Announcements 📣
- 📰 2026-06-23: The second data batch (LapChole-FOCUS VQA) has now been released. It contains 170 laparoscopic cholecystectomy videos and is available on Hugging Face! 👉 Hugging Face
- 📰 2026-05-28: The kick-off webinar was a success! If you missed it - don't worry! The recording is now available here 👉 Watch here
- 📰 2026-05-15: Sign up for our forum to receive important updates on the ORena SAVE FOCUS Challenge and discuss with other participants 👉 Sign up here
- 📰 2026-05-15: Register for the kick-off webinar, which will be held on 2026-05-28. During the webinar, the challenge timeline and data will be discussed, and any initial questions will be answered (registration closed)
Timeline 📅
- ✅ 2026-03-13: ORena SAVE FOCUS Challenge accepted at MICCAI
- ✅ 2026-05-15: Registration opens, release of training data first batch
- ✅ 2026-05-28: Kick-off webinar including challenge overview and Q&A session
- ✅ 2026-06-23: Release of remaining training data second batch
- ⌛ Soon: Release of submission example
- ⌛ 2026-07-15: Launch of pre-evaluation phase with public leaderboard
- ⌛ 2026-08-15: Final submissions open for teams that beat the baselines during pre-evaluation
- ⌛ 2026-09-01: Registration and pre-evaluation close
- ⌛ 2026-09-08: Final submission deadline, including Docker container and method description
- ⌛ 2026-10-01: Results announced at MICCAI 🏆