Award Winner Announcement
Intel® AI Global Impact Festival 2024
Congratulations to the 2024 Winners
At the Intel® AI Global Impact Festival 2024, live from October 10-25, 2024, 111 AI projects competed at the global level. Intel selected global and country/region/territory winners as well as announced AI for Accessibility awards for AI Changemakers category.
Check out the winners for Intel® AI Global Impact Festival 2024
Global Award Winners with AI Projects
Each Global Award Winner receives $5,000 in prizes, an Intel-powered laptop, and mentorship opportunities.
Chong Yao Ong, Zi Xuan Mok – Malaysia
AI Storage Sentinel
The project is an AI-powered cabinet that tracks the movement of items in and out, providing real-time updates and reminders about item locations. This system uses cameras and machine learning algorithms to detect and record item locations, ensuring users always know where their belongings are. This solution aims to reduce the stress and confusion associated with misplaced items for people, especially those with dementia, who often forget where they have stored items, leading to frustration.
Tomasz Kozłowski, Wojciech Czubak, Zofia Remi – Poland
CMA (Comprehensive Medical Assist)
CMA is an AI-based solution powered by Intel software and hardware designed to provide a long-term answer to the global challenge of doctors being overworked and not working in optimal conditions. It helps doctors diagnose and manage patients, and it is also possible to use it as a valuable training tool for new doctors, helping them develop their decision-making and diagnostic capabilities. By integrating CMA into healthcare systems, the aim is to improve health outcomes on a global scale.
Crystal Yang – United States of America
AUDEMY
Audemy is a collection of audio-based games for blind students, powered by two natural language processing (NLP) models: Text-to-Speech and Speech Recognition. Intel’s OpenVINO™ toolkit improves performance and cultural inclusion by over two times. Currently, no other educational online resources for blind students exist. The game and website format make the games the most accessible and free to use for all. Audemy has been used in seven schools for the blind and by over 1,000 students. The aim is to bring educational experience to schools for the blind in all 50 states and expand international impact through different languages.
Country/Region Winners with AI Projects
Country/Region Winners receives prizes worth $1,000 and an Intel certificate.
Albania: Ted Qamo, Geri Beqiri, Arba Amataj - eID - Electronic Attendance and Identification
Argentina: Felipe Feiman, Juan Baltanas, Neyen Spinelli - Fish Eggs Classification
Brazil: Giovana Rocha Souza, Ana Laura Vicentine Ribeiro, Thifany Garcia Da Conceição - JUMPAI - Interactive Game For Children With Reduaced Mobility
Costa Rica: Fabiola Murillo Viquez - AI Against Screwworm
India: Arjun Manocha, Swasti Sharma, Arham Jain - Sporty Coach
Mexico: Teodoro Alexander Lopez Hernandez, Alejandro Bastida Bastida, Jorge Alberto Rodriguez Hernandez - AI with OpenVINO for Real-time Detection of Heart Disease.
Moldova: Oleg Rata, Anastasia Batrincea - Assessment of Road Condition Using Artificial Intelligence
People’s Republic of China: Zhekai Shen, Shiyu Chu - Masquerade - A Multi-agent Based Multi-format AI Information Verification System
Singapore: Chin Gee Nathan Chong, Kaeden Yong Jie Tan, Jun Wei Chong - BioBloom
South Africa: Blessings Shongwe, Tshegofatso Motshepe, Ellen Shabe - Youth Employment
South Korea: Lee Yohan, Jin Junheng, Cho Seungbin - Autonomous Driving for Flooding Problems
Spain: Iker Rojas Rodriguez, Ruben Valerio Lora, Juan Steven Tinoco Jimenez - Safe Cam
Thailand: Lenny Thomas, Chanidapha Phairintharapha, Chotwattana Thongsa-Ard - EASI: AI for Early Alzheimer’s Screening Using Infrared OC Analysis
United Kingdom: Paarth Aggarwal - NavigateNinja: Personalized and Improved Learning for Individuals with Autism Disabilities
Country/Region/Territory Recognition for AI Projects
Each student receives $500 in prizes and an Intel certificate.
- Germany: Aaryan Vashisht, Finja Schley, Florian Grabert - AI for the Heart
Japan: Matsumoto Daishin - Akiles - AI software for improving life
Taiwan: Anthony - An-Chih Yeh, Xin-Han Tsai, Yu-Hsiang Wu - CareerBoost AI: Learn and Get Hired?
UAE: Charles David Pelagio, Raiza Laurice Santos, Izianne Tish Berjamin - AI-Partnered Sweatband: For People who are at risk of Stroke.
Global Award Winners with AI Projects
Each Global Award Winner receives $5,000 in prizes, an Intel-powered laptop, and mentorship opportunities.
Nikita Moglan, Daniela Malancea – Moldova
Empowering Healthcare Equity: AI-driven Diagnostics for Underserved Communities
This platform empowers users—whether patients in remote villages or healthcare providers—with instant disease diagnosis and actionable insights at their fingertips. Beyond algorithms, the mission is to instil hope and restore health by democratizing access to accurate medical diagnostics. In regions where access to specialized medical care is scarce, the project can be a transformative force. Leveraging the powerful YOLOv8 architecture trained on a comprehensive dataset of 20,000 images depicting lung diseases, eye fundus abnormalities, and thyroid conditions, an intuitive Streamlit application and website has been created.
