Are you ready to challenge the status quo in AI development? Then join Voxel51’s Harpreet Sahota in the first-ever Data-Centric AI competition on Hugging Face Spaces, focusing on the often-overlooked yet crucial aspect of AI: data curation.

Details concerning the competition can be found here.

The Challenge 🧗

Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to curate a subset of our provided dataset that achieves two seemingly contradictory goals:

• Reduce the overall size of the dataset
• Maintain or improve the performance of a YOLOv8m object detection model

Dataset and Resources 🧰

• A dataset of 65,986 images
• 43 object classes across categories like clothing, people, transportation, and more
• FiftyOne, an open-source tool for dataset curation and analysis.
• YOLOv8m model from the Ultralytics Model Zoo

Prizes 🏆

• First Place: $1,000
• Second Place: Top Tier Swag Package
• Third Place: Mid-Tier Swag Package