Both the 11th Final Year Project (FYP) Competition and 8th Postgraduate Paper Contest organized by the IEEE (HK) Computational Intelligence Chapter have been recently concluded.

This year, we have received several entries from different universities in Hong Kong, including the Chinese University of Hong Kong, the City University of Hong Kong, the Hong Kong Baptist University, the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, the Open University of Hong Kong, the University of Hong Kong, and. Each submitted project/paper went through a review process by our panel consisting of experts in the area of computational intelligence.

Finally, the following papers/projects were shortlisted, and then presented in the ceremony, which was held on August 23, 2014. As a result, the competition results are as follows:

FYP Competition:
1. Champion: "Single Channel EOG-based Human-Computer Interface", Student: ANG Man Shun Anderson (HKU)
2. First Runner-up: "Augmented Reality with 3D Viewer", Students: WANG Yichen & DING Li (CUHK)
3. Second Runner-up: "Positioning Algorithms for iBeacon", Student: HO Yik Him (PolyU)

Postgraduate Paper Contest:
1. Champion: "Halfspace Sampling", Student: AU Chun Kit (CUHK)
2. First Runner-up: "Look Over Here: Attention-Directing Composition of Manga Elements", Student: YING Cao (CityU)
3. Second Runner-up: "Parallel Analytics as a Service", Student: WONG Petrie (PolyU)