Online Competition in Artificial Intelligence with $12,000 Prize from Kaggle

Kaggle is launching PetFinder.my - Pawpularity Contest with a prize of up to $12,000. A picture is worth a thousand words. But did you know a picture can save a thousand lives? Millions of stray animals suffer on the streets or are euthanized in shelters every day around the world. You might expect pets with attractive photos to generate more interest and be adopted faster. But what makes a good picture? With the help of data science, you may be able to accurately determine a pet photo’s appeal and even suggest improvements to give these rescue animals a higher chance of loving homes.

About the Competition:-

• In this competition, you’ll analyze raw images and metadata to predict the “Pawpularity” of pet photos. You'll train and test your model on PetFinder.my's thousands of pet profiles. Winning versions will offer accurate recommendations that will improve animal welfare.
• If successful, your solution will be adapted into AI tools that will guide shelters and rescuers around the world to improve the appeal of their pet profiles, automatically enhancing photo quality and recommending composition improvements. As a result, stray dogs and cats can find their "furever" homes much faster. With a little assistance from the Kaggle community, many precious lives could be saved and more happy families created.
• Top participants may be invited to collaborate on implementing their solutions and creatively improve global animal welfare with their AI skills.

• 1st Place - $12,000.
• 2nd Place - $8,000.
• 3rd Place - $5,000.

• You cannot sign up to Kaggle from multiple accounts and therefore you cannot submit from multiple accounts.
• Privately sharing code or data outside of teams is not permitted. It's okay to share code if made available to all participants on the forums.
• Team mergers are allowed and can be performed by the team leader. In order to merge, the combined team must have a total submission count less than or equal to the maximum allowed as of the Team Merger Deadline. 
• The maximum allowed is the number of submissions per day multiplied by the number of days the competition has been running.
• The maximum team size is 5.
• You may submit a maximum of 2 entries per day.
• You may select up to 2 final submissions for judging.
• Code Requirements:
• Submissions to this competition must be made through Notebooks. In order for the "Submit" button to be active after a commit, the following conditions must be met:
• CPU Notebook <= 9 hours run-time
• GPU Notebook <= 9 hours run-time
• Internet access disabled
• Freely & publicly available external data is allowed, including pre-trained models
• Submission file must be named submission.csv

About Kaggle:-

Kaggle, a subsidiary of Google LLC, is an online community of data scientists and machine learning practitioners. Kaggle got its start in 2010 by offering machine learning competitions and now also offers a public data platform, a cloud-based workbench for data science, and Artificial Intelligence education. Kaggle allows users to find and publish data sets, explore and build models in a web-based data-science environment, work with other data scientists and machine learning engineers, and enter competitions to solve data science challenges.

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