Introduction

The Automated Optical Inspection, or AOI, is a fast and accurate optical inspection system based on machine vision technology. The advanced inspection method has multiple advantages over traditional inspections executed manually.

AOI technique can be applied to business in multiple areas such as R&D in high tech, manufacturing, defense, healthcare, environmental protection, and electric utility with great potential to increase productivity with reduced costs and time.

ITRI has dedicated in the R&D of flexible displays for decades and aims to improve accuracy of AOI systems to elevate product quality.

We would like to invite data scientists from all different fields to join this competition. With the provided AOI image data to build a model to identify the correct defect type and strengthen the effectiveness of AOI inspection through data science.

Reference

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automated_optical_inspection

Competition

This topic is mainly for testing your ability of applying NVIDIA Jetson Nano, an embedded platform. Apart from accuracy of the model, time of loading model as well as time of model inference, will also be taken into consideration. 

You may need to upload the trained model to Aldea. The platform will load the model to Jetson Nano, where the model inference will be done, and the score will be calculated.

Instructions:

1. Register the contest on Aldea.
2. Download training set and train your model
3. Package your model in a zip file. Upload it to Aldea for model inference and scoring.

The maximum memory usage of the program on the platform is 3GB, and the maximum execution time is 20 minutes. If any limit is exceeded, it will be considered as a failure.

Aside from being familiar with AI algorithms, the ability to optimize models for edge services is equally important in the flourishing future of Edge AI. Come accept the challenge now!

For a more detailed description, please refer to the description file in the downloaded file. Discussions and questions on the forum of this topic are welcomed as well.

description file

You may rest assured that all the programs as well as models, will not be used for any purpose other than the evaluation of this contest.

Prize

The following awards will be given to the top three participants whose score on the Private Leaderboard is at least 65 higher than the baseline.

First place: NTD 15,000 (Tax included) + TWCC services equivalent to a maximum of NTD 50,000 based on TWCC pricing

Second place: NTD 10,000 (Tax included) + TWCC services equivalent to a maximum of NTD 30,000 based on TWCC pricing

Third place: NTD 5,000 (Tax included) + TWCC services equivalent to a maximum of NTD 20,000 based on TWCC pricing

Honorable mention (multiple winners): TWCC services equivalent to a maximum of NTD 20,000 based on TWCC pricing

No awards will be given to the participants that are employees (as well as interns and part-time workers) of ITRI. If the award has been given, the prize will be revoked, and the participants will need to return the prize money as well as certificate. 

Award Provisions and Eligibility

• Please note that only the top three participants on the Private Leaderboard who submitted the written report before the deadline are eligible for the award.
• Participants will not be eligible for the award if no report is submitted before the deadline. (The report will not be disclosed or published)
• TWCC services can only be awarded to the awardees that hold the nationality of ROC.
• TWCC services in the award will be valid for six months.
• TWCC Terms of Service（https://iservice.nchc.org.tw/nchc_service/template/member_contract_3_en.html）