A STEP PASCAL Challenge?

You decide…

Overview

• What is PASCAL?

• What is a PASCAL Challenge?

• VOC2006 – an example challenge

• STEP as a PASCAL Challenge?

What is PASCAL?

What is a PASCAL Challenge?

23 challenges since 2004

VOC2006 – an example challenge

http://www.pascal-network.org/challenges/VOC/voc2006/slides/everingham.pdf

http://www.pascal-network.org/challenges/VOC/voc2006/slides/everingham.pdf

http://www.pascal-network.org/challenges/VOC/voc2006/slides/everingham.pdf

Much like STEP

http://www.pascal-network.org/challenges/VOC/voc2006/slides/everingham.pdf

http://www.pascal-network.org/challenges/VOC/voc2006/slides/everingham.pdf

http://www.pascal-network.org/challenges/VOC/voc2006/slides/everingham.pdf

http://www.pascal-network.org/challenges/VOC/voc2006/slides/everingham.pdf

STEP as a PASCAL Challenge?

Status

• I gave a talk on STEP to the UCL Center for Computer Science and Machine Learning

• They (including coordinator of the whole PASCAL network) think it would make a good PASCAL Challenge

• If we want to go ahead we should send in a proposal by the end of September

Pros

• Free labour – maybe they solve it for us

• Some funding for developing automated grading of results

• We learn about new statistical methods

• We get to spend our time on all the other issues

Cons

• We were rather hoping to solve it ourselves

• It will take time to set up and might not get many participants

Discussion… -> Vote