Demo day at CAIRO.thws: MAI projects in action

As part of the MAI study programme curriculum, the project module is all about working intensively in small teams on one specific topic, sometimes even together with a company, to tackle a real-life challenge with real constraints (and real deadlines).

You probably remember the MAI poster session at the end of November? That was when the teams pitched their first project ideas, early challenges, and first steps. Today was the next and final milestone: the final project demo session at CAIRO.thws.

From 09:00–12:00, 11 teams took the stage, 15 minutes each. Live systems, tight timing, and plenty of sharp questions (the good kind). And it wasn’t “just a demo”: two weeks ago, the groups also submitted a project paper and went through a review process, basically a mini research/conference experience.

These are the projects (in case some might not remember): 

• A Deep Learning Approach to 3D Human Walking Pose Estimation From SensFloor Capacitive Signals
• MULTI-CHIP COLOR PREDICTION OF RECYCLED PLASTICS
• SKYBRIEF: A Visual Meteorological Briefings for Pilots
• Stereoscopic Liveness Detection and Face Authentication for Secure Smart Locks
• From Gigapixels to Bacteria: An active learning system for helicobacter pylori detection in whole slide images
• SimVLA: An Automated Data Recording and Training Pipeline for Vision-Language-Action Models on Synthetic UAV Dat
• RodenZ: Robust Probabilistic Triangulation of Moving Mice
• A Comparative Study of Methods for Extracting Navigation Graphs from Floor Plans: Lessons from Classical Vision, Deep Learning, and LLM Approaches
• SPHEROID METRICS; Automated Segmentation and Morphological Analysis of Cancer Spheroids in Bright-Field Images
• Mobile Robot solving Underspecified Tasks through Human-Robot Dialogue
• Graph-RAG Augmented Small Language Models for Intelligent Aviation Weather Briefing and Hazard Assessment

Huge respect to all teams! Building something solid, writing it up, taking reviewer feedback, and then demoing it in a short slot is no small thing. 

Thanks, as well to everyone who joined, asked sharp questions, and helped keep the atmosphere supportive and constructive.