| Cloud Programming World Cup 2016 Result Announcement |
A total of 18 teams (1 from Japan and 17 from overseas) have signed up
to The 4th Cloud Programming World Cup (hosted by Cloud Programming World
Cup Executive Committee), and 8 teams from overseas have been nominated.
In 17 November 2016, at Shinagawa Intercity Hall, World Cup Award and 4
Judge's special prize have been determined through the final open judging.
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World Cup Award |
| No. 13 |
Title : Fire Plugin
- Simulation of Influences of Director Action in Fire Accident |
| Team Name : Firemen |
University: Shanghai University |
Country : China |
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 Overview
| Firstly, we developed an application using C# and Microsoft Kinect SDK to recognize animation needed in the plugin;
Secondly, we used Delphi XE2 to develop the plugin in UC-win/Road to integrate C# animation recognition application and then simulate reaction of people in fire accident according to action of director collected from Kinect.
This plugin can be used in the training of evacuation direction or researches because it not only simulate the action of director, but also provide varies parameters to simulate actual environment. |
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Judge's special prize
Associate Prof. Tomohiro Fukuda
(Head of judges and associate professor from
the Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University) |
| No. 8 |
| Title : Leap Motion Controller |
| Team Name : Unknown Legion |
University: Shanghai University
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Country : China |
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Overview
| Our plugin is called Leap Motion Controller. It is designed to combine UC-win/Road with the gesture recognition device Leap Motion. Leap Motion operates in an intimate proximity with high precision. It tracks frame rate and reports discrete positions, gestures and motion. Therefore, the combination with Leap Motion will provide a gesture recognition engine for UC-win/Road and let developers and users invoke functions in UC-win/Road through simple gestures without clicking the mouse. |
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Judge's special prize
Associate Prof. Taro Narahara
(The College of Architectural Design, New Jersey Institute of Technology) |
| No. 4 |
| Title : Sketch it ! |
| Team Name : Super3D |
University: Shanghai Jiao Tong University
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Country : China |
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Overview
| Modeling is an important part of Virtual Reality. However, the most popular commercial softwares are complicated and difficult to get start for a beginner. Only expert users can create photorealistic models easily. In this plugin, we provide a fast way to create texture mapping models with simple user interactions. Users only need to set some pictures as reference, and sketch the contour or rotation axis from the picture, the model will be generated automatically. The model is in standard 3D format, which can be import into UC-win/Road and other softwares to display and edit. |
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Judge's special prize
Designated Prof. Hiroyuki Hagura
Digital Hollywood University, Graduate School) |
| No. 17 |
| Title : The Early Warning Plugin of Ponding |
| Team Name : HateRainyDays |
University: Tongji University |
Country : China |
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Overview
| When driving in heavy rainy days, drivers would always drive slowly and carefully to avoid accidents.However, they may ignore one thing, that is, the ponding along the roads. When the ponding comes above the tailpipe, the car would shut down. We aim to implement a plugin to warn drivers under the circumstance. Because the program can acquire the future weather condition, detect the neighboring range and calculate the depth of ponding water by our algorithm automatically, the plugin can provide a logical forecast of the ponding water amount. When the driver approaching the flood area, the system will throw warnings companied with detailed information. In this way, the case that drivers drove into ponding and got trapped or lost their lives happening in China every year can be avoided at certain percents. |
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Judge's special prize
Mr. Yoann Pencreach
(Chief Manager of VR development group, FORUM8) |
| No. 1 |
| Title : Development of graphical programming interface |
| Team Name : Hua cheng |
University: Shanghai Jiao Tong University |
Country : China |
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Overview
| A graphical programming interface will be developed for the UC-win/Road. Using this interface, users can specify their programming intentions just by drawing a flowchart-like diagram. The, the diagram is translated into Delphi Code that further call the APIs form the wrapper of UC-Win/Road. The flowcharts act as scripts to control behaviors of the created 3D model. In this way, users who are not familiar with the Delphi language or even those with no programming experience can develop complicated transportation algorithm for UC-win/Road and solve relating questions. Thanks for our plugin,the scope of UC's customer can then increase from people with plentiful programming experience to those ordinary people. |
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| No. 2 |
