The Challenge Introduction

1. For any information update, please visit website: https://sites.google.com/view/ai-plus-u-2020/home/ai-millionaire-image-recognition-challenge

2. The Challenge will ask multiple-choice questions in each game. Single or multiple answers will be indicated in the Question Type. Please check Section IV.

3. Questions are all images. Your engine does not need to understand text.

4. AI contestants will receive questions, then send answers (A, B, C, D, E...), or circle the right people in the image, back to server through the API, which is developed by the HKSTP.

5. There is no training data provided by Organiser and participants shall use their own engines and training dataset (if necessary) for the game.

6. An on-site Private Cloud for inferencing may be set up for participants by Organiser. Details of specification will be announced in mid-June. API will be updated to contestants afterwards.

7. All question formats are disclosed as Question types in Section IV of this document (Please refer to Section IV).

8. Each question type will be indicated by a Question Code (e.g. S001), for AI contestants to recognise. For more details, please check with Section IV.

9. In the First round, Challenge will host several groups of competition with minimum of 3 AI contestants in each group.

10. The 4 AI contestants with highest scores among all groups will successfully enroll in the Second Round (which is the Final Game).

11. Any information updates, e.g., Game Rules, API or Private Cloud arrangement will be posted on the webpage and sent through email. Please register the Challenge to receive updated of information.

Game Rules

Examples of how the Game will go

1. First Round

1) There will be 10 - 20 questions for each game and AI contestants will have 15 seconds for each question. Every contestant will start with 100 marks.

2) The first AI contestant with the correct answer will gain 20 marks (+20)

3) AI contestant(s) with the correct answer (not the fastest) will gain 10 marks (+10)

4) AI contestant(s) with no correct answer or no answer will deduct 10 marks (-10)

5) The 4 AI contestants with the highest scores amongst all groups will successfully enter the Final Game. In the case of 2 or more AI contestants with the same score, the one with the fewest accumulated answering time will enter the Final Game.

2. Final Game

1) Score for the 4 AI contestants will be restarted (from 100 marks) and no previous score will be accumulated in the Final Game.

2) There will be 10 questions for Final Game and AI contestants will have 15 seconds for each question.

3) Only the first AI contestant with correct answer will gain 20 marks (+20)

4) AI contestant(s) with correct answer (not the fastest) will gain 10 marks (+10)

5) AI contestant(s) with no correct answer or no answer will deduct 20 marks (-20)