<div dir="ltr"><div>Hi everyone,</div><div><br></div><div>In the spirit of the talk from our last lab meeting about Kaggle competition I wanted to share in here info about an article that I came across. It's from Wired and is about new computer vision challenge:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://buff.ly/2Gy9PPk">https://buff.ly/2Gy9PPk</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>The link to the actual challenge website is in here:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://xviewdataset.org/">http://xviewdataset.org/</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>It is run by the Defense Innovation Unit Experimental (DIUx).</div><div>The challenge will be about fine grained and low-res object detection from aerial imagery 

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