Four students of Manipal Institute of Technology have won an online hackathon held by Exact Sciences, USA. They won the first prize worth 2,500 USD for their solution titled Combating Colon Cancer with PixelWave OCR, by developing a custom Optical Character Recognition software.
The winning team, Team PixelWave, consisted of Jithin Sunny of EEE (2021 batch), Joel Jogy George of ECE (2019 batch), Aneesh Bose of CSE (2019 batch) and C Udaya Kumar of CSE (2019 batch) from MIT.
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The theme of the year was optical character recognition, which challenged the participants to analyze the current state-of-the-art, commercially available, off-the-shelf OCR software system COTS OCR. The teams were encouraged to improve the solution to achieve maximum processing efficiency.
The participants had to build an accurate OCR solution that took a manually-filled form as input and update the entries into digital format.
Jithin Sunny said, “Despite all four of us being at four different corners of the country, we were able to collaborate virtually and efficiently to develop the solution.
“The hackathon provided the opportunity to explore various existing models for OCR and finally develop our own custom OCR API which provided greater accuracies than any existing solutions for the specific use case.”
The director of MIT said the institution was proud of the four winners.
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