Visual Behavior is organizing its first Hackathon in Lyon around computer vision on April 1, 2 and 3, 2022. The HackVision is open to all: engineers, students, project leaders, business people or inventors. Meet at MBway Lyon’s brand new campus LE CUBIIK (1 rue Pierre Bourdeix, 69007 Lyon).

What is a Hackathon?

“A hackathon is a thematic event during which participants from various backgrounds work intensively on common projects. Their goal is to produce an innovative solution or prototype in record time.”

HackVision will address a problem around the deployment of computer vision in fields such as industry, fashion, medicine, and many others. These 36 hours of challenge aim to encourage the emergence of promising solutions but above all to break down preconceived ideas about the field of artificial intelligence and its applications to the real world (the idea is not to create the new Terminator in 2 days but rather the future tools at the service of humans!)

Participants will be accompanied by mentors, professionals who will guide them in their research to be ready to face the jury at the end of the weekend.

Different prizes will be awarded and many prizes will be distributed to the winning teams. Projects will be rewarded on different criteria: Originality, Feasibility, Budget, Efficiency, Relevance, Sustainability, Ecological dimension, Quality of the model, Quality of the pitch.

Prizes from our partners :

• Boulanger will offer to the winning team a 210€ voucher per person
• OVHcloud will offer to a winning team credits on their website that will allow access to multiple tools (cloud, datas, hosting…)
• ActuIA will offer a magazine to all participants.

Other surprises are planned throughout the weekend.

The mentors present:

• Jean-Romain KRUPA (Driver & teacher at Le Wagon Lyon, Founder of Yoopla)
• Hervé Sultana (Startup Manager at Entrepreneur dans la Ville)
• Julien Salotti (Researcher in Machine Learning at Visual Behavior)
• Alexandre Bizien (Research engineer at Veremes)
• Fanny Rostaing (Founder of Coffretis & Web Developer)
• Alexis Silva (Project Manager Consultant at Extia)
• Thibault Neveu (Co-founder and CTO of Visual Behavior)

The jury:

• Anis Ayri (Lead data scientist, youtuber and entrepreneur)
• Flavien Chervet (Prospective speaker & Director of innovation at IRIIG)
• Jade Le Maître (Engineer specialized in robotics, technical director and founder of Hease Robotics)
• Robin Jacquelin (Robotics and artificial intelligence manager at Enjoy automation).
• Rémi Agier (Founder and CEO of Visual Behavior)

To learn more about innovations and the field of computer vision, two free bootcamps (March 10 and 24 at the MBway Lyon Campus) will address the topics of innovation, business tools and the rise of computer vision.

What is computer vision?

Computer vision is a technology that helps a computer to understand images and/or videos. This technology imitates physical and mathematical principles present in humans to provide scene understanding.

Robotics has three qualifications: perceiving the environment, deciding what actions to take and executing its actions. Robots have been able to decide and execute for years with human intervention. However, the challenge today remains in its ability to perceive and understand its environment to decide on its own the action to take. This is the challenge that we focus on at Visual Behavior, by reproducing what humans can do with their two eyes: perceive, understand and act.

Vision is not only needed in the autonomous robotics sector, it is already used in other fields: automotive, facial recognition, medicine and surgery.

How to participate in HackVision?

Students, professors, engineers, professionals, project managers, technology enthusiasts… this hackathon is open to any curious and ambitious person who wants to spend a weekend with a motivated team and passionate professionals to shape the future of computer vision.

Registration is 9€ for students and 15€ for professionals (Earlybird rates until March 21). This participation includes the entrance to the hackathon, meals and breakfasts and some surprises.

It happens here :https://my.weezevent.com/hackvision

The program :

Friday, April 1st – 6pm to 10pm
Presentation of the weekend, topics and team building
The participants will exchange among themselves, will constitute their teams according to the selected subjects.

Saturday April 2nd – 8:30am to 9pm
Beginning of the hostilities: development of the topic and coaching session
Teams will start to think and realize their project with the support of professionals from various fields (engineer, project manager, entrepreneur). In addition, an individual challenge will be planned with a surprise at the end.

Sunday April 3rd – 9am to 6pm
Final stretch: finalization of projects and final pitch
On the last day of HackVision, participants will finalize their project and prepare their pitch to present it to the jury. Three prizes will be awarded before gathering for a cocktail with all the teams and participants of this weekend.

This is not an April Fool’s Day! See you on the weekend of April 1 at MBway Lyon! We want to deliberately mix student, professional, commercial and technical profiles, to promote inclusion between communities, emulation and diversity of thinking teams. We hope that this event will allow participants to discover new passions.

Thanks to the partners of this event who encourage diversity and inclusion: Boulanger, le crous de Lyon, MBway Lyon, Leyton, IRIIG, La French Fab, OVHcloud and ActuIA.

Translated from Visual Behavior lance son premier Hackathon autour de la vision artificielle, le HackVision