Imaging Science Club Hosts First-ever Imaging Processing Hackathon
February 4, 2020
Carl Salvaggio
Seven teams of students competed in the 24-hour challenge to solve an image processing challenge presented by the Rochester-based company EagleView, which offered $5,250 in prizes. EagleView provided the students with a data set of thousands of images of single-family homes across the U.S. and asked them to develop ways to analyze the data and extract meaningful information from it. The interdisciplinary event brought more than 40 participants from undergraduate and graduate programs including imaging science, computer science, computer engineering, motion picture science, American Sign Language and interpreting, management information science, physics and more.