The UAB organises the international "Global Data Compression Competition"
The 3rd edition of the competition accepts submissions until 30 September 2023. The competition is organised by the Group on Interactive Coding of Images (GICI) of the UAB in collaboration with Huawei. It is addressed to students, professionals and amateurs in the field of lossless data compression.
Data compression continues to revolutionise the digital world, shrinking the size of data so that information is more easily available anywhere, anytime, and on any device.
The "Global Data Compression Competition (GDCC)" is a contest to improve the standard of lossless data compression. It includes several main categories open to engineers, researchers and students.
This year’s edition offers a total of 171,000 euros to be received among all prize winners in the different categories and modalities. Developers and owners of new or existing compression software may compete in the main categories, either as individuals or as groups. Anybody may participate in the competition in the student category, but only university and graduate students (including PhD students) are eligible for awards in this category.
The competition is driven by Huawei and this edition is organised for the first time by the UAB’s Group on Interactive Coding of Images (GICI), Department of Information and Communications Enginnering. In addition, 5 experts in this field are involved in assessing the proposals and decisions for the winning projects.
Submissions are accepted until 30 September 2023.