{"id":12596,"date":"2021-02-24T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-24T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/2021\/02\/24\/vinbrain-reaches-final-round-of-global-competition-covid-19-pandemic-response-challenge\/"},"modified":"2021-02-24T13:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-02-24T13:00:00","slug":"vinbrain-reaches-final-round-of-global-competition-covid-19-pandemic-response-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/2021\/02\/24\/vinbrain-reaches-final-round-of-global-competition-covid-19-pandemic-response-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"VinBrain reaches final round of global competition &#8220;COVID-19 Pandemic Response Challenge&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n                            <!--<a class=\"format-txt\" href=\"{baseURL}\/View\/{release.id}?_download=1\">View this article in .txt format<\/a>--><\/p>\n<p><b><i>The VinBrain team in the US has reached the final&#13;<br \/>\nround of the Pandemic Response Challenge held by XPRIZE and Cognizant.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p><b><i>This competition, which has prize money of&#13;<br \/>\n$500,000,\u00a0aims to harness the power of data and artificial intelligence to&#13;<br \/>\npredict COVID-19 infection rates, and propose Intervention Plans for&#13;<br \/>\ngovernments, communities and regional institutions to control COVID-19 Pandemic&#13;<br \/>\nwhen reopening the economy.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>HANOI, VIETNAM &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.media-outreach.com\">Media OutReach<\/a> &#8211; 24 February 2021 &#8211; The Pandemic Response Challenge co-organised by XPRIZE and Cognizant was&#13;<br \/>\nlaunched in November 2020. Participating teams will develop models based on&#13;<br \/>\nartificial intelligence to make recommendations to achieve the goal&#13;<br \/>\nof\u00a0reopening society safely\u00a0and limit negative impacts on the economy&#13;<br \/>\nwhile minimising\u00a0the SARS-CoV-2 virus outbreak.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>Based on the jury&#8217;s independent assessment of the AI prediction of the&#13;<br \/>\nCOVID-19 trend and the infection patterns of the participating teams, the jury&#13;<br \/>\nselected 48 teams from 17 countries for the final round out of a total of 104&#13;<br \/>\nteams from 28 countries in the semi-finals.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>Thanks to the guidance by Mr. Mudit Jain &#8212; the Deputy General Director of&#13;<br \/>\nVinBrain Product Development in the United States, the Vinteam team has&#13;<br \/>\ndeveloped a solution applying artificial intelligence to the accurate diagnosis&#13;<br \/>\nof COVID-19 infections and provides intervention options.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>The infection patterns vary by country and territory. As a result,&#13;<br \/>\ninterventions may work in one country or territory but be less effective in&#13;<br \/>\nanother.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>Members of VinBrain in the US have come up with an extensive solution to&#13;<br \/>\nthis problem by developing the region-specific AI models to predict the&#13;<br \/>\nCOVID-19 infection time series in those regions. The Vinteam developed this&#13;<br \/>\nsolution based on a classical epidemic model called the SEIR model,\u00a0 which&#13;<br \/>\nwas then expanded to integrate with artificial intelligence to turn it into a&#13;<br \/>\ndynamic model. In order to train its AI models, the team uses available&#13;<br \/>\nfeatures\/data such as demographics, medical infrastructure, and economic&#13;<br \/>\nindicators. A special feature used by Vinteam is Google Maps mobile metrics&#13;<br \/>\ncollected from worldwide Android phones in an anonymous and secure way,&#13;<br \/>\nmeasuring the movements of people in public areas such as parks, hospitals, workplaces,&#13;<br \/>\ngrocery stores, stations, airports, etc. Another unique feature used by Vinteam&#13;<br \/>\nis Google&#8217;s COVID-19 infection trend data which is aggregated anonymously and&#13;<br \/>\ncontains popular COVID-19 Symptom-Related Google Searches.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>The jury selected Vinteam for the final round based on the accuracy of the&#13;<br \/>\nAI \u200b\u200bmodels and its ability to easily interpret the predictions of the&#13;<br \/>\nsolution. In addition, this\u00a0approach can be used for any future pandemic&#13;<br \/>\nresponse model.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>Mr. Amir Banifatemi, General Manager for Innovation and Growth, said: &#8220;We&#13;<br \/>\naim to maximise the power of collaboration, competition and innovation to&#13;<br \/>\naccelerate possible solutions for COVID-19 and future pandemics. The&#13;<br \/>\ncompetition has shown encouraging results in a very short time, reflecting the&#13;<br \/>\napplication of artificial intelligence to the society.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>The Pandemic Response Challenge is sponsored by XPRIZE, which designs and&#13;<br \/>\noperates incentive competitions to solve humanity&#8217;s grand challenges, in&#13;<br \/>\npartnership with Cognizant, which is considered one of 15 iconic companies in&#13;<br \/>\nthe US, operating extensively in the field of information technology,&#13;<br \/>\ndeveloping business processes and consulting cooperation for some of the most&#13;<br \/>\nsuccessful units worldwide. The organisers also hope the competition will&#13;<br \/>\npromote the use of artificial intelligence and data in tackling other&#13;<br \/>\nhumanitarian challenges. The competition&#8217;s results will be announced at the end&#13;<br \/>\nof February 2021.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.media-outreach.com\/release.php\/View\/66136#Contact\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The VinBrain team in the US has reached the final&#13; round of the Pandemic Response Challenge held by XPRIZE and Cognizant. &#13; &#13; This competition, which has prize money of&#13; $500,000,\u00a0aims to harness the power of data and artificial intelligence to&#13; predict COVID-19 infection rates, and propose Intervention Plans for&#13; governments, communities and regional institutions &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[60],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12596"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12596\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}