1. Terms and Conditions

1.1 You have full authority to participate in this contest, either for yourself or on behalf of a third party. By participating in this contest, it shall be deemed that you have fully understood and accepted any and all terms and conditions (the "T&Cs") that you are entering into with Huawei applicable to your region ("Huawei"), in accordance with Clause 2 and the Countries/Regions List herein.

1.2 By entering the contest, you agree to accept and to be legally bound by all of the T&Cs.

2. Contest Organizer

2.1 The contest is jointly organized by Huawei Software Technologies Co., Ltd, Aspiegel SE, and Huawei Services (Hong Kong) Co., Limited ("HW HK").

2.2 If you participate in this contest in the Chinese mainland, the T&Cs are legally binding between you and Huawei Software Technologies Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of Huawei incorporated in China, which shall act as data controller.

2.3 If you participate in this contest in a country or region listed in the "Countries/Regions" set out in Part II of the Countries/Regions List, the T&Cs are legally binding between you and Aspiegel SE, a subsidiary of Huawei incorporated in Ireland, which shall act as data controller.

2.4 If you participate in this contest in a country or region listed in the "Countries/Regions" set out in Part III of the Countries/Regions List, the T&Cs are legally binding between you and HW HK, a subsidiary of Huawei incorporated in Hong Kong (China), which shall act as data controller.

3. Contest Duration

3.1 The contest opens on June 24, 2022 at [00:00] Beijing time (UTC+8) and will finish at [24:00], August 24, 2022, Beijing time (UTC+8).

4. Eligibility to Participate

4.1 Full-time students who are formally enrolled at a higher-education institution and have registered as a developer on HUAWEI Developers, are eligible to enroll in the contest. You may participate in the contest on your own or as part of a team (a "Contestant"). Only natural persons may be Contestants. Participation by corporations or any other types of non-natural legal persons is not permitted.

4.2 You are only eligible as a Contestant by first registering as a Huawei developer.

4.3 You are not eligible as a Contestant if you are an employee of Huawei or of an affiliate of Huawei, or if you are connected in any way to such an employee, whether by familial relationship or friendship or otherwise.

4.4 Contestants must submit valid bank account details in order for Huawei to effect the transfer of cash prizes if a Contestant is adjudged to be a winner of the contest. Contestants must provide Huawei with prompt updates to any changes to bank details if they occur.

4.5 The rules for setting up a team are as follows:

(1) Each Contestant can join only one (1) team.

(2) Each team must have no more than three (3) Contestants (but can include one (1) mentor who does not count toward this total).

(3) A team must have a name. The team name shall not be indecent or defamatory, in any way illegal or infringing upon any legitimate rights of third parties.

(4) The members in a team shall have the same registration place of their HUAWEI ID.

(5) When you join a team, your personal data, such as your profile picture, name, and contact information, will be shared within the team and you explicitly consent to this by joining the team or participating the contest.

(6) Each team has a team leader who is responsible for team management (including reviewing applications from potential team members and removing team members) and submitting works.

(7) A team member can apply to join a team or leave a team.

(8) The score for contest submissions belongs to the team, not to the team members. If a contestant leaves a team, all previous scores will continue to belong to the team, rather than the departing member.

Eligibility review rules

(1) The organizing committee is responsible for reviewing the eligibility of Contestants and teams.

(2) Contestants must be full-time students studying at higher-education institutions. Mentors must be full-time teachers at higher-education institutions.

(3) If a team member fails the review, the team will be immediately disqualified from participating in the contest or winning an award.

Requirements for Works

4.6 The Organizers reserve the right to change the test sets for the contest proposals.

4.7 Your work must comply with the following to be a valid entry for the contest:

(1) With prior express written authorization of holders, the work may use third-party game engines, middleware, open-source software, or code libraries.

(2) Each individual or team must fully comply with HUAWEI Developers Service Agreement and any other agreement clauses and terms applicable to Huawei services.

5. Requirement on Submission of Works

5.1 Contestants are required to submit algorithm results based on data provided on the competition platform.

5.2 Scoring indicators for each proposal

Proposal 1: Knowledge-driven spoken dialogue

Chatbots are often let down by their passiveness, which often leads to meaningless responses to user requests and limited information. That is why a dialogue system that is capable of interpreting messages and being informative is needed. However, this is easier said than done as information may come from different domains, and the samples are not evenly distributed across these domains. Worse still, a dialogue system may need to make complex queries or inferences to fetch the correct information from the knowledge graph. Another challenge is when users verbally make requests, which are converted to text using the automatic speech recognition (ASR) technology, the converted text often contains errors. Therefore, a dialogue model is expected to be more robust when encountering errors caused by colloquial expressions, as well as word and syntax errors in text converted using ASR, thus giving users standard and expected responses.

