ORena SAVE FOCUS Challenge
CFP from the SDS group: "OR-ARENA a competition designed to push the boundaries of long-context Vision-Language Models (VLMs) in surgery . The Medical Goal To help prevent retained surgical items by enabling models to track, contextualize, count, and localize foreign objects, such as sponges and needles. The Technical Goal To benchmark and advance long-context video understanding, spanning the full spectrum from single-frame perception to procedure-level surgical understanding. Why Participate? High Incentives: We have a $50,000 prize pool and aim for a joint publication of results in Nature Biomedical Engineering . The challenge takes place in parallel to the Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI) conference. Massive VQA Dataset: Our data pool comprises over 100,000 Visual Question Answering (VQA) pairs derived from 400 laparoscopic videos (RGB). The tasks are framed as VQA problems (e.g., ...
