How to create a challenge on EvalAI?

If you are looking for a simple challenge configuration that you can replicate to create a challenge on EvalAI, then you are at the right place. Follow the instructions given below to get started.

Directory Structure

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├── README.md
├── annotations                                 # Contains the annotations for Dataset splits
│   ├── test_annotations_devsplit.json          # Annotations of dev split
│   └── test_annotations_testsplit.json         # Annotations for test split
├── challenge_config.yaml                       # Configuration file to define challenge setup
├── evaluation_script                           # Contains the evaluation script
│   ├── __init__.py                             # Imports the modules that involve annotations loading etc
│   └── main.py                                 # Contains the main `evaluate()` method
├── logo.jpg                                    # Logo image of the challenge
├── submission.json                             # Sample submission file
├── run.sh                                      # Script to create the challenge configuration zip to be uploaded on EvalAI website
└── templates									# Contains challenge related HTML templates
    ├── challenge_phase_1_description.html      # Challenge Phase 1 description template
    ├── challenge_phase_2_description.html      # Challenge Phase 2 description template
    ├── description.html                        # Challenge description template
    ├── evaluation_details.html                 # Contains description about how submissions will be evalauted for each challenge phase
    ├── submission_guidelines.html              # Contains information about how to make submissions to the challenge
    └── terms_and_conditions.html               # Contains terms and conditions related to the challenge

Steps involved

1. Fork this repository.

2. Read EvalAI challenge creation documentation to know more about how you want to structure your challenge. Once you are ready, start making changes in the yaml file, HTML templates, evaluation script according to your need.

3. Once you are done making changes, run the command ./run.sh to generate the challenge_config.zip

4. Upload the challenge_config.zip on EvalAI to create a challenge on EvalAI. Challenge will be available publicly once EvalAI Admin approves the challenge.

Facing problems in creating a challenge?

Please feel free to open issues on our Github Repository or contact us at team@cloudcv.org if you have issues.