NEW ORLEANS, La., June 1 -- The University of New Orleans issued the following news release:
Researchers from the University of New Orleans earned the #1 ranking in the segmentation task of the NTIRE 2026 Rip Current Detection and Segmentation Challenge, an international competition held in conjunction with CVPR 2026, one of the world's leading conferences in computer vision and artificial intelligence.
The UNO team, "UNO Pixel Pros," is based in the Department of Computer Science at the University of New Orleans. Team members include Abdullah Naeem, Anav Katwal, Ayon Dey, and computer science professor Md Tamjidul Hoque.
The team developed an advanced artificial intelligence system to detect and segment rip currents, powerful and fast-m...