Checklist Cyprus AI Camp 2026 IOAI Selection Camp · Task 9
Cuties Segmentation
Produce binary segmentation masks of cats and dogs using only a given pre-trained CLIP model and 20 labelled validation images.
The task
In a 2049 story, the rogue AI 'LAIda' wants to save only cats and dogs. Contestants must segment the animal in each image (a binary mask).
Only the pre-trained CLIP model openai/clip-vit-base-patch16 may be used; prompts are free, training on the 20 validation images is allowed, and a list of 37 breeds present in the data is given.
Abridged by SOTA from the official materials. The official statement has the exact rules, and it wins wherever this summary differs.
At a glance
- You get
- 20 validation images with binary masks; 1,000 test images; the CLIP model.
- You submit
submission.csvwith the test segmentation maps (format in the baseline notebook).- Scoring
- Mean IoU of binary masks (the baseline notebook states this is how the Kaggle score is computed).
- Rules
- Pre-trained models and additional data are not allowed unless the task says otherwise.
- No outside help; LLM chats, ChatGPT, Copilot and similar tools are prohibited (except Colab inline autocompletion).
- Only the Kaggle website and Google Colab may be used (no local IDEs); online library documentation is allowed.
- One Kaggle account per participant; leaderboard name '[City] Name Surname'.
- No pre-trained models except the given CLIP.
- No external datasets.
- Format
- Cyprus AI Camp 2026 (IOAI 2026 selection, in person, 31 Jan–8 Feb 2026): Segmentation, released 7 Feb 2026, 09:00–12:00 EET, on Kaggle (two tasks per 3-hour session).