[CVPR 2025] Second MetaFood Workshop Challenge

[Bhalaji Nagarajan]

Dear Community,

###### CVPR2025 Workshop Challenge Alert ######

🫠 Between deadlines, rebuttals, and existential crises??? "We got you!!!!"
📢 Our new CVPR25 multi-modal challenge is online !!!
🍽️ Dishcovery: VLM MetaFood Challenge!!!! 🍽️

😋🧫 Can your groundbreaking VLM understand the difference between sushi styles, pasta types, or cooking methods from just image + caption pairs?
🌐 Our Task: Match fine-grained images to food descriptions

Challenge Highlights:
📦 400K food image-caption pairs, a little taste to get you started !!!
🔬 Got a SoTA VLM? Come test it on our challenging test sets !!!
🎯 Challenge for everyone! Easy to use SigLIP baseline is provided !!!
🔍 Real, synthetic, noisy data – just like real life - Will your VLM redefine how people track their diets??? ( 🗣️ We believe so!!! )

🔗 Join the challenge: https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/dishcovery-vlm-mtf-cvpr-2025
🗓️ Deadline: Phase I: 4th of May, 2025 - Phase II: 10th of May, 2025
👉 Workshop website: https://sites.google.com/view/cvpr-metafood-2025

We look forward to your contributions.

Regards,
Second MetaFood Workshop - Organizing Team