Winning the Hackathon
I'm beside you organized a Hackathon at IITH
https://www.imbesideyou.com/english organized at IIT-Hyderabad. Almost 50 teams participated in the hackathon.
The task was to classify face images as Smile, No-Smile and Fake-Smile. I participated as a team with one of my friends - Puneet Mangla. The task was difficult, hence we structed our approach as a culmination of several components. The components were:
- A task specific modification to input
- Using newer optimization methods
- Recent augmentation methods
- Countering class imbalance with over-sampling
Many more components could have been tried if the time was more.
Finally, we won the Grand Cash Prize of ₹ 25K.
It was a great experience, with quite unexpected prize. Hope to see I' m beside you
at IIT-H again with another hackathon.