ARNEIS project selected finalist at the OpenCV Spatial AI Contest

This morning I found an email in my inbox which I have been hoping for a long time:

Da: OpenCV Competition competition@opencv.org
Date: ven 17 dic 2021 alle ore 18:32
Subject: Your Team Is An OpenCV Spatial AI Contest Finalist!
To: Gianpaolo gmacario@gmail.com

Hello Gianpaolo,

Congratulations. Your team “B-AROL-O Bottling Systems” and project “ARNEIS: Automated Recognizer, Network-Enabled, Items Sorter” have been selected as one of just 50 teams to move on to Phase 2 of OpenCV Spatial AI Contest. Your team name and region are listed on the official webpage at https://opencv.org/opencv-spatial-ai-contest/​

Thanks to the generosity of our sponsors Intel and Microsoft Azure, and hardware partner Luxonis, as a finalist your team will receive:

• 500 hours of Microsoft Azure training on Intel's D32ds v4 hardware
• Up to 3 OpenCV AI Kit (OAK-D-LITE) Devices
• Up to $400 in LEGO bricks to build your project
• Access to Intel® DevCloud

Wow! At the end the proposal we submitted a few weeks ago was selected and now we are one of the 50 finalist teams of the OpenCV Spatial AI Contest!

What's next?

Now we have to fill in the forms to be entitled to receive the materials which will allow us to progress in the next phase of the Contest.

I made a resolution for 2022 that I will be blogging our progress with the ARNEIS project until the end of Phase 2. Please comment and support us to make this resolution come true!