AI Innovation Challenge Roundup
We just wrapped up our AI Innovation Challenge with NVIDIA and Hackster and are so excited to share the projects! Winners feature an interactive GLaDOS Robot, a Gen AI-enhanced virtual try-on experience, and more! Thanks to the developers who made their ideas a reality!
We just wrapped up our AI Innovation Challenge with NVIDIA and Hackster and are so excited to share the projects! These projects showcase the power of creative and innovative thinking, and we were blown away by quality of entries we received. Thanks to everyone who participated and congrats to the winners!
Here are the winning projects from each of the 3 categories:
Generative AI Applications
- Interactive Animatronic GLaDOS - Speech-recognition, LLM and text-to-speech and a 6-axis manipulator combine to make a fully-interactive GLaDOS from Portal!
- Escalator people tracker - Detecting and tracking people in large retail spaces to drive live AI Generative graphics. CV solution also applies to build site safety.
- Cooking meals with a local AI assistant on Jetson AXG Orin - Build a multimodal, multi AI agent, fully local, conversational chatbot with multi agent research capabilities via speech queries.
Generative AI Models for the Edge
- EdgeStyle: Fashion Preview at the Edge - AI-powered virtual try-ons with customer images, enhancing retail shopping using NVIDIA Jetson Orin for speed and privacy.
- ClearWaters-Underwater Image Enhancement with Generative A.I - Underwater Image Enhancement with Generative A.I. via denoising diffusion model on Nvidia Jetson AGX Orin
- Realtime Language-Segment-Anything on Jetson Orin - Object Detection and Segment Anything with Text Prompt on Jetson Orin. Optimized for edge deployment and capable of realtime interactions.
AI at the Edge Applications (Open Category)
- An Eye for an Item - No one has time to play hide and seek with lost/misplaced items, so let's get a robot to find them instead!
- Autonomous Intelligent Robotic Shopping Cart (INT-CART) - Introducing a revolutionary shopping cart powered by Jetson Nano, has dual-mode configuration, person-following & autonomous guidance.
- Counting for Inspection and Quality Control with TensorRT - An Nvidia Jetson Nano computer vision project with TensorRT acceleration, to perform counting for manufacturing quality control.
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