On 11th of April 2018 I had the honor to introduce the projects and show the results of NTT DATA Romania's R&D department to a delegation from NTT DATA HQ headed by Mr. Eiji Ueno (Senior Executive VP, CTO, CISO, CFO, CRO).

It was a good opportunity for a bilingual presentation (English and Japanese) of our R&D activities focused on AI and IoT Technologies that combine "Technological Strength" and "Business Needs".

Some representative projects that were initiated and completed during this period include:

(1) A Suite of Crowd Analysis Solutions (People Counting, Queue Length Detection, Semantic Classification of Human Activities) that truly respected the privacy of people by analyzing only captured 3D point clouds.

(2) AI based Object Detection and Classification in an industrial setup (2D image based).

(3) Smart Robotic System that employed 2D Vision and Robot Arm Actuation to implement Automatic Touch-Screen Devices Testing.

(4) Autonomous Drones for Smart Maintenance Solutions (with onboard 3D based Navigation and Obstacle Detection as well as 2D based Object Recognition).