Results Announcement

On November 17th 2022, at Shinagawa Intercity Hall and online, the World Cup Award and 4 Honorable Judge Award have been determined through the final open judging.

▲Awards Ceremony (Nov. 17th 2022 at Shinagawa Intercity Hall and Online)

  • World Cup Award

    Entry No.24 KAAD, Kookmin University (Korea)

    TAP(Traffic Accident Prediction)

    • Our project aims to create an Anomaly Detection model for prevent accident and so on assist the driver in performing safe road driving. First, we abstract object's position, optical flow from UC-win/Road. Next, Input the features to the anomaly detection model in the PyTorch environment. Based on unsupervised learning, anomaly detection models are trained with normal data. Anomaly scores are derived from anomaly detection model. Finally, check the driver's gaze point using eye tracker, we send warning to the driver when driver is careless with abnormal objects. Additionally, we warns the driver if the driver is drowsy driving.

  • Honorable Judge Award Environment Design and IT Award (Prof. Tomohiro Fukuda)

    Entry No.17　SOS-Team, Shanghai University (China)

    EXTREMELY FAST RESCUE

    • The speed of response and rescue of police, paramedics and firefighters is crucial to people's lives and health. The competition was themed as speed rescue and set up in the form of a breakout game. We used UC-win/Road software to simulate police stations, hospitals, fire stations and other places distributed in the city streets. Players select the appropriate person according to the emergency phone number in the warning screen, use the keyboard to move their position and go to the rescue location, and the final competition will be scored according to the arrival time and the best path.

  • Honorable Judge Award Best Optimization Award (Prof. Makoto Sato)

    Entry No.23　MT Girls, Sugiyama Jogakuen University (Japan)

    Mobility-Support Robot for Relaxation

    • We developed a mobility-support robot for relaxation. The robot with a cute voice and motions advises drivers to make them relax. The robot monitors two types of data: "driver's operation data (Steering, Throttle, and Brake)" and "driver's biological data (EMG)". The EMG is a biological data to measure nervousness level. If the standard deviation of EMG is higher than threshold, the driver is considered as nervous. On the basis of above data, appropriate robot's voice is selected. For example, the voice "You are too nervous. Just relax and drive!” is activated if the driver is nervous.

  • Honorable Judge Award Creative Solutions Award (Prof. Taro Narahara)

    Entry No.7　Timer, Beihang University (China)

    Research on pedestrian crossing and vehicle behavior decision under automatic driving environment

    • Based on the pedestrian simulator, we designed a three factor experiment to investigate the effects of various factors, such as time pressure, on pedestrian crossing characteristics.Using UC-win/Road 15.1，we set up an experimental scenario to complete the acquisition of experimental data.The processed experimental data were analyzed and a pedestrian decision model was developed through the game matrix.For the vehicle decision model, we combined the output of the pedestrian model and a simple kinematic model to build a reward model for the vehicle, and the final result was obtained by continuous iteration of the algorithm.

  • Honorable Judge Award Traffic Safety Innovation Award (Mr. Yoann Pencreach)

    Entry No.20　Nijigaku, VinUniversity (Vietnam)

    Nijigaku Traffic Radio

    • The outcome of the work is a UC-win/Road plugin that simulates the detection system, and a mobile application that simulates the participation in the alert system from other drivers. The UC-win/Road plugin uses the scenario to simulate accidents, then triggers a notification to a cloud alert server. The server will broadcast the notification to nearby drivers with voice notification, Android push notification services so that they will be informed of the situation and make appropriate decisions, such as providing assistance to the victims. Nearby police and ambulances will also be informed.

  • Nomination Award

    Entry No.15　Safe and Secure, Suwa University of Science (Japan)

    Construction of a simulation to experience slip accidents

    • Slip accidents may occur in freeze or wet road conditions. One possible cause of this is the influence of the friction force of the road surface and the amount of driving operation (speed, steering, brake). By establishing this relationship in the vehicle model created in this study, it is possible to reproduce vehicle behavior according to the road surface conditions (wet, snow and freeze). This simulation will help to prevent accidents by enabling drivers to experience more realistic vehicle behavior for slip accidents.

  • Nomination Award

    Entry No.19　LGBM, Beijing University of Civil Engineering and Architecture (China)

    Reserved Trip Simulation Using VR Technology

    • The transportation network is the link among road travelers. The timely acquisition of travel information (OD, travel time) of road travelers and timely feedback to reserved travelers can enhance the connection between road travelers. Our team uses VR technology to feed back the information to each reserved traveler. This simulator could improve people's perception of future routes and the network, and help strengthen the connection among travelers.

  • Nomination Award

    Entry No.26　Pioneers, Wuhan University of Technology (China)

    Research on collision generation and dissipation mechanism based on naturalistic driving data

    • The plug-in we developed has two main functions, one is to generate background traffic flow based on the processed natural driving data, making the driving experience more realistic; the other is to provide real-time feedback on conflict warning information and display it to the in-vehicle terminal and UC-win/Road to alert the driver.

