Ocarina Compression Challange (Total Prize: $1 Million)

[osmanturan]

Ocarina Networks announced a challenge about file specific compression: JPEG 2000, h.264 and CAD files. Ocarina will award the winner $10,000 U.S. dollars for each submission that advances the current best scoring compressor by three percent or more, with a total pool of up to $1,000,000 allocated for the awards.

More detailed things can be found at: http://ocarinanetworks.com/news/ocar...2008_0910.html

[maadjordan]

interesting ..but does not say what type of cad files..(dwf,dwg,pdf,swm)..
i think Matt Mahoney (chief scientist) is great push..

[osmanturan]

Probably they will release a data set or at least they will give some informations about the test set. Else, it's totally meaningless. There is an another interesting team member too: Przemyslaw Skibinski. He's author of XWRT

[squxe]

The rules and infrastructure for the Ocarina Prize will be posted on October 1st.

[Matt Mahoney]

Surprisingly, I haven't been involved in setting up the context. I haven't yet seen the benchmark data or the details of the rules. Right now I've been busy working on writing specialized compressors for Ocarina (and falling behind on the LTCB as a result).

[Shelwien]

So, does it mean that "the challenge" would be beating these
specialized compressors of yours?
Or do they already have something developed by somebody else?

[Matt Mahoney]

No. So far there are no JPEG2000 or H.264 compressors. (Not sure what file types will be used for the third set). I am working on other file types at the moment. I think the plan is not just to develop new algorithms, but also to recruit compression experts. (They are hiring, and willing to work with people remotely).

[maadjordan]

No. So far there are no JPEG2000 or H.264 compressors. (Not sure what file types will be used for the third set). I am working on other file types at the moment. I think the plan is not just to develop new algorithms, but also to recruit compression experts. (They are hiring, and willing to work with people remotely).

i think autocad, solidworks, maya, 3dmax, files would be involved in third part not forgeting "precomp" already deals with "autocad web file" (DWF) and Rhinocerous (3DM) and can process in a ratio the graphics data but not 3d or model data..

[Shelwien]

Guess, it'd be October 1 of some other year