Newcrest Mining announces data automation challenge

METS companies are invited to register now to put forward a data automation solution to help Newcrest Mining correctly identify depth measurements from core sample photographs as part of the newly released ‘Get to the Core II — Revenge of the Depths’ challenge.

The dataset, comprising over 500 core photographs and manually labelled depth measurements, will be provided to registered participants on 5 November when the competition opens. Innovators will have one month (5 November–4 December 2018) to build the most accurate algorithm solution.

Newcrest is looking to establish ongoing partnerships to implement winning solutions, in addition to $20,000 in prize money.

The challenge is to provide a solution that can correctly identify recorded depths within a core photograph. Critically, this solution needs to be able to perform on inconsistent photography where:

• top and bottom tray depths can be recorded and printed along the bottom of an image;
• top and bottom tray depths can be written or printed on boards above the core tray;
• top and bottom tray depths can be written along the top of a core tray;
• top and bottom tray depths can be written along the top and bottom respectively of a core tray;
• internal depths can be written on the core tray, wooden blocks or metal tags located within the tray; and
• internal depths can be written on the core.
   

Participants registered for the competition will have access to a forum where the competition can be discussed in detail and questions will be answered by subject matter experts.

For more information, click here.