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The Bengaluru Mobility Challenge, 2024

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Bengaluru Traffic Police
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Raghuram Krishnapuram
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DOI:
10.21227/8ey0-sw97
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AI-driven traffic prediction
transportation networks
spatiotemporal analytics
vehicle reidentification
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Abstract

Bengaluru has been ranked the most congested city in India in terms of traffic for several years now. This hackathon is aimed at creating innovative solutions to the traffic management problem in Bengaluru, and is being co-organised by the Bengaluru Traffic Police, the Centre for Data for Public Good, and the Indian Institute of Science (IISc). The prizes are being sponsored by the IEEE Foundation.

The hackathon will have two phases. The first phase will be about short-term traffic volume prediction, given video feeds from cameras installed at junctions. The second phase will be about vehicle re-identification. 

Phase 1: This phase will start in the second week of June and the submissions will be evaluated in the last week of August, 2024. A leaderboard will be launched in a special session at the CyberPhysical Systems Symposium (CyPhySS) 2024, which will be held on July 25-27, 2024 at IISc. 

The participants in this phase will be provided with camera feeds from 23 Safe City cameras in northern Bengaluru, around the IISc campus. The task will be to provide short-term (e.g., 30 minutes into the future) predictions of the vehicle counts (by vehicle type) as well as vehicle turning patterns at certain points and junctions of the road network. The predictions may be at different points different from the locations where the camera feeds are available.

Phase 2: In this phase, the participants will be asked to re-identify vehicles seen at some locations of the network at other locations of the network. The ideas is to get a sense for the origin-destination (O-D) flows for this part of the network for a particular time period. The O-D flow estimates are critical for transportation planning, what-if analysis, etc. This phase will conclude with demos by finalists and announcement of winners on September 20, 2024 in conjunction with the Symposium of Data for Public Good at IISc.

The hackathon will be conducted by an organising committee with members from the Centre of Data for Public Good (CDPG), FSID, IISc, and the Centre for infrastructure, Sustainable Transportation and Urban Planning (CiSTUP), IISc, with help and advice from the Bengaluru Traffic Police, and other industry partners. The organising committee may interact with the participants via periodic virtual meetings or an online forum to address any questions or concerns they might have regarding the detailed description of the hackathon and the rules and regulations.

For both phases, ten teams with the highest accuracy scores (based on the final submissions) will be considered as finalists. The finalists will be invited to make presentations at the Symposium on Data for Public Good at IISc on September 19-20. A panel of judges will rank the entries based on certain criteria (please see the hackathon description document) and award the prizes mentioned below.

Prizes (sponsored by IEEE Foundation)

Phase 1:
  • First prize: Rs. 2.5 lakhs in cash.
  • Second prize: Rs. 1.5 lakhs in cash.
  • Special recognition prize: Rs. 25,000 to the next three finalists.

(These prizes are subject to any applicable mandatory tax deductions.)

Phase 2:
  • First prize: Rs. 4.0 lakhs in cash.
  • Second prize: Rs. 2.5 lakhs in cash.
  • Special recognition prize Rs. 25,000 to the next three finalists.

(These prizes are subject to any applicable mandatory tax deductions.)

Important Dates

Registration deadline for teams to participate in Phase 1

June 30, 2024

Final submission of entries for Phase 1

August 27, 2024

Award announcement of Phase 1

September 20, 2024

Registration of teams to participate in Phase 2

July 19, 2024

Final submission of entries for Phase 2

September 9, 2024

Award announcement of Phase 2

September 20, 2024

 

Instructions:

ENTRY IN THIS COMPETITION ASSUMES YOUR ACCEPTANCE OF THE FOLLOWING OFFICIAL RULES.

Eligibility

Each team may have up to five members. An individual can be a member of only one team in each phase. All members of a team need to be residents of India. If the team is selected as a finalist in a phase, at least one of the team members must be physically present at the conference venue to demonstrate their solution.

Rules of Participation

All teams wishing to participate must sign up for the competition on IEEE DataPort. Each team is allowed to create only one account. Privately sharing code or data outside of teams is not permitted. There are also restrictions on data access and usage as described in detail below. Only one submission per team is allowed. If a team makes multiple submissions before the deadline, the last one will be considered. The same team cannot make submissions from multiple accounts. Team mergers are allowed before the submission deadlines, as long as the total number of members in the merged team does not exceed five.

Data Access and Use

The data provided will be only for use within the competition. The participants give an undertaking that the data will not be used for any purpose other than the hackathon. The participants also must not try and reveal any personally identifiable information present in the videos. In addition, participants must not place this data in the public domain. 