| Title : Driving Simulation with Real Vehicle Interface |
| Team Name : Intelligent Transportation Research Center |
| University : Wuhan University of Technology Country : China |
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Overview
| In order to enhance the real sense of UC-win/road in the man-machine operation, we are going to be throught the second development to connect UC-win/road software with the operation of real car to acquire real car operation.Specifically, through the CAN bus outputs a car steering wheel, accelerator pedal, brake pedal, gear and other information, operated by UC-win/road SDK, as input to the simulation software; during simulated driving, lift the car front wheel, start the car, driver operates the car in totally real man-machine environment to obtain stronger immersed sense. |
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| No. 6 |
| Title : JumpFly !!! |
| Team Name : YOU |
University: Shanghai Maritime University |
Country : China |
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Overview
| Our team create a plugin which can let users to define their unusual tour in UCwin/Road.In this plugin, we create two mode: Jump mode and Fly mode. In this two mode, users can defin their own tour in Ucwin/Road, then start to experence the feel about parachute or jump during the city model. user can use keyboard to contorl the person move, use mouse or VR equipment control the camera visual angle, then they will feel they are fly or they are jump. That was the excellent experence for every one. VR is very popular topic in these years, so this plugin can let user know what can VR do, and enjoy the whole game. |
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| No. 10 |
| Title : A Rear - end Collision Alarming System |
| Team Name : Human@ |
University: Chang'an University |
Country : China |
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Overview
| The UC-Win/Road software could realize driving simulation. While it could judge whether the current car collides with the car ahead, however, it fails to issue an advance warning. Our team therefore designed an alarming system. The system contains both the internal plug-in and the external equipment called STM32F4 SCM. Users could choose one from three different methods whose functions have been packaged into the program to figure out the threshold and then transmit it to the SCM by COM. The SCM would alarm once the distance or the time of a current car reaches the threshold. Hence, the UC-Win/Road promises to be useful for those researchers of safe driving. |
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Comments by Professor Tomohiro Fukuda, Chief of CPWC Executive Committee
The 4th Cloud Programming World Cup (CPWC) called students to be part of
the VR equation for the widespread adaptation of VR by taking part in the
competition to create proposals for their original VR application applicable
in diverse fields and expected them to invent a new type of value for VR,
a great way to start year 2016 often referred to as the first chapter in
the popularization of VR. The aim of the CPWC is to help all competing
students improve their own creativity, system development capability, and
presentation skills through the competition. For the purpose of giving
positive feedback to competing teams, preliminary evaluation meeting was
held in Osaka University in July to review 18 work plans that were submitted
by the due date - June 21st. Each and every work was given feedbacks like
areas that have room for improvement towards the judging period in October
for the selection of the nominees. 11 works were submitted by October 6th
and 8 of them were nominated for the final round through careful evaluation.
On November 17th, 8 teams gathered in Shinagawa, Tokyo, Japan for the Awards
Ceremony to present their work to the audience and judges for the final
evaluation. Project titled "Fire Plugin - Simulation of Influences
of Director Action in Fire Accident?" produced by a team called Fireman
(Shanghai University) who won the Grand Prix is a plug-in developed using
C# and Microsoft Kinect SDK to be used as an application for evacuation
training in a scenario involving an outbreak of fire in a tunnel, which
can be interfaced with UC-win/Road to simulate in the 3D VR environment
how the reaction of people in a scene of a fire accident is affected by
gestures for evacuation given by director collected from Kinect. There
were works that used Kinect in past competitions but what sets this year's
championship team's work apart from other works that incorporate Kinect
is the use of Kinect as a clever interface that seamlessly connects the
director in reality with the avatars (evacuees) in VR space, something
we have never seen before. The scenario used in this work is an evacuation
from fire caused by an accident in a tunnel, but the the plug-in has potential
for many other applications. Other award-winning works include:
- Environmental Design and IT Award: "Leap Motion Controller", a plug-in developed by Unknown Legion (Shanghai University) is designed to connect Leap Motion with UC-win/Road to be used as a human interface and gesture recognition engine for seamless and intuitive interaction with UC-win/Road's 3D VR environment such as navigating through VR space, adding/deleting models, changing elevation of terrain, starting/stopping simulation, or creating patches to be laid over the terrain, all of which can be achieved simply by using gestures.