Proposal 2: Intelligent quality inspection of lane rendering data

When a navigation service is opened, the map background is generated through data rendering. However, issues with retrieving data may cause errors (such as missing edges or corners, and irregular shapes) in lane-level images rendered using such data. To more efficiently detect error data and reduce labor costs, an inspection model needs to be developed based on commonalities of such data, which will have a higher accuracy. We hope, through this competition, to explore talent in the computer vision field and boost the development of this field.

Proposal 3: CTR prediction through cross-domain data from ads and news feeds

Ad recommendation models are usually built based on historical ad impressions, clicks, and other user behavior data. If only data from the ads domain is used, user behavior data will be sparse, and the user behavior types that can be identified will be limited. However, if a user's behavior data in other domains from the same app is explored, the user's interests and behavior characteristics can be better identified. Of course, introducing user behavior data from other apps can also help enrich the data of user behavior characteristics and ad performance.

You are expected to enhance ads click-through rate (CTR) prediction accuracy by leveraging ad logs, user profiles, and cross-domain data. With ads as the target domain and news feeds as the source domain, you should build user interest models through impressions, clicks, and other user behavior data obtained from the news feeds domain, thus improving the CTR prediction performance of the ads domain.

5.3 Entries shall conform to the following requirements:

(1) Teams shall submit algorithm results based on the data provided on the competition platform.

(2) Prediction results shall be uploaded during the preliminary, and descriptions and training source code shall be submitted during the preliminary review & selection period for further confirmation. The file formats shall be as follows:

Prediction result for Proposal 1 (knowledge-driven spoken dialogue): result.json

Prediction results for Proposal 2 (intelligent quality inspection of lane rendering data) and 3 (CTR prediction through cross-domain data from ads and news feeds): submission.csv

Descriptions for all 3 proposals: DIGIX Implementation Instruction.docx

Training source code for all 3 proposals: Source Code.zip

(3) For each entry update, new DIGIX Implementation Instruction and Source Code files are required.

6. Selection of Winning Entries and Announcement of Winners and Prizes

6.1 Winners are selected by a combination of automated score ranking and qualified judges.

6.2 Selection rules

The preliminary and elite final will be held as follows:

Preliminary

(1) The preliminary will be held online. Teams, once set up, will be eligible to participate in this phase. The organizing committee will provide contest proposals, data, and automatic scoring results. Contestants should select any of the available proposals, prepare the required environments, and submit their works. The contest Organizers have the right to change the test sets for the proposals.

(2) For each proposal, each team is permitted to submit a maximum of four (4) works per day. Real-time rankings will be displayed in this phase.

(3) The preliminary is divided into A and B stages, in which two (2) different test sets will be provided. A real-time leaderboard ranking will be provided for stage A, while the final results will depend on the results in stage B.

(4) Stage B will be opened on the last day of the preliminary. You are no longer required to submit works for this stage. Your last submission for stage A as well as your highest-ranking submission for that stage will be used to calculate your score in stage B. Of the two (2) submissions, the submission with the higher score, which is calculated by using the scoring model of stage B, will prevail as your final score and will be ranked during the stage. Your final score and ranking during stage B will be released at 12:00 (UTC+8) of August 25, 2022.

Elite final

(1) During the elite final, all finalists will participate in an online competition and give presentations in person.

(2) During the elite final, each team is permitted to submit a maximum of six (6) works for each proposal per day. Real-time rankings will be displayed in this phase.

(3) The elite final will also consist of A and B stages. A real-time leaderboard ranking will be provided for stage A, while the final results will depend on the results in stage B.

(4) Stage B will be opened on the last day of the elite final. You are no longer required to submit works for this stage. Your last submission for stage A as well as your highest-ranking submission for that stage will be used to calculate your score in stage B. Of the two (2) submissions, the submission with the higher score, which is calculated by using the scoring model of stage B, will prevail as your final score and will be ranked during the stage.

Selection criteria for the preliminary and elite final

1. During the preliminary, each team should submit works based on these proposals and in accordance with all stipulated requirements. A total of twenty-one (21) teams will be shortlisted for the elite final, as determined by the automatic scoring system and feedback from our experts. If a team is eliminated during the review (for example, due to cheating), all of the teams below them will automatically move up one (1) spot.

2. During the elite final, the champion, first runner-up, second runner-up, and honorary mention award winners will be determined based on the real-time leaderboard ranking scores, evaluation by experts, and presentation results.

3. Presentation: Each team will be responsible for preparing presentation materials and giving a presentation to the judging panel.

4. Selection: The judging panel will evaluate works based on the automatic scoring, evaluation by experts, and presentation results, and determine the final ranking and award list.

Announcement of Winners

6.3 Results and winners of the contest will be announced and posted on the contest's website. Posted results will include the Contestants' nicknames, team names, and team introduction, ranked in order, based on their scores.

