[#ImagineCup] 2017 World Finalists Project tech visit

Today I had some little time in middle of vacation to check all 54 #ImagineCup finalist projects ideas and their technology stack to see a trend. It took me 3-4 hours to go through all of them but at the end I felt like someone valued 50+ startup ideas to present score for each of them. I personally evaluated each with some score to compare tomorrows decision to validate my score. As expected, glad to see majority of them are using ML, AI, Cognitive Services and Deep Learning for recognizing or predicting the outcome based on some real time data or past data. Very inspiring and interesting to see current generation students idea of using AI for predicting diseases to live stock pregnancy identification, and also hoax news finder tool. Glad to see variety of use cases were attempted with AI and ML tech things to solve.

I have added “Technology stack” & “Domain” column on top of the final list for easy reference. Hope it will give an idea for some one who is planning for next similar event Smile .

S.No	Title	Purpose	Country	Technology stack	Domain area
1	Nash	reduce the response times in natural disasters.	Argentina	ML, AI, Drones, DL	Disaster recovery
2	SourceLink	reconnects individuals with the producers of their food	Australia	augmented reality app, Hololens, Image recognition	FMCG
3	Team Parasitica	analyzes a patient's sputum, blood and stool samples for screening of TB and other diseases	Bangladesh	AI, medical diagnosis app	Medical diagnosis
4	Scrawlless	Web-portal Scrawlless is a platform, which helps kids with cerebral palsy, problems of fine motor skills to do fully do their school tasks.	Belarus	Web portal, special keyboard to overcome the challenge	Disability
5	Knowlead	social network learning platform, p2p learning	Bosnia	.Net Core 2.0 for backend and Angular 4 for frontend	Education
6	UpFish	monitors and improvise fish production	Brazil	IoT	Fish farming
7	Bubu Digital	microcontroller and sensors in baby pacifier records oral measurement of body temperature, sending this data to mobile devices through a wireless connection	Brazil	IoT, Mobile app	Medical record management
8	NeuroGate	analyzes gait patterns and diagnose various neurodegenerative diseases	Canada	Microsoft's Kinect, ML and Deep Learning	Medical diagnosis
9	Karate Manatees	online multiplayer team based sports game	Canada	portal	Gaming
10	Surgical Assistant	it provides a medical image processing platform and VR applications to view 3D models	China	Azure ML, Hololens,	Medical diagnosis
11	X.GLU	hardware and software instruments to allow diabetic patients to cope with the disease better	Czech Republic	Azure, credit card size hardware, NFc, Bluetooth	Medical diagnosis
12	OverSkill	targets seven core abilities and is designed to train the mind and the body simultaneously through the use of mixed reality	France	Mixed Reality	Self improvement
13	SmartCase	suitcase tracking, alerting	Germany	NA	Material tracking(logistics)

1	koicode	helps people to learn programming in an intuitive wa	Germany	Web portal	Education
2	OsteoMentor	holistic solution for people suffering from osteoporosis (also known as silent disease)	Greece	NA	Personal Hygiene
3	Sense+	cognitive application that enables the visually impaired to see, explore, notice and search with their ears	Hong Kong	Microsoft Cognitive Services APIs and Microsoft Azure	Disability
4	GlovEye	gloves for smart devices which let blind and partially sighted people perceive printed text as Braille	Hungary	Microsoft AI	Disability
5	3alchemists	provide quality health care to Alzheimer's patients	India	IOT, DL, Raspberry PI, ML	Medical diagnosis
6	PocketConfident AI	first virtual coach powered by Artificial Intelligence	India	Mobile app	Self improvement
7	Negative Time	“Content Holmes” an AI app that comes complete with a profanity filter, URL blocker, depression detection, productivity sessions and your own personal detective Content Holmes.	India	AI, app	Online safety for kids
8	CIMOL	web based app "Hoax Analyzer" aims to combat the proliferation of “fake news”	Indonesia	ML, Cognitive Services, DL, web based	Media
9	NeuroVoice	converts an input voice into another person's voice- voice to voice conversion	Japan	Deep learning	Speech

