The Israeli Ministry of Defense Directorate of Defense Research and Development (DDR&D) is excited to announce the launch of the “MAFAT challenge” - a series of prize competitions in the field of Data Science that are fully open to the general public, academic and industry sectors.
The goal of the challenge is to explore the potential of advanced data science methods to improve and enhance the IMOD current data products. The winning method may eventually be applied to real data and the winners may be invited to further collaborate with the IMOD on future projects
In this challenge, MAFAT's DDR&D (Directorate of Defense Research & Development) would like to tackle the challenge of Audience Segmentation based on Web Browsing Activities with anonymous characteristics.
The participants' goal is to classify the web browsing history into specific audience segments from anonymous time series web browsing data.
February 16, 2025, 12:00 PM (GMT+2) - Competition starts!
March 16, 2025 - Team mergers deadline
March 30, 2025 - Competition entry deadline
March 30, 2025, 11:00 AM (GMT+2) - Stage 2 (Private) is open for submission
April 6, 2025, 12:00 AM (GMT+2) - Competition ends
April 10, 2025, 12:00 AM (GMT+2) - Final leaderboard confirmation + creative solution winner
#1 - 15,000 $
#2 - 10,000 $
#3 - 7,000 $
Most creative solution: 3,000 $
Satellite Imagery Object Detection Competition.
($45,000)
WiFi Sensing: Non Invasive Human Presence Detection From WiFi Signals.
($50,000)
