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Olympics, October 2020

The COVID-2019 pandemic has changed the world significantly. Many things that used to seem familiar and unshakable have been rethought, changed, or even temporarily disappeared. Interaction between people has become associated with risk, and personal hygiene has become more important than ever.

The organizers of the Olympiad decided to find a useful application for the students' skills. The goal was to learn how to detect contact persons using computer vision.

At the entrance, the teams received video files containing balls of different colors that could move and touch each other, with red balls being considered “contagious”.

The tasks were as follows:

Use the program to count the number of balls.
Number each ball by color.
Count the number of red ones.
Trace the trajectories of the latter (if any) and identify the balls of other colors that “contacted” them.

As a result, in addition to the technical component, the teams had to make presentations and demos of their work for evaluation by a competent jury consisting of Volodymyr Rudyi (CEO of AgileVision), Volodymyr Bazylevych (Head of the ICS Department of the Chernihiv Polytechnic National University), and Svyatoslav Chernenko (Scrum Master at Litera).

Two winning teams were identified: “BitHack (Dmytro Lutskyi, Andrii Kiriienko, Ihor Melikhov) and Heavy Minds (Dmytro Guzenko, Artem Kharkovnyk), third- and second-year students, respectively, who will traditionally receive scholarships from Chernihiv IT Cluster.