{"id":24598,"date":"2018-05-24T10:12:09","date_gmt":"2018-05-24T17:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.digilentinc.com\/?p=24598"},"modified":"2021-06-09T14:47:45","modified_gmt":"2021-06-09T21:47:45","slug":"digilent-design-contest-2018-finalist-and-winners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/digilent-design-contest-2018-finalist-and-winners\/","title":{"rendered":"Digilent Design Contest 2018 Finalist and Winners"},"content":{"rendered":"

The finals of the 14th edition of Digilent Design Contest took place on May 12th and 13th. This year, we had 32 teams enrolled and 16 teams (consisting of one, two or three members) presenting their projects in the finals. The 16 teams that participated came from universities in Cluj-Napoca, Targu-Mures, Pitesti and Bucuresti (Romania), Turkey, Serbia, Poland and France. In the first day of contest, all the teams presented their projects in front of a jury of three members. 8 teams were chosen as finalists and presented their hard work on Sunday in front of a jury that was formed by 6 experts from academia, industry, and Digilent representatives. The top projects were:<\/p>\n

1. First place<\/span>,\u00a0\u200b\u200bStefan Sredojevic,\u00a0Marko Kozomora <\/span><\/strong>and\u00a0Milan Popovic\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>from\u00a0University of Novi Sad, Serbia, with the project:\u00a0Deep Neural Network Hardware Accelerator<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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2.\u00a0\u200bSecond Place<\/span>: <\/strong>was shared between two very good projects<\/p>\n

Karol Radwan<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0from\u00a0<\/span>AGH University of Science and Technology, Krakow, Poland, with the project
\n“Structure From Motion” scene recognition system for navigation of unmanned aerial vehicles<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Beniamin Bia<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0Cosmin Nechifor<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0from Technical\u00a0University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania,<\/span>\u00a0with the project
\nHardware Accelerated Facial Recognition<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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3.\u00a0Third Place<\/span>:\u00a0Robert Nawrath<\/span>,\u00a0Marcin Beberok<\/span>\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0Przemyslaw Mazur<\/span>\u00a0<\/strong>from\u00a0<\/span>Silesian University of Technology, Gliwice, Poland, with the project
\nFPGA Based Programmable Logic Controller<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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4.Digilent Instrumentation Prize<\/span><\/strong>:\u00a0Jakub Wiczynski<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0\u200bfrom \u00a0Gdansk University of Technology, Poland, with the project
\n\u200bAdditive Synthesizer<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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5.\u00a0Honorable Mentions<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0\u2013 there were three of them, all high quality, awesome projects:<\/p>\n

Szekely Istvan-Zsolt\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>\u200bfrom\u00a0Sapientia University, Targu-Mures, Romania, with project
\nLocalization based on RF Modules using FPGA<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Oalid Bachaou, Kamel El Mussati<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0Samuel Duport\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>\u200bfrom\u00a0TESIEE Paris, France, with the project<\/p>\n

SWEEP’n’PLAY<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Emine Zeynep Ozdoner <\/span><\/strong>and Ozden Erdinc\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>\u200bfrom\u00a0Cankaya University, Ankara, Turkey, with the project
\nWireless Transmission of Compressed Image by ASK Modulation<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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We would like to thank:<\/p>\n