On November 16, the selection process for the 18th Shanghai Million Youth’s “Tomorrow's Science and Technology Star” Competition came to an end. The Shanghai Municipal Science and Technology Commission, Shanghai Municipal Education Commission, and Shanghai Popular Science Education Development Foundation mutually held this activity. Since April of this year, Tongji’s Student Association for Science and Technology has initiated the online selection under the guidance of the Youth League Committee. After the college recommendation, the on-campus selections, thematic training, face-to-face communication with experts, and a city-wide evaluation and exhibition, a total of 18 Tongji finalist projects won awards. Among them, there are 1 Special Prize, 1 First Prize, 3 Second Prizes, 6 Third Prizes, and 7 Creativity Prizes, all of which covered environmental science, law, machinery and control, life science, management, information technology, and other subject areas. In addition, Tongji University won the Excellent Organization Award.

Tongji’s School of Software Engineering students ZHU Anqi and CHEN Juntao spoke at the meeting as two of the award-winning representatives. Their joint work, titled: "The Unsupervised Exposure Correction of Images and Videos," won the Special Prize in the Information Technology area. Considering the need for an automatic correction method for image and video exposure in industrial fields, such as video surveillance, intelligent transportation, and deep-sea exploration, this work corrects image and video exposure captured by surveillance cameras to provide high-quality images and videos for subsequent computer vision tasks involving identification and human eye observation. In particular, it can help solve the comparison problem effectively in order to restore the existing pathologically exposed images and videos in the COVID-19 pandemic. The judeges appreciated the work highly and won a Special Prize. Only two works in Shanghai won this honor.

The Schematic Diagram of the Work

The Application Displays of the Work

The life science work, titled: "Development and Application of 3D Printed Lung Puncture Guide Plate" created jointly by Tongji medical students WANG Yang, DENG Jiajun and SUN Weiyan, won First Prize. This work combines tomographic three-dimensional reconstruction technology to assist inexperienced primary doctors in performing rapid and accurate multiple lung nodule puncture operations without using CT, which has great application value in the medical field.

The Shanghai Youth’s “Tomorrow’s Science and Technology Stars” selection activity aims to promote quality education comprehensively, enhance students’ scientific and technological innovation awareness and scientific practice capabilities further, form a social environment that speaks, loves, learns, and uses science for youth scientific and technological education, and to promote young scientific and technological talents making excellent character and scholarship to stand out. This year, more than 600 projects from more than 20 universities in Shanghai participated in the selection activity.

Source:https://news.tongji.edu.cn/info/1002/75734.htm