Evotegra: Extend Dataset & Data Economy Poll

Hi @tmanthey ,

Thank you for applying for R13!

I am a Project-Guiding Evaluator and have assigned myself to help you.

Your proposal has been registered into the grants program, however as it stands, your R13 application is failing because we don’t know what you have completed or not in previous rounds. Please make sure all of your previous proposal updates inside Port include a Grant Deliverables Checklist with all checkboxes marked as completed.

Primarily, your previous Grant Deliverable updates are extremely hard to process and we are unable to understand how to reconcile your Round 8, 10, 11, and 12 deliverables.

Please provide a very clear and explicit explanation of your deliverables as follows, inside of this proposal.

Example:

Round 8 - Requested $10k. All Funding Deployed.

  • [x] Completed deliverable 1.
  • [x] Completed deliverable 2.
  • [x] Deliverable 3 could not be delivered. Carried over to R10.

Round 10 - Requested $15k. $10k Deployed. $5k Carry over.

  • [x] Completed deliverable 3.
  • [x] Completed deliverable 4.

Round 12 - Requested $5k. $10k deployed ($5k from carry over). All funds deployed.

  • [x] Completed deliverable 5.
  • [x] Completed deliverable 6.

Round 13 - Requested $9.5k.

  • [ ] Deliverable 7
  • [ ] Deliverable 8

Please improve how you are communicating the grant deliverable checklists (based on our directions) so that we are able to properly maintain your project & proposals to keep them in good standing.

You can find more examples of how to do this here.

All the best!
-Idiom

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I updated the request. Also I noticed a typo. We did not get a grant in R10 but R11

Thank you Tobias. This will help a lot.

However, I’m going to be doing some reconciliation for you, but to be clear. All of your deliverables should be marked as completed so your project can remain in good standing.

Please read the following blog post in detail so you can provide better reconciliations so that every single outcome is marked as complete.

Example:

If a deliverable is outstanding, your project will remain “In Progress” and will not be eligible to apply for another grant until every deliverable is delivered/reconciled.

All the best!

  • Idiom

Ok I remember. Should be fixed with the latest update

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Hi Tobias, I have now updated your previous Grant Deliverable Checklists and your project + proposals are in good standing.

At any point, you can view our Project Standing page to learn more about it and keep it up-to-date.

You can now see your latest reconciliations inside of the dahsboard.

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I have made some adjustments on your behalf.

Please review and LMK if you have any issues.

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Hello @tmanthey,

Please notice that we are updating the funding process for R13 and there are important things for you to know. We will be deploying an update to the Ocean Website, where you will be able to claim your grant on your own time.
Funding the smart contract may take ~2 days after Voting Ends. There will still be a funding deadline of 2 weeks to claim your grant.
You will need a web3 wallet + Airtable to complete the process. Grant requests via request.finance will be deprecated.

You can find all instructions here: https://github.com/oceanprotocol/oceandao/wiki/Request-Grant-Guidelines
You will have until January 10th to update your proposal with all required fields.

Please let us know if you experience any issues or bugs. You can also submit tickets to Github and ping us inside of ocean-dao-engineering for any help. Thank you!

This is a very interesting project guys It’s very exciting for the future of the automobile! How do you collect imaging at the moment is it via use of motorway cameras etc or satellite mapping?

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For traffic we collect data with in-car camera systems. These cameras are attached to embedded AI systems that evaluate images in-car real-time. Using AI only images with potentially interesting objects are collected

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Wow that’s really interesting! Is it only in Germany at the moment? Will this data be widely used for all manufacturers or is it set for certain ones like Tesla/Bmw as cars develop do you plan to work to integrate with new systems as they evolve?

Hey. What type of useful information can be extracted from ‘diverse road scenes’ and who will be buying the datasets?
What’s the legality of taking nonconsensual photos of people and pairing it with their licence plates?
Sorry if I missed any prior explanations about these questions.

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Please have look at our dataset . There you find a link to the taxonomy describing what which ~300 objects we support.
GDPR allows data collection under the “legitimate interest” GDPR 6.1f. By not collecting irrelevant data we follow the principle of data minimisation GDPR 5.1c.
Basically the same principles that all mapping companies e.g. HERE, Google Streetview etc follow.
We are not extracting information about the specific license plate, e.g. which number. Only the location in the image where there is “a license” plate.

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Hi Timothy,

Thank you for consideration and for your proposal in R13!

I love the fact that you are working towards a more accessible data set, and believe these initiatives are very important towards increasing DCV in Ocean, as we have discussed previously.

My only feedback is that I would like to see some initiatives that evolve Evotegra into perhaps a more Data-Union model, where perhaps DU participants are providing data, reviewing it, & annotating it.

As an example, a colleague worked with https://comma.ai/ to monetize vehicle data and enable everyone with a camera to monetize.

In other words, I would favor helping to expand the data economy, establish new web3 communities, and scaling the data collection/annotation pipeline rather than just increasing the number of images and type of annotations for the Evotegra dataset.

As defined in the project criteria, I believe this is one way to improve:

  • Usage of Ocean
  • Viability
  • Adding value to the community

If these changes were implemented, I believe Evotegra would increase it’s value proposition in terms of utilizing these grants towards broader improvements (rather than grants acting like a way to broker data for this 1 vehicle data set, and subsidizing the cost).

Having said that, I love your community-activeness, the fact that you’re making Evotegra data set more accessible (by lowering the cost), and continue to expand on the quality of it (i.e. license plates)

All the best!

  • Idiom
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Thanks for your suggestion. I will think about it how this could be realized.

Hello @tmanthey

As part of the Project Guiding - Working Group [PG-WG], We would like to congratulate on your sustained interest in the OceanDAO and for winning the R13 grant.

We also encourage you to be part of our PG-WG Guiding group as an Attendee as well as being part of guiding the newcomers of PG-WG and OceanDAO. Say hello to us at https://discord.gg/kujC2QK9 #Project-Guiding and refer to the pinned messages to find more information regarding the WG.

Regards,

Prakash

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Hi @tmanthey

Please read the updated rules on how to access funding

The portal can be found @ https://oceanprotocol.com/dao

“Funding the smart contract may take ~2 days after Voting Ends.”
Question: How do you know the contract is ready without burning 100 EUR in gas fees?
Executing smart contracts on Ethereum is rather expensive (100 EUR+). Do you consider to deploy the contract on other ethereum compatible blockchains?

Hi there.

The smart contract has been funded. The transaction gas fee cost for claiming your grant is about $40. We are working on finding a solution to reduce the cost of claiming a grant.

To claim your grant:

Please let me know if you have any questions!

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Our results:
The images for the R8 dataset we committed including R13 have been annotated. The poll we carry over to R14.

Round 13 - Requested $9.5k. $3k deployed from carry over. 6k deployed. 3K + R8 publish carry over to R14

[x] Extend the promotional 100k dataset with face annotations
[x] Extend the promotional 100k dataset with license plate annotations
[x] Provide additional 10000 annotated images
[x] Conduct a data economy poll along with German AI association members
[x] Present results of the poll to data consume and parameters working group

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Thank you for submitting your Deliverable Checklist @tmanthey, It is now registered into Airtable and this Proposal has been flagged as Complete.

All the best!