- Best Interface Award: Super3D (Shanghai Jiao Tong University) developed a 3D modeler that allows the generation of 3D models from pictures with simple user interactions.
- Best Environmental Simulation Award: HateRainyDay (Tongji University) developed a system that gives drivers early warnings of ponding on or alongside the road in rainy days to prevent hazards, within the VR environment.
- Best Practice Award: Hua Chen (Shanghai Jiao Tong University) developed a graphical programming interface for UC-win/Road that allows users to specify their programming intentions simply by drawing a flowchart-like diagram.
Looking back at 3 years of CPWC's history, it seems that the number of applicants are increasing and so as the level of integrity of each and every work. However, teams that made it to the final round were all from China. We hope to see more applicants from Japan, Korea, Taiwan, and other countries around the world next year.
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 The final judgement and the award ceremony |
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The Cloud Programming Cup Prize Award is worth 300,000 yen!
| Cloud Programming Cup Prize : 1 |
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Award 300,000 yen, world cup, award certificate |
| Judge's special prize : 3-4 |
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Award 50,000 yen, judge's special prize, award certificate |
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Award certificate, memorials |
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| Associate Prof. Tomohiro Fukuda (Head of judges and associate professor
from the Graduate School of Engineering Osaka University) |
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Mr. Hiroyuki Hagura (Designated professor of Digital Hollywood University,
Graduate School) |
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Associate Prof. Narahara Taro (Associate professor from the College of Architectural Design, New Jersey Institute of Technology) |
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Mr. Yoann Pencreach (Chief Manager of VR development group, FORUM8) |
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Results Announcement and Award Ceremony |
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Date : November 17 (Thu), 2016 Venue : Shinagawa Intercity Hall (MAP)
The winning award works will be selected through the final judging committee
and judge on cloud via VR-Cloud® and the Award Ceremony will be held.
| Open Judgement / Award Ceremony |
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A presenter for 4th CPWC / The 6th VDWC
Ryuta Ieiri |
| He is an architectural IT journalist transmitting information on his blog
to solve the business challenges that the construction industry has including
the productivity growth, global environmental protection and internationalization
etc. by introducing BIM, 3DCAD and informatization construction etc. |
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A presenter for 4th CPWC / The 6th VDWC
Yuji Abe |
Born in Tokyo in 1958 and graduated as Political Science and Economics major from Waseda University.
He has currently taken successive lead roles as a reporter in various Japanese
TV programs such as "Variety show Sukkiri!!". He is known for
his competence in English, his ability that helped him become a professional
private teacher who helped his students pass an entrance exam to many prestigious
schools and also helped him interview Hollywood stars visiting Japan without
an interpreter. |
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Judging Standard
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The objective of the competition is
to develop software that can run on VR-Cloud® using UC-win/Road SDK
(Software Development Kit) and VR-Cloud® SDK. This software could be:
all-purpose software, application programs, engineering software,
business software or game software. Competing students are asked to
submit a set of source codes of the software they used and a Power
Point slide that gives an explanation on the source codes. The work
will be evaluated on how well SDK was used in the creation of the cloud
software from the aspect of programming quality, rationality,
technicality, aesthetics, originality, and how well it is presented.
