HIDA Hackathon on Computer Vision

Europe/Berlin
Conference Room, 1st floor (Einstein Center Digital Future)

Conference Room, 1st floor

Einstein Center Digital Future

Wilhelmstraße 67 10117 Berlin
Eirini Kouskoumvekaki (MDC), Markus Götz (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology), Sandra Pahl (Helmholtz Information & Data Science Academy (HIDA)), Stephanie Schworm (HIDA), Viktoria Schwarze (Helmholtz Information & Data Science Academy)
Description

 

Goal

The doctoral researchers of all six Helmholtz Information & Data Science schools come together to work with drone images of thermal leakages in construction.

HIDA will provide a baseline computer vision model and their task will be to implement a semantic segmentation pipeline with the aim to improve as much as possible the precision of the 50% intersection-over-union of the thermal bridge bounding boxes.


Registration

Please first register via the Indico system (first-come-first-serve per HIDS School, if the hackathon is full, you can still register and will be put on the waiting list). 

You will then have to register with the HAICORE compute resources@KIT by self sign-on explained here: https://www.nhr.kit.edu/userdocs/haicore/registration/

Please make sure to use the e-mail address from you Helmholtz center for registration. Should you not be directly affiliated with any center your authorization will take longer and you will be separately notified via mail.

We want to make sure that HAICORE registration and system setup are finalized before the event, so you will have to run a short test script on HAICORE upon first login. You then need to provide the personalized registration token you get from the script in the Indico system to finalize your registration. 


Deadline for uploading the token is 1 week prior to the event (19th of February).

IMPORTANT:

If you have not uploaded your personalized HoReKa token, your registration will be incomplete and your spot will be given to someone on the waiting list.


Requirements

You should:

  • be an advanced AI-researcher with experience in model development, training and optimization
  • be familiar working either in Jupyter Hub or on a Linux shell
  • optional: have some experience in  HPC job submission via batch-systems (SLURM, LSF, etc.)

Agenda

Tuesday (Feb 27th), 09.30 am - Kick-off session with introductory talks

Thursday (Feb 29th), 4.00 pm  - Wrap-up and winner announcement

The detailed agenda can be found here

IMPORTANT:

Participation in the initial session is mandatory to all participants, as it will give you introduction to the challenges and datasets, and you will be assigned to your team. If you do not show up for this session, we cannot assign you to a team, and your participation is hence forfeit. 


HAICORE Registration Form

token.py


Evaluation

The winner of the challenge will be the team scoring the best average intersection-over-union value for all test images. Due to fairness, we will employ a strict non-cheating policy: team attempting to falsify the final scoring metric will be disqualified without an option to appeal.

    • 09:30 10:30
      Welcome & Networking session 1h

      You will be introduced to the Hackathon, the mentors, and your peers

      Speakers: Eirini Kouskoumvekaki (MDC), Viktoria Schwarze (Helmholtz Information & Data Science Academy)
    • 10:30 11:30
      Introduction to the challenge and computing resources 1h
      Speakers: Dr Markus Götz (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology), Sebastian Ziegler
    • 11:30 12:30
      Teambuilding 1h
    • 12:30 13:30
      LUNCH BREAK 1h
    • 13:30 18:30
      Workphase 1 5h
    • 18:30 20:30
      Get-Together & Snacks 2h
    • 10:00 10:10
      Welcome back: A brief overview of day 2 10m
      Speakers: Eirini Kouskoumvekaki (MDC), Dr Markus Götz (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology), Viktoria Schwarze (Helmholtz Information & Data Science Academy)
    • 10:10 12:30
      Workphase 2 2h 20m
    • 12:30 13:30
      LUNCH BREAK 1h
    • 13:30 16:00
      Workphase 3 2h 30m
    • 16:00 16:30
      Short Update from the mentors & teams (5 min presentations) 30m
    • 16:30 18:30
      Workphase 4 2h
    • 09:30 09:45
      Welcome back: A brief overview of day 3 15m
    • 09:45 12:30
      Workphase 5 2h 45m
    • 12:30 13:30
      LUNCH BREAK 1h
    • 13:30 14:00
      Workphase 6 30m

      The end of this workphase marks the deadline of your challenge!

    • 14:00 15:00
      BREAK 1h
    • 15:00 16:00
      Final presentations 1h
      Speakers: Dr Christian Beilmann (HIDA), Jana Wolf (HEIBRIDS), Dr Markus Götz (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)