Prizes

6.4 The total prize for this contest is two hundred and ten thousand US dollars (US$210,000), and consists of three (3) proposals. The awards for each proposal are listed as follows:

(1) Champion (one (1) team): thirty-five thousand US dollars (US$35,000);

(2) First runner-up (one (1) team): fifteen thousand US dollars (US$15,000);

(3) Second runner-up (one (1) team): ten thousand US dollars (US$10,000); and

(4) Honorary mention (four (4) teams): two thousand five hundred US dollars (US$2,500) per team.

6.5 You and Huawei will conclude a separate Prize Distribution Agreement upon you winning a prize.

6.6 The possibility of obtaining a further reward shall not constitute an offer or a contract for such a reward to a Contestant.

6.7 Cash prizes (or rewards, if provided) are non-negotiable, non-transferable, non-convertible, and non-refundable.

6.8 The judges' decisions regarding winners are final and Huawei will not respond to any dispute from Contestants in this regard. Contestants shall not engage in any behavior that annoys, abuses, threatens, or harasses any other Contestants, Huawei personnel, or the judges.

6.9 Huawei may offer alternative prizes to cash prizes (of different or similar value), if for unforeseen reasons, or reasons beyond Huawei's control, it becomes necessary to do so.

6.10 In the event that a winner is disqualified for breaching any of the T&Cs, they cannot be reached, or they are unable to receive the prize by fault of their own, such as providing incorrect bank account information, the prize will be awarded to the next-ranking Contestant.

Tax

6.11 The amounts of any and all cash prizes/rewards are pre-tax. That is, if you participate in this contest in the Chinese mainland and the T&Cs are legally binding upon you and Huawei Software Technologies Co., Ltd., the amount of a cash prize or reward that you will actually receive shall be the net of any and all applicable taxes that Huawei is obligated to withhold in accordance with the laws of the People's Republic of China.

If you participate in this contest in a country or region listed in the "Countries/Regions" set out in Part II of the Countries/Regions List and the T&Cs are legally binding upon you and Aspiegel SE, any and all taxes payable (including personal income tax) that are applicable as a result of a prize being awarded or received shall be the responsibility of the prize winner. If any claim is made against Aspiegel SE for such taxes, the prize winner shall indemnify and hold Aspiegel SE harmless for any liability for such sums and promptly remit to Aspiegel SE such sums together with any penalties and interest assessed.

If you participate in this contest in a country or region listed in the "Countries/Regions" set out in Part III of the Countries/Regions List and the T&Cs are legally binding upon you and HW HK, any and all taxes payable (including personal income tax) that are applicable as a result of a prize being awarded or received shall be the responsibility of the prize winner. If any claim is made against HW HK for such taxes, the prize winner shall indemnify and hold HW HK harmless for any liability for such sums and promptly remit to HW HK such sums together with any penalties and interest assessed.

6.12 Cash prizes will be distributed in the following currencies, depending on the region where you entered the contest: CNY or EUR. Winners shall bear all currency exchange-related expenses.

6.13 Huawei will distribute cash prizes to winners within one hundred and twenty (120) working days upon the conclusion of the contest, but shall not be liable in any way whatsoever to any winner for any delay, or loss of a cash prize by any means (in electronic transfer or otherwise), whether or not it is within Huawei's control.

6.14 If a cash prize or reward is distributed to the bank account of a team winner, the team leader is strictly responsible for allocating the prize or reward amongst team members. Huawei shall in no way be responsible for the allocation of prizes/rewards amongst team members or any dispute arising from or in relation thereto.

6.15 Huawei gives no warranties, representations, or guarantees, express or implied, in fact or law, relating to any prize(s), regarding the use, value, or enjoyment of the prize(s), including, without limitation, its quality, mechanical condition, merchantability, or fitness for a particular purpose.

7. Your Data

7.1 This contest will need to collect your mobile number, email address, college information, and team information for entry review, competition notification, and statistical analysis purposes. When you submit works, your team name and ID will be transferred to Aspiegel SE and will be used to display your ranking on the global leaderboard. We may also collect your name and bank account information for the purpose of prize distribution. The personal information that we collect from you will be stored in your local region for one hundred and twenty (120) days. We pledge to take all proper security measures to ensure that your personal data is protected.

8. Intellectual Property Rights

8.1 Contestants represent and warrant, that in respect of the work:

(1) they are the true and lawful owners of the intellectual and industrial property rights (including any code);

(2) there are no legal claims or disputes pending; and

(3) they have the right to submit them to the contest.

8.2 Contestants shall retain copyright and any other intellectual and industrial property rights that they have created in their works.

8.3 For publicity, marketing, and promotional purposes, a Contestant who is a contest finalist or winner, grants to Huawei (and its agents, sponsors, and partners) an irrevocable, non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to publish their work (either on its own or with the works of third parties) on the official website of the contest or other Huawei websites, AppGallery, or any sales or marketing channels or partner channels, and to display the name of their team.

