-scale isolated gesture recognition
   • Large-scale continous gesture recognition
6. The Joint Video and Language Understanding Workshop
   • [MovieQA: Story Understanding Benchmark](http://movieqa.cs.toronto.edu/home/
   • The Large Scale Movie Description Challenge
7. PoseTrack Challenge
   • single frame multi-person pose estimation
   • multi-person pose estimation in video
   • multi-person articulated tracking
8. Hands in the Million
   • 3D Hand Pose Estimation
   • 3D Hand Pose Tracking
9. Visual Object Tracking - VOT 2017
10. Task-CV Workshop
    • Domain Adaptation Challenge

Challenges (associated with workshops) in CVPR 2017

1. ActivityNet - Large Scale Activity Recognition Challenge
   • Untrimmed Classification Challenge: Given a long video, predict the labels of the activities present in the video.
   • Detection Challenge: Given a long video, predict the labels and temporal extents of the activities present in the video.
2. DAVIS Challenge - Densely Annotated VIdeo Segmentation

• EmotiW

• Great resource for loads of relevant challenges - grand-challenge
• Physionet Challenges - In cooperation with the annual Computing in Cardiology conference