The AI Innovative Team from NCU Won the Championship in the 2018 SingularityU APAC Global Impact Challenge
Mr. Kun-Chieh Chang, graduate student at the DOP of NCU, was the representative of NCU innovation team “Vibrasee” to give a presentation, winning the championship in the competition.
Singularity University (SU) in the United States and Taiwan Tech Arena (TTA) co-organized the 2018 SingularityU APAC Global Impact Challenge (SingularityU GIC). The team “Vibrasee” from National Central University (NCU) became the SU Ventures Award winner with the project “Micro Vibration Detector,” the optical technology application in detecting Parkinson’s disease. “Vibrasee” and the other team “WeavAir” both won the SU Ventures Award and would be sponsored to attend SU’s Ventures Incubator Program in Silicon Valley for 10 weeks.
The champion team “Vibrasee” from NCU consisted of research members at the Nano Biomedical Laboratory led by Dr. Rong-Seng Chang at the Department of Optics and Photonics (DOP), NCU. The research team was later supported by the Global Research & Industry Alliance of NCU (NCU GLORIA) and was transformed from a research-oriented lab crew into a novice incubation team by the introduction of experienced industry mentors and the provision of subsidy from the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST).
In the finals, Mr. Kun-Chieh Chang, graduate student at the DOP, NCU, demonstrated the optical pattern techniques in the presentation. With a fair-price camera lens, people can detect vibration and achieve precise image recognition by applying optical pattern techniques, and it may further help diagnose and prevent Parkinson’s disease. In fact, humans’ skins are vibrating all the time, and the vibration pattern has a great deal to do with the heart, blood vessels, muscles, nervous systems, and special diseases. By detecting the micro vibration on human skin and examining the patterns with optics technology that applies the Moire Effect, we may have early diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimer’s disease, or other potential illnesses. The wave pattern in the initial stage of Parkinson’s disease is exactly the same with the pattern in the advanced stage of the disease. However, if patients soon undergo treatment at the initial stage, a stage at which people can hardly detect the shaking with human eyes, their symptom of Parkinson’s disease could be permanently controlled at the initial stage and would not worsen under the control of contemporary medical technology. Such a micro vibration detection measurement system does bring hope to the aging society in the coming future.
