New Delhi, April 21, 2018–The 16th edition of Microsoft sponsored Imagine Cup has concluded its India leg and announced RealVol, DrugSafe, and Practikality as winners of the India Chapter.
These student teams will represent India at the Imagine Cup finals in U.S.A. and compete for $100,000 prize money and a mentoring session with Satya Nadella.
This year’s India leg also underscored the rising interest for Artificial Intelligence (AI) and related technologies like Cognitive Services and Chatbots among Indian students. 60 percent of the entries received from the participants were solutions powered by AI.
The competition allows student developers to use their creativity and passion to solve real world problems and turn their ideas into reality
Imagine Cup 2018 - India Winners
Grand Winner: RealVol (IIIT Delhi)
RealVol features a virtual reality based immersive view inside a CT or MRI scan, where a user can navigate the 3D scan of a human body.
First runner-up: DrugSafe (RV College of Engineering, Bengaluru)|
DrugSafe was ideated to mitigate counterfeit medicine growth in the market. Using multi-layered checks in the DrugSafe app, a consumer can verify validity of a drug.
Second runner-up: Practikality (Amity International School, Gurugram)
Practikality is a machine learning based assistant to help the differently abled communicate efficiently. The app serves as voice for the mute, listening tool for the deaf and vision for the blind.
Winners in special categories
This year’s Imagine Cup also witnessed an increased participation from girl students, elevating the diversity ratio of the contest to 64 percent. There was also a 29 percent increase in accessibility related projects. With an outreach to key 50+ campuses from 10+ states like Rajasthan, Punjab, Andhra Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, etc Imagine Camps have impacted 10,000+ students across India.
Some of the other projects with AI capabilities entered for the Imagine Cup are as follows:
Over the past ten years, more than 1.65 million students from more than 190 countries have participated in the Imagine Cup. From the APAC region nearly 380,000 students have competed in the Imagine Cup in the past five years.