Sony Biz Networks Inc.
Sponsorship of “ELCON”, a competition event to solicit new ideas using the image recognition solution “ELFE”
From October 11th (Tuesday), we are soliciting ideas under the theme of “If there was an AI that could distinguish 〇〇”
Sony Biz Networks Inc. (Headquarters: Shibuya-ku, Tokyo) will be participating in the competition event “ELCON”, sponsored by Ledge Co., Ltd. (Headquarters: Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo), soliciting new ideas using the image recognition solution “ELFE”. Sponsorship. We started accepting ideas from Tuesday, October 11th.
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“ELFE” is a technology developed by Sony Group Corporation based on joint research between Sony Computer Science Laboratories, Inc. and Sony Group Corporation. Since 2018, Sony Network Communications Inc. has been providing the service as an image discrimination solution, and from 2021, Sony Biz Networks Inc. will provide an AWS version of the image discrimination solution “ELFE” on the “Managed Cloud with AWS”. on AWS” is now available.
At “ELCON”, we imagine what kind of things we can do with the image recognition solution “ELFE” under the theme of “What if there was an AI that can distinguish ○○” that we feel in our daily lives and work. We are soliciting ideas that expand the potential of ELFE and extend its practical applicability. The purpose of this project is to let many readers know “ELFE” through this competition, and at the same time to discover the seeds of the problems in the world.
-Outline of the competition event “ELCON” to solicit new ideas using the image recognition solution “ELFE”-
■ Contest name: Elcon
■ Sponsor: Ledge Co., Ltd.
■ Sponsor: Sony Biz Networks Inc.
Sony Network Communications Inc.
■ Contest content: Call for ideas using the image discrimination solution “ELFE” ■ Contest application period: October 11, 2022 (Tuesday) to November 8, 2022 (Tuesday)
■ Contest entry conditions: general participants (see the page below for details)
■ Contest application method/detail page: https://elfe-concours.studio.site ■ Awards: Excellence Award: 50,000 yen, Idea Award: 30,000 yen, Business Award: 30,000 yen
■ Other:
The output questions are as follows.
1. Idea composition
“If there was an AI that could distinguish ○○” (within 400 characters) 2.Reason for idea generation
“Why and when did you come up with this idea?”
3. Data Assumptions
What kind of data is imported into ELFE?
4. What is it useful for
“What problems can be solved by realizing this idea?”
“Also, how many people do you think will be saved?”
5. Monetization assumptions
“If this idea were to take shape and be sold, how much would you be willing to pay to use it?”
## Simultaneous PoC Contest
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At this event, in addition to an idea creation contest for general participants, a PoC contest for business companies will be held at the same time. You can challenge after using the ELFE license for free for one month.
The winning company will receive a tie-up article advertisement from Ledge.ai. The introduction of award-winning companies and PoC initiatives will be published in articles on Ledge.ai, which is one of the largest AI-related media in Japan.
-Overview of “PoC Contest” for business companies-
■ Contest name: PoC contest
■ Sponsor: Ledge Co., Ltd.
■ Sponsor: Sony Biz Networks Inc.
Sony Network Communications Inc.
■ Contest details: Image discrimination AI development
■ Contest application period: October 11, 2022 (Tuesday) to October 31, 2022 (Monday)
■ Contest application conditions: Business companies with some kind of image data that can be used for learning
Business companies that can use the cloud (AWS)
■ Contest application method/detail page: https://elfe-concours.studio.site ■ Commendation: Grand Prize…Implementation of an independent interview article Participation award… Company name published in the PoC contest event report article
About “ELFE”
ELFE is an image discrimination AI solution that employs “Evolutional Learning for Feature Extraction”, a technology that automatically develops discrimination models. Sony’s proprietary technology enables AI development with about 1/100 of the training data compared to general development methods. In addition, AI can be automatically generated simply by uploading data, so even AI beginners can develop without code. In addition to images, sensor data and sound data can be used, and the optimal algorithm and usage environment can be selected. [Image 3
ELFE is a technology developed by Sony Group Corporation based on joint research between Sony Computer Science Laboratories, Inc. and Sony Group Corporation.
Since 2018, Sony Network Communications Inc. has been providing the service as an image recognition solution. From 2021, Sony Biz Networks Inc. will start offering “ELFE on AWS” as an AWS version of the image recognition solution on “Managed Cloud with AWS”.
home page:
https://www.sonycsl.co.jp/project/elfe/8308/
https://ai.nuro.jp/elfe/
https://biz.nuro.jp/service/elfe_on_aws/feature/
-Company Profile-
Sony Biz Networks Co., Ltd. was established as a company that provides ICT solutions “NURO Biz” for corporations under the investment of Sony Network Communications Co., Ltd. of the Sony Group. Since July 2019, Sony Network Communications Inc.’s corporate cloud and network service business have been integrated, and by strengthening business in a wide range of areas from networks to clouds, we are providing customers with higher value-added services.
home page:
https://sonybn.co.jp/?utm_source=pressrelease&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=prtimes *Company names, product names, and service names listed are trademarks or registered trademarks of each company.
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Details about this release:
https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000000074.000036584.html