*Copyright
- All contents of the awarded VR data is the copyright of each applicants.
- The submitted VR data will not be distributed, but FORUM8 has a right to
use the data and works, edit and reproduce the images and videos etc. and
post or introduce it on website, magazines, books, newspaper etc. as a
sales activity or an advertisement as a secondary user of VR data.
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| Organizer |
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Cloud Programming World Cup Executive Committee |
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| Application term / Schedule |
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| Registration Period |
Apr. 4 (Mon) - Jun. 21 (Tue), 2016
Please submit the work plan by Jun. 21 after the registration. |
| Rental duration for free licenses |
April 4 (Mon) - November 25 (Fri), 2016 |
| 1st round presentation /review |
Jul. 12 (Tue), 2016 |
| Project Submission Period |
Oct. 1 (Sat) - Oct. 6 (Thu), 2016 Japan Time |
| Judging Period |
Oct. 9 (Sun) - Oct. 13 (Thu), 2016 |
| Nominate Announcement |
Oct. 14 (Fri), 2016 |
Travelling and accommodation fee are provided for the selected teams for
nominated works. Up to 3 members from the area other than Kanto area and
2 member from overseas in each team are scheduled to be invited. |
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All the team members involved should be either students or working students. |
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- Fill-out Form for Work Plan (submit by Tue. 21 June)
Please use the "Fill-out Form for Work Plan" to type in the title of
your work, your team name and team members, and to present your work
with an explanation of its overview (in 100 words in English) and
image(s).
*All of the works will be judged on an anonymous basis. Please choose a
team name and title by which an individual or group CANNOT be identified.
 (Word, 429KB)
Please send your filled out form to :
cpwc@forum8.co.jp
Please email with a subject of "CPWC Work Plan submission (team name)".
- Application program
- Source code and script (text format)
- Simplified user manual for the program (Word format)
- Concept of the program, future task and idea etc. (PowerPoint format)
*Not only the program but also including the contents would be fine.
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- Please send the filled out entry form which can be downloaded from below
to the following e-mail address along with the scanned students' ID cards
of all of your members during the registration period (April 4 (Mon) -
June 21 (Tue), 2016).
Please email with a subject of "CPWC Work Plan submission (team name)".
E-mail :
cpwc@forum8.co.jp
- After your entry has been accepted, we will send you the following information:
・Registration ID
・Download link for VR site model and materials we provide for you to work on.
・How to apply for the software you want to rent and workshop you want
to join.
- Please submit your final entry via our online submission form coming to
you shortly, during the project submission period (October 1 (Sat) - October
6 (Thu)). We will then send you the site (the 3DVR cloud server) on which
you can test your work, along with your ID and password.
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| Available software / Free license duration term |
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| Rental duration for free licenses |
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April 4 (Mon) - November 25 (Fri), 2016
*The rental duration, license restrictions and format provided will depend
on the individual product. |
| Seminar schedule of available products |
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Applicants can also participate in training and seminar (free or paid)
on this software held by FORUM8.
*7 venues : Tokyo (Main venue) TV Conference (Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya, Fukuoka,
Sendai, Sapporo, Kanazawa)
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Seminar |
Products and solution |
| 4/8 |
Shanghai, Tsingtao,
Taipei |
UC-win/Road Advanced VR seminar |
UC-win/Road |
| 4/21 |
Sapporo |
UC-win/Road VR seminar |
UC-win/Road |
| 5/10 |
Kanazawa |
UC-win/Road Advanced VR seminar |
UC-win/Road |
| 5/12 |
Shanghai, Tsingtao,
Taipei |
UC-win/Road SDK seminar |
UC-win/Road SDK |
| 5/19 |
Tokyo |
UC-win/Road Advanced VR seminar |
UC-win/Road |
5/24
- 5/25 |
Fukuoka |
UC-win/Road expert seminar |
UC-win/Road |
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