General Terms: These are the general official rules of CHALLENGE UP 2019: MULTIMODAL FALL DETECTION. Such a promotion will be simply referred to as the "contest", the “competition” or the "challenge" throughout the rest of these rules; "participant", "you", and "yourself" refer to an eligible contest participant.

Official Website: The official website of this competition is: http://sites.google.com/up.edu.mx/challenge-up-2019/

Announcements: The official announcements and any change in rules will be notified through our official website. In addition, the participants must provide a valid email via the Registration Form, included in the official website, so they can receive the announcements.

Conditions of participation: Participation requires complying with the rules of the challenge. Prize eligibility is restricted by US government export regulations and the host country laws (Budapest, Hungary). The organizers, sponsors, their students, close family members (parents, sibling, spouse or children) and household members, as well as any person having had access to the truth values or to any information about the data or the challenge design giving him (or her) an unfair advantage, are excluded from participation. A disqualified person may submit one or several entries in the challenge and request to have them evaluated, provided that they notify the organizers of their conflict of interest. If a disqualified person submits an entry, this entry will not be part of the final ranking and does not qualify for prizes. The participants should be aware that organizers reserve the right to evaluate for scientific purposes any entry made in the challenge, whether or not it qualifies for prizes.

Dissemination: The challenge is part of the competition program of the IJCNN 2019 conference. During the awarding ceremony, 1^st, 2^nd and 3^rd places will be able to present shortly their findings in the competition. The winners (1^st place) will be invited to submit a research paper to one of the Special Issues edited by the organizers, and the acceptance of this paper will be evaluated by the journal committee (not the organizers). Also, all participants, winners or not, are invited to contribute with a book chapter in one of the books edited by the organizers, and the acceptance of these contributions are subjected to peer-review.

Registration: The participants must register and provide a valid email address through the Registration Form displayed in the official website. Teams must register only once and provide a group email, which is forwarded to all team members. Teams or solo participants registering multiple times to gain an advantage in the competition may be disqualified.

Anonymity: The results will be published on the final leaderboard under a pseudonym provided by the participants, and their real name will remain confidential unless they want otherwise. However, the participants must disclose their real identity to the organizers to claim any prize they might win and/or for publication purposes. If a participant provides his real name, it will appear on the learderboard and may be used by the organizers.

Submission method: The results must be submitted using the rules provided in the official website. The participants are allowed to submit several times, but only the last final submission will be account. Organizers will send a confirmation of which submission will be evaluated for final decision. Submissions are only allowed during the testing phase. In case of problem, send an email to any of the organizers. The entries must be formatted as specified on the Rules page.

Awards: The three top ranking participants may qualify for awards (travel award, prize and award certificate). To compete for awards, the participants must send a short paper briefly describing their methods and the codes used for getting the results. There is no other publication requirement. The winners will be required to make their code publicly available under an OSI-approved license such as, for instance, Apache 2.0, MIT or BSD-like license, if they accept their prize, within a week of the deadline for submitting the final results. In case of a tie, the prize will go to the participant who submitted his/her entry first. Non-winners or entrants who decline their prize retain all their rights on their entries and are not obliged to publicly release their code.

Travel awards: The travel awards only include one full pass for the conference IJCNN 2019 per winner place. If the winner place is a team, the full pass is only valid for one of the members.

January 19, 2019

You can have an electronic document (PDF) of these Terms & Conditions by following the link: T&C.pdf