7th ABC Challenge - Participation

Participation

A. Registration Requirements

B. Team Composition

C. Code and Data Sharing

D. Challenge Completion Requirements

Evaluation Guidelines

Paper Submission

Prizes

Participation

The challenge is open to both students and working individuals.

A. Registration Requirements

Mandatory Registration
All participants, including solo challengers, must complete and submit the Team Registration Form prior to joining the competition.
In the form, fill in the following fields:
- Title: Enter your team name.
- Abstract: This field may be left blank.
- Track Selection: Choose the specific challenge track your team is participating in.
Team Size
There is no restriction on the number of team members, but every team member is expected to contribute actively.

Challenge Registration

B. Team Composition

Team Members
- There is no limit to team size.
- Only supervisors can participate in multiple teams within the same challenge.
Special Considerations
- If creating multiple teams from the same lab, ensure compliance with the No Private Sharing rule.
- For team mergers, participants must contact the organizers via email.
Participation Across Challenges
- Students are allowed to join multiple ABC challenges.

However, students affiliated with the host or organizing laboratories are not eligible to participate.

C. Code and Data Sharing

Private sharing of code or data outside your team is strictly prohibited. Teams must maintain confidentiality to ensure fair competition.

D. Challenge Completion Requirements

To successfully complete the challenge, participants must:

Deliverables
- Accomplish the defined challenge goal.
- Submit all required files for evaluation (form link will be released later)
Paper Submission
- Provide a paper detailing your methodology in alignment with the challenge objectives.

At least one team member is required to present the per in the workshop.

By default, accepted papers will be published under IJABC (International Journal of Activity Behavior and Computing) under Jstage. For paper format, please check the ABC Main website.

Evaluation Guidelines

- Recognition (Accuracy/F1-Score): Submissions should demonstrate high accuracy and F1-scores across all activity classes, with robust performance on challenging patterns like tremors and freezing gait.
- Paper Quality: Papers must be clear, well-structured, and professionally presented, with thorough explanations of methodologies, experiments, and results.
- Novelty: Innovative features, methods, or insights that contribute significantly to the field of activity recognition in Parkinson’s disease are highly valued

To determine the winners, we will assess both the computational model's performance and the quality of the submitted paper. The paper will be evaluated based on its completeness in addressing the challenge, the novelty of its contributions, the methodological rigor of the approach, and the clarity of writing.

Paper Submission

The paper should be written in English, following the ABC formatting guidelines. The paper should be 8-12 pages including references. The expected contents of the paper are:

Abstract: A concise summary of the team’s proposed method and the results.
Methodology: A detailed description of the methodology, including the dataset, preprocessing, model development, and evaluation metrics.
Results and Discussion: A presentation and analysis of the results and a discussion of the strengths and limitations of the proposed method.
Conclusion: A summary of the team’s main findings, implications, and suggestions for future work.
References: A list of references, including the three main papers of the challenge (under Published papers about the dataset)

For information regarding the Registration for the ABC conference, visit the main ABC2025 website.

Prizes

Top 3 winning teams will be awarded.
All of the participating teams will receive Certificate of Participation.