Jiarui Zhang, Qiming Zhang, Yuqing He – People's Republic of China
OpenEdu4All Personalized Course Teaching Intelligent Support Platform
The platform is based on locally deployed large language models, combined with innovative technologies such as the sliding window strategy’s enhanced retrieval, to provide teachers and students with highly personalized and interactive teaching and learning support for all ages, helping achieve educational equity and promoting educational progress.
Seth Olav Yong, Balasubramanian Manish, Lim Le Shi – Singapore
AgriGate AI - Technology-enabled Rejuvenation of Soil
An AI-powered soil rejuvenation impact project leverages advanced Intel technology to address urban soil compaction and land settling. By integrating soil sensors, Intel AIxBoard, and environmental units, it creates a real-time digital twin of soil health, monitored and managed through a Large Language Model (LLM). This project enhances urban agriculture, reduces flood risks, and stabilizes infrastructure. It is designed for scalability, adaptable to various urban and agricultural settings across Singapore and beyond.
Country/Region Winners with AI Projects
Country/Region Winners receives prizes worth $1,000 and an Intel certificate.
Argentina: Ezequiel Verdera - Artificial Intelligence Recommended Speed - AIRS
Brazil: João Arthur Almeida Gomes, Matheus Felipe Gomes Da Silva, Davi Torres Araújo - OSIRIS - Characterization Of Non-Convential Food Plants Through Deep Learning Approaches
Costa Rica: Karen Barquero, Margarita Bazán Escobar, Christian Brown - SmartEnvironment: Creando ciudades sostenibles con IoT e IA
Ghana: Bright Alour, Benjamin Etornam Abotsi - Cogni AI - Healthcare Record Digitization
Indonesia: Rico Fitra Pratama, Aretha Putri, Estetika Nusantara Yutardo - Intel OpenVino Advanced AI X-ray Interpeter
Japan: Shuji Iriya - English Vocabulary Learning Tool for Japanese Children
Mexico: Luis Antonio Aguilar-Pérez, Fermín Ramírez-Crescencio, Abigail Valtierra-Aguilar - AI algorithm implementation for the identification of contaminants in greywater
Poland: Daniel Pilch - Flood Prediction and Perception for Autonomous Robots Finding Missing People
South Africa: Onkgopotse Seipei Phetlhe, Lemogang Kau, Koketso Kevin Selaolwe - Smart Home
South Korea: Dahee Sung, Daehee Eom, Kihoon Jang - CognitiveCare: Early Dementia Detection
United States of America: Sumesh Surendran - LeukoLense_LuL: Diagnosing Blood Cancer in Kids
Vietnam: Huu Hoang Dinh, Duc Quan Tran, Dinh Hai Pham - Aero ResQ
Country/Region/Territory Recognition for AI Projects
Each student receives $500 in prizes and an Intel certificate.
Albania: Ted Hodaj, Pandush Bitallari, Klest Lazaj - SignGuide
Germany: Timo Streeß - Inno Fire - Autonomous firefighting robot
Taiwan: Jing-Yuan Chen, Kun-Cyuan Tseng, Yan-Rong Lee - Smart Gym - Exercise Posture Evaluation System
Thailand: Tanapat Charunworaphan, Wattanapong Uttayota, Noppawit Tharakittikirati - EGA Drone
AI for Accessibility Award Winners
Each Global Award Winner receives $1,500 in prizes, an Intel certificate, and mentorship opportunities.
Tanisha Kaur, Yatharth Wazir, Yashkumar Dubey – India
Ishaara
Ishaara is developed as an AI-powered platform for translating text, speech, and Indian sign language (ISL) across English and 12 Indian regional languages. This initiative aims to enhance inclusion, improve accessibility, and preserve ISL as a cultural heritage, fostering two-way communication. Through ISL-to-text translation using a custom long short-term memory (LSTM) model trained on 722 video gestures, employing machine translation and natural language processing (NLP) for text and speech conversion, Ishaara breaks down communication barriers, offering essential resources for learning ISL and improving the quality of life for the deaf and mute community in India.
Iris Yan Ning – Malaysia
Pediatric Allergy Life Saver (PALS)
PALS is developed to assist parents and caretakers in managing children's allergies safely. It includes an AI-powered symmetric semantic search of allergy symptoms using natural language processing (NLP) assisting users in handling allergy reactions, an AI allergen detector for food products with Google Vision AI scanning food labels to identify allergens using Optical Character Recognition, a classroom feature for childcare centres with Generative AI managing allergy information of large groups of children with AI-driven safe meal plan generator, and a digital allergy information card assisting caretakers to know what foods to avoid and the emergency action plans.
Arda Gökalp Batmaz, Ağa Saltıkalp, Efe Arda Ulun – Turkey
AI-based Customizable Dyslexia Education Application “DysTherapy"
An application that provides personalized and special education to individuals with learning disabilities and dyslexia by using the capabilities of AI making education accessible and inclusive. Designed with special education experts, the mobile application produces and offers customised content using natural language processing (NLP), computer vision, generative AI, and classification methodologies. It interacts with children with dyslexia, produces live-time content with AI according to their answers and deficiencies, checks the content with AI, and presents it to the child if it is suitable for them. In this way, children can become literate, understand, and can be reintegrated into the education system.
Congratulations and Thank You
Once again, congratulations to all the award winners and ambassadors for Intel® AI Global Impact Festival 2024.