Amazon Web Services (AWS) Hackathon Online 2020, specifically supported by the SegmentFault, has been successfully completed.

From July 27th, AWS Hackathon Online 2020 was officially launched. Coding enthusiasts from major enterprises and universities around the world participated in this Hackathon. They have submitted many excellent works in combination with Amazon SageMaker model and AWS SDK, centering on five competition topics: intelligent search for lost pets, remote intelligent diagnosis and treatment for the elderly, prediction of environmental pollution, automatic monitoring of health and hygiene safety in restaurants and back kitchens, intelligent tracking and safety guarantee for mountain climbers.

After layers of screening, outstanding 22 groups of players, after nearly two months of competition, finally in September 20 in the final.

Eight AWS expert judges comprehensively considered the contestants’ works from six dimensions of completion, creativity, practicality, user experience, business prospect and technical difficulty, and finally selected three winners.

With 22 teams competing fiercely, who won the championship?

In combination with Amazon SageMaker, the teams trained and deployed their own machine learning models, invoking online models locally through AWS SDK to bring unique advantages to their works.

Among the 22 groups of contestants, 10 groups chose the intelligent search for lost pets, 5 groups chose the remote intelligent diagnosis and treatment of the elderly, 4 groups chose the prediction of environmental pollution, and 2 groups chose the automatic monitoring of health and hygiene safety of restaurants and backkitchens. One group chose the intelligent tracking and safety guarantee for mountain climbers.

After each group of contestants presented their works, the expert judges asked questions about the technical principles, originality and commercial value of the works. After professional analysis and discussion, the judges finally selected three winning teams.

First Place [SW] team: Their “Smart Search for Lost Pets” won the championship, and received a $5000 deduction voucher for CLOUD services from AWS and an AWS DeepRacer self-driving electric vehicle.

Second place [Excelsior] team: Their “Smart Elderly care” work won the second place and won a 3000 yuan DEDUCTION voucher for AWS cloud service and a camera that supports deep learning, AWS DeepLens.

Team: The team’s work “Dog Never Leaves” won 3,000 YUAN OF AWS cloud service deduction voucher and raspberry PI development kit.

In addition, all teams that submitted their work to the competition received AWS Limited edition custom T-shirts.

Expert comments, for the athletes to put forward the project landing suggestions

After the competition, Mr. Wang Yubo, the judge representative of AWS Senior Developer Advocate, summed up the contestants’ performance from the following four aspects:

I. The five questions designed by AWS all focus on how AI works in different scenarios. In the future, it is suggested that contestants should view each question from a more macroscopic dimension.

Second, a Hackathon is not only a competition, but also lays a foundation for better AI project landing and provides practical experience for contestants. The higher the completion of the project, the better the display of the work.

Three landing project, now we see a lot of AI and cloud drive is inseparable, AWS cloud computing vendors such as launch products in the cloud is for the convenience of developers to build product developed machines in the cloud model, hope everyone in the concrete practice to understand the characteristics of the AWS products, better application future in AI project fall to the ground.

4. AWS Hackathon Online 2020 does not specify which data sets players must use in the competition. We hope that you can pay more attention to the characteristics of data sets and draw inferences from one example to make better performance in AI projects.

Mr. Fei Lianghong, an expert judge from AWS, also commented on the performance of each group of contestants in this competition. He believed that their interest and ability in machine learning and artificial intelligence were well reflected in this competition. Fei also commented one by one on the winners of the first three groups, as follows:

The winning work “Dog Buzhu”, which won the third place, better reflects its own work with the unique name of the work. In the explanation of the whole project, the front-end, back-end and algorithm parts are implemented very completely.

Fei was deeply impressed by the work “Intelligent Geriatric medicine”, which won the second place. He believed that the team’s use of medical images could help achieve better results in the medical and health work of the elderly. He said frankly, “I hope there will be more and more such works to make our life better and better.”

For the work “Intelligent Search for Lost Pets” that won the first prize, Fei gave high evaluation. He said that this project completely covered front-end, back-end and AWS service invocation, and its code integrity and usability were very high. It could be applied to reality after simple optimization. Fei added, “Amazon SageMaker helped the teams build perfect models in a short period of time, which is an important reason why the first place team won the competition.”

In the end, Fei said, “In addition to the three winning works, we are deeply impressed by the works of many other teams. I hope that in the future, people can inject more and better ideas into their own projects, and I hope that AI can make our lives better.”

Deduce science and technology for good with strength

With the rapid development of the Internet of Things, cloud computing, big data and other technologies, ARTIFICIAL intelligence is no longer just a concept, and there are more and more landing projects. Taking AWS Hackathon Online 2020 as an example, scenarios involving all aspects of social life, such as telemedicine for the elderly, intelligent tracking of outdoor sports, intelligent search for lost pets, environmental pollution monitoring and food safety monitoring, have become important battlefield for AI landing.

The original intention of AWS to hold this competition is “technology for good”. It is hoped that more and more technology developers will participate in this kind of competition in the future, and jointly contribute to creating a better social environment and a more sound social system.

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