CGIAR Root Volume Estimation Challenge
Helping Africa
$15 000 USD
Completed (~1 year ago)
Computer Vision
Prediction
1063 joined
257 active
Start
Jan 24, 25
Close
Mar 09, 25
Reveal
Mar 10, 25
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Code Submission Email
Connect · 14 Mar 2025, 14:55 · 6
Hello Zindian,
An email was sent requesting everyone at positions 11 - 30 of the leaderboard to submit their code by Sunday midnight. So if you receive the email, it is not a bug!
Cheers,
what is the reason for this?
Just want to clarify, will team 11-30 be considered for winning any of the prizes?
I don't think so
I believe this matter is quite simple and straightforward. We shouldn’t overcomplicate things. It’s clear that the competition requires a computer vision-based solution, not just a direct tabular approach. However, a hybrid approach (computer vision + tabular data) is also valid, as long as it remains fundamentally rooted in computer vision, involving image processing, etc.
With that in mind, the main discussion should be about whether your final two submissions were purely tabular or computer vision-based. This final selection is an individual decision, not an issue with Zindi. Even if Zindi requested the top 50 solutions via email, each participant still had to comply with the rules by submitting only two selected solutions—not just any solution from their previous submissions.
Zindi, through @AJoel, has been clear about the selection criteria for the best final solutions.
In my oppinion i believe the best solutions should take into consideration both the images and tabular data to estimate the root volume. Quote 1 "The estimation of root volume should take into account the left and right images, since these represent parts of the full image. The full image can be segmented to identify the roots of the individual plant in it. Following this, you should then carry on with volume estimation."
Quote 2 "The PlantNumber should primarily be used as reference to check the ouput of your segmentation. Since the first step of this challenge is identifying the different plants in a given image.
As previously mentioned, the values Start and End are merely suggestions, and their use is not mandatory.
No other data than what is provided is required for this challenge.".
Instructions were straight forward.
@Zambia_Kuchalo Well said, provided that the solution is an hybrid approach ( i.e computer vision + tabular data).