The 4th Koh Young AI Competition 2026

The 4th Koh Young AI Contest 2026

Resource-Aware AOI Computation Time Optimization
September 7 ~ October 9, 2026

Organized by Institute of Control Robotics and Systems (ICROS)
Sponsored by Koh Young Technology

Contest Page  https://iccas2026-kohyoung.github.io/contest

PURPOSE

Recently, AI has been widely applied to improve operational efficiency in various industrial fields. In line with this, ICROS and Koh Young (kohyoung.com), the world-leading SMT inspection solution provider, jointly host an AI Challenge to encourage students to compete for an efficient decision-making problem in the manufacturing inspection process.

PARTICIPANTS

Graduate and undergraduate students interested in AI development for industrial data are eligible to participate. The maximum number of members per team is limited to 5.

REGISTRATION

① Download and fill out the registration form from the contest page: File Download
② Send the form to sooheehan@postech.ac.kr and  conference@icros.org.
③ Once confirmed, a private GitHub repository will be provided to each team at the competition start

SCHEDULE
Registration   Jul. 1 – Aug. 28, 2026
Competition  Sep. 7 – Oct. 9, 2026
Award          Oct. 29, 2026

All winners must register for ICCAS 2026. Winners will present their algorithms in a special session and are required to open-source their solutions.

* The schedule is subject to slight changes due to various circumstances.

PRIZES
🥇 1st place 5,000,000 KRW
🥈 2nd place 3,000,000 KRW
🥉 3rd place 1,000,000 KRW
COMPETITION TASK & DATASET

Details of the competition task are available on the contest site. The dataset will be made available to registered participants starting on the opening day of the competition.