Source Code and Publications

The participating teams can make use of any open source code or software in building their solutions, provided such use is permitted by the owners of the open source code. The participants are free to publish their algorithms, methodologies and other findings in the form of articles. However, they must clearly acknowledge the hackathon in their publications.

All participating teams will be expected to make their source code available to the evaluation committee for scoring purposes. We expect that the algorithms and insights that are generated out of this hackathon will be applicable at a larger scale for the entire city of Bengaluru, and with enhancements and inclusion of other data sets, will help agencies managing traffic build a reliable traffic model for Bengaluru and other cities in India. Therefore, in the interest of the larger public good, we expect the finalists of Phase 1 and Phase 2 to make their code open source at the end of the competition (i.e., after the prizes are announced for Phase 2), under Apache 2.0 licence. However, they must maintain the video data that is shared as private. 

Prospective participants (teams) can either register for both phases or just one phase. At the end of each phase, five teams will be selected as finalists. All finalists will receive a nominal award (see below), The teams participating in Phase 1 will have the option to continue to participate in the second phase of the hackathon, or stop after Phase 1. If the finalists of Phase 1 decide not to participate in Phase 2, they would need to agree to make their code available under Apache 2.0 licence to participants of Phase 2. In this way, the participants of Phase 2, if they so choose, can build on the ideas from Phase 1. If the participants make any further enhancements to their code beyond the competition, they need not make the new versions available in open source. 

Please see the uploaded document "BTP hackathon description.pdf" for details.

Registration for both Phase 1 and Phase 2 of the competition is now closed. 

For further questions, please contact: hackathon.cdpg@fsid-iisc.in 

I applied for the competition and i got the confirmation mail yet i still can't seem to be able to access the dataset? Can you resolve this issue

Pradish S Tue, 06/25/2024 - 11:24 Permalink

I have created IEEE account and also registered for the competition. I have received confirmation mail also. Still I am not able to access the dataset files. Kindly look into the problem and resolve the issue.

Saptakatha Adak Thu, 06/27/2024 - 08:13 Permalink

I have created IEEE account and also registered for the competition. I have received confirmation mail also. Still I am not able to access the dataset files. Kindly look into the problem and resolve the issue.

Saptakatha Adak Thu, 06/27/2024 - 08:14 Permalink

Some of you have sent email to "hackathon.cdpg@fsid-iisc.in" regarding data access issue. We are investigating the matter and hope to resolve this issue soon. Please continue to use hackathon.cdpg@fsid-iisc.in" for any queries. Thanks.

Raghuram Krish… Fri, 06/28/2024 - 07:05 Permalink

My teammate an I both logged into the IEEE DataPort now, I'm unsure about the registration, there is a button named "Enter a Submission" and below that there is something called 'Apply for access'. My Teammate filled them. According to it "I am requesting access to the data for the 'Bengaluru Mobility Challenge, 2024' and agree to the IEEE Dataport terms of use as well as the 'Rules of Participation' and 'Data Access and Use' sections above." Under rules of participation it says 2 of us can't register as we have to create only one account, but there is no mention of teammates. How will the organiser know who are teammates?

Ishaan Karmakar Sat, 06/29/2024 - 05:42 Permalink

Hello Sir,

 

We are a team of 3 people. In order to have access to the data my other team members have also filled the form

However we will be finally submitting a single solution as a team.

Hope it is fine.

 

Shrutika Ghosh Sat, 06/29/2024 - 11:28 Permalink

sir, i did regester for this by filling "APPLY FOR ACCESS". but it is just for the access for data.

should i and my team register somewhere else?

Karun M Sun, 06/30/2024 - 02:26 Permalink

Dear organising team,

We haven't received registration confirmation yet.

Kindly help as today is the last date.

Thanks.

Anuj Shah Sun, 06/30/2024 - 06:44 Permalink

Hello Team, 

We applied on 29th June and haven't received registration confirmation yet, please resolve at earliest convenience before the deadline. 

Best Regards,

Christina Joseph Jyothula

christina jyothula Sun, 06/30/2024 - 08:04 Permalink

We have registered for the competition but didn't get confirmation mail yet. Please look into this matter. I have created IEEE account and fill name , email, team size etc for the competition but haven't received any mail regarding this. Please resolve this issue.

Sapna Saini Sun, 06/30/2024 - 16:59 Permalink

How can we access the dataset since I'm trying the AWS method but I don't have any "get AWS key" button/ option coming in the profile?

