Awards

1st Place in the Master Thesis Award at the Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (MICAI) 2020

A CNN Pilot for Autonomous Drone Racing

https://github.com/QuetzalCpp/DeepPilot

Organised by Microsoft and Stanford University at the Thirty-third Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems NeurIPS. Vancouver, Canada. December, 2019.

  1. 1st Place, Best Paper Award. Paper: “Where Are the Gates: Discovering Effective Waypoints for Autonomous Drone Racing”. L. Oyuki Rojas-Perez and Jose Martinez-Carranza.17th Ibero-American Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Cartagena de Indias, Colombia. November 2022.


  1. 1st Place Regional Prize Winner of the OpenCV AI Competition 2021. Region South America + Central America + Caribbeans. Monetary Prize: $5,000 USD. Organised by OpenCV.org, Sponsored by Microsoft Azure and Intel. (Member of the QuetzalC++ Team). September, 2021.


  1. 1st Place, Best Thesis Award "José Negrete Martínez'' Master Thesis Category. Thesis: “A CNN Pilot for Autonomous Drone Racing.”

Supervised by Dr. Jose Martinez-Carranza. In the Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (MICAI) 2020. Ciudad de México, México. Oct 2020


  1. 1000 CHF Financial Support granted by the Artificial Intelligence Consortium of the CONACYT Public Research Centers used to cover the article processing charge of the open-access article “DeepPilot: A CNN for Autonomous Drone Racing”, published in the Journal Sensors, Q1. Funding is given under the project FORDECYT 296737. Aug 2020


  1. 3rd Place in the Game of Drones Competition, Tier 1. Organised by Microsoft and Stanford University at the Thirty-third Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems NeurIPS. Vancouver, Canada. Dec 2019


  1. Special Award: Best Flight Performance in the International Micro Air Vehicle Conference and Competition (IMAV) 2019, Indoors Competition. Madrid, Spain. (Member of the QuetzalC++ Team). Oct 2019


  1. 24,005 MXN for Travel Support funded by the Artificial Intelligence Consortium of the CONACYT Public Research Centers. Call: Financial Support to Attend Academic Events 2019. Funding is given under the project FORDECYT 296737. Jun 2019


  1. 1st Place in the Autonomous Drone Category of the Mexican Tournament in Robotics 2019. Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico. (Member of the QuetzalC++ Team). Mar 2019


  1. 3rd Place, Best Paper Award. Paper: “Combining Deep Learning and RGBD SLAM for Monocular Indoor Autonomous Flight”. Jose Martinez-Carranza, L. Oyuki Rojas-Perez, Aldrich A. Cabrera-Ponce and R. Munguia-Silva. Mexican International Conference in Artificial Intelligence (MICAI) 2018. Guadalajara, Jalisco. Mexico. Oct 2018


  1. 1st Place in the Autonomous Drone Category of the Mexican Tournament in Robotics 2018. Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico. (Member of the QuetzalC++ Team). Mar 2018


  1. 1st Place in the IEEE IROS 2017 Autonomous Drone Racing competition in Mos Eisley Vancouver Arena. IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robotic Systems IROS 2017. Vancouver, Canada. (Member of the QuetzalC++ Team). Sep 2017


  1. 1st Place in the Autonomous Drone Category - Advanced Level of the Mexican Tournament in Robotics 2017. Mexico City, Mexico. (Member of the QuetzalC++ Team). Mar 2017


  1. 2nd Place in the International Micro Air Vehicle Conference and Competition (IMAV) 2016, Indoors Competition. Beijing, China. (Member of the QuetzalC++ Team). Oct 2016