{"id":19,"date":"2025-10-03T08:54:37","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T08:54:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vap.aau.dk\/rws\/?page_id=19"},"modified":"2026-08-26T06:23:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T06:23:13","slug":"challenge","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/vap.aau.dk\/rws\/challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-text-color has-base-2-color has-alpha-channel-opacity has-base-2-background-color has-background is-style-wide\" style=\"margin-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--10);margin-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--10)\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-base-2-color has-text-color has-link-color has-large-font-size wp-elements-1 wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>UPAR Challenge 2027: <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-base-2-color has-text-color has-link-color has-large-font-size wp-elements-2 wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Attributes, Retrieval, and Pose Estimation<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-base-2-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-3 wp-block-paragraph\">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.<br>The first track continues PAR under challenging domain shifts, while the second extends ABPR to cross-dataset pedestrian retrieval.<br>The third track introduces surveillance-oriented HPE, evaluating keypoint localization under variations in viewpoint, resolution, illumination, and occlusion using the UPAR-Pose benchmark. A development phase for method validation and a test phase with submission limits to avoid overfitting<br>are included. Baseline methods for all tracks will be provided.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-base-2-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-4 wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-text-color has-base-2-color has-alpha-channel-opacity has-base-2-background-color has-background is-style-wide\" \/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-large-font-size\">Challenge Schedule:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li class=\"has-base-2-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-5\"><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-text-color has-base-2-color has-alpha-channel-opacity has-base-2-background-color has-background is-style-wide\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-base-2-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-6 wp-block-paragraph\">This challenge is organized by Mickael Cormier and Andreas Specker. The challenge will be hosted on CodaBench, starting September 15th.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-base-2-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-7 wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-text-color has-base-2-color has-alpha-channel-opacity has-base-2-background-color has-background is-style-wide\" style=\"margin-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--20);margin-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--20)\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large has-custom-border is-style-default\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"199\" src=\"https:\/\/vap.aau.dk\/rws\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/10\/contributors-1-1024x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-104\" style=\"border-style:none;border-width:0px;border-radius:12px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vap.aau.dk\/rws\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/10\/contributors-1-1024x199.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/vap.aau.dk\/rws\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/10\/contributors-1-300x58.jpg 300w, https:\/\/vap.aau.dk\/rws\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/10\/contributors-1-768x149.jpg 768w, https:\/\/vap.aau.dk\/rws\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/10\/contributors-1-1536x298.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/vap.aau.dk\/rws\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/10\/contributors-1.jpg 1691w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:26px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UPAR Challenge 2027: 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-19","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vap.aau.dk\/rws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vap.aau.dk\/rws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vap.aau.dk\/rws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vap.aau.dk\/rws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vap.aau.dk\/rws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":30,"href":"https:\/\/vap.aau.dk\/rws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":250,"href":"https:\/\/vap.aau.dk\/rws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19\/revisions\/250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vap.aau.dk\/rws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}