Humanitarian Demining Tech Innovation Challenge

20 March 2024 — At the invitation of UNDP Ukraine and the Ukrainian Ministry of Economy, T4T presented to students at the National Aviation University in Kyiv today during the Humanitarian Demining Technology Innovation Challenge. After the morning presentations, student groups pitched their demining technology innovation projects, one of which will be selected by a jury for a prize.

Some of the key data acquisition challenges that students were presented with related to accuracy of geo-tagging, plastic landmines, limitations on drone flight times, weather conditions, soil composition and vegetation.

On the data processing side, students were urged to propose projects that focus on noisy data, geo-relevance, AI training datasets (including images, labelling, and realistic synthetic data).

We were impressed with the student proposals, and believe these kinds of competitions and challenges will help stimulate Ukrainian capabilities and leading-edge thinking for advancing the future of AI-enhanced humanitarian mine action.