Opportunity
BMK (Atea Group), an established IT solutions provider based in Vilnius, Lithuania, sought to enhance an innovative educational board game designed to teach children letters, numbers, and vocabulary interactively. The game featured physical symbol pieces tracked by a camera and visuals projected directly onto the board. To achieve a seamless and captivating experience, BMK partnered with 1D.works to implement advanced AI-driven computer vision.
Challenge
- Real-Time Accuracy: Identifying and accurately locating over 50 distinct game symbols swiftly to maintain an engaging, interactive play experience.
- Resource Efficiency: Achieving robust recognition without significant computational overhead.
- Scalable Adaptability: Ensuring easy integration of new symbols, languages, and game variations without extensive re-training or labeling.
Solution
1D.works developed a highly efficient, AI-driven symbol recognition algorithm:
- Single-Shot Training: Capable of accurate symbol identification using only a single reference image per symbol—dramatically reducing setup complexity.
- Resource-Light Execution: Optimized for fast, resource-efficient performance suitable for real-time gameplay.
- Flexible Expansion: Easily adaptable to future symbol sets, languages, and diverse educational contexts.
Clear ROI and Results
- Rapid Market Deployment: Successfully brought the interactive AR educational game to market swiftly, immediately enhancing BMK’s product offering.
- Cost and Time Savings: Single-shot training eliminated extensive manual labeling, significantly cutting development time and costs.
- Future-Proof Innovation: Enabled effortless expansion into new languages and additional educational content, maximizing product longevity and scalability.
- Educational Impact: Delivered a highly interactive, immersive learning experience, supporting deeper educational engagement among children.
By integrating advanced AI, BMK achieved a compelling educational tool that enriches learning through engaging, real-time interaction—demonstrating lasting impact and opening the door for future educational innovations.