Awards

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On Sep. 12, 2019, IMSC won the best student paper award in the Fifth IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Big Data (BigMM 2019) that was organized in Singapore. The paper title is “A Crowd-based Image Learning Framework using Edge Computing for Smart City Applications”.

On Dec. 10, 2018, IMSC won the bronze prize for participating in the road damage detection and classification challenge. This challenge was held as one of the 2018 IEEE Big Data Cup. IMSC achieved the 3rd place among 59 teams (15 countries).

On Sep. 14, 2018, IMSC won the best student paper award in the Fourth IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Big Data (BigMM 2018) that was organized in Xi’an, China. The paper title is “Spatial Coverage Measurement of Geo-Tagged Visual Data: A Database Approach”.