And we will have a real cosmonaut! On Imagine Cup 2018

Dear friends! Agree, being a student is one of the craziest moments in the life of each of us. It was then that we meet the most loyal friends, believe in incredible ideas and are confident that to become the second Bill Gates is just to spit. Every year we support all these ideas and hold one of the brightest student events around the world - the Imagine Cup !

Under the cut, you will be able to recharge ideas and learn about the projects that are presented this year, as well as about the very astronaut who makes incredibly beautiful pictures from the ISS. In addition to student teams, the event will feature many interesting people, one way or another connected with technology. To participate, do not forget to register (the number of places is limited), and if you can not come - see online translation .

Small preface

Almost every year, our teams win prizes in various categories at the international finals, and, importantly, continue to develop their projects after participating in the competition. Among the participants of the past years, you will find successful businessmen who open accelerators and enter the Chinese market, create their own game development studios, help the visually impaired to navigate in space, get into Forbes and tops of mobile app stores (like OVIVO , recently released on mobile platforms, winner of the Imagine Cup 2015.

What will be interesting?

• Presentations of the 16 best student projects, including homemade HoloLens, made by students from Nizhny Novgorod, a virtual physics laboratory from Moscow State University, music in VR and much more.
• Fascinating inspirational lectures from people like Sergey Ryazantsev (hero of Russia, pilot-cosmonaut), Dmitry Shostko (MTS), Alexander Lukichev (DVR), Alexander Baulin (Forbes), Maxim Karakulov (Habrahabr), Sergey Tsyss (Mechanium) and many others.
• The exhibition, in which, for example, a non-anthropomorphic robot "astronaut pillow" from the Mechanium company will be presented for the first time.
• Free Azure Certification

The teams you will see this year

Team “BUTTON Team” // MIREA, Moscow // Project: “BUTTON”

BUTTON Team - the team is developing a b2b & b2c platform that allows companies to easily integrate Blockchain into their products for the market. The focus is on friendly bots with human speech recognition and a clear user interface. Read more at buttonteam.net .

Team “Coffee Break” // Moscow State University, Moscow // Project: Chemometrics

The project is dedicated to recognizing the taste parameters of coffee by spectrum. The guys collected an experimental setup, which allows to obtain the reflection and transmission spectra of coffee. Analyzing spectra using machine learning approaches, they are able to determine the acidity, bitterness, strength and density of coffee. With the help of their sensor and advisory system, the barista can make the perfect cup of coffee for everyone.

The “Easy Talk” team // IST FGBOU IN "RGUTIS" / ITA SFedU / ČVUT, Moscow, Taganrog, Prague // Project: "Easy Talk"

The project is a real-time sign language interpreter application. It can translate a gesture into the text and voice it. There is also an inverse function to convert voice to text. Therefore, it is able to ensure the full interaction of the deaf person with the hearing.

Team "Extra Life" // Grammar School 1 / MUCTR. Mendeleev, Moscow, Zhukovsky // Project: "ImitationGame"

Since childhood, we know how to behave in a variety of difficult situations. But, as a rule, such knowledge is theoretical, and when we face a problem in real life, we are nervous and panic. This arises from the fact that we lack some kind of life experience, moreover, such situations are dangerous: they can lead to the most diverse psychological and physical disorders and even pose a danger to life, ours or someone else's. Therefore, I had the idea to create a psychological simulator where people can put their knowledge into practice, learn about their weaknesses and peculiarities, analyze their mistakes and face their fears.

Team "Heavy Geeks" // MAI / HSE, Moscow // Project: "Imagine Travel"

The main idea of ​​the project is to create a complete copy of the real world and transfer it to virtual reality. A duet of students transferred the complete map of our planet with all countries, cities, streets and sights. For an example of using this idea, the team implements a learning and gaming application in the style of Minecraft, to study countries, cities and sights, which will help children learn geography in their familiar surroundings. And no, this is not just another analogue of Google Maps placed in VR. The world here is represented by a full three-dimensional map of our planet. Using this project, you can walk through the streets of Paris, travel from Moscow to Hong Kong, stroll around the Microsoft office in Redmond, look at the sights and much more.

Team "ITSS" // MAI, Moscow // Project: "Medical Assistant"
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This is a biofeedback system for monitoring human health. The system includes cloud-based data analysis services and a “smart” suit, equipped with a variety of sensors that capture human health indicators and help doctors monitor patient health and trainers to monitor the progress of training athletes and sports teams. The sports version of the suit allows the athlete to adjust the intensity of training due to feedback.

