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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0F243E'>FYI<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0F243E'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Gary Bradski [mailto:garybradski@gmail.com] <br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, November 24, 2014 4:20 PM<br><b>To:</b> vision+@cs.cmu.edu; Andrew Ng; Sebastian Thrun; Fei-Fei Li; Silvio Savarese; Serge Belongie; torralba@csail.mit.edu; Jitendra Malik; John Markoff; David Forsyth; Trevor Darrell; Pieter Abbeel; Michael Jordan; Rick Szeliski; Matthew Turk; William Freeman; cordelia.schmid@inrialpes.fr; Kristen Grauman; Andrew Zisserman; Erik Learned-Miller; Michael Black; Terry Boult; mori@cs.sfu.ca; Aaron Bobick; Irfan Essa; berg.tamara@gmail.com; aberg@cs.unc.edu; Deva Ramanan; parikh@vt.edu; hays@cs.brown.edu; Kate Saenko; fatih.porikili@anu.edu.au; kdana@ece.rutgers.edu; Avideh Zakhor; arbelaez@cs.berkeley.edu; yuri@csd.uwo.ca; Geoffrey Hinton; Yann LeCun; sfchang@ee.columbia.edu; efros@eecs.berkeley.edu; pff@brown.edu; fergus@cs.nyu.edu; Stephen Gould; fredo@mit.edu; robert.mahony@anu.edu.au; rsferis@us.ibm.com; vittorio.ferrari@ed.ac.uk; ajd@doc.ic.ac.uk; abhinavg@cs.cmu.edu; Pietro Perona; Frank Dellaert; Rehg, James Matthew; Henrik Iskov Christensen; slazevni@illinois.edu; Noah Snavely; sudderth@cs.brown.edu; urtasun@cs.toronto.edu; vangool@vision.ee.ethz.ch; Andrea Vedaldi<br><b>Cc:</b> Gary Bradski<br><b>Subject:</b> $50K OpenCV Vision Challenge. Please distribute<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>Heads Up<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>We (OpenCV Foundation) are running a computer vision contest. The goal is to get state of the art algorithms in at least 5 of 11 vision categories. We will have a workshop at CVPR 2015 to go over the winning entries. The code will then be available in OpenCV contrib. It is OK to duplicate existing state of the art in an OpenCV compliant framework under a BSD license or to develop new algorithms/code. It is OK if you have submitted the work elsewhere or currently submitted to this CVPR, we will not leak entries early. There will be a $50K award pool to distribute to the winners in the 5 top categories. <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Please distribute and encourage people you know to enter!<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://opencv.org/opencv-vision-challenge.html">http://opencv.org/opencv-vision-challenge.html</a><o:p></o:p></p></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Thank you<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Gary Bradski<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>CEO OpenCV<o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></body></html>