# Rules

## General

1. Your name in the leaderboard should be in the format "Surname Name (place of study/organization)."

2. Participants must work on the problems individually.

3. There is a limit of 10 attempts per day.

4. Participants can only select two submissions at the end of the competition.

5. Participants must exceed the medium baseline by **April 15, 2023 (9:00 AM AEST)**. If the threshold is not exceeded by the specified deadline, the participant will be excluded from the rest of the competition.

6. Method description (One-page) must be submitted to [agreid2023@gmail.com](mailto:agreid2023@gmail.com) within a week after the announcement of the top 25% participants on **May 8, 2023 (9:00 AM AEST)** if you want to be included in the summary paper submitted to IJCB2023 on **May 15, 2023 (9:00 AM AEST)**.

## Specific to this competition

1. Only models pre-trained on ImageNet are permitted for fine-tuning.

2. The usage of external data is prohibited except for the provided `qut_attribute_v8.mat` file.