See the Regional Winners Announcement and the Grand Prize Winners Announcement post (and Webinar!) before reading this one!
Endings are always bittersweet, and this one is no exception. We’ve just one set of winners left to announce in this year’s OpenCV AI Competition, but we saved the best for last: These winners have been selected by you in the global OpenCV community. Voting began just after announcing the regional winners 2 weeks ago.
The popular vote garnered 6766 total votes, across all six regions that were part of this worldwide competition.
Please join me in congratulating these final Winners.
South America + Central America + Caribbeans
Winner: Smart Sierras Solution
- Smart Sierras Solution – 1927
- SHL Robotics – 567
- QuetzalC++ – 562
Eastern Asia + South Eastern Asia
Winner: Rapyuta Robotics
- Rapyuta Robotics – 53
- NaRiPa VisionAIrs – 44
- Train & Track – 31
Central Asia + Southern Asia
Winner: Topspin Trackers
- Topspin Trackers – 773
- Calcutta Devs – 234
- Deepflow Tesseract – 209
Middle East & Africa
Winner: Cerebros
- Cerebros – 1121
- PaLotus – 476
- Africa Business Integration – 29
Europe + Russia + Australasia ( AU/NZ)
Winner: CALETA
- CALETA – 230
- Eyecan Unicorns – 133
- CVAR-U.P.Madrid – 82
- Aachen Armchair Engineers – 28
North America
Winner: Cortic Tigers
- Cortic Tigers – 160
- The BenchBotics – 67
- American STEREOtypes – 40
We’ve updated the official Competition page with special badges for the winners, as well. Congratulations to these winners! Each one is an exemplar of what made this competition so special.
Thank you to everyone who participated by voting, by sharing their favorites, and of course thank you so much to everyone who submitted their proposals and projects. Your amazing work has been an inspiration to us all in very difficult times.
With that, #OAK2021 comes to a close. It has been a pleasure and a privilege to work on this, and I think I can speak for all of us that we’d love to do it again sometime. Stay tuned.
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