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◗ Third Place: Dave Kelbe, Devin White, Andrew Hardin,

Jessica Moehl, and Melanie Phillips from the Oak Ridge
National Laboratory for their paper, "Sensor-Agnostic

Contest Data
The data of the 2016 Data Fusion Contest will remain available. The data are
usable free of charge for scientific purposes, but the contest terms and conditions on the contest website remain applicable. Please read them carefully.

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Photogrammetric Image Registration with Applications
to Population Modeling"
◗ Fourth Place: Zuming Huang, Guangliang Cheng,
Hongzhen Wang, Haichang Li, Limin Shi, and Chun-
hong Pan from the Institute of Automation of the Chi-
nese Academy of Sciences for their paper, "Building
Extraction from Multi-Source Remote Sensing Images
via Deep Deconvolution Neural Networks."
Each team was awarded an IEEE Certificate of Rec-
ognition during the Technical Committees and Chap-
ter Chairs Dinner at IGARSS 2016 (Figure 3). The first
ranking team was also awarded a graphics card NVIDIA
GTX1080. The proposed methodologies and the results
of the first and second ranked teams have been submitted
for peer review to IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied
Earth Observations in Remote Sensing. To enhance the im-
pact of the contest in the community, this paper will be
open access. The open-access fees and the costs for the
winning teams' participations to the Technical Commit-
tees and Chapter Chairs Dinner were supported by the
GRSS. The IGARSS 2016 organizing team kindly offered
the graphics card award.
In addition, the outcome of the competition was integrat-
ed within the technical program of IGARSS 2016. The four
aforementioned best ranking papers were included in the
technical program, published in the IGARSS proceedings,
and presented by their authors in an IGARSS oral invited ses-
sion organized by the IADF TC and dedicated to the contest.

Brazil
2%
Canada
4%

United States
15%
Turkey
4%
Pakistan
2%

Algeria
2%
Saudi Arabia
1%
Malaysia
1%

Norway
1%
Japan
2%
Iran
12%

China
28%

Greece
2%

India
14%

France
4%
Germany
5%

FIGURE 2. The geographic distribution of the teams participating in the 2016 Data Fusion

Contest.
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
The 2016 Data Fusion Contest was or-
ganized in collaboration with Deimos
Imaging and Urthecast. The IADF TC
wishes to express its appreciation to
them for acquiring and providing the
data used in the competition and for
their indispensable contribution to the
organization of the contest and to the
GRSS for continuously supporting the
annual Data Fusion Contest through
funding and resources.
AUTHOR INFORMATION
Devis Tuia (devis.tuia@geo.uzh.ch) is
with the Department of Geography, Uni-
versity of Zurich, Switzerland.
Gabriele Moser (gabriele.moser@
unige.it) is with the University of
Genoa, Department of Electrical,
Electronic, Telecommunications En-
gineering, and Naval Architecture,
Genoa, Italy.
Bertrand Le Saux (bertrand.le_
saux@onera.fr) is with ONERA, The
French Aerospace Lab, Palaiseau,
France.

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