Vision and communication, as an important entrance to connect people, information and services, have always been the value of science and technology gathering, and now with the blessing of AI technology, its R&D and industrial application upgrading continue to usher in breakthroughs and innovations. On December 12, 2023, the 4th National Artificial Intelligence Competition, hosted by the Shenzhen Science and Technology Innovation Commission and Pengcheng Laboratory, undertaken by the New Generation Artificial Intelligence Industry Technology Innovation Strategic Alliance (AIITISA), and co-organized by the Shenzhen Branch of Industrial and Commercial Bank of China and Huawei Technologies*** Shenzhen Pengcheng Laboratory Science and Education Association, was successfully concluded in Shenzhen Pengcheng Laboratory. After more than 7 months of fierce competition, the quality evaluation is the industry's top competition in the core track, focusing on "production, education and research", which not only shows the industry the prosperity of today's Chinese talents in the field of artificial intelligence, but also promotes the theory and technological innovation in the field of artificial intelligence in Shenzhen and even the whole country to a new height.
Group photo of the finals of the 4th National Artificial Intelligence Competition.
AI training ground,Attract the world's top masters to compete with each other
Since its holding four years ago, the National Artificial Intelligence Competition has attracted more than 20,000 teams from more than 20 countries at home and abroad to participate in the competition, and has received tens of thousands of industry-focused problem-solving algorithms and solutions. Since its launch on April 27, 2023, and since its official start on May 8, 2023, this year's National Artificial Intelligence Competition has attracted 7,292 teams from 9 countries at home and abroad, including the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, and Singapore, as well as 208 cities across the country. The competition not only attracted research talents from top scientific research institutions such as Peking University, Tsinghua University, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan University, etc., but also included industry practitioners from leading enterprises and institutions in the industry such as ByteDance, Alibaba, Samsung, Inspur, and the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television. Meet at the pinnacle of AI innovation.
In the end, through the international competition system and the combination of subjective and objective evaluation, the competition selected three champion teams and won the grand prize. The competition provides a platform for contestants to be bold and innovative, and to comprehensively consider the presentation of technology, so that countless innovative ideas and solutions can burst out here.
Through the strong market demand, today's AI industry is staging a war for talent. The National Artificial Intelligence Competition not only provides an opportunity for college students and outstanding talents of enterprises to show themselves, but also plays an important driving role in discovering and selecting new talents for the industry, so as to achieve an overall jump in productivity.
Award Ceremony of the 4th Artificial Intelligence Competition.
Innovate the track, tackle key theories and technologies and solve new problems
The 4th National Artificial Intelligence Competition, adhering to the core concept of "promoting research through competition", combined with the scientific research direction of the laboratory and the cutting-edge problems of the industry, has specially set up three tracks: "AI + wireless communication", "AI + visual feature coding" and "AI + ** quality evaluation", focusing on the application of large-scale datasets in the fields of "wireless communication, intelligent vision, ultra-high-definition transmission", and this competition has led algorithms, academic and scientific research topics in these fields to gradually break through the bottleneck.
In this year's "AI + Wireless Communication" track, the contestants proposed a variety of novel architectures of AI-assisted low-complexity high-efficiency transceivers that integrate multi-domain knowledge, and designed a new solution for the physical layer innovation of 6G communication.
In the "AI+Visual Feature Coding" track competition, the contestants proposed a new coding method that integrates traditional signal processing and deep learning Xi, and explored the new AI+ data compression technology for machine vision.
For the world's first artificial intelligence track for wide color gamut, high frame rate, and high bit count 4K ultra-high-definition ** compression quality evaluation - "AI+** quality evaluation" track, the contestants faced large-scale and massive 4K ultra-high-definition uncompressed format data processing for the first time, overcame many difficulties, and proposed a variety of innovative design schemes. It provides strong support for the development of first-class quality evaluation technology.
The Digital Bay Area is open and inclusive to industry innovation
Recently, Guangdong Province issued a three-year action plan for the construction of the "Digital Bay Area", and a series of measures will drive the comprehensive digital development of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area. One of the main tasks is to drive the marketization of factors through data flow.
As a high-level scientific research institution and a leader in scientific and technological innovation, the Shenzhen Science and Technology Innovation Commission and Pengcheng Laboratory actively promote the innovation and application of artificial intelligence technology in Shenzhen by integrating resources from all parties to hold the 4th National Artificial Intelligence Competition, and provide strong support for industrial development and social progress. During the finals, Pengcheng Laboratory held a talent publicity meeting to attract outstanding players to join and further strengthen the team. The series of measures not only provides a competition platform for the contestants and an opportunity to display their exchange results, but also creates a highland for Shenzhen to gather intelligent talents. It also promotes cooperation and collaborative innovation between different institutions and enterprises, promotes the development of artificial intelligence technology from the laboratory to commercial application, and promotes the "intelligent innovation" of thousands of industries in the Greater Bay Area, injecting new impetus into the development of the local and even China's artificial intelligence industry and digital economy, and promoting China to occupy a more important role in the global artificial intelligence competition.
In the future, the National Artificial Intelligence Competition will serve as a business card for Shenzhen's international brand events. It has become a "magnet" for the development of Shenzhen's artificial intelligence industry, attracting talents, research, and production through competition, constantly exploring the infinite possibilities of intelligence, and promoting artificial intelligence to become a new engine for the high-quality economic and social development of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.