Are you passionate about Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision, and cloud technologies? The OpenCV AI Competition 2026, powered by AWS, is an opportunity to build innovative vision systems that can see, reason, and act using OpenCV 5 and Amazon Web Services (AWS).
The competition is open to developers, students, researchers, and teams interested in creating practical AI and computer vision solutions.
What Is the Competition About?
Participants are challenged to create a working application where OpenCV 5 plays a substantive role in image or video analysis, while a meaningful component of the solution runs on AWS.
Projects can address real-world problems across areas such as:
Healthcare and safety
Agriculture and environmental monitoring
Accessibility
Smart cities
Industrial inspection
Autonomous systems
Education and retail
Sports analytics
The competition also encourages Physical AI and Generative AI applications where visual understanding leads to useful decisions, actions, predictions, or interactions.
Prizes
The competition features $12,000 in main cash prizes, along with additional AWS compute grants.
๐ฅ First Place — $5,000
๐ฅ Second Place — $3,000
๐ฅ Third Place — $2,000
Best Use of COOL Award — $1,000
Agentic Vision Award — $1,000
Special Opportunities
Participants can explore two featured paths:
Best Use of COOL: Use the Cloud-Optimized OpenCV Library (COOL) with AWS Graviton to build and demonstrate an efficient cloud-based computer vision pipeline.
Agentic Vision: Build a system where an AI agent uses OpenCV 5 as part of a perception → decision → action workflow. The visual results must influence what the system does next
Important Requirements
Every submission must use OpenCV 5 for substantive image or video analysis and include a meaningful AWS component.
Final submissions include a technical report, code repository or archive, architecture diagram, working demonstration, short video, and evaluation evidence. Projects should also document limitations and responsible-use considerations.
Final submission deadline: October 26, 2026, at 11:59 PM Pacific Time.
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