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In the 48-hour hackathon organised at the AGH University as part of the NATO-Ukraine Defence Innovators Forum, a team of our students received a distinction in the "Judge's Choice – Visual Identification" category.
The team was composed of students from the Faculty of Computer Science, Szymon Banyś, Szymon Budziak, Jakub Karbowski, and Jakub Kosmydel, and a student from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Automatics, Computer Science, and Biomedical Engineering, Bartosz Bartoszewski. Besides the knowledge and skills gained during university studies, our team also owes the solution of the task to the experience from the Student Research Club AGH Drone Enginnering, as three of the students are its members.
The main task of the hackathon consisted in developing automatic visual guidance systems form unmanned aircraft systems. The developed solutions concerned mostly object detection and classification.
The Visual Identification task that got the AGH University team its award was to detect an object and present its global position relative to the drone during the mission, i.e. when the drone is in motion.
"The task was difficult in that the use of an inefficcient computational unit on the drone required us to optimise algorithms and adapting them to system requirements," the students commented. "Implementing and adapting algorithms to an inefficient computer translates into their accuracy."
The team received a prize of USD 5.000.
The success at the hackathon along with the interest in drones and their applications in defence systems has encouraged the students to continue their collaboration and compete together. The are already planning to participate in the European Defense Tech Hackathon at the end of June 2024 in Munich.
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