Competition Rules: Critical Object Grounding
1. Data Use and Restrictions
The datasets provided for this competition, including any associated labels, metadata, and derived images, are intended solely for academic and non-commercial research purposes.

Non-Commercial Use: You may not use the dataset or any models trained on the dataset for any commercial purposes, including but not limited to selling the data, using the data to develop a commercial product, or providing commercial services based on the data.

Redistribution: You are prohibited from redistributing, selling, or publicly hosting the dataset (or any portion thereof) on any third-party platforms without explicit written permission from the organizers.

2. Submission and Intellectual Property
Originality: All submissions must be the original work of the participants. Use of external data is permitted only if it is publicly available and cited in your final methodology report.

License: By participating in this competition, you grant the organizers a non-exclusive, royalty-free license to use, review, and analyze your submitted code and model outputs for the purpose of evaluation and academic publication.

3. Academic Integrity and Citation
If you use the provided dataset or the results of this competition in any scientific publication or technical report, you are required to cite the official paper associated with the CVPR Workshop: AUTOPILOT.

4. Code and Reproducibility
To be eligible for prizes or leaderboard validation, winners may be required to provide a link to a private repository or a Kaggle Notebook containing the source code used to generate the winning submission. The code must be sufficiently documented to allow for reproduction of the results.

5. Disclaimer
The competition organizers reserve the right to disqualify any participant who violates these rules or engages in unethical behavior (e.g., manual labeling of test data, multi-account cheating). The organizers also reserve the right to update or modify these rules as necessary.