Qualcomm-KAIST, Software Hackathon Held

Hackathon on Emotion Recognition Model Development
Final 5 Teams Selected and Research Scholarships Awarded

Qualcomm-KAIST Innovation Award recipients are taking a commemorative photo with Kyuwoong Hwang, Executive Director of Qualcomm AI Research (right), and Sooyoung Lee, KAIST Professor (far left).

[Asia Economy Reporter Han Jinju] Qualcomm held a software hackathon to foster talent in science and engineering fields.

On the 30th, Qualcomm Korea held a software development hackathon on the 27th at KAIST as part of the 'Qualcomm-KAIST Innovation Award 2020' event and awarded research scholarships to five undergraduate teams selected as finalists.

Qualcomm organized this hackathon to provide research scholarships to creative science and engineering talents who challenge themselves with innovation. The goal was to encourage students to demonstrate independence and creativity to achieve outstanding results in fields such as wireless, multimedia, robotics, and artificial intelligence (AI). Furthermore, Qualcomm plans to offer a platform for excellent talents to share their research outcomes and ideas with Qualcomm Technology R&D researchers and receive feedback, fostering knowledge exchange.

On the day, participants competed on the theme of developing an emotion recognition model using multimodal video, voice, and text datasets. A selection committee composed of experts evaluated the codes submitted by participants to the evaluation system, conducting performance tests and comprehensively considering execution process, creativity, and final presentations to select the final five teams.

Oh-Hyung Kwon, President of Qualcomm Korea, said, "Qualcomm believes that the foundation for the development and growth of the IT sector is talented individuals with capabilities." He added, "Especially as emotion recognition technology is emerging as a core technology to advance human-computer interaction, we are pleased to provide an opportunity to exchange opinions on this topic and support students to take a greater leap forward."

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