Human Trafficking is a serious problem all over the world which involves involuntary and forced transportation of humans for various purposes. Solving the problem of human trafficking is as big a problem as human trafficking itself. To address this issue, Fine-Grained Visual Categorization(FGVC) has launched the Hotel-ID to Combat Human Trafficking 2022 – FGVC9 challenge on Kaggle.
Victims of human trafficking are often photographed in hotel rooms. While identifying these hotels can prove vital to combat these trafficking investigations, it poses some particularly difficult challenges due to low quality of images and uncommon camera angles.
Even without victims in the images, hotel identification is a challenging fine-grained visual recognition task with a huge number of classes and potentially high intraclass and low interclass variation.
To support research into this challenging task and create image search tools for human trafficking investigators, TraffickCam mobile application was created to allow every day travellers to submit photos of their hotel room.
The Competition
In this competition, your task will be to identify the hotel based on images of hotel rooms, i.e, performing a mapping from hotel images to hotels. The training dataset provided will contain images from hotels and their corresponding hotel ids. The model should be trained to identify the hotel from images of hotel rooms in the test dataset.
The images in the test dataset are all partially masked to emulate the added challenge of having a person in the blocking part of the view of the room. Models that can overcome this extra layer of difficulty should be even more useful in practice.
Evaluation
The solution will be evaluated by the Mean Average Precision @ 5 (MAP@5) metric.
Requirements
- Use of pre-trained models for the competition is allowed.
- The code submissions will be in the form of Notebooks. Both CPU and GPU notebooks should have a run time of less than 9 hours.
Timelines
The competition began on 16th March 2022. And while the final submission deadline is on 30th May 2022, the deadline for entry into the competition and team merger is 23rd May 2022. There have been no competitors or entries so far in this competition.
Prizes
There is no cash prize for this competition.
Since this competition is a part of the Fine-Grained Visual Categorization, FGVC9 workshop at the Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference CVPR 2022, a panel will review the top submissions for the competition based on the description of the methods provided. From this, a subset may be invited to present their results at the workshop. Attending the workshop is not required to participate in the competition; however, only teams that are attending the workshop will be considered to present their work.
To be a part of the Hotel-ID to Combat Human Trafficking 2022 – FGVC 9 challenge, you just need to have a Kaggle Account. To know more about this challenge and participate in it, click here.
Good Luck!
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