1	TITAMAS	a smart white cane device for visually impaired	Japan	image recognition	disability
2	DocStroke	provide the cheap technique to determine the risks of stroke using ocular image processing and machine learning	Jordon	ocular image processing and machine learning	Medical diagnosis
3	En#l-Guard	windows application designed to prevent and alleviate Computer Vision Syndrome(CVS	Korea	ML, Windows app	Self improvement
4	Bl!nk	Feedback for speech or presentation	Lebonon	NA	Self improvement
5	Eranoi	Realtime water quality recording	Mexico	IOT	Water
6	e-park	Parking space monitoring	Morocco	Mobile app and web	Transportation
7	Echo Innovators	monitors live stock through a neck band	Nepal	Azure ML, AI, cloud and IOT	Live stock
8	GroupCram	aims to address these problems by giving students a platform to collaborate exam answers for everyone’s benefit.	New Zealand	NA	Education
9	Beta Team	‘Bee’ is an app that is connected with Beacons technology for retail shops	Oman	Beacon technology	Retail
10	Opticode	lets these people with eye disorders ‘see’ their surroundings through the power of words.	Philippines	Computer Vision API will be used to analyze the information of an object and parse texts from reading materials through OCR technology; Emotion API will be used to detect people’s facial expressions; Face API will be used to recognize human faces and predict their age and gender; Bing Search and Translator will be used to translate text from one language to another and convert it to speech.	Disability
11	Idea hunters	advanced biomedical textronix suites for infants.	Poland	• smart clothing – a textile integrated sensors • mobile app – responsible for sensor data acquisition, aggregation and child health state recognition • Cloud-based analytical services and web-portal – delivering advanced disabilities and disease recognition mechanisms and a users’ medical knowledgebase	Medical diagnosis
12	TaleShip	ability to get together in a room and write a story in realtime,	Puerto Rico	Azure (hosting and advanced AI APIs), Django, Django Channels for realtime communication, ReactJS for the game client, Redis, PostgreSQL	Colloborative content writing
13	WaCoMo	nteractive visualisation of the water consumption happening at different outlets in a property	Qatar	NA	Environment - water

1	deTpression	detect the depression, but also monitor it. It allows the doctor to monitor how the disease evolves	Romania	a small box that encompasses raspberry pi, an external battery, camera and microphone, records the data in a database and passed through a neural network to get the results. The results will be displayed in an eye-catching web interface using a lot of visual representations to have a better understanding of the result. The final predictive analysis is implemented using Microsoft Azure Machine Learning service. Technologies used: Cognitive Services API’s are used as follows: Speaker API - to identify if the current speaker is known and proceed accordingly Emotion API - to detect emotion on the recognized face Face API - to identify the faces in the current frame Text Analytics API - to detect the level of sadness in the transcripts of the subject's voic	Medical diagnosis
2	Boremeter	determine which parts of the lecture were boring from the video-stream of the audience. It uses it’s own neural network to detect whether a person is listening or not, and can handle videos with quite large number of faces	Russia	computer vision algorithms and neural networks	People
3	UTV	beautiful and interactive Google for articles	Russia	NA	Content
4	Evermind	system of driving under the influence prevention	Russia	Microsoft Azure platform virtual machines and Microsoft Face API service
5	Heart Sound	data will go through a series of signal processing and machine learning so that it would lessen the workload of the doctors to go through all the data to check for abnormality	singapore	ML	Medical diagnosis
6	TeamTitans	aims at the kids around the world, who are Asthma Patients and it gives a perfect motivation for the kids to carry out proper breathing practices and keep on using the inhalers accordingly.	Sri Lanka	Mobile game	Medical, game
7	Med x Up	It is a real time kidney monitoring system	Taiwan	NA	Medical diagnosis
8	Welse	digital wellness platform with a point-of-care testing device	Thailand	NA	Medical diagnosis
9	Green Jam	aims to turn recycling into a habit rather than a mandated task for citizens of the future	UAE	Machine Learning techniques to identify the item, and then sorts it by the use of basic mechanical motors	Environment
10	SEAT	aims to improve the learning and teaching experience in programming course	UK	online dashboard and a Visual Studio Code extension	Education
11	Donaco	wants to use recommendation systems to bring contextualised donations	UK	Online recommendation	Charity
12	KSF.LLC	ROOT users can enjoy virtual and real farming experience, educational simulation and professional assistance to grow their own crops through its gamified interface	UK	IOT	Farming
13	Pocket Sized Hands	Virtual Reality multiplayer stealth shooter, currently being developed for the HTC Vive	UK	Gaming	Gaming

1	Farmalytics	Farmalytics seeks to enable farmers to make data-driven decisions in their daily farming practices	US	Mobile and Web	Farming
2	PulsePal	PulsePal is a SaaS API that makes it really easy for telemedicine companies to incorporate cutting-edge advancements in biotelemetry into their own products. With a 15 second video of a patient's face we can measure their heart rate and heart rate variability within 3.5 BPM	US	ml SaaS API	Medical diagnosis
3	Brazilian Student Association @ Stanford	Whenever a major bill or resolution is voted on in Congress, the users of our mobile application receive a notification which directs them to information about their representative’s specific vote. Users, at the touch of a button, can register their approval or disapproval of that vote	US	App	Politics
4	Orai	help you become a better speake	US	deep-learning technologies	Self improvement
5	Fluency	peer-to-peer language learning web application that connects students from around the world and matches two users who wish to become more fluent in each other's native languages	US	NA	People
6	Oculogx	vision of transforming the logistics and supply chain industry by applying revolutionary new technology traditional problems. Our first product is PickAR, a mixed reality application that runs on the Microsoft HoloLens which optimizes the process of order picking in warehouses	US	VR, HoloLens	Logistics