First prizes awarded! Open Source Prizes 4x$2500

Congrats to the first winners!!

Before we dive in, join us tomorrow 10am PT for a “segmentation party”. Let’s together annotate sheets of papyrus in Scroll 1! Details in Discord.

We have awarded our first Open Source Prizes, $2500 each, to encourage collaboration in the open.

It was tough to decide between all the cool submissions and ideas, so we decided to award four prizes instead of three!

If you missed the livestream, watch it here, or keep reading for a summary.

In no particular order, the winners are:

Luke Farritor, with Scroll Viewer

Visualizing the scroll data is hard. In the tutorials we use existing tools (such as Fiji), but they can be hard to set up and use, especially with large amounts of data.

Luke made a lightweight, extensible tool for viewing volumetric data, which runs in the browser, and is very fast. A great contribution to the community — we might have to update our tutorials now!

The code is worth exploring if you’re interested in building high-performance browser-based visualization tools.

Ryosuke Tanaka, with 2.5D Segmentation Baseline

Several starter notebooks have been shared on Kaggle for the Ink Detection Progress Prize, but Ryosuke’s notebook performs exceptionally well, making it an instant hit within the community. It’s a fantastic starting point for anyone who wants to participate. Instead of keeping it to themselves to achieve a high score, Ryosuke generously shared it with everyone.

Moshe Levy, with VolumeAnnotate

Moshe created a comprehensive reimplementation of Volume Cartographer, entirely in Python. This makes it more accessible for users and contributors. We hope to see numerous projects built on top of VolumeAnnotate for the next open source prizes!

Brett Olsen, with countless community contributions

Open source contributions don’t have to be big projects, they can be many smaller projects that add a lot of value to the community in aggregate. Brett has been an early member of the community, and his countless notebooks and discussions have helped out many. His educational and scientific approach has been inspiring.

We were truly impressed by the exceptional submissions we received, with many narrowly missing the cut. Don't worry though, there will be more open source prizes in the future, so stay tuned!

Don’t forget to check Kaggle and Discord for interesting work and discussions. Next week we’ll have an extra-long Substack post with everything we didn’t get to this time around. See you then!

Also, don't miss out on our "segmentation party" tomorrow (Saturday April 15th) at 10am PT where we will be annotating sheets of papyrus in Scroll 1 together. Details in Discord.