Seocho-gu Selected 1st Place in Consortium's AI Training Data Construction Project Free Task

Selected 1st Among 89 Participating Consortiums, Receiving 1.8 Billion KRW Support from Korea Information Society Development Institute

[Asia Economy Reporter Jongil Park] Seocho-gu (Mayor Eunhee Jo) announced that the 'Seocho-gu Consortium' (participating companies: C-Pro, Namu Planet, National Safety Competency Association) was selected as the top winner in the 'AI Training Data Construction Project' New Deal contest hosted by the National Information Society Agency.

Among the total 45 designated topics, 6 regional specialization tasks, and 21 free topics in this New Deal contest, the Seocho-gu Consortium participated in the free topic with the project titled "Construction of Urban Congestion Dataset Using Bird's Eye View."

Out of 89 participating consortia, it ranked first and will receive 1.8 billion KRW in funding from the National Information Society Agency.

Based on this support, the district plans to develop its own video flagging platform capable of annotation using various videos owned by Seocho-gu and establish an annotator ecosystem. To this end, the Seocho-gu Consortium signed an agreement with the Eastern Disabled Employment Agency and plans to hire a total of 90 annotators, including more than 10 people with disabilities, to perform object extraction tasks within videos.

The bird's eye view project submitted by the district is operated only by Seocho-gu nationwide. It utilizes bird's eye view footage from wide-angle CCTV installed on high-rise buildings to exclude and process personal information from congested vehicle and pedestrian data and open it through a website.

Domestic AI companies can freely use this data to evaluate the performance of their AI programs, identify areas for improvement, and use it as benchmark data to enhance program performance.

Meanwhile, the district is further designating part of Yangjae-dong as an AI special zone in cooperation with Seoul City, aiming to host about 100 AI companies and encourage continuous technological development. Additionally, through programs such as the 'Blockchain College,' 'AI College Youth Internship,' and 'AI Data Labeling Specialist Training Course,' it is also paying significant attention to youth employment in the era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution.

Seocho-gu Mayor Eunhee Jo stated, “We will take greater interest and make efforts to ensure that Seocho-gu’s AI policies and services become the standard for South Korea in the AI market, which has become increasingly important due to the Fourth Industrial Revolution.”

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