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  "id": 612813,
  "title": "Welcome to the Ongoing Image Matching Challenge!",
  "url": "/competitions/image-matching-challenge-2025-ongoing/discussion/612813",
  "author_name": "Eduard Trulls",
  "post_date": "2025-10-22T09:33:20.794000",
  "votes": 3,
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  "content": "<p>We're back, twice in a year!</p>\n<p>Why? We want to re-align the competition closer to its original intent back in 2019, as a benchmark that can be used to evaluate the state of the art in 3D reconstruction. A recurring issue is that our deadlines are tight, and while it's possible to submit to the competition after a deadline, the results are not visible in the leaderboards.</p>\n<p>To solve this issue we have cloned the <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/image-matching-challenge-2025\" target=\"_blank\">original competition</a>. This new competition is identical except for the fact we have merged all the data, public and private. It does not award points, medals, or prizes.</p>\n<p>For a more detailed intro, you can refer to <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/image-matching-challenge-2025/discussion/570752\" target=\"_blank\">this post</a> from the original competition. The leaderboards contain links to many of the top solutions. Have fun!</p>",
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      "content": "<p>We're back, twice in a year!</p>\n<p>Why? We want to re-align the competition closer to its original intent back in 2019, as a benchmark that can be used to evaluate the state of the art in 3D reconstruction. A recurring issue is that our deadlines are tight, and while it's possible to submit to the competition after a deadline, the results are not visible in the leaderboards.</p>\n<p>To solve this issue we have cloned the <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/image-matching-challenge-2025\" target=\"_blank\">original competition</a>. This new competition is identical except for the fact we have merged all the data, public and private. It does not award points, medals, or prizes.</p>\n<p>For a more detailed intro, you can refer to <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/image-matching-challenge-2025/discussion/570752\" target=\"_blank\">this post</a> from the original competition. The leaderboards contain links to many of the top solutions. Have fun!</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "We're back, twice in a year!\n\nWhy? We want to re-align the competition closer to its original intent back in 2019, as a benchmark that can be used to evaluate the state of the art in 3D reconstruction. A recurring issue is that our deadlines are tight, and while it's possible to submit to the competition after a deadline, the results are not visible in the leaderboards.\n\nTo solve this issue we have cloned the [original competition](https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/image-matching-challenge-2025). This new competition is identical except for the fact we have merged all the data, public and private. It does not award points, medals, or prizes.\n\nFor a more detailed intro, you can refer to [this post](https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/image-matching-challenge-2025/discussion/570752) from the original competition. The leaderboards contain links to many of the top solutions. Have fun!",
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    "3305218": "We're back, twice in a year!\n\nWhy? We want to re-align the competition closer to its original intent back in 2019, as a benchmark that can be used to evaluate the state of the art in 3D reconstruction. A recurring issue is that our deadlines are tight, and while it's possible to submit to the competition after a deadline, the results are not visible in the leaderboards.\n\nTo solve this issue we have cloned the [original competition](https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/image-matching-challenge-2025). This new competition is identical except for the fact we have merged all the data, public and private. It does not award points, medals, or prizes.\n\nFor a more detailed intro, you can refer to [this post](https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/image-matching-challenge-2025/discussion/570752) from the original competition. The leaderboards contain links to many of the top solutions. Have fun!"
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