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Emergency Escape Route

Map

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Today’s Agenda

11:00AM

1:30PM

11:10AM

3:15PM

11:45AM

4:50PM

Welcome Address by DSTA

Novice Reinforcement Learning Workshop

Guardian’s Brief by AngelHack

Lunch and Networking

Closing Remarks

Advanced Reinforcement Learning Workshop

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Ho Shuet Ying

Director, Digital Hub

Welcome Address

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Timeline Overview

May 13 – 16

Novice: 5PM - 6:30PM�Advanced: 6:30PM - 8PM

Submission Deadline

May 19 - 21

4PM - 6PM

Semi-finalists Preparation

May 31 – June 11

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Semi Finals and Grand Finals

June 12�10AM – 6PM

Virtual Workshops

May 25

11:59PM SGT

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Semi-finalists Onsite Testing + Surprise Task

June 11

10AM – 6PM

Opening Ceremony

May 10

11AM – 5PM

AMA �Sessions

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Narrative

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CYPHER the AI-Droid villain has deployed autonomous bogies that are closing in on Singapore.

DSTA has tasked you to wargame a counter-offensive to ensure the strong defence of our homeland.

Your droid must autonomously recon over unknown terrain, gather intel, analyse the ground situation, and report your findings…

…all while avoiding capture by CYPHER’s cronies.

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Infiltrate CYPHER’s base

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Obtain valuable intelligence

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Don’t get captured

Your Mission

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Computer Vision (CV)

Reinforcement Learning (RL)

Optical Character Recognition (OCR)

Automated Speech Recognition (ASR)

Your Tasks

Convert spoken audio recordings into accurate text transcripts.

Detect, locate, and classify objects (e.g. vehicles, vessels, aircraft) within complex image frames.

Develop algorithms that allow a simulated robot to autonomously navigate an environment through trial-and-error learning.

Identify and extract text from documents.

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RL Environment

Scout start zone

Guard �start zones (x3)

In each match, 4 teams play 4 total rounds, round-robin to be Scout/Guard.

Maze layout

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Qualifiers

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Submission Deadline:

May 25, 11:59PM

Submission Artefacts

  • Submit a Docker container for each task (ASR, CV, OCR, RL) through the Google Cloud Platform environment for automated evaluation�
  • See the Guardian’s Handbook for details on submission and scoring

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Semi-Finals & Finals

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Marina Bay Sands

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32 teams will advance to Semi-Finals

(16 teams per track)

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8 teams will advance to Finals

(4 teams per track)

Day 1 June 11

Teams will get the chance to test their integrated systems on the Finals competition hardware and act quickly to solve the Surprise Challenge. Specific details of the Surprise Challenge will be released on the day itself.�

Day 2 June 12

The Semi-Finals and Grand Finals gameplay commences, as we find out which team will emerge victorious from our tournament!

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Tournament Bracket Seeding

Match

Leaderboard Position

A

01, 08, 09, 16

B

02, 07, 10, 15

C

03, 06, 11, 14

D

04, 05, 12, 13

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Guardian’s Handbook

Discord

Assistance

Resources

Ask questions on Discord

Virtual workshops during week 1

Virtual mentor AMA sessions during week 2

(KIV) one-on-one bookable mentor sessions

Semis/Finals — mentors assigned to each team

This contains all essential information for the Guardians, including schedules, challenge overviews, submission guidelines, judging criteria, and rules.

You should have already received a unique invite link to join the official TIL-AI Discord channel.

All event updates, announcements, and support will be communicated there.

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Novice Track

Advanced Track

Prizes

Champion : $5,000

1st Runner Up : $3,500

2nd Runner Up : $1,750

Champion : $10,000

1st Runner Up : $7,000

2nd Runner Up : $3,500

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Lunch & Networking

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Guardians, enjoy your lunch break!

Use this time to chat, connect, and make new friends

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