After much work and deliberation reviewing the over 1400 submissions sent in by the global community, we are pleased to announce the Phase 1 Winners of the OpenCV AI Competition 2021. These teams are finalists in the competition and are now listed by Region and Type on the official competition page.
Congratulations to these teams and many thanks to competition sponsors Microsoft Azure and Intel.
Selecting from so many proposals was a difficult task- and the judges worked diligently to ensure every team got a fair shake. Much like our last competition, however, the quality of submissions was so high we decided to select even more winning teams for a total of XXX.
Winning teams should wait for an email from [email protected] with instructions on how to claim their OAK-D units from hardware partner Luxonis, access to a the Discord server, a sharable badge, and a personalized digital certificate.
Each general team will receive 1 OAK-D per team member (or more for multi-sensor projects), with all University teams receiving 10 OAK-Ds for their University lab.
Running this competition has been a great experience. There are a few things we’d do differently, though. To start with, for a global competition such as this, our team of judges were primarily based in India, the USA, and Russia, and were not as geographically or culturally diverse as they should have been. In the future we must and will ensure representation from professionals across more communities and regions. We also underestimated the sheer volume of submissions, and will budget more time for review in future competitions to avoid delays.
Best of luck to all teams building out your solutions in Phase 2. Expect more coverage of the teams and their projects here on the blog, and don’t forget follow hashtag #OAK2021 on social media.
Additionally we’d like to thank the reviewers, who spent a lot of time with everyone’s proposals in order to make the hard choices:
- Aditya Sharma
- Alexander Lyashuk
- Alexander Slavutin
- Alexander Smorkalov
- Alexey Perminov
- Anna Koklyueva
- Anna Petrovicheva
- Brandon Gilles
- Daniil Osokin
- Grigory Serebryakov
- Ilya Kontaev
- Julia Bareeva
- Maxim Zemlyanikin
- Matt Brems
- Pavel Semkin
- Phil Nelson
- Prakash Chandra
- Steven Li
- Tatiana Khanova
- Vadim Levin
- Valeriia Koriukina
- Victor Bebnev
