Eligibility and key facts
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- Who may be interested
- Researchers, Developers, University students
- Team size
- Individuals or teams of up to 5 may participate. Requires a Kaggle account and the older of 18 or the local age of majority, unless the sponsor agrees with appropriate guardian consent. Residents of Crimea, the so-called DNR or LNR, Cuba, Iran or North Korea, and persons or entity representatives under U.S. export controls or sanctions, cannot enter. Local laws also apply. Competition-entity personnel may participate subject to internal policy but cannot win prizes.
- Location
- Online on Kaggle
- Eligible regions
- To be confirmed; online does not imply worldwide eligibility
- Entry fee
- Free
- Prizes and support
- US$60,000 for the top seven teams, including US$18,000 for first, US$12,000 for second and US$8,000 for third.
All deadlines
Original date: Entry deadline | September 22, 2026 - Entry Deadline. You must accept the competition rules before this date in order to compete. All deadlines are at 11:59 PM UTC. | Time zone: UTC
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Original date: Team join / merger deadline | September 22, 2026 - Team Merger Deadline. This is the last day participants may join or merge teams. All deadlines are at 11:59 PM UTC. | Time zone: UTC
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Original date: Final submission deadline | September 29, 2026 - Final Submission Deadline. All deadlines are at 11:59 PM UTC. | Time zone: UTC
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About this opportunity
Detect cells in 3D time-lapse zebrafish microscopy, link them across frames and identify divisions to reconstruct lineages. Submit cell nodes and connecting edges in a CSV, evaluated with combined tracking and division-detection metrics. Individuals or teams of up to 5 may participate. Requires a Kaggle account and the older of 18 or the local age of majority, unless the sponsor agrees with appropriate guardian consent. Residents of Crimea, the so-called DNR or LNR, Cuba, Iran or North Korea, and persons or entity representatives under U.S. export controls or sanctions, cannot enter. Local laws also apply. Competition-entity personnel may participate subject to internal policy but cannot win prizes. Rules explicitly require no purchase to enter or win; participants' own equipment and compute costs are separate.
Rules and deliverables
Participation rules
- Individuals or teams of up to 5 may participate. Requires a Kaggle account and the older of 18 or the local age of majority, unless the sponsor agrees with appropriate guardian consent. Residents of Crimea, the so-called DNR or LNR, Cuba, Iran or North Korea, and persons or entity representatives under U.S. export controls or sanctions, cannot enter. Local laws also apply. Competition-entity personnel may participate subject to internal policy but cannot win prizes.
- Up to five submissions per day, two final submissions and five members per team.
- Submit via Notebooks with CPU or GPU runtime at most 12 hours and internet disabled; freely and publicly available external data and pretrained models are allowed.
- Competition data are under CC0; the winner license is MIT.
- The score combines adjusted edge Jaccard and 0.1 times division Jaccard, with sparse labels accounted for by the metric.
- Worldwide, subject to official eligibility, residency, sanctions and local-law restrictions
What to prepare
- A Notebook producing submission.csv with node and edge rows, cell coordinates and links for every test dataset.
- Winner delivery and licensing obligations follow the official rules, including reproducible solution code and required documentation.
Sources
- Source platform
- Kaggle
- Source domain
- www.kaggle.com
The organizer’s published schedule and rules take precedence.