Abhiraj Singh Mon, 07/01/2024 - 01:47 Permalink

Hi. I am participating in this hackathon for phase 1. I would like to know the size of the dataset :)

Pradish S Fri, 07/05/2024 - 11:36 Permalink

Sir we did not get registration mail can you please send it?

Suhas L Sat, 07/06/2024 - 14:37 Permalink

 Until when exactly the submission window is open for Phase 1? 

Sujesh G Fri, 07/12/2024 - 15:00 Permalink

Has anybody accessed the dataset files? ie videos. If did please give a rundown on how you downloaded it! Because even after receiving confirmation email, it is still asking for request access. 

Bhavana C Sat, 07/13/2024 - 09:24 Permalink

Hi, I recently registered for the hackathon and got access to data files but, noticed that there is no annotations for any of them. Is it yet to be released?

Tejas Haritsa V K Sat, 07/13/2024 - 09:28 Permalink

Sir we are not able to access the dataset files so please help to access them, as we are eager to start working on our project.

Sakshi Nagaraj T N Sat, 07/13/2024 - 10:37 Permalink

Can i register alone as a solo member or i need team to register

Sachin Bind Sat, 07/13/2024 - 15:28 Permalink

Till when we can submit our project to be considered for leaderboard

Yogesh singla Tue, 07/16/2024 - 17:12 Permalink

Same, unable to access dataset. Can someone reshare it please.

Anshul Gupta Sun, 07/21/2024 - 16:49 Permalink

I have registered for the Phase 2 hackathon. I got a mail saying my participant was accepted. In the portal, I logged in using the registered email id and then when click on "Access Dataset", nothing happens. Please help me in downloading the dataset.

Raghuvaran Per… Mon, 07/22/2024 - 05:59 Permalink
hackathon.cdpg@fsid-iisc.in and Raghuram Krishnapuram Please kindly share the access for the BTP Mobility Challenge, would be highly obliged to contribute in the Phase 1 and Phase 2 of the competition. The Registerations Seem Closed as on 22 July 2024 8:00PM IST, please accept my appologies for the late application, would really appreciate an opportunity to participate in the competition in improving Namma Bengaluru's Traffic Landscape. CC: hackathon.cdpg@fsid-iisc.in (Email Marked to CDPG Team from aakash@aakashkhindri.com) Raghuram Krishnapuram (IEEE Data Port - Message Author) Many Thanks Aakash Khindri
Aakash Khindri Mon, 07/22/2024 - 14:47 Permalink

To: hackathon.cdpg@fsid-iisc.in
Cc: Raghuram Krishnapuram

Dear Hackathon Organizers,

I hope this message finds you well. I am writing to kindly request access to the BTP Mobility Challenge. I am eager to participate and contribute to both Phase 1 and Phase 2 of the competition.

Unfortunately, I noticed that the registrations have closed as of July 22, 2024, at 8:00 PM IST. I sincerely apologize for submitting my application after the deadline. However, I would be extremely grateful if you could provide me with an opportunity to participate in this competition.

I am keen to assist in efforts to improve Namma Bengaluru’s traffic landscape, and I believe my skills and enthusiasm could be beneficial to the project.

I would greatly appreciate your consideration of my request.

Thank you very much for your time and understanding.

Warm regards,

Shashank A
Email:Shashankashok94@gmail.com

Shashank A Tue, 07/23/2024 - 19:00 Permalink

Respected Bengaluru Mobility Challenge Team,

 

I am a participant of The Bengaluru Mobility Challenge, 2024. I logged onto my account recently and found out that I need access to the DataSet. There is a Request Access option I clicked on and was unable to access it. Kindly, fix the issue at the earliest.

 

Warm Regards.

Yash Saraogi

 

Yash Saraogi Mon, 08/05/2024 - 19:43 Permalink

I have gone through several videos shared for the Phase 2 hackathon. In that, when the vehicles go slow, the number plate is recognizable but, when vehicles go fast, the number plates are not recognizable. It seems the camera recorded the video with low shutter speed or low frame rate.

Raghuvaran Per… Wed, 09/04/2024 - 09:03 Permalink

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DOCUMENTATION

Access Competition Files on IEEE DataPort through AWS.pdf
Information regarding Camera Views.pdf
BMC Leaderboard - Submission Guidelines v3.pdf
BTP hackathon description Aug 12 2024.pdf
Phase 1 final submission guidelines.pdf
Phase 2 BMC Leaderboard - Submission Guidelines.pdf
Phase 2 Final Submission Guidelines.pdf
Access Competition Files on IEEE DataPort through AWS.pdf

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