site.btaBulgarian Participants in 1st International AI Olympiad Win One Gold, Two Bronze Medals

The first International Artificial Intelligence Olympiad, which started in Burgas on August 9, ended with an official award ceremony for the best participants. Awards and medals were presented to the competitors in both rounds of the Olympiad - theoretical and practical.

One of the Bulgarian teams, made up of Delyan Hristov, Kalina Ivanova, Stoyan Ganchev and Velislav Dzhelepov, took the bronze medal in the theoretical part of the competition. The other Bulgarian team, which included Vanessa Kalinkova, Dejan Hadzhi-Manic, Elitsa Basheva and Delyan Boychev, won a gold medal in the practical part of the competition, in addition to another bronze medal in the theoretical part.

In the theoretical round, teams of up to four people solved problems prepared by researchers from leading universities around the world. They are from the fields of artificial intelligence, computer vision, machine learning and natural language processing. Participants have to create their own solution using a laptop, the internet and free software .

The gold medals in this round went to four teams - two from Singapore, one from Poland and Team Letovo from Central University. Seven teams - two each from China and Hungary, and one each from Vietnam, Mongolia and Estonia - were awarded silver medals for their handling of the theoretical problem. Bronze medals were awarded to ten teams, which included, besides the two Bulgarian teams, the two Romanian teams, as well as teams from Malaysia, Colombia, Vietnam, Poland, Iran and Canada.

In the practical round, in which the participants had to create video and audio content, the teams of Bulgaria, Poland, USA and Australia came first with gold medals.

Seven teams received silver - Letovo, China, Canada, Romania, United Arab Emirates, Hungary and Hong Kong. The bronze medals went to the second-place teams from the United States and Poland, the two teams from Vietnam, as well as Japan, Colombia, the Netherlands, Jordan, Tunisia and Macau.

A record number of participants - over 200, comprising 40 teams from different countries from all continents, registered to compete in the two rounds of the first International Olympiad in Artificial Intelligence (IOAI), which was initiated by Bulgaria.