Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Fourth Award
Robust neural networks are crucial for image recognition. However, not all images are equally differentiable. It's easier to differentiate a cat from a tree than from a dog. Most image class…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Second Award
Terrorism is one of the most prevalent problems in today’s world, with over 21,000 people killed each year and many others adversely affected as a result of terrorist activity. Terrorist net…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
This project introduces ComposeGAN as a generative adversarial network that learns and transfers the style elements of tonal music genres. Early attempts at symbolic music style transfer hav…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
The use of machine learning (ML) and image recognition holds tremendous potential in the treatment of cancers like Lymphoma. Histopathologic images derived from biopsies are used to diagnose…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
The cost of forestry increases each year. Although there are currently many deep learning studies addressing the issue of tree species classification in the various forestry tasks, the chall…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Third Award
Collectively, around 4.1 million tons of pesticides are applied to crops annually, but less than 0.1% is absorbed by target plants, with residue transmitted well out of intended areas into d…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Second Award
COVID-19 has infected over 114 million people as of March 1, 2021, pushing the world towards social and economic collapse. With cases rising rapidly and the current gold-standard for diagnos…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
COVID-19 has caused world-wide disturbances and the deep learning community has been finding ways to combat the disease. Applications of neural networks in image processing tasks allow COVID…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Although automated face recognition has extensive real-life applications, in scenarios such as looking for lost or kidnapped children and recognizing ID photos, the pictures of the same pers…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Water contamination is one of the most prevalent problems in the world right now. The World Health Organization estimates that, currently, 2 billion people use a contaminated water source. A…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
The classification of fish through visual inspection can often be a time-consuming and fallible process, and thus, there is a necessity for a fish classification method with greater accuracy…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
More than 1.7 billion gallons of oil have been spilled since 1940. Oil skimmers are used for the cleanup but today’s skimmers require human aid, exposing people to harmful fumes and the risk…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Relevance of the project: Last year I presented a robot that freshens the air at school, but due to an unforeseen situation in the world, it became very important not only to refresh the air…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has infected more than 100 million individuals all over the world and caused more than 2.3 million deaths. There have been increasing efforts on developin…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
First Award
With a wide range of applications in artificial intelligence (AI), human action recognition is one of the most attractive yet challenging research fields. It has the potential to foster natu…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
During early stages of Covid-19, AI couldn’t effectively guide doctors, as tackling large problem domains prone to frequent mutations is challenging. DocAide is a general purpose AI-based me…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Second Award
Nowadays, the balance between speed and accuracy in object detection neural networks is an ongoing issue with a lot of active research. Some architectures are dealing with it specifically bu…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
In this project, classification of music genres with deep neural networks is explored. A Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) was trained to identify 10 different music genres. Using the GTZAN…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Third Award
Over 1.7 million people in the United States alone are currently living with limb loss. Estimates show that 185,000 amputations are performed each year, with that number expected to double i…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Commercial fire suppression systems are expensive to install and when in use cause extended water damage to property. These systems are mandatory in all commercial buildings. Through the use…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Current robotic and vehicular systems for navigation, such as SLAM, rely heavily on sensory input to reconstruct and navigate environments but are unable to detect the structural integrity o…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Wildfires burn over 7 million hectares annually in just the United States alone, with the severity and frequency rising year over year. Although a number of standardized wildfire danger indi…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Sketch artists often produce an unreliable sketch of criminals, causing hundreds of innocent citizens to be imprisoned in the lack of evidence. In this project, I suggest a new approach to f…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
With the rapid development of society and economy, people pay more and more attention to sports. Among them, golf has become more and more popular in China. However, golf swings are highly r…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
In the past decades, robots have become increasingly common in different human activities. From pharaonic tombs to gold mines, a new generation of robots are designed to reach harsh areas th…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
A guaranteed and comprehensive response to medical needs is a key deterministic factor of patient outcome. The current COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated this need due to the number of people…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
First Award
Hematological or blood diseases afflict over 2 billion people globally and disproportionately impact developing regions, where mortality rates reach 50-90%. Current screening methods require…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Cancer is the common name used to categorize a collection of diseases. In the United States, there are an estimated 1.8 million new cancer cases and 600,000 cancer deaths. Though it has been…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
The main users of this home support system are disabled people who can have the subtle movements, like ALS patients. It involves three parts: signal receptor, software and the destination po…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
We successfully built an original, modular, working prototype of a device to fit the gap in the market for protecting against hot car deaths. The Hot Car Life Alarm detects the presence of l…