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Prize Winners

Since the Vesuvius Challenge was launched in March 2023, a lot has happened. On this page we document all the prizes that have been won.

We have awarded $1,201,500 in prizes so far!

$42,500 Open Source (March, 2024)​

Goal: Increase the probability the 2024 Grand Prize gets awarded.
Announcement: Blog post

$20,000
Rendering improvements: Giorgio Angelotti / @Jordi
$10,000
Multiresolution chunked volumes: Chuck / @khartes_chuck
$2,500
Volumetric ink detection: Jorge Villaescusa / @mojonero
$2,500
Volumetric segmentation labels: Tim Skinner / @Tim S
$2,500
Data improvements: James Darby / @james darby
$1,000
Segment-to-segment label mapping: Oliver Daubney / @O_D
$1,000
Cell viewer and segmentation comparison: Yao Hsiao / @Yao Hsiao
$1,000
Superpixels and cells: Santiago Pelufo / @spelufo
$1,000
Other segmentation axes, 3D ink labels: Sean Johnson / @Bruniss
$1,000
Colab notebook and ink labels: Nicola Bodill / @polytrope

$850,000 Grand Prize 2023 (December 31, 2023)​

Goal: Reveal four passages within the scrolls.
Announcement: Announcement page

$700,000
Winner: Youssef Nader, Luke Farritor, and Julian Schilliger
$50,000
Runner up: SQ Mah
$50,000
Runner up: Lou Schlessinger and Arefeh Sherafati
$50,000
Runner up: Elian Rafael Dal Prá, Sean Johnson, Leonardo Scabini, Raí Fernando Dal Prá, João Vitor Brentigani Torezan, Daniel Baldin Franceschini, Bruno Pereira Kellm, Marcelo Soccol Gris, and Odemir Martinez Bruno

$12,000 Open Source (December 31, 2023)​

Goal: Increase the probability the Grand Prize gets awarded.
Announcement: Blog post

$3,000
Segment maps by Yao Hsiao / @Yao_Hsiao
$3,000
Large segments and colab notebook by Sean Johnson / @Bruniss
$3,000
Crackle Viewer by Julian Schilliger / @RICHI
$3,000
Segment maps by Youssef Nader / @YoussefNader

$25,000 Open Source (November 30, 2023)​

Goal: Increase the probability the Grand Prize gets awarded.
Announcement: Blog post

$8,000
Next-gen Volume Cartographer: Philip Allgaier / @spacegaier
$5,000
Segment Browser: Johannes Rudolph / @jrudolph
$5,000
Ink Detection Masks: Anton Repushko / @repushko
$1,000
Sharkbite fix: Chuck / @khartes_chuck
$1,000
Vesuvius Kintsugi: Giorgio Angelotti / @jordi45698
$1,000
Crackle Labels: Sean Johnson / @bruniss
$1,000
Omit: Timo Meireman / @timo_71099
$5,000
Segment Viewer by Yao Hsiao / @Yao_Hsiao and Dalufishe / @Dalufish
$1,000
Single-sheet Segmentation: Brett Olsen / @brett_olsen
$1,000
Multiple Contributions: Santiago Pelufo / @spelufo

$60,000 First Letters & Ink (October 12, 2023)​

Goal: Find the first letters within the scrolls.
Announcement: Announcement page

$40,000
First Letters: Luke Farritor / @lukeboi
$10,000
First Letters, 2nd place: Youssef Nader / @YoussefNader
$10,000
First Ink: Casey Handmer / @cjhandmer

$45,000 Segmentation Tooling 2 (October 3, 2023)​

Goal: Help the segmentation team do larger and harder areas.
Announcement: Blog post

$10,000
VA Sheet Tracer by Trevor, Tom, Babak, and Boaz
$10,000
Extremely Fast Segmentation by Julian Schilliger / @RICHI
$10,000
Khartes by Chuck / @khartes_chuck
$5,000
CT scanning campfire scrolls by Ahron Wayne / @WayneWayneHello
$5,000
Segment Viewer by Yao Hsiao / @Yao_Hsiao and Dalufishe / @Dalufish
$5,000
Ilastik integration by Santiago Pelufo / @spelufo

$12,000 Ink Detection Followup (September 8, 2023)​

Goal: Take the models from the Ink Detection Prize (see below) and apply them to the scrolls, to find letters.
Announcement: Blog post

$3,000
Top Ink Detection Model Analysis by Ryan Chesler / @emel_ryan
$3,000
Fine Tuning by Luke Farritor / @lukeboi
$1,500
Crackle Viewer by Julian Schilliger / @RICHI
$1,500
Resolution Analysis by Team OverthINKingSegmenter
$1,500
Scroll Pretraining by Youssef Nader / @YoussefNader
$1,500
Vesuvius Challenge Whiteboard by Yao / @Yao_Hsiao and Dalufishe / @Dalufish

$45,000 Segmentation Tooling (June 27, 2023)​

Goal: Help the segmentation team do larger and harder areas.
Announcement: Blog post

$10,000
Optical Flow Segmentation by Julian / @RICHI
$10,000
Khartes by Chuck / @khartes_chuck
$5,000
Masked data by James / @thatGuy
$5,000
Volume Viewer by Yao / @Yao_Hsiao
$5,000
VolumeAnnotate by Moshe / @moshelevy
$5,000
Scroll Viewer by Luke Farritor / @lukeboi
$5,000
vesuvius-build and vesuvius-blender by Santiago / @spelufo

$100,000 Kaggle Ink Detection (July 14, 2023)​

Goal: Optimize fragment-based ink detection methods.
Announcement: Blog post / Kaggle competition / More info

$25,000
1st: ryches
$20,000
2nd: RTX23090
$15,000
3rd: wuyu
$10,000
4th: POSCO DX - Heeyoung Ahn
$5,000
5th: Aksell
$5,000
6th: chumajin
$5,000
7th: OverthINKingSegmenter
$5,000
8th: Luck is all you need
$5,000
9th: still 1 fold, 2 net
$5,000
10th: Feng Qilong

$10,000 Open Source (April 14, 2023)​

Goal: Increase the probability the Grand Prize gets awarded.
Announcement: Blog post / Live stream

$2,500
Scroll Viewer by Luke Farritor / @lukeboi
$2,500
2.5D Segmentation Baseline by Ryosuke Tanaka
$2,500
VolumeAnnotate by Moshe Levy / @moshelevy
$2,500
Countless community contributions by Brett Olsen / @caethan

EduceLab tools​

Before and during the competition, EduceLab has put out various works. With these tools, they have laid the foundation for the community. While EduceLab members are ineligible for prizes, we want to recognize their efforts.

Quick Segment by Bruno, Sydney, and Drew
Hard-Hearted Scrolls (PhD dissertation) by Stephen Parsons
Volume Cartographer by Seth Parker and many others
ink-id by Stephen Parsons