Dear everyone,
Thank you again for participating in the improved version of our second round. I think we can say this was a success for crowdsourced aircraft localization! We have been very happy with the results and also the clever use and re-use of different methods, including from round 1. That’s what open source should be about!
I still haven’t received all of your codes, hence some of the delay, but wanted to confirm that everything is in order so far. The final numbers have been as follows:
| Submission ID | Type | Team Name | Participants | RMSE - 2D Distance | Coverage | Private Score (RMSE) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 118570 | Participant | - | sergei_markochev | 78.1413936 | 0.700068886 | 81.889539 |
| 118637 | Team | ck.ua | RomanChernenko, vitaly_bondar | 90.1305227 | 0.70000253 | 98.37021295 |
| 118626 | Team | nwpu.i4Sky | fei, lecterz, lhang_2k, mouyitiany, oyyfcyber | 141.073 | 0.70017474 | 154.574029 |
| 118396 | Team | ZAViators | benoit_figuet, rmonstein | 157.320904 | 0.72252469 | 171.662888 |
| 117973 | Team | dataWizard | paramuttarwar | 1497.98737 | 0.722712708 | 2392.53505 |
What will happen now is similar to Round 1:
- We will contact the winners about the awards (prize money and travel awards to the OpenSky Symposium) and where to send them.
- We will open source the codes on our Github Account and also provide the ground truth along with it.
- Finally, we will look to do a write-up on this competition in form of a scientific paper. This can (will) of course take some time but some of you have already registered their interest in being part of this.
Likewise, we will keep thinking about a live localization version without future data (we have thought along similar lines as @sergei_markochev in the other thread) but this will not be any time soon, so you can relax. We may also consider other aviation or space-related data challenges in the future, after our good experiences this time around.
Best,
Martin