CCF Big Data & Computing Intelligence Contest – POI Name Generation Challenge

Gaode Map has become a national-level travel and life service platform. Its map contains massive POI (Point of Interest) data such as shops, gas stations, hotels, and tourist attractions, which influence the travel decisions of billions of users. Maintaining and updating this huge POI dataset requires automated extraction of POI names from images, a challenging and valuable research problem.

The 9th CCF Big Data & Computing Intelligence Contest has launched the "POI Name Generation" task in partnership with Gaode Map. The task is closely related to cutting‑edge technologies such as computer vision, natural language processing (NLP) and multimodal fusion, offering high technical and social value.

Academic and industry experts have been invited as judges to ensure the quality of the problem and to provide professional guidance.

Participants can win contest prizes, CCF comprehensive awards, official certificates, and Gaode’s green recruitment channel.

For detailed information and registration, please visit: https://www.datafountain.cn/competitions/522

The contest, organized by the China Computer Federation (CCF) since 2013, focuses on big data and artificial intelligence. The 2021 edition adopts the theme "Data‑Driven Innovation, Competition‑Promoted Intelligence" and welcomes global talent to compete.

1. Task Overview

Given images, signboard detection results, and OCR outputs provided by Gaode, participants must design algorithms to generate a complete POI name for each detected signboard.

POI Name Example

The evaluation checks whether the generated name is correct, fluent, complete, and reflects the naming intention of the target object.

2. Expert Panel

The expert team includes researchers and professors from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Peking University, Gaode Map’s Technical Committee, Alibaba DAMO Academy, and others, who will provide professional guidance.

3. Schedule & Participants

The competition consists of three stages: Preliminary (Sept 17 – Nov 22), Finals (Nov 23 – Dec 5), and Grand Finale Carnival (mid‑December).

Preliminary: Sep 17 – Nov 22

Finals: Nov 23 – Dec 5

Grand Finale Carnival: mid‑December

Open to global teams of any age or nationality, including university students, researchers, and industry professionals. Employees of Alibaba Group and Ant Group may participate for gifts but are not eligible for prize money.

4. Prize Pool

Gaode provides a total prize pool of ¥50,000 plus gifts. Awards include single‑task prizes (first, second, third) and CCF comprehensive awards. All winning teams receive official paper certificates from CCF, and electronic certificates are issued after the preliminary round.

Top‑10 teams in the preliminary round gain access to Gaode’s green recruitment channel.

5. Weekly Leaderboard Incentives

During the competition (Oct 18 – Nov 20, 5 weeks), a weekly leaderboard will be published. The first‑place team each week receives a ¥200 Gaode ride voucher.

Let’s use professional algorithmic skills to improve travel experiences for billions of users!