UPAR Challenge 2027:
Challenge Track 1: https://www.codabench.org/competitions/18180/
Challenge Track 2: https://www.codabench.org/competitions/18196/
Challenge Track 3: coming soon.
Attributes, Retrieval, and Pose Estimation
RWS introduces a new edition of the UPAR Challenge, extending the previous editions on Pedestrian Attribute Recognition (PAR) and Attribute-Based Person Retrieval (ABPR) towards unified pedestrian understanding. The challenge builds upon the UPAR benchmark by incorporating Human Pose Estimation (HPE), enabling evaluation of pedestrian appearance and body structure understanding across diverse surveillance domains. The challenge consists of three tracks.
The first track continues PAR under challenging domain shifts, while the second extends ABPR to cross-dataset pedestrian retrieval.
The third track introduces surveillance-oriented HPE, evaluating keypoint localization under variations in viewpoint, resolution, illumination, and occlusion using the UPAR-Pose benchmark. Baseline methods for all tracks will be provided.
Challenge Schedule:
- Sep 21, 2026 Challenge opens, training data available
- Oct 21, 2026, AoE Challenge submission deadline
- Oct 23, 2026, AoE Paper submission deadline
- Oct 30, 2026, AoE Code submission deadline, code verification starts
- Jan 4/5, 2027 RWS Workshop at WACV 2027
This challenge is organized by Mickael Cormier and Andreas Specker. The challenge is hosted on CodaBench.
