SiPS'26 Software Optimization Contest

Type d'évènement : Autres évènements

Date : du 1 Mars au 1 Novembre 2026

Lieu : Bordeaux

Site Web : https://sips2026.org/sips26-software-optimization-contest/

SiPS'26 Software Optimization Contest

https://sips2026.org/sips26-software-optimization-contest/

About the contest

The SiPS 2026 Software Optimization Contest invites researchers, students, and industry practitioners to push the limits of energy-aware, high-performance motion-detection and object-tracking algorithms on the Dalek cluster1. Participants will re-implement or extend the reference C/C++ pipeline2, optimize for CPU or GPU, and submit their solutions for evaluation on real-time video streams.

Application Description

The baseline pipeline consists of:

1. Motion detection – Background subtraction.
   
2. Denoising – Morphological opening/closing.
3. Extract blobs – CCL & CCA.
4. Associations– k-NN matching.
5. Tracking – Sliding-window list of trajectories.

All submissions must achieve the target detection and tracking rates specified in the evaluation sheet while maximizing throughput and energy efficiency.

Participants may choose one of two paths:

1/ Reinvent the application – build a brand-new pipeline (e.g., with DNNs) to push the limits of accuracy and speed.
2/ Optimize the reference blocks – fine-tune the supplied C/C++ code to squeeze more performance from the same logic.

Contest Deadlines

Registration : Jul 1, 2026 – Account creation on Dalek, team description.

1st code submission : Jul 1, 2026 – Submission of a first version of the modified source code.

Final submission : Oct 15, 2026 – Submit optimized source code, a short description to run it and a short paper.

Results Nov. 4, 2026 – Winners announced during the SiPS workshop.