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Result of 1st Round Screening

Participants are expected to hone their original ideas and to skillfully showcase the features and differences of their works

On July 12th, all juries gathered and held a 1st round screening at the FORUM8 head office, and 24 entry teams were selected. The entry teams are supposed to create and submit works, and the final judging and award ceremony will be held at the Design Festival 2022-3Days in November after the advance nomination judging.

Some teams include VR simulations, data analysis and system development proposals, and ideas for connecting people more closely in the game, autonomous driving, and transportation fields. Participating teams are expected to hone their original ideas and to skillfully showcase the features and differences of their works for the nomination selection in October. We look forward to seeing the students demonstrate their abilities and take on unprecedented challenges.

▲The 1st round screening was held on July 12th.
Juries (From the upper left): Assoc. Prof. Tomohiro Fukuda (Committee Chief),
Prof. Makoto Sato (lower left), Assoc. Prof. Taro Narahara (lower right), Mr. Yoann Pencreach (upper right)

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Outline

Task for submission

Theme: Connecting the People -Cloud VR development and game development challenge!-

The objective of the competition is to develop an application program or software as well as system embedment and cooperation with UC-win/Road, UC-win/Road SDK (Software Development Kit), VR-Cloud® SDK, and Suite Chidori Engine. Try your engineering and programming skills and tastes to develop cutting-edge VR and simulation technology.

[Free rental software]

  • ■UC-win/Road、UC-win/Road SDK (Software Development Kit)
    3D VR software UC-win/Road and its Development Kit for the creation of applications and options. The plugin development in C++ language is now supported.

  • Suite Chidori Engine
    A domestic cross-platform 3D game engine is now available on the iOS library in addition to the Windows OS.

[Development Environment]
■UC-win/Road SDK: Delphi, C++
■VR-Cloud® SDK: Delphi, Angel Script
■a3s SDK: Delphi、C/C++
■Suite Chidori Engine: Visual Studio 2019
* Development could also be system embedment and cooperation developed by using C#, C++, JavaScript, java, Pascal, Python, Fortran, Ruby, R language

Seminars

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Juries
  • CPWC Head JudgeAssoc. Prof. Tomohiro Fukuda

    Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University

  • Prof. Makoto Sato

    Professor Emeritus of Tokyo Institute of Technology

  • Assoc. Prof. Taro Narahara

    College of Architectural Design New Jersey Institute of Technology

  • Mr. Yoann Pencreach

    Senior Manager of Development Group, FORUM8

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Schedule
Entry Period

Fri. April 1st - Thu. June 30th, 2022

Product license
free loan period

Fri. April 1st - Fri. Nov. 25th, 2022

Preliminary screening / Notification of Qualification Results

Screening: Tue. July 12th, 2022
Result notification: Wed. July 20th, 2022

Submission Period

Tue. Sep. 20th - Sun. Oct. 2nd, 2022

Cloud screening

Fri. Oct. 7th - Thu. Oct. 13th, 2022

Announcement of Nominations

Fri. Oct. 14th, 2022

Open Final Judging and Award Ceremony

Thu. Nov. 17th, 2022
Venue: Shinagawa Intercity Hall(MAP)

Prize

  • World Cup Award (1 team)

    Prize 300,000 Yen

  • Honorable Judge Award
    (about 4 teams)

    Prize 50,000 Yen

  • Nomination Award

    Souvenir

Up to 3 members from the area other than Kanto area and 2 members from overseas in each team are scheduled to be invited.

Overview

Qualification for applicant
Theme

Theme: Connecting the People -Cloud VR development and game development challenge!-
The objective of the competition is to develop an application program or software as well as system embedment and cooperation with UC-win/Road, UC-win/Road SDK (Software Development Kit), VR-Cloud® SDK, and Suite Chidori Engine. Try your engineering and programming skills and tastes to develop cutting-edge VR and simulation technology.

[Development Environment]
■UC-win/Road SDK: Delphi, C++ ■VR-Cloud® SDK: Delphi, Angel Script ■a3s SDK: Delphi, C/C++
■Suite Chidori Engine®: Visual Studio 2019 ■Integrated 3DCG Software Shade3D, Block UI Programming Tool
>>Examples of application that can be developed using the VR-Cloud® SDK

* Development could also be system embedment and cooperation developed by using C#, C++, JavaScript, java, Pascal, Python, Fortran, Ruby, R language

Application Requirements
All participants involved in the creation of the submitted work must be students (working students, graduation research and production works created before graduation in the year 2021 are also eligible).
Copyright of the submitted works

The copyrights to all data, works, and products created through this competition shall remain the property of the authors.

