# Launching 2024 Ego4D Challenge & Dataset Update

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**Created:** [March 19, 2024, 4:10pm UTC](https://discuss.ego4d-data.org/t/launching-2024-ego4d-challenge-dataset-update/540 "2024-03-19T16:10:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![awestbury](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ba8739/32.png) [@awestbury](https://discuss.ego4d-data.org/u/awestbury)\
**Post date:** [March 19, 2024, 4:10pm UTC](https://discuss.ego4d-data.org/t/launching-2024-ego4d-challenge-dataset-update/540/1 "2024-03-19T16:10:51Z")

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Dear friends of Ego4D,

We are thrilled to announce [the launch of the 2024 Ego4D Challenge](https://ego4d-data.org/docs/challenge/). This competition calls on the research community to advance the state of the art on 16 Ego4D tasks, focused on Episodic Memory, Hand and Object Interactions, Forecasting, Audio-Visual Diarization, and Social Understanding. Two new challenges are joining the effort this year – [Ego4D Goalsteps](https://eval.ai/web/challenges/challenge-page/2188/overview) and EgoSchema!

Our challenge builds on the [v2.1 update to the Ego4D dataset](https://ego4d-data.org/docs/updates/). Ego4D v2.1 includes Ego4D GoalSteps (a dataset identifying the temporal action segment corresponding to a natural language description of the step). This updates builds on the addition of the 2x annotations for Forecasting, Hands & Objects (243 hrs vs 120 hrs) and Natural Language Queries (27k vs 17.3k queries) provided last year. [Please read more about our v2.1 release here](https://discuss.ego4d-data.org/t/ego4d-v2-0-release-updates/197).

Prize funding for our challenges this year is offered in the amounts of $1,500 (1st), $1,000 (2nd), and $500 (3rd) for each of our 16 challenge tracks. Top performing teams will also be invited to participate in [our accepted CVPR workshop on June 17th](https://egovis.github.io/cvpr24/).

We thank our partners at [EvalAI](https://eval.ai/) for helping to host our challenge. Please reach out with any question on the [Ego4D Forum](https://discuss.ego4d-data.org/) and we encourage you all to join the effort and advance understanding of first-person visual experiences.

The challenge launched on March 15th and the leaderboard is closing on May 30, 2024. Please ask any questions below.

Best regards,

Ego4D

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**Author:** ![miguelmartin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f19dbf/32.png) [@miguelmartin](https://discuss.ego4d-data.org/u/miguelmartin)\
**Post date:** [March 19, 2024, 11:39pm UTC](https://discuss.ego4d-data.org/t/launching-2024-ego4d-challenge-dataset-update/540/2 "2024-03-19T23:39:55Z")

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