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Tencent Innovation Lecture @ NTU

Lee Foundation Lecture Theatre, WKWSCI 18 Sept 2014

• WeMage Challenge Kick-Off – Dennis Sng, ROSE Lab, NTU
• WeChat: Reinventing Messaging – Amy Cao, WeChat International Business Group
• Image Technology behind WeChat – Leo Xiao, WeChat Pattern Recognition Centre
• Using Speech Technology in WeChat – Ralph Rao, WeChat Pattern Recognition Centre
• Interactive Games, Lucky Draw, & Refreshments

Challenge Co-Organisers & Partners

Co-Organisers Supporting Partners

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Objectives & Scope

• Objectives

– Expose students to the potential of Mobile Visual Search technology – Boost Mobile Visual Search APP development in Singapore

• Scope

– Develop a mobile application that directly calls one or more of the APIs provided. – Develop a mobile application that calls a server side engine, which makes use of one or more of the APIs provided.

How to Participate?

• Open to all students, alumni, faculty, staff and aspiring

entrepreneurs

– Teams of 2 - 4 competitors (<1 must be a NTU student) – Team diversity is encouraged – Team members must reside in Singapore during the competition period

• Develop Mobile Apps

– Any kind of App: eCommerce, Education, Games, Social Media, etc – Need to make use of Image Recognition API of WeChat Smart Platform

• All Intellectual Property rights will belong to the team

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WeChat Smart Platform

• Provides APIs for

– Image Recognition – Speech Recognition

• Participating teams are

to develop apps which call these APIs

–Use of Image Platform is Mandatory for this Challenge –Use of Speech Platform is Optional

Image Datasets

Images + metadata #Images Images Only #Images Landmarks: Asia ~100 Book covers ~100 Landmarks: Europe ~75 CD covers ~200 Landmarks: North America ~40 Movie posters ~240 Bags: Handbags, Luggage ~80 Products (general) ~150 Book covers ~200

Datasets: http://wemagechallenge.sg/resources/datasets.html

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Benefits to Participants

• Mentorship & Training

– Technical development support and training by experts from NTU ROSE Lab and Tencent’s WeChat team – Business development support and training by experts from NTU Ventures – Mentorship and incubation to further develop and commercialise your application

• Prizes & Grants

– 1st Prize of S$10,000 – In addition, up to S$10,000 grant for each of the Top 3 teams for further development of prototypes into more commercial ready apps*

* Terms & Conditions apply

Timeline

Date(s) Work Item 25 Sep 2014 Registration of Teams & proposed Apps 29 Sep 2014 (NTU Recess Week) Idea Generation Workshop by NTUitive 30 Sep 2014 (NTU Recess Week) Technical Workshop by ROSE & WeChat team 9 Oct 2014 Assignment of Mentors to Teams. Commence development of Apps. 9 Jan 2015 (TBC) Submission by Teams 16 Jan 2015 (TBC) Judging and Prize-Giving

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Training Workshops (29-30 Sep 2014)

Venue:

Theatre @ The Nest Innovation Centre

Idea Creation Workshop

• Aim: To discuss

– Key ingredient of sustainable and viable business – Customer discovery and validation methodology by “out of building” customer interview – Lean start-up approach for setting up a start-up

• Facilitators

– Lai YY, Senior Asst Director (Enterprise Development), NTUitive – Kee Thian Seng, Mentor, NTUitive

29 Sept 2014

5:00 – 8:30pm

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Technical Workshops

• Introduction to Image Search (~1 hours)

– By Asst Prof Yuan Junsong, NTU (morning session), or Dr Sreyasee Das Bhattercharjee, NTU (afternoon session)

• WeChat Image Platform Tutorial (~1.5 hours)

– By Barney Hu, Tencent – Each Team to bring at least 1 laptop with Android development environment (eg. Eclipse or Android Studio) 30 Sept 2014

9:30am – 1:00pm

30 Sept 2014

5:00 – 8:30pm

Business Mentors (NTUitive)

• Kelvin Ong

– CEO, FocusTech Ventures

• Kee Thian Seng

– Consultant & Mentor, NTUitive

• Rahul Harkawat

– Angel Investor & Venture Partner, G2V Accelerator

• Ong Sang Bin

– Angel Investor & Mentor

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Submission, Judging & Prize Giving

• Submission (to be

confirmed)

– Friday, 9 Jan 2015, 2pm

• Teams to Submit:

– Project Presentation – Video of demo (2 minutes max)

• Judging & Prize Giving (to

be confirmed)

– Friday, 16 Jan 2015 (full- day)

• Evaluation Format

– Presentation & Demo (15 min) – Judges Q&A (10 min) – Judges Discussion (5 min)

Judging & Prize Giving (16 Jan 2015)

Venue:

Theatre @ The Nest Innovation Centre

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Judging Criteria

Concept (30%)

 Does the application have a clear target market or audience?  Does the application address a clear need, problem, or opportunity, and is the solution clearly explained?

Innovation (30%)

 Did the team make use of technically innovative approaches to address the need/ problem?  Did the team use an appropriate level of technology to address the need/ problem?

Execution (30%)

 Is the application easy to use?  Does the application have a professional degree of production in terms of user interface, visuals, and audio?  Does the application perform well and respond crisply to input?  Does the application make effective & appropriate use of the WeChat Smart Platform API?

Presentation & Demo (10%)

 Does the team’s presentation clearly describe their application concept & innovations?  Did the demo show the team’s ability to execute the project?

Thank You

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