Team “Last Day Development” // UNN them. Lobachevsky, Moscow // Project: "Harbor"

Great things are done on the last day. Our product is a visual chat bots designer for business, simple and intuitive, like the Lego designer.

Team “Magic Box” // Innopolis University, Innopolis // Project: “O & DC”

O & DC helps sellers and buyers of clothes, combines marketplace and social network. Our plugin increases conversion and reduces the number of returns from sellers. Neural networks help buyers with a choice of style and size. Designers, stylists and bloggers get a cashback for popular images and styles.

“MeCare” team // UNN them. Lobachevsky, Nizhny Novgorod // Project: "meCare"

meCare is a mobile application that monitors the health of the user. The program analyzes the self and user activity for the manifestation of the primary signs of diseases of the cardiovascular system and the musculoskeletal system. And the express diagnostics system developed by us allows us to diagnose certain diseases at home! Now taking a selfie is not only fashionable, but also useful!

Team “MIXAR Studio” // UNN them. Lobachevsky, Nizhny Novgorod // Project: "MIXAR"

MIXAR - the first Russian developers of augmented reality glasses. With our glasses you can not only see the holographic objects around you, but also interact with them using your hands!

Team “Reality Family” // MTU (MIREA), Moscow // Project: “ExperienceHub”

We are developing a system for recording, transmitting and reproducing holograms of operations of surgeons, in order to increase the mobility of knowledge and their availability.

Team "Reality Team" // MIREA, Moscow // Project: "HoloAd"

As you know, advertising is the engine of business. Corporations spend a lot of money on advertising campaigns, trying to beat the competition. HoloAd project is dedicated to the development of software for Microsoft Hololens. This product provides a concise integration of contextual advertising in the environment through modified libraries for setting models of products and neural networks to recognize the features of the room in which the user is located. The project creates a new category of service, translating advertising into a new dimension, making it more efficient and interactive for the user, since it becomes possible to visually inspect goods offered on the basis of recent search queries. HoloAd can be embedded by third-party developers in your application or work on the device in the background. Due to the unusual form of presenting advertisements in the form of embedded full-size high-poly models, the user will respond to it with the inherent interest of all people, follow the link to the product site and, possibly, purchase it, which is required by the seller.

Team “Ruprotez” // Moscow State University, Moscow // Project: “Ruprotez”

Our main goal is to make high-performance prosthetic technology more accessible.

The team includes winners and prize-winners of the first level of the “Breakthrough to the Future” Olympiad. At the moment, the project is the winner of the grant competition of the fund for promoting innovation Umnik. We offer a new electromyographic device for controlling upper limb prostheses based on artificial neural networks. In terms of functionality, they can be compared with products of world leaders whose market value is higher than 1.5 million rubles, while the cost price of our solution is less than 100,000 rubles. Read more at: ruprotez.ru .

Team “Social Globe” // HSE, Moscow // Project: “MuzicWiz”

How often would you like to hear a musical composition that you hear in your head, moving your hands to it in time, like a conductor? With us you can create your music with the wave of your hands in the virtual space. Our project is a new look at music in the 21st century, rethinking the traditional approach to music education and music itself. Using the technology of virtual reality and reading the movement of hands in space, we invite you to plunge into the world of music "with the head." By understanding your musical tastes, our system will help you play what you like and create your own tracks using many synthesized instruments. Evaluate the possibilities of virtual reality, allowing not only to create music, but also to hear, see, and just feel it.

Team "TaleStorm" // TPU, Tomsk // Project: "CropSafe"

This is a decision support system for predicting crop diseases based on weather data using machine learning methods.

“ViaReal” team // Moscow State University, Moscow // Project: “BEAM”

The project "BEAM" is a solution for schools and universities that will help to improve the modern educational process:

• Unique experiments of any complexity and scale.
• Accessibility (not only TOP schools, but also educational institutions in the regions).
• Popularization of technology and innovation.
• Education is the basis of any society, and we believe that with our help it will be better.

Free Azure Certification

We recently told you about Azure certification , but as you know, it’s usually paid. But not for those who attend the Imagine Cup this year! As part of the training program and certification of CloudPro 2020, we invite all participants and guests of the event to pass the Microsoft Azure certification exams for free during the final.

To participate you must register and prepare very well. (Only 20 places left.)

Take part in the Imagine Cup 2018

Come to cheer for your favorite team, as well as take part in exciting master classes, listen to speeches by leading experts from various industries and get certified by technology!

When : April 14, 10:00
Where : Digital October (Metro Kropotkinskaya)
How much : Free
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