4. Evaluation campaigns: benchmarking, challenges and competitions

4.1 Benchmarking campaign

The aim of a benchmarking campaign is to carry out a comparative evaluation (parangonnage) of the performance of different AI systems designed to automate a specific task, at a given time and place.

• LNE's past experience in organizing assessment campaigns has led to the identification of best practices for guaranteeing the value of the results obtained. In particular, this means ensuring that the campaign is :

  • scientific: while preserving the demonstration aspect typically associated with evaluation campaigns, these must be based on the scientific criteria of objectivity of evaluation, repeatability of performance measurement and reproducibility of experiments,...