WeMage Challenge Kickoff

26/9/2014
Tencent Innovation Lecture @ NTU
Lee Foundation Lecture Theatre, WKWSCI
18 Sept 2014
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WeMage Challenge Kick-Off – Dennis Sng, ROSE Lab, NTU
WeChat: Reinventing Messaging – Amy Cao, WeChat International Business Group
Image Technology behind WeChat – Leo Xiao, WeChat Pattern Recognition Centre
Using Speech Technology in WeChat – Ralph Rao, WeChat Pattern Recognition Centre
Interactive Games, Lucky Draw, & Refreshments
Challenge Co-Organisers & Partners
Co-Organisers
Supporting Partners
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Objectives & Scope
• Objectives
– Expose students to the potential of Mobile Visual
Search technology
– Boost Mobile Visual Search APP development in
Singapore
• Scope
– Develop a mobile application that directly calls one or
more of the APIs provided.
– Develop a mobile application that calls a server side
engine, which makes use of one or more of the APIs
provided.
How to Participate?
• Open to all students, alumni, faculty, staff and aspiring
entrepreneurs
– Teams of 2 - 4 competitors (<1 must be a NTU student)
– Team diversity is encouraged
– Team members must reside in Singapore during the competition period
• Develop Mobile Apps
– Any kind of App: eCommerce, Education, Games, Social Media, etc
– Need to make use of Image Recognition API of WeChat Smart Platform
• All Intellectual Property rights will belong to the team
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WeChat Smart Platform
• Provides APIs for
– Image Recognition
– Speech Recognition
• Participating teams are
to develop apps which
call these APIs
–Use of Image Platform
is Mandatory for this
Challenge
–Use of Speech Platform
is Optional
Image Datasets
Images + metadata
#Images
Images Only
#Images
Landmarks: Asia
~100
Book covers
~100
Landmarks: Europe
~75
CD covers
~200
Landmarks: North America
~40
Movie posters
~240
Bags: Handbags, Luggage
~80
Products (general)
~150
Book covers
~200
Datasets: http://wemagechallenge.sg/resources/datasets.html
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Benefits to Participants
• Mentorship & Training
– Technical development support and training by experts from
NTU ROSE Lab and Tencent’s WeChat team
– Business development support and training by experts from
NTU Ventures
– Mentorship and incubation to further develop and
commercialise your application
• Prizes & Grants
– 1st Prize of S$10,000
– In addition, up to S$10,000 grant for each of the Top 3 teams for
further development of prototypes into more commercial ready
apps*
* Terms & Conditions apply
Timeline
Date(s)
25 Sep 2014
Work Item
Registration of Teams & proposed Apps
29 Sep 2014
Idea Generation Workshop by NTUitive
(NTU Recess Week)
30 Sep 2014
Technical Workshop by ROSE & WeChat
(NTU Recess Week) team
9 Oct 2014
9 Jan 2015 (TBC)
16 Jan 2015 (TBC)
Assignment of Mentors to Teams.
Commence development of Apps.
Submission by Teams
Judging and Prize-Giving
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Training Workshops (29-30 Sep 2014)
Venue:
Theatre @
The Nest
Innovation
Centre
Idea Creation Workshop
29 Sept 2014
5:00 – 8:30pm
• Aim: To discuss
– Key ingredient of sustainable and viable business
– Customer discovery and validation methodology by “out of
building” customer interview
– Lean start-up approach for setting up a start-up
• Facilitators
– Lai YY, Senior Asst Director (Enterprise Development), NTUitive
– Kee Thian Seng, Mentor, NTUitive
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Technical Workshops
30 Sept 2014
30 Sept 2014
9:30am – 1:00pm
5:00 – 8:30pm
• Introduction to Image Search (~1 hours)
– By Asst Prof Yuan Junsong, NTU (morning session), or Dr
Sreyasee Das Bhattercharjee, NTU (afternoon session)
• WeChat Image Platform Tutorial (~1.5 hours)
– By Barney Hu, Tencent
– Each Team to bring at least 1 laptop with Android
development environment (eg. Eclipse or Android Studio)
Business Mentors (NTUitive)
• Kelvin Ong
– CEO, FocusTech Ventures
• Kee Thian Seng
– Consultant & Mentor, NTUitive
• Rahul Harkawat
– Angel Investor & Venture Partner, G2V
Accelerator
• Ong Sang Bin
– Angel Investor & Mentor
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Submission, Judging & Prize Giving
• Submission (to be
confirmed)
– Friday, 9 Jan 2015, 2pm
• Teams to Submit:
– Project Presentation
– Video of demo (2
minutes max)
• Judging & Prize Giving (to
be confirmed)
– Friday, 16 Jan 2015 (fullday)
• Evaluation Format
– Presentation & Demo (15
min)
– Judges Q&A (10 min)
– Judges Discussion (5 min)
Judging & Prize Giving (16 Jan 2015)
Venue:
Theatre @
The Nest
Innovation
Centre
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Judging Criteria
Concept
(30%)
 Does the application have a clear target market or audience?
 Does the application address a clear need, problem, or opportunity, and is the
solution clearly explained?
Innovation
(30%)
 Did the team make use of technically innovative approaches to address the
need/ problem?
 Did the team use an appropriate level of technology to address the need/
problem?
Execution
(30%)
 Is the application easy to use?
 Does the application have a professional degree of production in terms of user
interface, visuals, and audio?
 Does the application perform well and respond crisply to input?
 Does the application make effective & appropriate use of the WeChat Smart
Platform API?
Presentation  Does the team’s presentation clearly describe their application concept &
& Demo (10%) innovations?
 Did the demo show the team’s ability to execute the project?
Thank You
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