8.4 During the contest, you may obtain any Confidential Information that is provided by the Organizers and/or the Co-organizers (collectively, the "Disclosing Party"), including but not limited to datasets that Huawei provides to external parties, trade secrets, technical know-how, research achievements, business plans, customer information, financial data, document templates, programming specifications, development processes, quality standards, and other technical and business information as well as any and all derivatives of the preceding information. You undertake to keep in strict confidence any and all such Confidential Information that you have obtained or become aware of. Without the prior written consent of the Disclosing Party, you shall not disclose any such Confidential Information to any third parties. Any and all Confidential Information may only be used for programs relating to the contest that are designated by the Disclosing Party instead of any other purposes. You undertake to return or destroy any and all Confidential Information (including but not limited to original documents, copies, duplicates, and abstracts thereof) in your possession without undue delay upon conclusion of the contest or at the request of the Disclosing Party, while providing proof of return or destruction to the Disclosing Party.

9. General Conditions

9.1 Contestants shall ensure that their behavior in the contest does not violate any applicable laws, regulations, or policies, nor infringe upon the legitimate rights and interests of any third party.

9.2 Huawei reserves the right, at any time, to:

(1) hold void, suspend, or cancel the contest or any other matters concerning the contest; or

(2) amend the rules of the contest and the T&Cs,

if it becomes necessary to do so, whether for technical, financial, or legal purposes (including but not limited to fraud or security issues, or for any matters outside of its reasonable control) taking into account the Contestants' interests. Contestants may object to any updated T&Cs within fourteen (14) days upon any of the above operations by Huawei. We suggest you regularly visit the official website of the contest to check for the latest T&Cs. If you do not object within the aforesaid period, it shall be deemed that you have fully accepted and agreed to the updated T&Cs.

9.3 To the fullest extent permitted by law, Huawei (including its affiliates) and its agents or distributors, will not under any circumstances be responsible or liable to compensate a Contestant or accept any liability for any loss or damage arising out of or in relation to the participation in the contest.

9.4 Huawei processes and uses personal data provided by Contestants for the purposes of this contest in accordance with applicable laws. Any personal data you provide will only be processed for lawful purposes directly related to this contest, including but not limited to any administrative matters to facilitate the management and organizing of this contest, as well as delivering prizes to winners. Such prize delivery requires us to process HUAWEI ID information. We may also need to disclose personal data to courier services for delivering physical prizes to winners. Any personal data provided by you in connection with the contest will be retained for no longer than twelve (12) months.

9.5 The information about outstanding entries from Contestants in Hong Kong (China), Macao (China), and Taiwan (China) will be sent to the Chinese mainland for expert review, public review, and sub-regional finals. Such information that will be transferred includes the team name, algorithm models and code, work introduction materials, etc.

9.6 Contestants represent and warrant that the personal data that they provide to Huawei (including name, phone number, email address, and contact address) are true and valid, and acknowledge and understand that such personal data is used by Huawei for the purposes of contacting them and distributing prizes. Huawei will only collect and process personal data for the above-stated purposes. It is a Contestant's responsibility to ensure that their personal data is complete and accurate. After announcing the winners, Huawei will contact the winners to verify their registration details. If prizes cannot be distributed due to incomplete or incorrect personal data, the winners in question shall forfeit their prize.

10. Indemnity

10.1 Contestant agrees to indemnify and to keep indemnified Huawei at all times from and against any and all liabilities, actions, claims, suits, demands, proceedings, losses, damages, costs, fees (including legal fees), and expenses arising or resulting from:

(1) any act, default, or omission of the Contestant;

(2) a breach of any of the T&Cs by the Contestant;

(3) any third party claims arising from the works (including but not limited to claims for breach of intellectual property rights or defamation);

(4) breach of any applicable laws, regulations, or codes of conduct in the country/region from where they are entering the contest; or

(5) their acceptance and use of a prize or reward from this contest.

11. Disqualification

11.1 Contestants may be disqualified from this contest for any of the following reasons:

(1) the Contestant has plagiarized others' works;

(2) third-party code plug-ins used in a Contestant's works are not authorized or they are the subject of a legal dispute;

(3) the work violates any HUAWEI Developers service agreements or AppGallery policies;

(4) the Contestant is in breach of any of the T&Cs;

(5) Huawei suspects the Contestant of impersonation, fraud, cheating, deception, or other unfair playing practices; or

(6) the Contestant is in breach of any applicable laws, regulations, or codes of conduct in the country/region where they are entering the contest.

12. Governing Law and Jurisdiction

12.1 This contest and the T&Cs shall be governed by and interpreted in accordance with the laws of the countries/regions where the court with jurisdiction over your signing entity is located based on the Countries/Regions List below.

Countries/Regions List