This competition is about finding the best methods to localize aircraft based on crowdsourced air traffic control communication data. The data is collected by the OpenSky Network, a large-scale ADS-B sensor network for research and organised by the Swiss Cyber-Defence Campus of armasuisse Science and Technology.
The AI Moonshot Challenge is based on ambition and curiosity, aiming to leverage the unique capabilities of the AI community using satellite data to accelerate innovation in crucial areas for the future of our planet – starting with marine litter pollution.
We believe that now – more than ever – is the time to face global challenges and to develop answers that will benefit us all in the future. The challenges that we are facing right now validate and strengthen even more our commitment to this project and we’re redefining our strategy to take into account the restrictions imposed by the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic.
The safety and health of our collaborators and participants are above everything else. We will keep you informed of any developments.
Expect to hear from the AI Moonshot Team soon.
THE CHALLENGE
The global competition to detect, locate and monitor maritime waste on a planetary scale.
Fifty years after landing on the moon, we’re calling a new challenge — this time back home. Our oceans are drowning in waste.
Marine Litter Pollution is an urgent problem we are far from solving and only starting to understand. More than 8 million tons of plastic end up in the ocean every year and most of it is unaccounted for.
At the same time, massive amounts of satellite data are being generated worldwide providing opportunities to improve health, economy and environment when leveraged with powerful tools such as Artificial Inteligence.
Recognizing food from images is an
extremely useful tool for a variety of use cases. In particular, it
would allow people to track their food intake by simply taking a picture
of what they consume. Food tracking can be of personal interest, and
can often be of medical relevance as well. Medical studies have for some
time been interested in the food intake of study participants, but had
to rely on food frequency questionnaires that are known to be imprecise.
Image-based
food recognition has in the past few years made substantial progress
thanks to advances in deep learning. But food recognition remains a
difficult problem for a variety of reasons.
Problem Statement
The
goal of this challenge is to train models which can look at images of
food items and detect the individual food items present in them. We use a
novel dataset of food images collected through the MyFoodRepo app where
numerous volunteer Swiss users provide images of their daily food
intake in the context of a digital cohort called Food & You. This
growing data set has been annotated – or automatic annotations have been
verified – with respect to segmentation, classification (mapping the
individual food items onto an ontology of Swiss Food items), and weight /
volume estimation.
This is an evolving dataset, where we will release more data as the dataset grows over time.