Forum8 shall have the right to edit and process the data, works, and deliverables created by the author, and shall have the right to use them for secondary purposes, such as publishing and distributing them on its website, e-mail news, PR magazines, books, magazines, newspapers, etc., as part of external announcements, research presentations, sales activities, and public relations activities.

Judging Standard

The objective of the competition is to develop an application program or software with UC-win/Road, UC-win/Road SDK (Software Development Kit), VR-Cloud® SDK, Shade3D, and Suite Chidori Engine. This software could be: all-purpose software, application programs, engineering software, business software or game software as well as system embedment and cooperation developed by using C#, C++, JavaScript, java, Pascal, Python, Fortran, Ruby, and R language.

Competing students are asked to submit a set of source codes of the software they used and a Power Point slide and video that give 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.

Open judging and award ceremony

Date of event： Thu. November 17th, 2022
Venue: Shinagawa Intercity Hall(MAP)

Nominated teams will be asked to participate in the open judging and give a one-minute presentation. If you do not participate, you will not be eligible for an award.

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Entry and submission process
1．Entry Registration

Please register and submit your work plan in English during the registration period (Fri. April 2nd – Thu. June 30th, 2022).
Judging will be conducted blindly. The name of the team or work should not identify the individual or group, such as the name of the country or school.
To register, please complete the page accessible from the button below with your team name, team members, etc.

Entry / Register
* Ended

Please download and fill out the form using the following link to present your work with an overview explanation (in 100 words in English) and any images and upload it using the Registration form above.

Entry Form

2．After entry is accepted

The following information will be sent to you by e-mail after the entry has been accepted.

- Entry ID
- URL to download the data and materials provided for the production of the work
- Information on how to apply for seminars you wish to attend

Free rental of product licenses

3．Preliminary Rounds / Notification of Results

The preliminary screening will be held on Tue. July 12th based on the submitted entry sheets, and the selection results will be announced on Wed. July 20th.

4．Submission of work

Only teams that enter before the deadline and pass the qualifying round will be allowed to submit their works. Please submit your work during the submission period (Tue. September 20th, 2022, to Sun. October 2nd, 2022) at the dedicated URL that will be separately announced at a later date.

[Documents to be submitted]

・Program application
・Source code and sript (Text format)
・Simplified user manual (Word format, etc.)
・Program Concept: Future tasks and ideas (PowerPoint format, etc.)
　*This can include content not directly associated with the program
・Video under 5 minutes in length (MP4 format)

Contact for inquiries and questions

FORUM8 Co. Ltd. Tokyo Head office Cloud Programing World Cup Section
Shinagawa Intercity A-21F, 2-15-1 Konan, Minato-ku, Tokyo 108-6021 Japan 108-6021
TEL:03-6894-1888 FAX:03-6894-3888
E-mail: cpwc@forum8.co.jp
URL: http://www.forum8.co.jp/english/

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Available software
Duration of free rental of product license

Fri. April 1st, 2022 to Fri. November 25th, 2022

* The rental duration, license restrictions and format provided will depend on the individual product.
* Rental licenses allow the use of all the functions that each applicable software offers, but they cannot be used for purposes other than the competition.

Available software

■UC-win/Road

■UC-win/Road SDK

■VR-Cloud®

■VR-Cloud® SDK

■Unique transmission technology a3s (Anything as a Service) SDK

■Shade3D

■Shade3D Block UI Programming Tool

■Suite Chidori Engine

[Development Environment]
■UC-win/Road SDK: Delphi, C++
■VR-Cloud® SDK: Delphi、Angel Script
■a3s SDK: Delphi, C/C++
■Suite Chidori Engine®: Visual Studio 2019

* Development could also be system embedment and cooperation developed by using C#, C++, JavaScript, java, Pascal, Python, Fortran, Ruby, R language

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Online Seminars

Applicants can also participate in training and seminar (free or paid) on this software held by FORUM8.

Date
Seminar
Product/Solution
April 12th

Shade3D Seminar

Shade3D

July 19th

Shade3D Seminar

Shade3D

July 28th

UC-win/Road Seminar

UC-win/Road

August 19th

Engineer's Studio® Seminar

Engineer's Studio®

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Past Award-Winning Works

  • The 9th World Cup Award

    SC-Team, Shanghai University (China)

    Driver Emotion and Abnormal Behavior Detection and Warning System
    The main function of the plug-in developed by us is to detect drivers' emotions and abnormal behaviors in real time, and feedback the results to the mobile web terminal and UC-Win /Road in real time. When the driver is detected to be angry, sad and other extreme emotions, the system will display a warning message to remind the driver to keep a good mood and play soothing music on the mobile web to ease the driver's mood. When it detects unusual behavior such as yawning, drowsiness, eating or smoking, the system will send out red warnings and voice alerts on the phone. So that drivers can maintain good driving habits, reduce the incidence of traffic accidents.

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Award Ceremony (Cloud Programming World Cup(CPWC) The 9th Cloud Programming World Cup for Students / November 2021)

Contest History

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