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OpenCV AI Competition 2026
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2025
Perception Challenge for Bin-Picking
An industrial robotics challenge for estimating object poses and picking parts with a real robot.
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2022
OpenCV AI Scavenger Hunt
An AI-powered hunt using OpenVINO models and clues to uncover prompts behind generated images.
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2022
OpenCV AI Competition 2022
Two tracks for real-world OpenCV applications and depth estimation with OAK-D-Pro.
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2021–2022
OpenCV Spatial AI Contest
Teams combined OAK-D-LITE and LEGO to model AI-powered manufacturing solutions.
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2021
OpenCV AI Competition 2021
A global spatial AI competition with OAK-D, regional awards and a worldwide final.
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2020
OpenCV Spatial AI Competition
Real-world spatial AI applications built with OAK-D and OpenVINO.
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Pengyuan Li of IBM Research returns to OpenCV Live, following his August 2025 appearance where he introduced Granite Vision, IBM’s lightweight open vision-language model built for enterprise document understanding. This
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