All prizes for this challenge are sponsored by Intuitive Surgical. The following prizes are available to all eligible teams:

Category 1: Surgical tool detection¶

First place: $4000

Second place: $2000

Third place: $1000

Best methodology report: $500

Category 2: Surgical task recognition¶

First place: $3000

Second place: $2000

Third place: $1000

Best methodology report: $500

Please note that as category 1 is a repeat from SurgtoolLoc 2022/23 challenges, only complete team submissions that perform better than the top performing methods from both years (2023 leaderboard, 2022 leaderboard) will be eligible for cash prizes. This is to encourage improvements of algorithms from previous years. We will re-evaluate SurgToolLoc 2022/23 top 3 performing methods on the test set this year - the corresponding performance metrics will become visible to the teams on the challenge day when the results are announced. 

The best methodology report prizes will be awarded based on the organizing team's assessment of:

1. Explanation and details provided for the method within the report (following the format provided in submission instructions)
2. Github repo documentation (the ease in reproducing the algorithm container submitted)

All submissions will be eligible for the best methodology report prize, regardless of how their algorithms performed.

Internal Intuitive teams are not eligible for prizes.