VNPT's young engineering team won first prize at AI City Challenge 2024

AI City Challenge 2024 is the world's leading competition in computer vision technology. A young team of engineers from VNPT won the most complex category, which is detecting objects from fisheye cameras.

VNPT won first prize in the category of Object Detection from Fisheye Camera

According to experts, in this year's competition, in addition to familiar topics such as tracking objects on multiple cameras, analyzing and describing traffic situations, or detecting the behavior of motorcyclists not wearing helmets, AI City Challenge 2024 has announced a new category with a very high level of complexity. That is object detection from fish-eye cameras (Road Object Detection in Fish-Eye Cameras). This problem requires processing image data from ultra-wide-angle traffic camera lenses, including 180-degree and 360-degree panoramic views. The teams face the challenge of identifying objects such as buses, motorbikes, cars, pedestrians and trucks from warped, distorted images, small objects and data imbalances. Fish-eye cameras are widely used in intelligent transportation systems in many developed countries. This technology helps reduce blind spots and expand the field of view without increasing the number of cameras. Due to its high applicability, out of a total of 726 teams participating in the AI City Challenge 2024, up to 403 teams registered to compete in the object detection challenge from fisheye cameras. For the group of young AI engineers of the Vietnam Posts and Telecommunications Group (VNPT), the new problem at this year's AI City Challenge is an opportunity to gain experience and at the same time affirm the position of "Make in Vietnam" technology on the world artificial intelligence map. The AI model that the engineering group used in the competition is one of the models that the group applied to develop the VNPT SmartVision image recognition platform. In the past, VNPT has developed VNPT SmartVision to meet the needs of image processing operations in the market with 4 main groups of features, including: traffic monitoring, security monitoring, text digitization, face recognition and search. For traffic and security monitoring, this solution has been deployed in many large provinces and cities such as Binh Phuoc, Cao Bang, Ha Giang, Ha Nam, Tay Ninh, Bac Giang and Ninh Binh. In particular, in Tan An city, Long An province, VNPT Smart Vision has been integrated into more than 120 cameras to help authorities manage, promptly detect and handle violations of the law such as not wearing helmets, running red lights, driving in the wrong lane, driving in the wrong direction, stopping and parking illegally, detecting traffic accidents... Accordingly, the number of violations in the area has decreased by 80%, contributing to improving the quality of life for people in the area. It is known that in addition to traffic and security monitoring, VNPT is actively developing and applying image recognition platforms using artificial intelligence in many important areas such as healthcare, education and digital payments. In the medical field, VNPT is also cooperating with the Central Endocrinology Hospital to apply this platform to support doctors in diagnosing and providing appropriate treatment regimens for thyroid cancer. According to the representative of VNPT Group, with the achievements, VNPT not only affirms its position domestically but also contributes to bringing Vietnamese technology to the world.

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