CODE HEIST • 2026

Problem
Statements

Ten challenges built to separate “it works” from “it works brilliantly.” Four selected from SIH 2024 and six original CODE HEIST challenges.

10 Challenges
AI
Campus
FinTech
Sustainability
HealthTech
Open Innovation
01 — SIH 2024
Advanced Challenges
Selected SIH Problems
AI / Computer Vision
Software

AI Based Frame Interpolation, Video Generation and Display System for WMS Services

SIH1736 • SIH 2024

Develop a system that automatically generates videos using frame interpolation techniques for WMS services, improving the temporal experience of geospatial visualisation.

Why it's hard
  • Computer vision and video processing
  • Generative AI / frame interpolation
  • Temporal consistency between frames
  • Geospatial/WMS data integration
AI / Geospatial
Software

Development of Map-Matching Algorithm Using AI-ML Techniques to Distinguish Vehicular Movement on Highway and Service Road

SIH1740 • SIH 2024

Develop an AI/ML-based map-matching system capable of distinguishing vehicle movement on a highway from movement on an adjacent service road despite imperfect location data.

Why it's hard
  • GPS noise and uncertainty
  • Trajectory analysis
  • Geospatial geometry
  • AI/ML-based map matching
Cybersecurity / Forensics
Software

Creating a Cyber Triage Tool to Streamline Digital Forensic Investigation

SIH1744 • SIH 2024

Build an innovative digital-forensics and incident-response tool that helps investigators rapidly collect, organize and analyze digital evidence.

EVIDENCE → ACQUIRE → CLASSIFY → EXTRACT → CORRELATE → INVESTIGATE
Why it's hard
  • Digital evidence collection
  • Evidence classification and extraction
  • Indicator-of-compromise discovery
  • Timeline and correlation analysis
Space / Computer Vision
Software

Enhancement of Permanently Shadowed Regions (PSR) of Lunar Craters Captured by OHRC of Chandrayaan-2

SIH1732 • SIH 2024

Enhance extremely low-light imagery of permanently shadowed lunar regions captured by Chandrayaan-2's Orbiter High Resolution Camera.

Why it's hard
  • Low-light image enhancement
  • Deep learning / computer vision
  • Satellite imagery
  • Astronomical image processing
02 — CODE HEIST ORIGINAL
The Six Challenges
Original Problem Statements
AI for Everyday Life
★★★★☆

The Memory Agent

People use WhatsApp, emails, PDFs, screenshots, notes and calendars to store information, but important information gets lost across different platforms. Build an AI assistant that creates a personal searchable memory from user-provided data.

Challenge
  • Retrieve information across different data types.
  • Understand context and relationships between people, events and documents.
  • Handle conflicting information.
  • Provide source references.
  • Avoid confidently inventing information.
BONUS: Build an autonomous agent that can take actions based on retrieved information.
Smart Campus Innovation
★★★★★

Campus Digital Twin

Build a digital twin of a university campus representing buildings, classrooms, labs, hostels, parking, events and facilities in one interactive system.

IoT / DATA → BACKEND → ANALYTICS → CAMPUS MAP → REAL-TIME DECISIONS
Challenge
  • Show classroom and lab availability.
  • Find available parking and facilities.
  • Visualize crowd levels and activity.
  • Show events and reported campus issues.
  • Combine multiple simulated or real data sources.
BONUS: Predict crowd movement and facility demand.
FinTech for Everyone
★★★★☆

Can You Trust This Payment?

Build a real-time payment risk assistant that evaluates transaction context and explains why a payment may be unusual or suspicious.

TRANSACTION + CONTEXT → RISK MODEL → EXPLANATION → USER ACTION
Challenge
  • Analyze amount, recipient history and payment frequency.
  • Consider device and location changes.
  • Analyze QR/payment requests and accompanying messages.
  • Learn normal user behavior rather than using fixed thresholds.
BONUS: Detect coordinated fraud patterns across multiple accounts using graph analysis.
Sustainable Future
★★★★☆

Where Did the Electricity Go?

Build an AI-powered energy intelligence platform that identifies unusual consumption, energy wastage, peak demand and abnormal usage across buildings, rooms or devices.

HISTORICAL DATA + CONTEXT → FORECAST → ANOMALY → CAUSE → ACTION
Challenge
  • Predict expected electricity consumption.
  • Detect unexpected usage patterns.
  • Identify peak-demand periods.
  • Use weather, occupancy, holidays and schedules as context.
  • Explain possible causes of anomalies.
BONUS: Automatically recommend an optimized energy schedule.
Healthcare & Smart Tech
★★★★★

Patient Zero: The Missing Context

Medical information can be scattered across prescriptions, laboratory reports, scans and hospital visits. Build a system that converts multiple medical documents into a longitudinal patient timeline.

DOCUMENTS → EXTRACTION → TIMELINE → RELATIONSHIPS → SOURCED INSIGHTS
Challenge
  • Identify changes across reports over time.
  • Track repeated tests and medication history.
  • Connect relevant information across documents.
  • Identify missing or inconsistent information.
  • Preserve uncertainty and source provenance.
IMPORTANT: This is an informational record-organization tool, not an autonomous diagnostic system.
Web & App Open Innovation
★★★★★

The Internet Control Room

Build a platform where a user gives a high-level objective and the system decomposes it into multiple tasks and executes them using available APIs and services.

GOAL → PLAN → TOOLS → EXECUTE → VERIFY → RECOVER
Challenge
  • Choose the right tools for each task.
  • Decompose objectives into executable workflows.
  • Maintain state across multiple steps.
  • Handle API failures and conflicting results.
  • Support authentication, human approval and recovery.
BONUS: Allow developers to plug their own tools and APIs into the agentic system.
10 PROBLEMS.
NO EASY MODE.

Some challenges can produce a working MVP quickly. The real difficulty is pushing beyond the obvious solution — improving accuracy, reliability, scalability, explainability and real-world usefulness.