Overview
Grand Prize Winners Announcement Live Stream
Congratulations to all who submitted final projects! Watch our big live stream announcement of the Top 7 teams and the 3 Grand Prize winners from December 28th on YouTube.

Enter the OpenCV AI Competition 2023 by showcasing your cutting-edge AI models and algorithms. Take the leap to be at the forefront of computer vision advancements on your own, or with a team of up to 3 friends.
There is no restriction on the types of problems, the hardware to use, or the programming language to use. The only requirement is using the OpenCV Library to complete your projects.
The competition offers new opportunities and challenge categories in addition to long-standing challenge areas. We hope your projects can make the world better by using computer vision technologies. A few indicative areas are listed below, but your project ideas are not limited to the ones listed below.
- Robotics
- Agriculture
- Education
- Visually impaired assistance
- Health and medical
- Sports
- Entertainment
Step up, build something you can be proud of, and you could hear your name called on our Grand Prize Winners announcement live stream.
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This year's competition has two phases: Preliminary and Finals. Anyone is encouraged to submit their proposal during the preliminary phase, and to compete in the build phase. Teams are not required to submit a proposal before the August 31st deadline in order to compete!
- Preliminary phase begins July 5, 2023 at 6:00 AM PDT
- Preliminary deadline August 31, 2023 12:00 PM PDT
- Final submissions due November 30, 2023 at 11:59 PM PST
- Winners announcement live event Dec 21, 2023 9:00 AM PST
Looking for teammates? Have other questions? Post in the Discussion area of this contest on the Hackster website, ask in our Slack server, or post on social media using the #OpenCV2023 hashtag to find your crew.

Use some of our past prize Grand Prize winners as inspiration for your project! The final submissions of these teams exemplify what great projects look like, and how they are communicated to the public (and the judges).
OpenCV AI Competition 2021 Grand Prize: Charlie 2.0
OpenCV Spatial AI Contest Winner: ScanNERF
OpenCV AI Competiton 2022 Grand Prize: Team Recycling Rush

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Prizes
We are giving away exciting prizes to the top 10 projects in the form of cash, online learning programs and certificates of excellence!
All successful participants or teams with a completed project will received a certificate of appreciation. Our judges are going to pick the best qualifying projects based on the judging criteria outlined in the rules section.
Ranked Prize
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$5,000 Cash
+ FREE CVDL Master Program by OpenCV University worth US$2,472
+ Certificate of Excellence
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2nd Place
1 winner
1st Runner-up
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$5,472 value
$3,000 Cash
+ FREE CVDL Master Program by OpenCV University worth US$2,472
+ Certificate of Excellence
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3rd Place
1 winner
2nd Runner-up
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$4,472 value
$2,000 Cash
+ FREE CVDL Master Program by OpenCV University worth US$2,472
+ Certificate of Excellence
Finalist
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$1000 Cash
+ FREE any individual course of your choice by OpenCV University worth up to US$699
+ Certificate of Excellence
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Popular Vote - 2nd Place
Popular Vote - 3rd Place
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Judges
The judging panel will be comprised of experts and luminaries in the field from academia and the industry, as well as OpenCV internally.
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Resources
OpenCV member Roboflow is offering free AI model training credits on their service. Participants will receive a total of 10 training credits to OpenCV AI Competition users who request via their credit request form. Simply mention that you are an #OpenCV2023 participant to receive the credits.
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About us
OpenCV is the world's largest Computer Vision Library with 1 million downloads per week. 89% of embedded AI engineers use it as a primary library. OpenCV is also on a mission to nurture learners with quality AI education through OpenCV University.
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