Computer Vision News - August 2019

Finally, Julia, can you tell us something about Kaggle that we in the community don’t know? What probably is not obvious is that we’re a very small team. When I joined Kaggle, we were not yet acquired by Google and I was probably somewhere around employee number 13. Since we’ve joined Google, we have increased our resources, so we’re now a team of almost 60, but the large part of that investment was of course in engineering resources to improve our Kernels environment, which is our cloud-based notebook. On the competition side, we are a team of only 11 who run and host all of these competitions. It might be surprising for people to hear that we run on such a lean team! “It might be surprising for people to hear that we run on such a lean team!” heavy computational resourcing that may not be available to your average user, I would say exploring what the Google Cloud Platform has to offer can certainly help. Especially since for this competition we’re offering Google Cloud credits for the participants. Potentially that can be a way to give people who otherwise would not have access to resources the ability to work on the problem. Kaggle SIIM-ACR Competition 17