The First China Industrial Vision AI Conference Held in Shanghai, Industrial AI Innovation Consortium Launched

From October 31 to November 1, the First China Industrial Vision Artificial Intelligence Conference and the Annual Meeting of the Intelligent Optical Imaging Professional Committee of the Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence were held in Putuo, Shanghai. With the theme of "Defining New Industry, Leading the New Era with Intelligence," the conference was hosted by the Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence, co-organized by the Shanghai Tsinghua International Innovation Center (hereinafter referred to as the Center) and the Intelligent Optical Imaging Professional Committee of the Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence, and co-organized by East China Normal University. Experts, scholars, and enterprise representatives from universities, research institutes, and industry gathered in Shanghai to exchange views on the frontier progress, key technologies, and industrial applications of industrial artificial intelligence and intelligent optical imaging. Currently, artificial intelligence is accelerating its transition from the information world to the physical world, and industrial scenarios have become an important field for testing the reliability, real-time performance, and large-scale application capabilities of technology. Industrial vision and intelligent optical imaging connect machine perception, analytical decision-making, and production control, and are an important entry point for artificial intelligence to empower the manufacturing industry. This conference featured a keynote forum, a youth forum, an outstanding achievements forum, a competition solutions forum, a science popularization forum, and multiple thematic forums, promoting the interconnection of basic research, technological breakthroughs, talent cultivation, and industrial application. During the keynote report session, six experts respectively approached the latest progress of industrial artificial intelligence from basic research, interdisciplinary applications, and industrial practice. The conference concentrated on releasing seven industrial artificial intelligence innovation achievements. The related achievements cover areas such as computing power adaptation, industrial vision, embodied robots, R&D and design, vision modules, time-series data analysis, and enterprise agents, demonstrating multiple pathways for the accelerated implementation of artificial intelligence technology in industrial settings. During the conference, the Center's Industrial AI Innovation Consortium was officially launched. The innovation consortium, led by the Center, is guided by the full-chain empowerment of artificial intelligence and focuses on directions such as industrial big data and vertical large models, industrial agents, embodied intelligence, and physical AI, connecting technological breakthroughs, proof of concept, enterprise incubation, and scenario demonstration to promote the transition of artificial intelligence from the digital world to the physical world. The Center's joint research institutions with enterprises held a signing ceremony for launched projects. The relevant platforms and cooperation projects will target real industrial needs, organize universities, research institutions, and enterprises to carry out joint research, advance technology verification, scenario opening, and achievement transformation, and form a long-term and stable collaborative innovation mechanism. On the first day, the conference featured a presentation session for top AI conference papers, a forum for young scientists in the field of artificial intelligence, an outstanding achievements forum for industrial artificial intelligence, an outstanding solutions forum for the industrial embodied intelligence competition, and a science popularization forum for industrial artificial intelligence, and held the annual meeting of the Intelligent Optical Imaging Professional Committee of the Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence. On the afternoon of November 1, six thematic forums were held in parallel: intelligent optical imaging and industrial vision inspection, world models and industrial embodied intelligence, multimodal large models and industrial intelligent interaction, 3D modeling and industrial digital twins, industrial vertical large models and industrial agents, and agent operating systems and intelligent healthcare. As an annual event of the Center to empower regional development, this conference relied on the academic platform and professional committee resources of the Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence to connect the construction of Shanghai's artificial intelligence innovation highland with the industrial carrying space of Putuo District. Through academic exchanges, achievement releases, platform launches, and project cooperation, the conference built communication channels for industrial artificial intelligence technology to reach the production frontline and provided cooperation opportunities for expanding application scenarios for frontier technologies such as intelligent optical imaging.